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April 30, 2007 1:22pm by David Farrar

Am I dumb?

I got 25/25. The average is 18/25.

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pedantipants

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April 30, 2007 11:53pm
pedantipants

Huh? It didn’t post my image!

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April 30, 2007 11:56pm
Patriot

I see your 99.9 and raise you 0.1

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May 1, 2007 12:07am
peteremcc

yay…
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May 1, 2007 12:08am
peteremcc

meh, I only got beat by patriot because of the comment delay bug you have on this blog dpf 😀 😛
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May 1, 2007 12:12am
Patriot

No, you obviously copied my answers!
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May 1, 2007 12:14am
Patriot
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May 1, 2007 12:19am
Bruce Hoult

Hah! I’m smarter than 99.3% of you idiots!

There must be quite a few ignorant people taking it as the percentile for 25/25 seems to be inreasing…

They should time how long you take as well.
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May 1, 2007 12:26am
Grant (a new one)

24
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May 1, 2007 12:31am
Camryn

99.23%

Can anyone suggest reasons why we’re getting different percentiles for 25/25? Is it a comparison to your gender and race rather than the total population? If that were so, I should get the same as DPF, but I’m not.
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May 1, 2007 2:07am
Dave

This reminds me of the movie “idiocracy”

Great movie
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May 1, 2007 2:20am
David Farrar

This reminds me of my school exam where I got every answer right but got scaled down to 97%. Took me over a year t0o get the bastards to relent 🙂
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May 1, 2007 7:26am
phil u

i bailed at question 2..

what a load of simplistic bollocks..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

and seeing as we are boasting ..(david!)..

iq..last time measured…149..(i’ll concede some slippage..)
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May 1, 2007 7:49am
Southern Man

Camryn,
The percentile for 25/25 will change according to the proportion of people who have got 1 or more questions wrong.
Of course if the volume of people who have aleady taken the test is large this shouldnt change to much in 12 hours?
Maybe its a farily new site.
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May 1, 2007 8:26am
Southern Man

Thought someone would have lampooned me by now for stating the obvious 🙂
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May 1, 2007 8:44am
Fletch

I got 18, so I guess that means I’m ‘average’ or normal; however, I think it’s a bit unfair to judge on questions about the U.S and what distance US cities are from each other etc, when I’ve never been there. It’s obviously a US quiz.
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May 1, 2007 9:41am
Sam Dixon

Obviously a lot of jokers getting very high scores becuase my 25 only rated me the in the 98.99% percentile, and the average score is now 18.06. Bit dumb really, a test that so many people seem to be getting perfect scores on.

Like a quiz I went to last week – we got 45 out of 50 but came third, best team got 47 – when most people can get nearly all the questions right, it makes the scores all so similar and close to perfect that it comes down to luck more than ability as to who wins.
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May 1, 2007 9:47am
phil u

mmm..flogging animal skin rugs there david.?…on your site..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 1, 2007 10:23am
Fletch

As I said above though, it’s supposed to be a test about common-sense. If a test is asking geographic questions about the distance between cities and state capitals and such, that is more about knowledge than common sense.

I don’t thing you can measure how “dumb” someone is based on geographic facts they may or may not know.
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May 1, 2007 10:28am
Fletch

As I said above though, it’s supposed to be a test about common-sense. If a test is asking geographic questions about the distance between cities and state capitals and such, that is more about knowledge than common sense.

I don’t think you can measure how “dumb” someone is based on geographic facts they may or may not know.
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May 1, 2007 10:29am
Andrew W

So how do you test common sense? What is common sense?
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May 1, 2007 10:35am
Det - C.I.U

Mr Whoar said – “mmm..flogging animal skin rugs there david.?…on your site..?”

Animal police sector has been alerted and a squad is expected to investigate possible breaches of the Animals Act – Part 1 Section 69 .
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May 1, 2007 10:55am
ChickenLittle

Ummm Phule I think you forgot the decimal point

“-iq..last time measured…149”

14.9?
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May 1, 2007 11:20am
David Farrar

Fletch one can use common sense for the distance one.

