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University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

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101 points indigodaddy | 4 comments | 30 Aug 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.02s | source
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avazhi ◴[30 Aug 25 19:45 UTC] No.45077455[source]▶
"You achieved a total score of 50! This means that you are 70% higher than 13351 participants who have completed the test. The percentile score is calculated on-the-fly. This means that your percentile rank may change as more people complete the test."

Not sure this was worth 65 minutes of my time. Would have liked to see whether whatever this version of the ICAR60 is is pegged to a standardized (IQ) test score. I'm assuming the 13,000 people who have also taken this are not representative of the wider pop.

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1. kirurik ◴[30 Aug 25 20:22 UTC] No.45077711[source]▶
The self-selection bias is definitely something to consider. I’d guess people who feel relatively confident in their intelligence are more likely to take the test.
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2. zerr ◴[30 Aug 25 21:41 UTC] No.45078230[source]▶
Many highly intelligent people might decide that it is not worth their time though.
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3. kirurik ◴[30 Aug 25 22:15 UTC] No.45078466[source]▶
True, and many not so intelligent people may overestimate their intelligence and do it. So maybe it does somehow end up being representative.
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4. cutemonster ◴[30 Aug 25 22:58 UTC] No.45078733{3}[source]▶
No it does very much not end up being representative.

> not so intelligent people

They generally won't ever know that the test exists.