Meta-IQ test:
you are given a sequence: 2, 4, 8, 16, ...
what is the next item?
- 3263.2%
- 181.6%
- UNDECIDABLE35.1%
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A high IQ individual would probably guess that the right answer is "undecidable" BUT he/she would still chooses 32 because of his/her understanding of the context of an IQ test. The goal is to recognize the most "anticipated" pattern, not the existing one.
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Yeah. On an ordinary IQ test I'd answer 32 in a heartbeat. In reality, uh, it sorta depends.
Problem is a lot of people who think 32 is the only possible answer are considered "high IQ" in a testing environment.
Best standard IQ test item I ever saw was a pattern matching question that required you to engage in a bit of lateral thinking & break the previous answering scheme.
But that was an outlier in a test battery that mostly consisted of more-difficult linear thinking & nothing else.
What if an IQ test included the undecidable option?