I looked at the answers and vaguely knowing the distance around the globe and the distance of Wgtn to Akl, it was easy to guess the right answer.
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May 1, 2007 11:25am
Craig

Southern Man ; you asked for it. Way to state the bleedin obvious. Your score on the test must have been off the chart 🙂

Phule: IQ is not measured with a tape around the waist. Time to lose weight dude.

Haven’t bothered checking out the link. I know I’m stupid.

Andrew: bugger trying to measure it. How can common sense be common, when it is so rare?
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May 1, 2007 11:31am
phil u

ouch..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 1, 2007 11:57am
thehawk

25.
Trying to raise the average for the white man.
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May 1, 2007 11:59am
phillipjohn

I only got 22/25 – I’m not to good at remembering rules I encountered in 5th form maths, so that’s probably where I loose out.
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May 1, 2007 12:04pm
Det - C.I.U

the hawk – “Trying to raise the average for the white man.”

Yes I wish the black caps would think like that ?
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May 1, 2007 12:11pm
Murray

Last time phool did an IQ test was in his pre-drug days when he was a conservative.

Kids phool is your brain on drugs!
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May 1, 2007 12:13pm
phillipjohn

Murray – you’re pathetic. Why don’t you post something informative or constructive for once instead of your usual petty adhoms.
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May 1, 2007 12:18pm
Andrew W

I’ve become pretty cynical about the term “common sense” as so often it’s used to dismiss ideas that conflict with the common understanding of how things are, past examples of common sense:

The Earth is flat
heavy objects fall faster
Heavier than air flight is impossible
Evolution is nonsense
Rockets can’t fly through space because they need something to push against
Homosexuals are more likely to be child molesters etc.
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May 1, 2007 12:53pm
Murray

There is nothing but self promoting wank to respond to pj.

Bullshit in – bullshit out.

If you’re a crap talking socialist who is only here to tear down DPF and his opinions don’t expect the rest of us to fawn all over you.

Personally you and those like you phool, chronic and the other socialist apologists are the last people I’d want in my corner and that you people are such rabid abusive dishonest hate merchants demonstrates everything we need to know about socialist “ideals”.

Your “contributions” are uniformly negative and non-constructive, if I want your advice I’ll let you know. Till then piss off and give orders on your own site.
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May 1, 2007 1:11pm
Ian McGovern

Common sense sure is a misnomer. Can’t see much of it in the posts. Keep it up. If it was common, surely we would see more of it.
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May 1, 2007 1:12pm
sonic

Murray is a prime example of how not to comment on a non-political thread.

Only 19/25, got stuffed on the mathmatics questions.
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May 1, 2007 1:14pm
phil u

murray..(aka.’.mad-muzza’..)..

is a prime example of “how not to’ lots of things..

eh..?

and dosen’t he froth ‘n foam’..?..almost gnashes ‘n wails..eh..?

he must have to have tissues on hand at all times..

(imagine him..screaming at the spit-flecked monitor..and thrashing at the keyboard…mon dieu..!..sacre bleu..!..

surrounded by his pictures of military-men..and well-oiled gun barrels..

and occaisonally reaching down to fondle a real well-oiled barrel..)

whoar..!

you’re just a figure of fun..mad muzza…

and that is what really grinds your gears..eh..?

you so want ‘respect’..

but you carry on like a wailing dingbat..

so you just don’t get any..!..eh..?

shine on ..you crazy zirconian..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 1, 2007 1:48pm
Razork

Proud of my honest 21.
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May 1, 2007 1:57pm
Ross Nixon

Got only 23.
How does one use “common sense” to work out whether Brazilians speak Portuguese or Spanish? (I couldn’t remember),
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May 1, 2007 2:08pm
Graeme Edgeler

“past examples of common sense:
The Earth is flat”

Seriously?

