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Shortest IQ test in the world: Eight out of ten people fail - there are only three questions

2020-10-08T17:08:56.722Z


Do you think you are intelligent? Then you should be able to answer these three questions correctly. However, 80 percent fail.


Do you think you are intelligent?

Then you should be able to answer these three questions correctly.

However, 80 percent fail.

  • This special IQ test * should only be able to be mastered by 20 percent - 80 percent of the participants fail.

  • The IQ test only contains

    three - seemingly simple - questions.

  • Can you come up with the correct solution?

The hyped IQ test is from 2005 - and yet it still tempts people to start smoking heavily.

There are three questions that you have to answer correctly in the IQ test.

Can you do it?

IQ test: The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT)

The IQ test is called "The Cognitive Reflection Test" (CRT) and was created by Shane Frederick.

Frederick's IQ test contains only three questions.

However, the test got lost in the amount of published scientific papers.

For that he caused a stir on the net.

“People with

higher cognitive abilities

, also called“

IQ

”, differ from people with lower cognitive abilities in a number of important and unimportant ways.

On average, they live longer, earn more, have larger working memories, faster response times, and are more prone to visual illusions, ”said Frederick's paper.

With his intelligence test, Frederick wanted to show the difference between fast, conscious and slower, but reflective thought processes.

So now to the point: are you one of the

20 percent who can correctly answer the following three questions?

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IQ test: can you manage to answer these three questions?

  • A bat and ball together cost $ 1 and 10 cents.

    The racket costs $ 1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

  • If it took five machines five minutes to make five things, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 things?

  • In a lake there is a spot with water lily leaves.

    The size of the spot doubles every day.

    If it took 48 days for the lily pad leaves to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the leaves to cover half of the lake?

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    A post shared by Agnieszka (@agalalor) on Jul 8, 2020 at 1:26 PM PDT

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    : were you good at maths at school?

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    IQ test: these are the answers

  • 5 cents - most would say 10 cents here

  • 5 minutes - many answer here 100 minutes

  • 47 days - many would assume 24 here

  • * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen network.

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