Illuminati-R-Us

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:20 am**

I usually don't like click bait, because when I see a "Can you pass this geography test, most people can't?" i like geography, but the test is usually like 50 questions and each one needs a page refresh that takes forever. But this promised to be the world's shortest IQ test, so...

yeah it is dumb, but since I got all three right, I must be a freaking genium.

Before you get started, we’ll give you a quick hint: the questions might not be as easy as they first seem. A 2003 study found that students attending some of the nation’s most prestigious universities (including Harvard and Yale) failed to get all three of these questions correct; only 17 percent received a perfect score.

Think you have what it takes? Give it a shot! Here are the three questions:

1. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

2. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

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Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:21 am**

yeah, well, I got 'em all correct too. So we're like double genius-es

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:31 am**

Me too.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:20 am**

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:08 am**

It's probably just harvesting email addresses for nefarious marketing purposes.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:26 am**

Oh, I'd like to think it means we are all freaking geniuses here.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:30 am**

Enzo wrote:Oh, I'd like to think it means we are all freaking geniuses here.

It's probably both!

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:39 pm**

I am not A Idiot! 3/3 But I did grow up reading too many Readers Digests which were full of quizzes like this.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:25 pm**

My dad liked trivia quizzes. he liked stumping me with them especially. One time he found a quiz with all trick questions: Do they have the Fourth of July in England too? I recognized they were tricks and so got them all rather than fall into the intended traps. He couldn't believe it didn't fool me.

I been a genius ever since.

A bar friend who was one smart cookie (he wrote learned treatises on the nature of matter, had some patents, etc) was discussing Mensa with me one night. His insight was Mensa was a group of people so smart they had figured out a way to extract $35 a year from its members. My personal genius has not yet risen to that level: I have no members, and no one sends me $35.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:11 pm**

3 for 3. If the thing about only 17% attending top schools getting all 3 right isn't just BS, either many fell for the "trick questions" or were over-confident and didn't double check their work. I'll go with the BS explanation.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:36 pm**

Bullshit for me, too. If you ever get an inch past the "oh, it's obvious" stage and actually calculate, you win. It's a bald lie.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:39 pm**

Enzo wrote:
I been a genius ever since.

I notice you didn't mention the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:25 am**

Go play in traffic...

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:33 am**

still didn't mention it....

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