This is a legit Cambridge study, it was in The Times:

http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/ including a good alternative to the IQ test ---> http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/c ... oduction/2

When drunk, thirsty and tired last night I was below average. Now I am towards the top 10% in almost every test (I deliberately made my room test friendly and put a lot of concentration into it).

It must be said however that I am very much below average at the rotating images in my head and the traditional "spot the odd group out" IQ test, which I think is complete [LIFTED] (naturally). But there are 11 other tests, some are really fun, all of them are challenging:

I'm freakishly good at this one apparently, there are only 15 people in the UK currently who have a better score in it (144) : http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/b ... nstruction

[Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/tADml)

I'm also very good at grammatical reasoning.

Mm.. I"m going to refrain from going through my rant about the actual scientific value of IQ tests for the good of everyone.

I will just observe that some scientists do essentially useless studies because they are being paid to do so, and some scientists work at Cambridge University. Drawn your own Venn diagram .

But it's a study to disprove that IQ tests are accurate, so surely you should enjoy it? :p


copy+paste:
The concept has two aims:

1) To provide a freely available web-based platform for members of the public and the wider scientific community to assess their cognitive function using rigorously tested and scientifically proven tests of memory, attention, reasoning and planning. The tests made available on the site have been used in scientific studies of brain function and cognition by scientific studies of brain function by Dr. Owen and Dr. Hampshire and have been described in many peer-reviewed scientific publications in leading academic journals.

Many of the tests are variants on paradigms that have been used in functional neuroimaging studies (using PET and fMRI) to show how cognitive functions such as memory, planning and attention are mediated by specific regions of the brain (a field colloquially known as 'brain mapping'). In other studies, they have been used to investigate why some of these cognitive functions become impaired in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia and after traumatic brain damage caused by injuries to the head. An additional interest of the team is how performance on these tests (and the cognitive processes that they measure) improves over time with training.

By making these tests widely and freely available, Cambridge Brain Sciences Inc aims to further our understanding of human cognition with a view to mediating against the effects of brain damage and disease.

2) To provide a web-based platform (CBSTrials.com) for the controlled assessment of cognitive function in targeted groups of individuals for the purposes of scientific investigation, including clinical and pharmaceutical trials. The Cambridge Brain Sciences platform has already been used by one major pharmaceutical company to conduct an entirely web-based trial of a novel compound. Furthermore, ~20 collaborative trials involving various patient groups and controls are currently underway using the CBSTrials.com web site. If you would like further information about using Cambridge Brain Sciences for your own trials then please contact Cambridge Brain Sciences Inc.

Actually as this suggests...



It's actually a way to get a massive dataset for free that they can use to develop diagnostic and differential tests which they can then sell on to big pharma for a wad of cash.

You know what they say, if you can't see what's being sold...

Seems like a good deal all round then.

I tried this but some of the instructions are very confusing. The worst one was the 3x3 grid within the distracting numbers. It just didn't make any clear sense. If a test is that complicated, you already exclude a large proportion of the population by virtue of who can understand the fecking thing. Was shocking on the memory tests (I really can't remember anything after about 6-7 figures) but good in the others.

Yeah I could offer to re-write their descriptions, as they really struggle to explain what you have to do. But then again you can always do the test again once you've worked it out on the first run.

anyone know this?

"So now every student has paid $9".

No, that's a false statement, why would they have paid $9? The watch was only $25 dollars, so they would have paid $8.33 each.

3 x $8.33 = £25 dollars.

They each paid $1.66 too much.

$1.66 x 3 = $5

The $5 that was split between the 4 people, $2 to the assistant, $1 each to the original payees. (leaving them still overpaying by 66 cents)

The overpaid amount was stolen by the assistant (3 x 66 cents = $2).

That's everything accounted for, no need to pretend they paid $9. Working out what it would have been like if they'd have paid $9 each at the start is irrelevant as that didn't happen in reality.