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

That was very interesting but shouldn’t have done it while DH was getting ready to go to work!

Confirmed that my weakness is spatial ability..no surprise there!

Here's mine:
Photos were so random I started looking for patterns in the right answer sequence. Didn't have a mouse, track pad is not my usual way of working so got all the rotation ones right but obviously not quick enough. Yes hungover and yes disappointed not to be a shining star.
Will be watching the telly when it's on though.

Did terribly with the 'Attention' one and wonder if that's because I'm on my phone so much

There were a couple of number sequences where I misclicked too, there was no way of correcting that. Or pausing it to deal with poos.

A bit of a mixed bag. I'm not surprised about the lower score on the emotional intelligence one given my ASD. I am not sure how much of the rest was affected by the background noise of DC and Octonauts.

Hopeless at the faces which surprised me.
Not good on verbal reasoning as I found myself disagreeing with their logic.
Able to guess words I didn't know by ruling out descriptions fir words already covered.

My main complaint with this type of thing is the emphasis on it done at speed.
As an intelligence test I find that annoying as I prefer to be slow and steady at reaching the right answer, and feel it discriminated against older people.

I'm always fascinated by how these tests are very skewed towards spatial intelligence and "rotating" in the mind's eye (I'm one of those people who simply does not have the "map reading" bit of the brain activated).

And some of the words they used for the vocabulary were so specialised you either needed to have worked in that topic area or to have a pretty good working knowledge of Latin. I was also a bit dubious about some of the analogies and if anyone can explain the Tower of London question to me and what you were actually supposed to do, I'd be eternally grateful!!

On the plus side, my memory's not as bad as I thought it was...

HELP!

I created an account, did the whole test and the questionnaire at the end, it got to "saving data" and presumably the results bit was next.

Froze for ages, I refreshed and it came back to the questionnaire so I did that again (all while still logged in as me) then it froze again on "saving data".

Now it's logged me out and I can't find a way to log in, only to create a new account but that would mean doing it all again.

Haven't had any emails through at any point in the process.

Have I just wasted all that time?! Is there a way of logging into my account? There's no option to that I can see.

Grumpy.

I managed to mess up the face one entirely. Got the second half all right but completely misjudged what to do int he first half, too distracted by other stuff going on!

Found the Tower of London one tricky - i can do these when you draw it or physically do it, but in my head it was trickier. It is supposed to be linked to planning - something I know I am actually good at!

Did best in the spacial working memory and mental rotation (top 5%) and also the spacial intelligence and verbal reasoning (top 10%).

The attention one I didn't do as well on but then i was distracted by the TV and dh talking to me too.

I didn't need to create an account to do it.

The Tower of London one - the aim is to get the coloured blocks from the places in the bottom picture to the places in the top picture. And say how many moves it would take.

So if you had a red on the left, a blue in the middle and a yellow on the right in the top picture, that's your final picture. Say, the starting picture had a red on the left, and a blue in the middle with a yellow on top of that with the right empty. To get the final picture you'd have to move the yellow from the middle to the right. That's one move so you'd click '1' as your answer.

Am I making sense?!

It was testing executive functioning and emotional facial recognition. These are two areas autistic people struggle with. I sometimes wonder if I really am autistic, and this test showed me that I am.

Can anyone explain the first task to me; I don't understand at all what I am supposed to do here?! Also scored badly on the facial recognition exercise according to my summary even though I guessed most of the expressions correctly.

You had to remove bricks to make it match the shape of the grey one. The left over bricks could drop if a shape below them was removed.

Thank you Sally, I totally misunderstood the instructions then, since I thought it was the other way round. I didn't find the instructions exactly straightforward....

I didn't save my results but they were... interesting.

I scored top 5% on the language "x is to y as a is to b" questions, and the vocab ones, the concentration one and the rotation one. Average on the remembering numbers and patterns of squares lighting up.

Way, way below average on spatial awareness, trying to replicate the blocks on the left when removing areas from the right - totally beyond me. This has always been a huge issue for me, I was in detention at school as a 12 year old when the rest of the class was merrily drawing 3D shapes with cubes removed and I just couldn't do it. Similarly poor scores on the one where you had to work out the minimum number of moves to get rings off sticks. Also scored poorly on the emotions one.

Good working memory score surprised me as I have dyscalculia. I did say them out loud, though, so maybe they made up a little poem in my head, which I could then remember.
Bad score at reading emotions, also surprised me, but I’ve seen those composite pictures before and find them very difficult to read without other cues i.e. the live person in front of me.
Rotation one, the trick is to look at a certain pattern of two or three blocks and find the one that matches that, not necessarily the whole picture.
Attention one is improved by how much time you use reactive things like games and tablets etc, I think.

This was really interesting - I also completely failed the emotional recognition one which surprised me as I think I’m good at reading faces but agreed that it looked like they were posing/performing the emotions which may have made it more difficult?

I was top 20% in everything else apart from the digit span one (sad, I used to be great at remembering numbers but clearly that skill has gone!) & wasn’t surprised that I was top 5% in one of the word ones as I (used to) read a lot.

It’ll be interesting to see what’s done with this and how age/sex/education etc impacts your results.

I finally manged to do this. It kept crashing on Firefox so I id it in Microsoft Edge. It’s interesting that so many of us did badly in the emotional discrimination. I realise that I pressed the wrong one a couple of times, but mine came up as bottom 50% for that. I’m not autistic as far as I know.

So top 10 for mental rotation
Top 20 for attention and verbal comprehension
Top 30 for everything else except for emotional discrimination

I don’t think it’s designed for completion in a phone either.

I agree. I used my laptop.

This test is very similar to the UCAT test.

I did really badly on the attention and planning. Also below average on the working memory. I have wondered for a while if I have ADHD

Bad gateway. It's really not optimised for mobile either, awful interface.

That was pretty interesting. The face one was annoying because some weren't quite the same to me.

AND I spotted a spelling mistake in the instructions

Surely you'd have to do it under controlled conditions for it to have any validity anyway. My attention span is usually pretty good - it has to be for my job - but not when I'm bored and clicking on an online test on a bank holiday with kids shrieking in my ear.

Wont work properly. Bit relieved as still hungover!

It was interesting.

I found the Tower one much harder than I thought, I can do them very quickly if I can move the blocks but don’t seem to be able to when I have to do it in my head.

I found the mental rotation one extremely easy, far easier than ones I’ve done like that in the past.