Here’s an online advertisement I saw on a news blog I like to read. One of those intelligence tests that harvests your email address in order for you to retrieve the results, I assume.
Well, 74, obviously. What kind of moron could possibly get that wrong? Oh, right—people who can’t see the entire visible colour spectrum; god, they’re dumb! Learn to apply yourselves for a change, you colourblind idiots, you!
Also, unless I’m mistaken about how these tests are supposed to work, from the contrast of some of the dots of different colours, shouldn’t colour blind people make out a different number—21, it looks like? That’s not one of the choices. Who made this ad?
Someone not sufficiently applying himself to the task at hand, obviously. If only those colourblindies would just try a little harder.
This kind of test isn’t supposed to give different answers depending on how color blind you are. Either you see the number or you don’t.
Also, I’m pretty sure there is a correlation between high IQ test scores and how disabled someone is. It is easy to imagine how poorly a blind person would do on a test when they can’t see the question or answers. Someone missing their hands would have a hard time holding a pen or click a mouse. I’m sure dyslexics probably feel left out being the only disabled group that is discriminated against on tests.
So yes, I’m a little dumb for not seeing color, but at least I’m not one of those retarded blind people.
In high school I once lost ten points on an IQ test due to a sprained wrist – I couldn’t move the tanagram blocks very fast with one hand (changing the trapezoid to a square) and it added two minutes onto my time.
So I finally spent the time to download the image, bring it into a photo-editor, and apply a color filter on the bloody thing so I could read the number. It’s not even one of the choices! Now I really feel duped.
P, is that the same IQ test that I took with a raging headache? As it turns out, Kim + horribly distracting headache = Dumm.
KFK: that’s the one!
I’d probably have to go through my old journals to remember why we were getting our IQ tested in highschool though.