How long has it been since this was “common sense”?
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May 1, 2007 2:30pm
gd

Somic I bow to your intellect I only got 18/25 Like you got stuffed by the maths questions Oh well just confirms accountants cant add up
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May 1, 2007 2:44pm
archeropterix

22 – mind you I am only female – I might have done better if I was an east-Indian male!
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May 1, 2007 2:47pm
Craig

23:
Common sense
Common knowledge

I think the question you struggled with is a common knowledge question ,not a common sense one. (Common knowledge can be afffected by temporary memory loss, especially at my age!)

“the earth is flat” – hhmm, doesn’t inspire confidence in science does it….moving on…

“heavier than air flight…”
again, more common knowledge (at the time) than common sense?

If you put your hand in the fire, it will get burnt – common sense?

Don’t cross the road without looking …
common sense?

Don’t clean your rifle while it’s loaded…common sense?

Seems as those with no common sense will have a painful and/or short life. Those with poor common knowledge are just blissfully unaware. The later is fixable.
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May 1, 2007 2:50pm
plague

Hmm, what’s with the odd grouping and spacing of the questions on the test? I think it’s obvious: it makes it really easy to miss at least one question as you page down on the screen…. I missed the “pound of dimes” question that way. Depnding on your screen you might have missed/not answered a couple of questions that way. So the test is even more of a “gag” than it first appears.
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May 1, 2007 4:03pm
Graeme Edgeler

“hhmm, doesn’t inspire confidence in science does it”

No.

And you can add this one too: “heavy objects fall faster”.

Well, as a matter of fact, they do.

The speed at which something falls comes from a combination of a number of factors – including shape and wind resistance – and, yes, weight.

Try dropping a few plastic coke bottles from a tall building (or better yet, a tall stairwell to get rid of cross-winds). One filled with something heavy like mercury will hit the ground before one filled with water, which hits before an empty one.

It’s common sense (and true) that a bowling ball will hit the ground faster than a feather, and when shape is controlled for, weight still plays a factor – the force of wind resistance acts in a particular way against the shape of a falling object and when two similarly sized objects (like two coke bottles filled with different substances) fall the denser one counteracts the wind resistance better – and falls faster!
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May 1, 2007 4:13pm
Pita

23:…but how big’s your willy?
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May 1, 2007 4:17pm
plague

Hmm, what’s with the odd grouping and spacing of the questions on the test? I think it’s obvious: it makes it really easy to miss at least one question as you page down on the screen…. I missed the “pound of dimes” question that way. Depnding on your screen you might have missed/not answered a couple of questions that way. So the test is even more of a “gag” than it first appears.
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May 1, 2007 4:17pm
sean14

If we can recognise an absence of common sense, might that help us recognise it when it is present?
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May 1, 2007 4:20pm
Craig

23:…but how big’s your willy?

Ask phil u , he’s got the tape measure 🙂
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May 1, 2007 4:24pm
Andrew W

Im quite sure that, as I said, “common sense” has often been used as a justification for dismissing things that don’t fit with peoples established beliefs, you can define the examples as “common knowledge, but that doesn’t stop the detractors labeling these things as being against “common sense”.

You can add AGW as being not common sense according to some people.

Graeme E, I think most people know what I’m refering to with “heavy objects fall faster”
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May 1, 2007 4:29pm
Graeme Edgeler

Andrew – yep – you’re referring to what happens on the moon (or another vacuum). What has that rather obscure factual scenario got to do with common sense understanding of what happens on Earth (where, last time I checked, we had air)?
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May 1, 2007 6:17pm
Peter Agnew

I could manage only a paltry 23/25. I think I fell down on the Maths questions – oh well, it never was my strongest subject.
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May 1, 2007 7:48pm
Andrew W

Graeme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_Benedetti
Giambattista Benedetti was a Copernican, another common sense belief that lasted for centuries was that the Earth was stationery at the centre of the solar system, when in fact we are all zipping around the sun at over 100,000 Km/hr.
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May 1, 2007 8:42pm
emmess

I got 24
Bloody thing doesn’t tell me what the hell I got wrong
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May 1, 2007 8:48pm
Graeme Edgeler

Yeah, I’ve just re-read my comment – it was way snarkier than I usually do. Sorry.

