Jordan Peterson Goes Through IQ Test

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  • @loualcaraz6497
    @loualcaraz6497 3 роки тому +6106

    Motivational speakers: "don't ever let anyone tell you you can't do it."
    Jordan Peterson: "You can't do it."

    • @haidernaeemmalana8601
      @haidernaeemmalana8601 2 роки тому +104

      And that's a trump card no motivational speaker can talk around

    • @iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446
      @iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446 2 роки тому +148

      I guess none of the people who have IQ less than 83 would read this comment.
      Because i guess they will not watch JP's lectures because they are difficult to understand, aren't they

    • @reptowolfe8322
      @reptowolfe8322 2 роки тому +197

      And the funniest part, he's probably more motivational than them anyway.

    • @Supreme_Lobster
      @Supreme_Lobster 2 роки тому +56

      @@iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446 I think JP does a great job of simplifying concepts, so even if someone doesnt understand all of them very deeply, they can still get the overall message in a way that they can use

    • @iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446
      @iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446 2 роки тому +1

      @@Supreme_Lobster Ahh! Yeah! Right!

  • @naut_nigel
    @naut_nigel 4 роки тому +7232

    "Wow. IQ tests are so pointless. Intelligence can't be summarized in one number."
    *gets all 3 correct*
    "On the other hand.."

    • @bushranger900
      @bushranger900 4 роки тому +22

      When are you flying to Mars..Captain..not on my ship I hope

    • @daveerwin6981
      @daveerwin6981 4 роки тому +47

      You're right. You should read Nassim Taleb's take on IQ

    • @LegoDonut18
      @LegoDonut18 4 роки тому +57

      Nigel Murillo
      Of course, an actual IQ test should be AT LEAST 20 questions and even that is stretching it.

    • @martinlyons3028
      @martinlyons3028 4 роки тому +56

      People who boast About their IQs are losers

    • @Madzguy007
      @Madzguy007 4 роки тому +32

      Then you clearly don’t understand what an IQ test is. It’s not just a number

  • @zeustrong305
    @zeustrong305 Рік тому +379

    One remarkable thing Jordan said is very true. IQ tells you how fast a person can learn something, but not how they perform after learning it. The chances for them to get bored at it is high. The more intelligent, the more resistance against repetitive tasks.

    • @RaniaIsAwesome
      @RaniaIsAwesome 10 місяців тому

      IQ is a pile of nonsense.

    • @hi4550
      @hi4550 9 місяців тому +7

      @@cherrynado
      Yes that is true
      My iq lies between
      138 to 145
      But sometime in other test
      It lies between 150 to 160
      But still scored 62 in class 12th
      With 2 days
      With just

    • @davidsmith7653
      @davidsmith7653 9 місяців тому

      Hmmm, psychological tests have shown that introverts are better than extroverts at repetitive tasks. It's not connected to intelligence. It is measured by the Pursuit Rotor Test.

    • @HassanIQ777
      @HassanIQ777 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@hi4550hahahha I got top 99.99% percentile, gets 14/100 in mathematics, I just don't care

    • @peterkoch3777
      @peterkoch3777 9 місяців тому +16

      Wrong! The more intelligent, the faster a repetitive job gets boring. And then the smart people start automating.

  • @SmugAmerican
    @SmugAmerican Рік тому +123

    I've been teaching my kids that effort is more important than talent. I always tested well growing up, and I've also aced puzzles and things of that nature. I knew the solutions to these pretty quickly. But I'm essentially a janitor, because I never applied myself. I was too anxious and afraid of the effort required to try and become anything complicated. I squandered my intelligence. If I impart anything to my children, it's that being smart isn't worth piss if you don't direct it with some sort of ambition in life.

