11–20 of 156 posts
It's interesting to know the possible difference for native and non-native English speakers for this test. I got "higher than 94.3%" and wonder if being non-native puts me at an advantage for the task.
Basically if you know many obscure words you will have an easy time getting a much higher score.
It seems the way this works is that you get a higher score if the 2-gram frequencies for all pairs in your set are low. But this can easily be gamed just by choosing very specific words, since they will naturally occur rarely with other niche words, regardless of whether or not their meanings are "related" in any sense.
Ok, do it and report back. Remember, you need to think of the words yourself.
My words:
Cannabinol, idempotence, median, mitosis, infrared, soufflé, synonym, genomics, tortoiseshell, crankshaft.
99.74% by mixing simple and extremely specific technical words
my final list of seven was: dolphin, dentures, bitterness, genocide, envelope, crampon, and slime
98.4% by just thinking of words that i could not easily draw a mental connection between, then iterating over the list and double checking that no pair of two words had a noticeable link between them. if they did, i swapped one or both of them out and repeated. my final list of seven was: dolphin, dentures, bitterness, genocide, envelope, crampon, and slime
It's interesting to know the possible difference for native and non-native English speakers for this test. I got "higher than 94.3%" and wonder if being non-native puts me at an advantage for the task.