Thread: How intelligent do you think you are?

Originally Posted by tommo

Years + Years = Brains? No. That's ridiculous.

You're making the same basic mistake that you made in your attempted answer. You assumed that the remark "Years+Years=Brains" referred to "the classic mistake". It didn't. It was just a remark. False assumption.

You'll kick yourself.. so near and yet so far..

If I remember correctly, we interviewed approximately 170 people over several years and there were possibly 11 or 12 who passed that section, but only 3-4 were shortlisted for the job(s).

Originally Posted by Oneiro

You're making the same basic mistake that you made in your attempted answer. You assumed that the remark "Years+Years=Brains" referred to "the classic mistake". It didn't. It was just a remark. False assumption.

You'll kick yourself.. so near and yet so far..

I didn't assume that at all. I assumed that was the answer for the last one. Which is a reasonable assumption since you quoted my answer, chuckled, and wrote that.

I assume you're trying to say that I made the mistake that the answers were unrelated, or related. But you're trying to sound smart by being cryptic. Clever....
Where did you work?

Ok so it's obvious there's no correct answer, so you just chose the people who had answers which fit your work place the most or something like that.
Unless there's one answer which fits more.

a) H+K=B; Height + Kangaroo = Bounce
b) O+H=W; Oxygen + Hydrogen = Water
c) A+W=T; Aeons + Waiting = Time
d) A+W=O; Air and Water = Organic
e) S+S=S; SS = Ship
f) B+Y=G; Blue + Yellow = Green
g) Y+Y=B; Yin + Yang = Bi-polar

Originally Posted by tommo

I didn't assume that at all. I assumed that was the answer for the last one. Which is a reasonable assumption since you quoted my answer, chuckled, and wrote that.

I assume you're trying to say that I made the mistake that the answers were unrelated, or related.

FAIL.

Originally Posted by tommo

Ok so it's obvious there's no correct answer..

FAIL.

Originally Posted by tommo

..so you just chose the people who had answers which fit your work place the most or something like that.

Wrong.

Originally Posted by tommo

Unless..

Go for it tommo..

Originally Posted by tommo

a) H+K=B; Height + Kangaroo = Bounce
b) O+H=W; Oxygen + Hydrogen = Water
c) A+W=T; Aeons + Waiting = Time
d) A+W=O; Air and Water = Organic
e) S+S=S; SS = Ship
f) B+Y=G; Blue + Yellow = Green
g) Y+Y=B; Yin + Yang = Bi-polar

Oooooh. FAIL.

Same schoolboy error again.

PM me if you want to know what you've done wrong.

There obviously is no correct answer. I've just shown that with two different answers.
And some differ in the way I interpreted it. i.e SS instead of two words etc.

Go ahead, PM me what I "did wrong". I'll prove you wrong.

Originally Posted by tommo

There obviously is no correct answer.

Wrong.

Originally Posted by tommo

Go ahead, PM me what I "did wrong". I'll prove you wrong.

Ha! No you won't. You're gonna kick yourself. PM on its way.