How Smart Are You?
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Not sure if this quick test qualifies as an assessment of intelligence, but interesting nonetheless.
Read this sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Now count the F’s in the sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE.
Do not go back and count them again. Then see below:
There are 6 F’s in the sentence. One of average intelligence finds 3 of them. If you spotted 4, you’re above average. To see 5 is rare. If you caught 6, you are a genius. There is no catch. Most people forget the OFs. The human brain tends to see them as Vs instead of F’s.
I think the test is flawed. I spotted all 6. Great site by the way. Very fun stuff in here.
thanks meta…
The scoring seems somewhat odd. If the limiting factor is that most people forget the OFs it seems hard to imagine a person would only notice 1 or 2 of them, if they noticed any of them. So the difference between above average and genius is noticing a couple more OFs? I guess…
How does this correlate intelligence?
The scoring should be:
6 = “you’re a grammar nazi”
4-5 = “too much coffee? you miss the details”
3 = “your brain filters web text with ninja-like prowess”
Hey,
I woud have thought that rather than the brain tranposing a “v” for an “f”,
it skips the link words altogether-as it makes meaningful associations
from the main words.
It seems to relate to the notion that the brain
fills in missing links when necessary-as in the abiity to read
txt msgs whr thr r vwls msng frm th bdy th msg,
Hh?