    • @LazyBoyZR1
      @LazyBoyZR1 Рік тому +3

      As a Sr. Tech Manager in a very competitive field (AI) - It's getting harder and harder to find the "right" people to join my team. I use a variation of these types of questions in my screening interview. As you mentioned you do well on tests, and puzzles, but I mix in the stress of the interview, I distract the people during my timed pop quiz, and it's been extremely valuable in my screening process. But let me tell you from over 20 years of experience in management and hiring top people. You just don't know how people will work until you work with them. I say it to my kids, you can't teach ambition and work ethic. Either you have it, or you don't. At least at the level I'm hiring for. It's possible to learn what it takes to work hard at a young age, from your parents or other mentors, but it takes years of effort and making mistakes and learning what to do and not to do... By they time I'm hiring you, you either have it or you don't.
      Edit: Wanted to add, that stress tolerance is equally important to general competence. Without a high stress tolerance, many "smart" people are too afraid to try. They get left behind, and quickly.

    • @SmugAmerican
      @SmugAmerican Рік тому +4

      @LazyBoyZR1 For sure. I do restorations of stone, carpet, metal, and vct for 18 dollars an hour. I do well enough, but I could have done better for myself if I didn't start out so lost in my 20s.

    • @Filosofos1
      @Filosofos1 8 місяців тому +2

      Well they cant really change their intellect so yeah learning discipline is going to be more beneficial.

    • @freedomextremist7215
      @freedomextremist7215 8 місяців тому +2

      @@LazyBoyZR1 You can teach it, but it gets exponentially harder as time passes. That's why family and early education are very important.

    • @zegikniet9999
      @zegikniet9999 7 місяців тому +2

      I wish my mother told me that instrad of just praising my intelligence cause i am kinda in the same boat. But working on it..

  • @owenwalker1774
    @owenwalker1774 5 років тому +12077

    Those IQ test questions are allot easier than puzzles in Resident Evil games.

    • @Nick_las_seafarer
      @Nick_las_seafarer 5 років тому +337

      If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin

    • @owenwalker1774
      @owenwalker1774 5 років тому +110

      @grim triX Yea I wondered about that. What was the time limit? I solved the 3rd one but it took me awhile.

    • @joehuffman7410
      @joehuffman7410 5 років тому +122

      @grim triX Yes there are 3 types of crosses and 3 backgrounds. the only combination missing out of the total 9 is number 3.
      For the people who think it is 7.... the pattern doesn't lie in each column or row but the puzzle as a whole.

    • @owenwalker1774
      @owenwalker1774 5 років тому +56

      @grim triX Its 3 because, as an example, there are three blue triangles, three yellow triangles, and two black triangles, therefore the triangle must be black. Do this process of elimination with all three segments.

    • @johnristheanswer
      @johnristheanswer 5 років тому +64

      " allot "

  • @warwickthekingmaker7281
    @warwickthekingmaker7281 6 років тому +5199

    "It´s illegal to recruit someone with an IQ of less than 84 into the army."
    RIP Forest Gump...

    • @adamwhitaker7435
      @adamwhitaker7435 5 років тому +12

      Lol nice.

    • @theman6119
      @theman6119 5 років тому +10

      @Shaun Tanger smh your mom joke in 2019

    • @Doraulxd
      @Doraulxd 5 років тому +71

      @@theman6119 smh watch the movie

    • @John-lo4xz
      @John-lo4xz 5 років тому +24

      @@theman6119 Not remembering Forrest Gump smh

    • @TruculentGoose
      @TruculentGoose 5 років тому +66

      Actually, the 84+ IQ requirement is only for people who have not graduated high school

  • @TripleIProductions
    @TripleIProductions Рік тому +736

    I think it highly depends on stress level as well.
    I was able to find the right answer relatively fast after pausing (which means i technically didn't have to pause). But if I hadn't been able to pause or if I was sitting in that class, my mind would go into overdrive and I wouldn't be able to find the right answer due to the many external pressures (time ticking, social pressuee, distractions, racing with peers, knowing its being recorded, lack of focus etc).
    Relaxation/comfort increases IQ.

