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Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by asher_ »

praptak wrote: post #18

Spoiler alert . . . Hm. I might have "cheated" on this. I haven't tried to imagine the actual 2D->3D transformations but instead looked for clues in the 2D images. It's a bit hard to describe - transforming the cutouts in my head so that they match (or obviously differ) in 2D while still giving the same cube. Did not submit though, since I got tired after the 4th set.

All spatial tests are able to be solved with structural techniques rather than spatial ones.

We have designed this test in response to that flaw so that when it comes to the harder items it is much more difficult to do so than to use the intended mental transformation and rotation techniques.

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by colanderman »

NathanKP wrote: post #23

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

Agreed, same here. SPOILER The consensus seems to be that 8 has more than one answer, I definitely see 8A as different from the others (arrows pointing away from each other as opposed to perpendicular), but perhaps there is another one. Brain is too tired to figure out another possibility right now; thanks for the workout :)

BTW #6 I found most difficult (even more so than #9), and #7 was far too easy for its position.

TO AUTHOR: The answer key for #6 is wrong. It should be A, not C. (The boxes are on the LHS of the frontmost arrow in A; they are on the RHS of the other three.)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by asher_ »

antoko wrote: post #29

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.

I originally uploaded the incorrect items, of which one contained a flaw (I scored it as correct for everyone in that early group).

In the easy questions you can indeed use those structural techniques, but in the harder ones you couldn't.

In the 'gold standard' spatial tests that currently exist you can use these kinds of queues for almost every item very easily, which is why we introduced this method.

Also, we need to take into account the vastly higher than average intelligence at HN compared to the general population; you guys are outrageously outperforming undergraduate psych students so far :-)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by colanderman »

screwt wrote: post #5

Didn't give me a score ... I'm fairly certain that for my Q8 (2 squares, 2 circles & 2 triangles on each), there was no unique odd one out. For A & C the triangles pointed opposite directions when assembled, and B & D they pointed in the same direction.

This seems to be fixed now (on C they point perpendicularly), but I'm still getting 8/9. ('course it's possible I missed another one...)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by bambax »

9/9... but with submitting twice (first try: 7/9)

The tests that have only different symbols are much easier than the ones where symbols are repeated.

For example for question 1, without actually building the whole of the cube in one's head, it's quite obvious that the circle is always on the left side of the heart, except in one case where it will be at the top, and since the cubes have to be absolutely identical one doesn't need to look further than the first difference.

(Edit: if the test is different for each taker, the above example is meaningless, of course.)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by jasonkostempski »

asher_ wrote: post #9

Sorry guys, had an incorrect marking key for the test, fixed it now. My greatest apologies for those who didn't get a correct score back, ill put up your scores with the last half of your IP addresses very soon!

That 'mistake' is part of the test isn't it ;)

Re: Help me out by taking this spatial ability test

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Post by asher_ »

bambax wrote: post #37

9/9... but with submitting twice (first try: 7/9) The tests that have only different symbols are much easier than the ones where symbols are repeated. For example for question 1, without actually building the whole of the cube in one's head, it's quite obvious that the circle is always on the left side of the heart, except in one case where it will be at the top, and since the cubes have to be absolutely identical on…

Yes, there are many moderators of difficulty.

We had some requirements for the test which included graded difficulty from very easy to very hard to be able to separate out people of different abilities over a regular population.

We were supposed to design the first question so that 100% of people got it correct; to be an easy, practice type question.

Also, you guys aren't even getting to see our hardest questions :D Take a look at http://psych.io/spatial/hard.jpg for example!

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