The National IQ test
Wed, 7 Aug 2002, 03:11 amcrgwllms6 posts in thread
The National IQ test
Wed, 7 Aug 2002, 03:11 amMy mum rang me this arvo, and suggested I watch the National IQ test on channel 7 tonight. I had no idea about it, hadn't heard of it, and was going out to an Equity committee meeting; but I made the effort and set the VCR. (Some may argue that successfully programming a VCR puts you in the top percentile by itself.)
Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
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Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
[%sig%]
crgwllmsWed, 7 Aug 2002, 03:11 am
My mum rang me this arvo, and suggested I watch the National IQ test on channel 7 tonight. I had no idea about it, hadn't heard of it, and was going out to an Equity committee meeting; but I made the effort and set the VCR. (Some may argue that successfully programming a VCR puts you in the top percentile by itself.)
Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
[%sig%]
Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
[%sig%]
Walter PlingeWed, 7 Aug 2002, 07:44 am
Re: The National IQ test
My daughter and I completed the second half of the test as up to that point we were both out doing better things!!!
Either we are super intelligent, or the test was made very easy on purpose, but we managed to achieve extremely high scores. How anyone could have found it hard is beyond me. I went to bed before the end - such a drain on my brain of course - but it was comforting to see on the national statistics that WA and Perth were second in the country.
Either we are super intelligent, or the test was made very easy on purpose, but we managed to achieve extremely high scores. How anyone could have found it hard is beyond me. I went to bed before the end - such a drain on my brain of course - but it was comforting to see on the national statistics that WA and Perth were second in the country.
PamelaWed, 7 Aug 2002, 08:24 am
Re: The National IQ test
Sounds like the non-existent GRADS production meeting I attended, alone, all by myself, was better value than the above mentioned load of dingoes' kidneys.
As was watching my DVD of Lord of the Rings, trying to spot the mistakes (they've been edited out, dammit!) and putting pleas for suits of armour on this here forum (please see the Classifieds section).
Thou beslubbering fool-born barnacle! Fool of a Took!
As was watching my DVD of Lord of the Rings, trying to spot the mistakes (they've been edited out, dammit!) and putting pleas for suits of armour on this here forum (please see the Classifieds section).
Thou beslubbering fool-born barnacle! Fool of a Took!
crgwllmsWed, 7 Aug 2002, 11:37 am
Re: BB is watching IQ
Rhoda wrote:
> Either we are super intelligent, or the test was made very
> easy on purpose, but we managed to achieve extremely high
> scores. How anyone could have found it hard is beyond me. I
> went to bed before the end - such a drain on my brain of
> course - but it was comforting to see on the national
> statistics that WA and Perth were second in the country.
Aha - maybe you've hit on something there. Could it be that it was all a subtle reverse-psychology experiment to improve the nation's intellectual self-esteem?
Maybe they realised that I have a poor attitude toward demonstrations of intelligence, and so by dumbing it down and trivializing it, they were secretly instilling me with a feeling of intellectual superiority?
And I thought Big Brother was on Channel 10.
Cheers,
Craig
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> Either we are super intelligent, or the test was made very
> easy on purpose, but we managed to achieve extremely high
> scores. How anyone could have found it hard is beyond me. I
> went to bed before the end - such a drain on my brain of
> course - but it was comforting to see on the national
> statistics that WA and Perth were second in the country.
Aha - maybe you've hit on something there. Could it be that it was all a subtle reverse-psychology experiment to improve the nation's intellectual self-esteem?
Maybe they realised that I have a poor attitude toward demonstrations of intelligence, and so by dumbing it down and trivializing it, they were secretly instilling me with a feeling of intellectual superiority?
And I thought Big Brother was on Channel 10.
Cheers,
Craig
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Walter PlingeWed, 7 Aug 2002, 01:10 pm
Re: The IQs Have It
Confession time- I sat through the damn thing to see if I was as smart I think I am. Not much real info was gleaned- ultimately, it just struck me as an opportunity to "brain-bash" Kiwis, Blondes, Builders and also for McGuire to demonstrate YET AGAIN that he is Satan Incarnate, and shuold be dispatched with all the mercy one would give a pox-ridden rabid fox.
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Walter PlingeSun, 18 Aug 2002, 07:23 pm
Shame on u Eddie
I sat through it too, and so did a few of my friends. We all agree that Eddie was shamelessly racist toward Kiwi's. He obviously thought that if he said "Jus kidding" after every degrading, rude, idiotic remark it made what he said ok. Well he was wrong.
And i am just wondering if they took into account the number of celebrities compared to the number of other people in each group when they were scoring?
And i am just wondering if they took into account the number of celebrities compared to the number of other people in each group when they were scoring?