drenan comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: drenan 05 November 2012 04:18:55AM 25 points [-]

Took the survey.

Did anyone else find the IQ questions to be either boringly easy or impossibly hard? I don't think I answered anything that required more than 15s of thought.

Comment author: bsterrett 06 November 2012 09:07:13PM 5 points [-]

I found that leaving a question and coming back to it was much more helpful than trying to focus on it. There were several questions that I made no progress on for a few minutes, but I could immediately solve them upon returning to them.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 November 2012 12:43:06AM 4 points [-]

There were a couple I answered after several minutes of thought.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 08 November 2012 06:29:17PM 0 points [-]

Yes, apart from a couple of intermediate cases. In hindsight, the easy questions were where I already knew, or worked out, the construction technique for the question, the impossible ones were where I didn't spot what was going on, and the intermediates were where I knew the technique but the application was complicated and took a while to deduce.