Great British Intelligence Test

[Sexequality]

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.

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.

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.

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

Is a sissy fuss the little sister of hissy fit?

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.

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

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

Yes, but you have to use your private browser

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