Comments on: A useful IQ test

By: Heath Eddy

Heath Eddy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well I scored 6 of 12, which puts me right down the middle. Some of my answers were sort of the “I’m hoping it’s this answer” idealism, instead of reality. Considering I’m not in the social science field, I guess the result is not too bad. Still, I wish I had more information on these issues than I had prior to the quiz.

By: julia

julia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

7/12

I thought surely we were worse than Sweden for gender segregation by occupation.

By: marcum

marcum — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I scored 10 correct, out of 12 possible. I over-estimated the percentage of people who responded “no” when asked if they agree with inter-ethnic marriages. For the other answer, I under-estimated the ratio of US to foriegn wealth. If a proponent of equality demands economic equality across populations, would that proponent be satisfied with abject poverty for all?

By: Curtiss Leung

Curtiss Leung — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

6/12 myself.

The answers mostly seemed to be of the form
-thing are OK!
-things are bad.
-no, things are worse.
-Gawd, things are horrible.

I think the question about the equality of opportunity across nations was the only one with a ‘things are OK!’ answer (I got it wrong, BTW). Otherwise, I think it was evenly distributed between the “things are worse” and “things are horrbile” responses.

Depressing.