The Hardest IQ test I've found on the net so far

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a challenging IQ test found online, focusing on the interpretation of questions and the reasoning required to answer them. Participants explore the nature of specific questions, particularly those involving time and alarm clocks, and express their thoughts on the clarity and logic of the test items.

Discussion Character

  • Debate/contested, Conceptual clarification, Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants find the test questions to be nonsensical or confusing, particularly the mathematical ones that appear as lists of numbers and boxes.
  • One participant expresses uncertainty about the phrasing of a specific question regarding setting an alarm clock, questioning whether the wording implies setting the time or enabling the alarm.
  • Another participant suggests that the mention of February 28th may be a distraction or trick, raising questions about its relevance to the problem.
  • A different viewpoint posits that if the clock is mechanical, the sleep duration would only be one hour due to the inability of mechanical clocks to distinguish between AM and PM.
  • There is a clarification regarding the terminology used for setting the clock versus setting the alarm, with one participant asserting that you set a clock to a specific time but set the alarm for that time.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing interpretations of the test questions, with no consensus on their clarity or logic. Multiple competing views regarding the phrasing and implications of the questions remain unresolved.

Contextual Notes

The discussion highlights potential ambiguities in language and assumptions about the functionality of mechanical clocks, as well as the subjective nature of interpreting the test's intent.

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Be warned. They're hard. Really hard.
 
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They don't make sense.

I'm looking at the "mathematical" ones, and all I see are lists of numbers and boxes. Are they series?
 
hmm... i stopped after this:

"On February 28th at 19 o'clock you set the mechanical alarm-clock at 8 o'clock in the morning and go to bed. How many hours will you sleep, if we suppose that you fall asleep immediately after setting the alarm-clock?"

i'm not sure if this is due to me leaning towards british english over US english... but do i set the clock at 8 o'clock or do i set it to 8 o'clock?... and i often oversleep my alarmclock by 5-6 minutes... and it's not enough to just set the time, you also have to actually enable the alarm... did i do that? and why does he even bother trying to trick us with the feb. 28th data? is he luring us to think it is important? or is that just a trick? maybe he knows that we'd consider it to be a trick, but it's not, and the folding of the entire sharwarma depends on us finding out...

as you see... way to many questions and too few answers... :D nobody in their rigth mind would ever finish such a test...
 
If it's mechanical you only sleep for an hour because mechanical clocks can't differ between am and pm.
 
Actually, I think you set a clock to 8 o' clock but you set the alarm for 8 o' clock.

When you use 'at', you are talking about the time when you set the clock/alarm.
 

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