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Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by asher_ » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:34 PM UTC

Robin_Message wrote: post #10

Hmmm, 2 out of 9 and no feedback? I have to say I find that deeply frustrating :) Also, I have no idea what you're collecting data for or anything; I just gave you my time, please let me know what you've done with it. Hope you get the results you wanted. Edit: Apparently I scored 8/9, which is less frustrating :)

This is for a psych project. It is quite a bit harder than most spatial ability tests. Most spatial ability tests are easy to do with non-spatial methods. We have designed this item format to (hopefully) not be the case.

Our results so far have shown that not having a time limit doesn't affect the results substantially either, unlike most other spatial tests. It is a test of what you are able to do rather than how quickly you can do something.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by ryanklee » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:34 PM UTC

4/9. I was fighting impatience for a good deal of the time. This may be intentional, but if not, some added context as to the purpose may have given me more reason to focus. Or not ;-)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by NathanKP » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

Darn! 8/9 This should tell you which one you got wrong, because now its going to drive me crazy.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

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Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by oxtopus » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

austintaylor wrote: post #16

1 out of 9. I felt quite certain about every answer.

Same here. My first reaction was, "Surely it means to say I got one wrong out of nine." But I don't know which one.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by austintaylor » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:37 PM UTC

austintaylor wrote: post #16

1 out of 9. I felt quite certain about every answer.

8/9 now and question 8 has no accepted answer. I feel better about it now.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by khill » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:39 PM UTC

I'm surprised I got 7/9 considering my inability to nicely position furniture in a room.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by mattmanser » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

Seems that everyone gets different questions btw, my q8 was nothing like screwt's, I didn't have that image at all.

It seems to be giving feedback now, 7/9. As others have said, for our own curiousness it would have been nice to know which ones we got wrong!

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by antoko » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

I'm not sure it takes into consideration the orientation of the image, I was using that as a short cut - E.G. arrow points to circle and such.

This made about half of them solvable by inspection in under 15 seconds for me. However the result was 1 out of 9. Using this same approach the 8th question was obviously flawed, I wasn't about to go back and try a different method at that point though.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by shrikant » Wed, Nov 02, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

vorbby wrote: post #14

This is excruciatingly difficult. I have no experience with this sort of a test, and the method that I chose (albeit quickly and without a whole lot of thought) was to pick four sides that were touching, and try to find the one pattern that didn't have the same four sides touching. This logic obviously didn't work, because I got 1 / 9. Does anyone have a strategy for this, or is it pure logic?

I found it easier to pick and compare opposite faces.

This didn't work for exactly 3 of them (the ones with repeated symbols), so went with educated guesses there.

Curiously, I got 6/9.