Interesting Geometry Test

[Jim Becker]

There is an article on MSNBC.com right now about how humans were "made" for geometry. A "test" accompanies the article and is available at this link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10931608/)...quite interesting. How did you do?

[Dave Richards]

100% How'd you do?


Test your innate geometrical sense
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Here's how all readers fared:
Score 0-19 % 20-39 % 40-59 % 60-79 % 80-100 %
Readers 1 % 1 % 3 % 14 % 81 %
* 5902 total responses

[John Miliunas]

Gee, guess there rite; I kaint hardley spel giomitry and I aced it, two!:D :cool:

[Warren White]

I got 100%! (That has to be a first; I don't remember getting any 100% scores on my geometry tests in High School....but come to think of it, since I went to school with Pythagoras; the book wasn't that thick.:)

[Jack Hogoboom]

100%, but it was touch and go for a while....

[Tyler Howell]

100% but I am weird or odd.:o

[Roger Myers]

100%...but then I loved geometry.....

[Andy Hoyt]

90% - Got bolluxed up by the Michael Hosaluk lookalike, but I'm gonna protest

[Rob Glynn]

100%.
It is interesting that 80% of those who took the test got 100% result. I guess the test is easy?

[Cecil Arnold]

I agree with Rob, and got 100%

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Geo and ME friends! 100%

Bruce

[Andy Hoyt]

Well, protest failed. All I can say is, "It's really lonely down here in the 20% club":D

[Vaughn McMillan]

Well, protest failed. All I can say is, "It's really lonely down here in the 20% club":D
90% for me, too. I would have aced it, but I too dumb. (Actually, it's what I get for rushing through it.)

Andy, at least you and I are honest. :rolleyes: :D

- Vaughn

[Ian Barley]

100%.
It is interesting that 80% of those who took the test got 100% result. I guess the test is easy?

100% here too.

Rob - I think that the point isn't so much that the test is easy - it is designed to show that pattern recognition and "geometry" is innate to the human mind. It's only geometry textbooks that set out to make it difficult.

The associated article which explains it is worth reading - here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10925120/

[tod evans]

100%........02

[Rob Glynn]

100% here too.

Rob - I think that the point isn't so much that the test is easy - it is designed to show that pattern recognition and "geometry" is innate to the human mind. It's only geometry textbooks that set out to make it difficult.

The associated article which explains it is worth reading - here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10925120/

Ian.

Point taken, but you are talking to someone who has trouble remembering the names of his kids and grandkids. Maybe I should tattoo patterns on them so that my pattern recognition skill is called into play.

[Keel McDonald]

90%, but I think I hit the wrong key on one of them. Or maybe it's just that I can't accept failure.

[Jeff Sudmeier]

90% I didn't get the 9's one :)

[David Fried]

90% - I must be in the artistic crowd :rolleyes:

[Andy Hoyt]

Thanks David - I'm an artist not a geek.

I feel so much better now. :D

[Gary Herrmann]

100%, but it does just look to be pattern recognition.

[Lou Morrissette]

90% for me. Oh well, must be the age thing.

Lou

[Keith July]

I got 100%... but I cheated. I marked all F's or was it all E's. I can't remember they look so much alike.

[Lars Thomas]

Aced it, but some of them I had to really think! I'm always on the look out for trick questions.

[Michael Perata]

Actually, the test has little to do with "geometry" but is a test of differentiation and abstraction.

The study of geometry, anything, derives from the ability to observe a difference and be curious enough to want to describe/understand the difference.

The ancient Eygptians, the among the first to use geometric principals, saw a difference in the height of similar objects at different distances, realized through abstraction a visual representation of a triangle was created by the observation and developed a mathematics to understand how the differences in the triangle could be used to measure height/distance.

Most critical thinking requires an ability to understand differences and abstract an answer from the observation.

[Jerry Clark]

100%, but after the other posts I was careful and spent more time than anyone should. :cool: It should be timed to make it harder.:D

[Brad Schmid]

Wait just one second here, this has to be one of them trick questions :confused:
5 out of the 6 options on each one are "weird". How am I supposed to get 100% if I can only make one choice on each question :confused: :confused: :D :D :p

[Jerry Olexa]

they must have dumbed it down as I got a 100%.

[Norman Hitt]

Boy, you can sure tell this test had NOTHING to do with memory, Or I sure wouldn't have gotten my 100%.:D

[Mark Singer]

I got 5%....I have trouble visualizing things:confused:

[John Miliunas]

I got 5%....I have trouble visualizing things:confused:

Now Mark, if you expected us to even remotely believe something like that, you shoulda', at least, elected to say 80% or something like that. :D As it stands, it wouldn't surprise me if you're not the one who would've conceived a test like that!!! :) :cool:

[Andy Hoyt]

Now Mark, if you expected us to even remotely believe something like that, you shoulda', at least, elected to say 80% or something like that. :D As it stands, it wouldn't surprise me if you're not the one who would've conceived a test like that!!! :) :cool:

I'm with you, John. Ain't no arckychoke gonna replace us artistes down here in the southern percentiles

[Jim Becker]

Ok, I'll admit to 90%...I wasn't thinking on one of them...and I'm glad to see I wasn't alone!