    • @infoharvester
      @infoharvester Рік тому +20

      I agree

    • @Jmzz542
      @Jmzz542 Рік тому +16

      it's more about the lack of distractions than the relaxation itself. no stress means there are no distractions so you can focus.

    • @TripleIProductions
      @TripleIProductions Рік тому +5

      @@Jmzz542depends if "lack of distractions/ stress = relaxation" (or not).
      I would argue, we are saying the same but in opposite ways.

    • @Evolved_Monkey
      @Evolved_Monkey Рік тому

      3:33
      why is it 3?

    • @gingerroot8802
      @gingerroot8802 Рік тому +14

      Agreed. I took an IQ test when I was a teen (a legit one as well) and scored an 84 on it. I promise you I am no where near that in actuality.. When testing again under different circumstances and when being treated for mental health issues I actually scored relatively high at 120. The first time around I had such bad anxiety and concentration issues that I would have rather had my arm cut off at the time lol I suffer from aspergers and ADHD so it makes sense that setting matters a lot.

  • @aamirnazir1740
    @aamirnazir1740 5 місяців тому +24

    for question 3. The triangle will be black because every row has unique color of triangles. As for the lines, for every yellow horizontal line, there is only a blue vertical line possible. Similarily for blue horizontal, black vertical and for black horizontal only yellow vertical is used. Hence option 3 is correct because it has a black triangle, yellow horizontal and blue vertical.

    • @radoslav2913
      @radoslav2913 2 місяці тому +1

      they really are pretty simple if you don't panic and just look at the easy patterns. I would imagine having such tests with 6 or 7 different colors now that would be challenging. 3 colors is too simple

    • @marcotinnirello6010
      @marcotinnirello6010 2 місяці тому +9

      There is another answer, which is 7.
      logic is that each row has to have 2 horizontals the same colour and the third horizontal in the row being another. And 7 does that.
      Both 3 and 7 could be answers, depending on which logic rule one applies.

    • @Snowblaze_
      @Snowblaze_ 2 місяці тому +4

      ​​@@marcotinnirello6010 7 is incorrect, because then you'd have 4 total vertical yellow lines (instead of 3) and 2 total vertical blue lines (instead of 3), as well as 4 total horizontal blue lines (instead of 3) and 2 total horizontal yellow lines (instead of 3). - We aim to have 3 of each color for each shape.

    • @CR4V3Y
      @CR4V3Y Місяць тому +1

      Each line pattern is used thrice except for the missing set.

    • @kevinbellock6825
      @kevinbellock6825 22 дні тому +1

      @@marcotinnirello6010 no, there is a correct answer which is 3. These tests are designed in a way where an incorrect answer can seem to make sense. but any reasoning you use will not definitely point to only the incorrect answer. each horizontal/vertical line combination appears 3 times, and every row and column has 3 different colored triangles. There is only one correct answer. 7 doesn't make sense because nowhere else does a horizontal blue appear with a vertical yellow on top. These questions are almost always phrased "which is the MOST correct"

  • @env0x
    @env0x 4 роки тому +4403

    "You mustve thought you were pretty smart huh well youre not smart. That was easy"
    God damnit jordan why u gotta ruin my 20 seconds of moderate confidence

    • @oldmonk9997
      @oldmonk9997 4 роки тому +48

      No! You're smart bucko! Pat yourself on the back right fucking now!

    • @oldmonk9997
      @oldmonk9997 4 роки тому +7

      @danyle Robinson *were

    • @fallen1world294
      @fallen1world294 4 роки тому +40

      @danyle Robinson You barely even coordinated that sentence accurately, I would worry if I were you.

