Great British Intelligence test

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Anyone else done this yet?

I have and now feeling quite stupid 😂

Good fun though

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5tFHwWMgg9VbrHT9kvGlFqd/the-great-british-intelligence-test

The instructions are too small for me to read - I'm so stupid that I just kept trying to enlarge them on my phone and turning the screen round to try to get them big enough to see...

Some of the tests were horrible to do. Got very frustrated with the memory square thing even though I was quite good. Emotional Discrimination went wrong for me!

Mysterian my results graph was like yours but in the opposite areas some of it was sooooo frustrating. With the number recall one I ended up pressing random numbers towards the end to get it over with haha.

I saw it took 30 minutes and decided it was too much for me 😄😄

I did the Mensa one a few years back and all the puzzles were exactly the type I'm good at. You don't need to understand emotions to get in there!

Not too surprising for me. Really enjoyed this - how sad am I?

I did badly in the areas that are affected by my autism. Like a mini diagnosis right there!

I did ok but I didn't like the target detection one - where you had to match up the shape on the left with the constantly changing images on the right. To me it was really similar to the eye tests I've had where they check your peripheral vision - I don't really see how it measures intelligence, just eyesight and reaction. I lost points because I spent a few seconds zoomed in to be able to see better and then had to zoom back out to see the whole grid - they should have given you a test run to set it up ok for everyone.

Also I think it's a bit ridiculous of a test assessing intelligence to then ask you to choose your county (in the demographic questions) from a list that is at nearly 50 years out of date - I was looking for my county for ages and eventually had to pick 'Glamorgan' which vaguely covers the local area but hasn't been a county since 1972!

Some of these were right up my street but I sucked at the emotions recognition one!

It doesn't give you a score like traditional IQ tests, does it?

I think I got quite an autistic result.
I didn't really have to look at the spatial rotation ones to 'know' which one was right.

A lot of other ones bored me or I couldn't focus on them.

Then the faces annoyed me. They mostly look the same to me.

I got almost zero for that one.

Lol cwenthryth do you feel better now I've posted mine?

Definitely found the faces annoying!

Is this really testing intelligence though, if it can so easily be affected by autism, attention issues etc? These things don’t make people less intelligent, do they, just differently-intelligent?

The pattern rotation one was good fun.

Mine's a complete reflection of my autistic state. Well above average for everything apart from attention and emotional discrimination where I'm at the same level as a house brick.

Top 10% for word definitions and bottom 50% for emotional discrimination (I'm autistic so that wasn't a surprise. The ones that I did get right were often from looking at clues like if the eyes were wide rather than from recognising the emotions). The others were mixed. Some I thought I was rubbish at but the results were ok.

'Is this really testing intelligence though, if it can so easily be affected by autism, attention issues etc?'

IQ tests are also rubbish for autistic people.

Best to just assume our brains are adequate for most tasks imo.

I think ptsd is a factor for me too. I used to score a lot higher than I do now. Some things seem almost incomprehensible and I remember managing them before.

1066 that's what I did too - I did better on images where the eyebrows were angled the same or the corners of eyes or mouths.
But faces just look like faces. They gave the same features.
Unless someone has a clown nose.

The site still keeps crashinng on me

I couldn't do the first one at all.... like I couldn't even understand the question and didn't know what I was supposed to be doing so it just guessed.
The tower one I found really difficult, the one where you had to remember a sequence of numbers I thought I did badly on but I scored fairly well
It was interesting reading the results and the explanations of the tests

I got top 5% for anything memory related, below average for anything else

Top 10% for word definitions and bottom 50% for emotional discrimination. Not great at memory ones either. I used to be in Mensa, their test had no emotions or memory tests, as far as I can remember. I didn’t read the instructions properly for the rotation part so messed that up until I realised what was happening.

I also enjoyed the pattern rotation and the spot the little squiggly object, I thought I would be good at reading faces but I was in the bottom 50% 😳I noticed however that if you score badly they just say you're in the bottom 50% they don't say bottom 10% bottom 20% etc
However if you did well then they they give you a more more detailed breakdown top 10% top 20% etc, so they're doing their best to make us feel clever 💛😊💛

I was top 20% for the vocab related ones and the spatial memory one, but bottom 50% for the rest. As an English student looking at a dyspraxia diagnosis it was not overly surprising tbh. Might be interesting to note that I did the spatial memory one (the one with the squares that moved in the grid) not by visualisation but by "hearing" different musical pitches in my head... Hmm

Also I'm clearly very conceited bc I guessed top 20% for my own intelligence level but then this was correct for the things I could do, which is what I spend my life doing

Not a clue what question 2 wanted me to do. Moving stacks in the shortest sequence. No idea what I was doing or why I got none right!

I started another thread, then found this one. Did the test, and one of the questions was totally impossible to answer.

For those of you who haven't done it yet, when you get to the end and it gives you a drop-down list to pick the county you live in, don't hold your breath if you live in Bedfordshire, because it isn't on the list!