Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

I just took it... my score was.... well, it was pretty good.... 161. I am sure you can do better!! Want to take it and share your results?

http://www.free-iqtest.net

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I'm scared to.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

It is clear, the test is super simple.... else I would not have scored 10... go on take it! I bet you score higher than me....

badbobby Loc: texas

I'll just say
mine
were not as good as yours Penny
them sequenced numbers stumped me
dam I'm gettin old
shoulda give me that test 50 years ago
might've done a lil better

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Awww Penny, everyone knows you are smarter than the average bear! I took it twice, and got 103.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Ahhh, but I bet it was pretty high!

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

It is not in my nature to accuse a person of lying.... but Archie, you are either pulling my leg or you are distracted by Ms B.... or it may be nap time! No way did you score 103!!

badbobby Loc: texas

fifty one and a half both times Arch???

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

That is funny... mean, but funny!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Well.....she does keep talking to me. I'll try again at work tonight when I'm alone, and there is no John Wayne movie on tv.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

It must be a combination of correct answers as well as the speed with which you complete the test, based on your age. I am 66 years old. I got all questions right but I only scored 138. Time must be a major factor because I took about 15 minutes to answer the question about the number of squares in the diagram. I had to draw it out to count the squares because every time I tried to mentally count them I would come up with a different amount and couldn't remember which squares I missed from one time to the next. I had to draw the diagram and deconstruct it to count all the squares accurately. However, I would say this test is fairly accurate because my actual IQ is 136.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Yeah, well! At least you can still cipher a bit for an old dude!

badbobby Loc: texas

mahaps Penny can come up with sumpin easy
for us backwood redneck types

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You ain't all that backwoods BB. You obviously picked your smarty pants from the cleaners, and put them on today!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

That's a skill a lot of young people can't do. I learned math at a very early age and could do most problems mentally. I drove my teachers nuts because I wouldn't show any work. They wouldn't believe me until they asked me questions and problems verbally.

Today the kids all have calculators and they can answer quickly. I wonder if they really understand what and they are doing, or why.

A true story:
I went to the store to buy some items; toothpaste, shampoo and a couple other incidentals which came to approximately $12.--. I also bought a comforter for my bed; $49.99. The clerk scanned all the items, but the comforter would not scan. She had to enter the barcode and the price manually into the register. When she entered the price she must have not pressed the "9" hard enough one time because it rang up at $4.99 even though she told me the comforter was $49.99. When she hit the button to total the sale it came up as $17.--. Then, nothing; no reaction on her part! It never occurred to her that $17 was a lot less than the $49.99 that she had just stated was the price of the comforter. She just went through the motions...GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out), like an unthinking robot. Except a robot would have entered the correct amount for the comforter in the first place.

So, the minimum wage that fast food workers want is $15/hr. Maybe when they learn to be competent at their job I'll support this. It seems like every time I go to these establishments I end up with a wrong order or the wrong change. No wonder they are being replaced with automated kiosks. This only hurts the lowest skilled employees who are affected by the technology. Instead of getting $15/hr, they are instead out of a job. If your full time job is working for McDonald's at minimum wage then you have bigger problems than earning a livable wage. These kinds of jobs were meant for part-time employees as an entry level or while going to school. We have already eliminated many of the jobs that high school kids can do; paper routes, baby sitting, mowing lawns, working the hamburger stand, because there are too many people without skills filling these jobs and trying to earn a living to support their family. Therefore, they don't earn enough to put substantial money into circulation in the economy nor buy quality products that would demand more higher skilled employees in the workplace. This means the government has to subsidize these people, which means higher taxes for the rest of us, which translates into less spending power. It appears you can't fix stupid, or as Forrest Gump would say, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Sorry. I didn't mean to digress.