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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (11 children)

It's not an IQ test. IQ tests are supposed to quantify your ability to reason in a space in which you have no context. You have to have the context that Arabic numerals are the most common numbers in order to not fall for this. This is a critical thinking test (critical thinking requires both logic and a world view founded in reality)

... yes, I am autistic, why do you ask?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's very well demonstrated that even child IQ tests are dependent on prior and culture specific knowledge. It's a significant problem with them tbh.

[–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It hardly even needs to be demonstrated, most WAIS variants are explicitly designed to contain tests for "general information acquired from culture" and knowledge of vocabulary.

And yet here we are

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