Big brain and not paid enough?

I just had a look at http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mmdi-re/mmdi-re.htm and it's just bollocks. Unless you're just supposed to guess. And with no option for 'no preference' many of the 'questions' are unanswerable.

"being a change agent in multiple projects", right.

Paul

 

I think they forget to factor in lazyness/MOtivation

On the numbers, only one I don't think I could get was 7. Pretty sure the rest were right. Not sure where the other wrong answers were though.

Not sure if the coefficient is effected by type of work or just salary. Part time MOnkey wasn't on the list.

And not sure how long, but was a bit over 10 min's I'd think...

 

Damn straight. I bet a psychometric test wouldn't have pinpointed the guy who went "postal" in America, for example.

As an aside though, I did one of those Myers-Briggs tests and came out as ENTP - whatever the hell that means. (I did know at the time, but didn't bother remembering it).

Go MO! Go MO! Nice score dude!

 

I always seem to find most of the highly intelligent people I've met to be extremely lazy. Those that aren't lazy tend to end up or are already in academia IME. By intelligent, I mean those that can complete tasks extremely quickly that require some kind of thought or strategic planning compared to most.

From memory, I'm an ENJP, so can help you out with at least 3 of those letters:

E = Extrovert
N = Nurturing
J = Judging
P = Perceiving

Can't remember what T stands for in your outcome, "tense" maybe?

 

tw@?

only joking

 

I was INTP, I think the T is for 'thinking', but may be wrong. I am not sure the N is nurturing either, pretty sure it was iNtuitive. Actually thinking about it you can't be judging and perceiving either, they are alternatives.

I may be completely wrong though, it was fairly interesting at the time but I haven't given it any thought since.

 

Lazy isn't quite right imo, its more things aren't worth the effort if they don't present any kind of challenge. If you find them the right thing to do I bet they wouldn't be lazy anymore.

 

Yes Ian, you are quite right on all counts. It explains it all here:

http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm

I'll have to do the test again then, as I'm not sure if I'm a T or an F, but know that I'm definitely an E, N and a J !!

Absolutely, the people I've met like this often appear to have a low boredom threshold, mainly because they are not being stimulated with the right kind of challenges but this in turn demotivates them and they fall into apathy waiting for everyone else around them to catch up - a viscious circle kind of thing. Glad in a way that I'm at the opposite end of that scale, I'm a slow learner but that keeps me from being bored because I have nothing (challenging) to do!

 

That test has reminded me how bad I am at maths, frankly I had no idea on the first load of questions anyone want to enlighten me?! I have discovered that I'm signifcantly overpaid. Excellent.

Just goes to show that my Headmaster was indeed wrong and that in my business a fast mind, perceptive nature and eye for an opportunity is significantly more important than most other factors.

That and the fact I've been very lucky indeed.

 

I don't think it's maths as such, but patterns in numbers.

For instance,

2,5,6,4,18,3,?

appears to be two interleaved sequences, 2,6,18,? and 5,4,3, so the '?' is probably 3x18 or 54.

8,12,16,6,32,?,64

Again two interleaved sequences, up in multiples of two and down in halves. 8,16,32,64 and 12, 6, ? so I'd expect the '?' to be 3.

0,?,6,12,20,30,42

If we look at the differences between the numbers we get ?,?,6,8,10, 12 so probably 2,4,6,8,10,12 so '?' is 2.

etc.

ISTM that this sort of thing can be learned, and also favours people who remember some of their multiplication tables, and can spot primes and powers of 2 or more without much thought.

Paul

 

Absolutely - by practicing IQ tests constantly you can quite easily raise your iq 30 points, especially if you are smart to begin with. The uncertainty error of these tests rises sharply on either side of the baseline IQ score of 100.

 

Maybe I'm not that dense after all, I thought it looked like that was the answer, shame that boredom threshold isn't calculated into the results as having done the first one I got bored and guessed the rest.

Meh...

I did the other empathy test thingy and I'm more than a woman so that's just the icing on the cake! Crap at maths, thinks like a bird!

Still in the heady world of recruitment it seems that bull**** and slyness seem to be the deciding factors so that's just bloody great.

 

I just saw all the numbers and aborted the test. Sod that for a game of soldiers!

 

As paul says, it's not really maths, (I'm pretty crap at maths) MOre about spotting patterns....

Had another look at number 7 and don't get it though

I've done other IQ tests and get reasonable results but not that high.

 

Its basically pattern recognition, spatial rotation, verbal reasoning etc.

But verbal reasoning does not make you a writer of genius, same as pattern recognition does not make you a scientific or mathematical genius. It can just mean you are bright with a genius for iq tests. If I was to tell you my iq you would take it as proof the process is flawed

 

It's got numbers in, therefore it's maths.

 

No numbers are arithmatic. Maths includes arithmatic but that is just one part of it - the rest is much more abstract. Some of the worlds greatest mathematicians couldnt do their times table. Some cultures have no numbers in their language but they are as bright as you or I.

 

they looked like primes to me......

 

Arithmetic, surely?

 

You and me both. Still, I can spot a misplaced semi-colon at 50 paces, and that's what really matters!