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University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

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101 points indigodaddy | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.461s | source
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aDyslecticCrow ◴[30 Aug 25 19:08 UTC] No.45077182[source]▶
Its an modern open-source and collaborative resource of IQ style questions for research studies. IQ has a lot of flaws, not the least of which is its usage outside of academic research, as a measure of job aptitude and hiring potential (spoiling its utility as a metric since the questions can be trained... setting aside its dubious usefulness as a hiring tool anyway).

It seems like ICAR is spending a-lot of effort to remain scientific, and i feel like a website like this goes against that by spoiling the test utility for future potential participants.

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1. rasebo ◴[30 Aug 25 19:41 UTC] No.45077420[source]▶
IQ is limited because it only looks at one facet and it generalizes a lot. Tests that look both into ability and aptitude, and especially those who split them by domain are much more relevant and applicable to real world scenarios.
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2. aDyslecticCrow ◴[30 Aug 25 20:04 UTC] No.45077572[source]▶
IQ does actually measure quite widely, but only one of many parts (the visual pattern matching part) is widely know outside of academic use. But even then it should not be used for hiring or intelligence scoring people against one-another.

If you actually want to test people for hiring, using domain specific interview questions and tests is a-lot more reasonable and usefully correlated with real-world job performance.