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Great British Intelligence Test

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Sexequality · 01/01/2020 21:11

By the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50896542

After you do the quiz it asks loads of demographic questions before giving you your result. One of the questions is ‘what is your sex? Male/female’

I noticed this a few times - when dealing with actual science even the bbc occasionally manages to recognise that sex is important/relevant.

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CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 06/01/2020 16:51

Of course there is 'other' it's the BBC.

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Sexequality · 06/01/2020 16:43

Yes, but you have to use your private browser

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User12879923378 · 06/01/2020 16:41

Not that I am planning to repeat it obsessively over the next two days

User12879923378 · 06/01/2020 16:40

Can you take it again? It talks about score over time...

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Sexequality · 03/01/2020 11:49

By 'as you feel fit' I meant as truthfully as you can. Other questions were about length of time on social media or reliance on phones, for example. I answered as truthfully as I could

But, like with the proposed census questions, unless there is some objective definition which people follow when answering the questions, the data will be meaningless. ‘Females have higher IQ’ means nothing if ‘females’ is both men and women. If I defined time spent on screens the way my children do then ‘length of time on social media’ also means nothing.

The reason they ask if you have given false data is because people who do the test aren’t agreeing to provide a pile of demographic data before doing the test - it is required of them in order to get their results. They haven’t ‘bought into’ being a participant in such a survey and are therefore likely to enter any old rubbish in order to get their IQ test results. It is set up to encourage people to answer falsely - including to the question about providing false data.

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HorseWithNoAnecdotes · 03/01/2020 11:45

Is a sissy fuss the little sister of hissy fit?

AutumnRose1 · 03/01/2020 10:57

My iPad apparently can’t cope with moving on from one set of questions to the next. I was enjoying that!

Artykitty666 · 03/01/2020 10:46

By 'as you feel fit' I meant as truthfully as you can. Other questions were about length of time on social media or reliance on phones, for example. I answered as truthfully as I could.

Fairenuff · 03/01/2020 09:40

Surely you fill it in as you feel fit? And in that way data is gathered. Maybe it'll turn out that people who prefer to identify as other are above or below average. Or male or female. Or employed. Or between a certain age bracket. How would we know if the question isn't asked? Seems daft to me to object to a question.

If you want data to be accurate, it has to have truthful answers, not 'as you feel fit'. What does that even mean anyway.

Melroses · 02/01/2020 23:33

Dunno what sex has to do with intelligence anyway

More to do with intelligence tests. When I did the 11+ many moons ago, it was fiddled so that enough boys passed, otherwise the grammar schools would have been filled with girls. Not sure they would have done the same if more boys passed the test than girls Hmm

WrathoFaeKlop · 02/01/2020 21:41

Do they ^actually^ ask if you gave false information?

Is that to uncover your gender identity?
How very dare they. Grin

drspouse · 02/01/2020 21:29

Dunno what sex has to do with intelligence anyway.

If IQ tests measure men as more intelligent than women, or vice versa, they are usually labelled as biased - they'd be admitting more men (or more women) into Civil Service jobs etc. that use this kind of test as an entrance test (well, at least they did in the past I believe, not sure now!)

Artykitty666 · 02/01/2020 20:33

Surely you fill it in as you feel fit? And in that way data is gathered. Maybe it'll turn out that people who prefer to identify as other are above or below average. Or male or female. Or employed. Or between a certain age bracket. How would we know if the question isn't asked? Seems daft to me to object to a question.

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Sexequality · 02/01/2020 20:24

Dunno what sex has to do with intelligence anyway.

I don’t know when Went to my private tab and filled it in as a male my results were a lost worse!

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stumbledin · 02/01/2020 19:50

Sort of related by YouGov has changed its feedback form. They still ask your sex (with no footnotes like the census saying sex can be what you want not what you were born) but now have 3:
Male
Female
Intersex

But they have added an additional category asking your identity but dont have a space to space to say Dont Identify. I tried to write in the Other section about identity being a social construct but ran out of space.

They may have had this for a while. I rarely bother to do their surveys as it is all about consumerism. I joined up niavely thinking I would be able to input my thoughts on politics. [blsuh]

Apileofballyhoo · 02/01/2020 19:42

Dunno what sex has to do with intelligence anyway.

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Sexequality · 02/01/2020 19:10

Although at the end they do ask if you gave false information

I gave false information but didn’t feel the need to be suddenly truthful when asked if I had given false information Wink

What did they mean by ‘false’ anyway? I was identifying with the answers!

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Fairenuff · 02/01/2020 18:54

I deliberately gave incorrect information on those because data is pointless now. If they are going to disregard sex then I might as well make up my age, location, etc. Although at the end they do ask if you gave false information so I guess they won't use my data which is fine with me Grin

ScrimshawTheSecond · 02/01/2020 10:52

Maybe this is one of those meta-tests, where they're actually gauging how much of an uproar is created by the use of male/female, and the 'tests' themselves are actually completely meaningless.

ClairesKimono · 02/01/2020 10:51

Sissyfuss Grin

ScrimshawTheSecond · 02/01/2020 10:49

Argh, back to the blocks, it's like Sisyphus.

Or is it Sissyfuss, my spelling's not great.

Melioration · 02/01/2020 09:35

It goes straight to the blocks for me now.

ClairesKimono · 02/01/2020 08:55

Well I cannot even get it to load so OP I expect the sex and 'gender' options are being expanded as we speak...the outrage will have rained down upon the BBC.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 02/01/2020 08:50

Other? Here, have these robot crab hands, they should match your sense of reality nicely.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 02/01/2020 08:18

Grin hipster