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Here is your chance to play rock/paper/scissors against a computer and find out how predictable you (and other human beings) really are. Here is the game: Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer This point is made: A truly random game of rock-paper-scissors would result in a statistical tie with each player winning, tying and losing one-third [...]
The title of the article is provocative: How Dumb Are We? So is the subtitle: “NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test -38 percent failed. The country’s future is imperiled by our ignorance.” And the statistics aren’t particularly inspiring: When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent [...]
Test yourself – for programmers – How to print without a loop
by Marshall Brain | January 3, 2011
If you are a programmer, or if you enjoy thinking like a programmer, here is a quiz question: Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals The question: Print numbers from 1 to 1000 without using any loop or conditional statements. Don’t just write the printf() or cout statement 1000 times. Try to do it [...]
Test yourself by taking the ultimate intelligence test
by Marshall Brain | November 11, 2010
How smart are you? According to this article… Take the ultimate intelligence test …scientists have developed the ultimate test of your intelligence. It tests “12 pillars of wisdom” and probes “as much of the brain as possible” (based on results of brain scans of people taking the test). You can find the test here: The [...]
The advantage of taking this test is that you actually provide research data as well…
This article makes the claim that 66% of Americans cannot name a single sitting Supreme Court justice…
This test will take 10 or 15 minutes and is designed to test and see how good your face recognition skills are: Cambridge Face Memory Test If you enjoy that test, you might like this site as well, which has 5 additional brain tests: Welcome to Test My Brain! More info: How Facial Recognition Systems [...]
Here is an explanation of “risk intelligence”: You can find the risk intelligence test at the top of this page: Test Your risk intelligence High risk intelligence is quite rare. Fifty years of research in the psychology of judgement and decision making shows that most people are not very good at thinking clearly about risky [...]
How good (or bad) are you when it comes to change blindness? You can find out with this online test: Guns, Tumors And The Limits Of The Human Eye Click the link and Scroll down a page to access the test. Here are the instructions: People tend to think that they generally see things happening [...]
One staple of the tech interview is the stumper “problem questions” – it’s sort of like an oral examination. How can you prepare for an interview like that? Practice. And here is a web site full of tech interview questions to practice with: My Tech Interviews A sample question found on the site: A certain [...]
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