Dr-Autist-Octavius wrote:
Playing chess, does that contribute to the pool and affect everyone's ELO scores? Because I'm trying not to do that.
You can play unrated games if you prefer, you just need to select that option during setup.
Would you be willing to take an IQ test, to show me what cognitive profile you need for chess?
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AnastasiaStyles wrote:
Dr-Autist-Octavius wrote:
Like the guy on Codeforces, I trust that the people of Chess.com wouldn't lie.
And I trust that all people on Chess.com are equally confident. Everyone here is at least sharper than the average person
While your level of trust in your fellow humans is inspiring, "I trust" is really not how science works. Self-reporting absolutely can be used, but it needs to be acknowledged as a limitation—or in this case, a series of limitations, because there's a lot you're taking on faith there.
Alternatively... You mentioned that you are considering going into a STEM field; it could be that a different area of STEM would suit you better, if using a rigorous scientific methodology seems unnecessary to you.
I don't need things to be super precise, worst case scenario I get super high results because only the very confident/liars answered my survey.
Also, the STEM thing was just a hypothetical. If I was gonna get into STEM, I'd wanna know how smart you need to be for STEM School.
AnastasiaStyles wrote:
Dr-Autist-Octavius wrote:
Playing chess, does that contribute to the pool and affect everyone's ELO scores? Because I'm trying not to do that.
You can play unrated games if you prefer, you just need to select that option during setup.
You wouldn't happen to know if this would give me permission to quote and post images, would you?
I'm starting to get e-mail notifications of when I get responses to this thread, but I'm not getting them on the site, I don't think. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place?
Interested in taking the test?
I hear Hikaru did very well on a memory benchmark test. That tracks with how Keegan scored 133 for Memory on the Open Source Psychometrics test.
I actually came here with a hypothesis: I suspect most people here will score high on Memory. People like to point out how Hikaru got close to average on some kind of Mensa practice test, but that test doesn't measure for memory.
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Dr-Autist-Octavius wrote:
I hear Hikaru did very well on a memory benchmark test. That tracks with how Keegan scored 133 for Memory on the Open Source Psychometrics test.
I actually came here with a hypothesis: I suspect most people here will score high on Memory. People like to point out how Hikaru got close to average on some kind of Mensa practice test, but that test doesn't measure for memory.
should I message you or post it here?
AMagirlcom wrote: Dr-Autist-Octavius wrote:
I hear Hikaru did very well on a memory benchmark test. That tracks with how Keegan scored 133 for Memory on the Open Source Psychometrics test.
I actually came here with a hypothesis: I suspect most people here will score high on Memory. People like to point out how Hikaru got close to average on some kind of Mensa practice test, but that test doesn't measure for memory.
should I message you or post it here?
You can do either, but message me instead if you'd like to remain anonymous.
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is this going to be published in a study, and if so can you post it here when it is done?
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and do you need the stuff under the numbers like the vm (idk what that is)
AMagirlcom wrote:
is this going to be published in a study, and if so can you post it here when it is done?
I wouldn't call it a "study," but if I ever get enough people (I may have overestimated how popular this thread would be) and if I'm ever allowed to post images, I intend to share the graphs. No names will be shared.
AMagirlcom wrote:
this is how to do images
I don't have that. I'm missing a lot of functionality.
Know what? I'm gonna ask Support why this is.
A laptop.
Like the guy on Codeforces, I trust that the people of Chess.com wouldn't lie.
And I trust that all people on Chess.com are equally confident. Everyone here is at least sharper than the average person
While your level of trust in your fellow humans is inspiring, "I trust" is really not how science works. Self-reporting absolutely can be used, but it needs to be acknowledged as a limitation—or in this case, a series of limitations, because there's a lot you're taking on faith there.
Alternatively... You mentioned that you are considering going into a STEM field; it could be that a different area of STEM would suit you better, if using a rigorous scientific methodology seems unnecessary to you.