When I took an IQ test at... 9? (a very, very long time ago) the first similarities questions was on apples vs peaches (or maybe apricots). After a string of steadily more complicated answers and more "tell me another way they are the same" from the increasingly frustrated evaluator she finally broke down (after "both come from flowers with 5 petals and 5 sepals", IIRC) and told me "fruits! they are both fruits!!!".
I was flabbergasted (although I tried not to betray my scorn) at how stupid the questions/answers were for what had been pitched to me as a test to see if I was smart "enough".
The rest of the testing proceeded smoothly enough, once expectations on both sides had been properly recalibrated.
Last edited by SiaSL; 09/30/20 10:59 PM.
