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

I never thought to take a screenshot! Surprisingly, as someone who is renowned for getting lost and forgetting routes, as well as someone who has no imagination (as in, I can't "see" pictures when I try to visualise them in my head, even my husband or children), I was in the top 20-50% for spacial awareness, visual imagination, attention and spatial working memory. I was also OK with the verbal reasoning and the verbal comprehension. I did terribly with the faces (they all looked different and almost like cartoons) and the planning one.

I found the shapes sections very tedious after a while and I'm surprised I did well in the Spatial working memory one.

Some of the facial expressions were subtle enough to catch me out. I'm very embarrassed about my apparent inability to recall a long string of numbers!

Was there an audio with the numbers one? I had my speaker switched off.

I never do well on these posed emotional photos. Some of them just look utterly ridiculous!

I scored a lot lower on this test than I have previously scored on other similar tests. I also do much, much better if tests involve physically touching pieces and moving them around rather than on the screen.

Did anyone do the personality traits test afterwards? Mine will be utter pants. I have bipolar so any questions involving mood could be totally opposite from one day to the next!

I feel far too stupid to want to try it atm!

That was fun but frustrating in parts - the digit span one I didn’t press the numbers hard enough sometimes and there was no way to undo.

Not surprised at the worst one, I’m autistic. Those faces were hard to read.

I did wonder if I’d do better if I’d have taken the test during the day when my ADHD meds were working! They wear off in the evening and concentration is worse.

My favourite was the rotation one. I enjoyed the tower one too but it really made my brain hurt! I’m not very good at planning things - I always feel I should be good at chess (logical, mathsy etc) but I absolutely suck at it.

It's a bit strange - I scored in top 5% for Mental Rotation, but in real life I can't do that at all. I think because I didn't need to picture the rotated shape in this, but just look for patterns, eg there is a red and black block next to eachother and a blue block in the corner - so it's that one.

My emotional discrimination was really very poor, and I have two autistic children - hhhmm, could I be autistic too?
Planning I just couldn't do. I couldn't hold the image in my head as to where I was at after each move.

I predicted I’d be in the top 30%.

For four I was in the bottom 50%, 1 in 30%, the rest in 20%. So maybe that averages out to 30%. I was better at the left hand side categories of the visual (which i didn’t think to screen shot 😆)

I didn’t do too badly , my main issues were the remembering sequences

I'm not sure what to feel about mine I did it on my phone but it does make sense.

I did ok in most of them - the faces one was the trickiest, no idea what half the emotions were meant to be.

I did well on the mental rotation one, but I wasn’t actually trying to rotate the shapes.

As iklboo put it - “I saw the mental rotation one as a logic problem. The others couldn't possibly have been the answer due to the arrangement of the squares / colours“
Totally the same here. The possible answers were mostly so dissimilar that no attempt at mental rotation was needed!

And that one where the grid kept changing (the attention one?) was awful. All the constantly changing shapes had given me a headache by the end of that test.

I totally agree we the rotation one. I’m reluctant to admit that because I got in the top 5% and thought it made me seem
Clever but you are right that it was just a case of looking for the pattern! They should have made them
More similar.

Considering I did really well on IQ tests 30-ish years ago, have an Oxbridge degree, MA and started (but dropped out from because of family issues) a PhD and passed the Mensa test I did embarrassingly poorly! The first one completely floored me and I hadn't got time to articulate the digits so I couldn't remember them.

They didn't ask the question 'are you being jumped on, flown Lego into, or otherwise being distracted during this test?' Reckon that would skew things significantly.

I was also very poor at the facial recognition. Would’ve liked more detailed feedback considering they time it took to complete.

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Barbaraanne22 if it's any consolation I'm a senior academic with a PhD and I was still bottom 50% in several categories... which I have to admit does leave me a bit about the overall validity of the thing.

It’s quite weird in a way that I scored badly on the facial recognition bit because I’m usually really good at noticing small changes in people’s expressions, which surprises people sometimes as I’m autistic. But often for example I’m the only one to notice when someone in a group is upset. Maybe it’s different though because they are friends and I know them. A static image like the really exaggerated ones in the test is very different

Found the spatial span (click on boxes in the order that they appear) difficult.

Also I thought I'd be better at facial recognition. Any experts out there able to give a verdict on whether this is a valid way of determining EMOTIONAL discrimination? Surely just looking at a snapshot picture of an expression is not very accurate.

I am doing a PhD at a prestigious university. I did really badly in most of this and in for the first two tasks I didn't really even understand the instructions.

I did ok in the emotional recognition and verbal comprehension. I also did surprisingly well in the rotation section which I normally find hard. As others have said, it was fairly easy because I just looked at the colour patterns, I didn't rotate the image in my head at all.

There are so many things that are annoying about this test (apart from the fact I did badly!). Why on earth is the tower test anything to do with intelligence? I'm fairly sure I could learn it if I thought it was in any way useful for my life. The thing I find most annoying is the silly, smug, twee, cosy, ridiculous title 'Great British.'

I'm surprised at mine as my kids kept interrupting!!! I'm not surprised about the emotional part, weirdly I can feel emotions from people but not see. Which is why I think I struggle in social situations as I need to be talking to or in close proximity of a person to guage them and if there is too many people I can't cope - weird I know!!!

A LOT of people here seem to be doing badly on the faces, and I'm thinking the pp is right when she says maybe they're testing for something else, not intelligence?

I got top 20% for all of them. Somehow.

So annoyed I spent 25 min and didn’t get my score!

I didn't agree with their assessment of some of those faces being the same!!

I didn't really get the first two exercises and I think if I had understood what they wanted me to do - I would have done better.

I am shocked I am so low - I rated myself in the top 10%!!! LOL!