army1987 comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2012 01:34:34PM 1 point [-]

I bet you haven't come into contact with much of this sort of thing before, and I further bet that if you practised doing this type of test for a while then you'd start to find them very easy.

As I said, IIRC such tests are only supposed to be accurate if you hadn't done them before.

I'd dispute the test's claim to be 'not culturally biased'. Obviously it doesn't require native-speaker English or literary knowledge, but equally obviously your score will depend heavily on how much you've been previously exposed to ideas about symmetries and abstract mathematics.

I mentioned that before, but how would you go about designing an IQ test even less culturally biased than that?