Heliocentrism was against perceived wisdom. Flat Earth hadn’t been perceived wisdom for many many years before that.

Yes, in a vacuum dense and less dense accellerate and fall at the same rate, but in an atmosphere a more dense object falls faster. Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott took a feather and some metal to the moon and proved “Galileo right”. Had he done it on Earth the feather would have taken longer to reach the ground.
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May 1, 2007 9:15pm
phil u

you’re a hard/cruel man ..graeme edgeler..

words dripping with vitriol..words that cut like a knife..

have you been workshopping with d4j..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 2, 2007 12:58pm
pdm

19

Probably stuffed up on the maths – what was the correct answer to the last question?

Are the answere logged anywhere or could some of you `clever dickies or clever dickesses’ with 25 correct take the time to list them.

Curiosity only.
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May 2, 2007 9:20pm
Andrew W

Hope doing this doesn’t upset anyone

1) How many different months have exactly thirty days in 2008?
*4* 5 6 7
2) A farmer has seventeen cows; all but eight die. How many cows does the farmer have left?
11 9 *8*
3) Which country is largest in terms of land mass?
Spain Peru Italy *Australia*
4) What is the aprox. average height of a full grown man in the US?
6’2″ *5’9″* 5’6″
5) In what year did the US declare its independance from Great Britain?
*1776* 1492 1976 1942
6) I would love to go to the store __________ I don’t want to miss my favorite TV show.
*except* accept

7) Which is worth more?
1 pound of dimes *1 kilogram of dimes*

question group #2
8) What date does the 4th of July fall on in Russia?
January 1st *July 4th* December 31st October 12th
9) What hotel chain is Paris Hilton most closely associated with?
Marriot The Ritz-Carlton *Hilton* Comfort Inn
10) Who is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
*Tony Blair* Margaret Thatcher Queen Elizabeth II Winston Churchill
11) What is the square root of 9?
81 18 27 *3*
12) The __________ of his injury was to prevent him from playing any further.
*effect* affect
13) What time do you have to get up if the drill sargeant tells you wake up is at “oh six hundred”?
6pm *6am* 8am 4pm
14) Which of these cities is a capital of a state with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean?
Seattle New Orleans *Sacramento* Albany

question group 3
15) Which is greater 1/2 of 1/4 or 1/4 of 1/2?
1/2 of 1/4 1/4 of 1/2 *they are equal*
16) Which distance is longer?
*1 mile* 1000 meters 10000 centimeters

17) Who died first?
Ronald Reagan Gerald Ford *Robert Kennedy*
18) How many months are in a decade?
*120* 100 1200 10
19) Which of these people were not in “The Rat Pack”?
Sammy Davis Jr. Frank Sinatra Dean Martin *Al Capone*
20) What language is most commonly spoken in Brazil?
*Portuguese* Spanish Brazlian French
21) How many sides does a hexagon have?
5 *6* 7 8

question group 4
22) What is the chemical symbol for Gold?
Ag *Au* G Cu
23) Approximately how far is it from Seattle to New York City?
500 miles 1,000 miles *3,000 miles* 10,000 miles

24) Glasnost was a political policy introduced in what country?
United States Canada France *The Soviet Union*
25) Which is NOT a prime number?
7 13 *27* 29
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May 2, 2007 10:38pm
funDiva Christy Hoffman

Thanks for the answers, I so dislike when they dont tell ya what you missed and for a pointless quiz Im not going to bother googleing

I missed #17, I was thinking of Ted Kennedy, not Robert! #20 I had no idea, guessed French, cuz Brazilian bikini similar to French cut?! Who knows.

I have a math degree so I find these really unfair to those that dont, and I know that a mile is ~1600 meters cuz I grew up in Denver, so I have given the elevation in meters when talking to people from other countries!

Plus any savvy woman will love her weight in kilograms!

🙂
Christy
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