    • @ericcarlson6815
      @ericcarlson6815 4 роки тому +35

      The fact that you're even watching these lecture videos willingly is pretty good evidence that you're not in a bad position

    • @legodude19999
      @legodude19999 4 роки тому +4

      @danyle Robinson let's see you weld together a roll cage, or a sluce box back together in the pouring rain. Try working on your own car yourself. You might know a bunch of languages, but that does not mean you are smart

  • @shattynatty27
    @shattynatty27 5 років тому +4542

    I was skeptical of the validity of IQ tests until I found the correct solutions to those 3 puzzles

    • @darknexusknight
      @darknexusknight 5 років тому +101

      Nice one

    • @gosiama480
      @gosiama480 5 років тому +17

      Conor Larkin 😂

    • @elizat1265
      @elizat1265 5 років тому +70

      The question is: how long did it take you to solve it?

    • @shattynatty27
      @shattynatty27 5 років тому +546

      Eliza T 6 months give or take

    • @thz4326
      @thz4326 5 років тому +41

      Conor Larkin solid

  • @NKNeptune
    @NKNeptune Рік тому +1

    one of the most fascinating video's i have seen for quite some time!

  • @kieronleatherdale6717
    @kieronleatherdale6717 Рік тому +21

    For Q3 option 7:
    Each row and column has 3 diff colour triangles so must be black triangle. Excluding options 1,2,4,6,8.
    Each row and column has two vertical bars the same colour and two horizontal bars the same colour.
    This excludes option 3 as the vertical is blue and horizontal yellow meaning the row and column would have three different colour bars whereas the other colours and rows have two of one colour and one of another. Excludes option 5 as horizontal is yellow. Option 7 gives all criteria above making a pattern.

    • @Lswartz
      @Lswartz Рік тому +8

      He literally gave the answer, its 3

    • @Tom2941
      @Tom2941 8 місяців тому +7

      If you look at the patterns in the rows and columns, then 7 has to be your answer.
      If you look at which "creature" is missing in the overall pattern (having nothing to do with rows and columns), then 3 is your answer.
      Either answer is logically, completely acceptable. Which a person chooses, is determined by which pattern he sees first or values more!

    • @affidavit4
      @affidavit4 5 місяців тому

      Yeah I believe 7 is actually the most logical answer

    • @Randyolsson
      @Randyolsson 5 місяців тому +1

      Also trying to wrap my head around 7 not being correct here

    • @Vova3iLvova
      @Vova3iLvova 5 місяців тому

      i picked 7 too, i dont understand how its 3

  • @greasemonkey1199
    @greasemonkey1199 5 років тому +2563

    Rip to all those that failed the first one and were then called dumb

    • @LecherousLizard
      @LecherousLizard 5 років тому +140

      I failed the first one (knew it was a triangle, but expected 4 dots for some reason), but were correct on the other two, because I knew how the test worked by then.

    • @loodlebop
      @loodlebop 5 років тому +219

      I got them all right and still feel dumb because it was just patterns and I felt self satisfied for finding a dam pattern lol

    • @Super-wx6br
      @Super-wx6br 5 років тому +39

      I got them all right but I still feel stupid because I thought both of the sides corresponded to each other at first

    • @chenugent
      @chenugent 5 років тому +37

      It just depends how hard you try, seems like with some people it’s just an ego thing

    • @russianbot2179
      @russianbot2179 5 років тому +63

      I got them right but I felt like it took too long. If it was a bomb to defuse I would be blowd up

  • @jrow96
    @jrow96 5 років тому +1107

    4:47 “We’ll get to that in a minute”
    *immediately gets into that*

    • @slowster2945
      @slowster2945 5 років тому +124

      One minute in Peterson time is like 0.4sec in "normie" time.

    • @slowster2945
      @slowster2945 5 років тому +7

      @Tom de Visser Ever see Malcom in the Middle? "My brain is like a bee hive. And every bee has a brain like yours." It's funny how he points out that speed is important in intelligence measuring. Like we never referred to the dumb as "slow" before.

    • @S0loStr
      @S0loStr 5 років тому +17

      best comment

    • @johnnytucker6709
      @johnnytucker6709 5 років тому +2

      I was listening to him say that when I started reading your comment 😂 and that's exactly what he did lol

    • @matthewgillespie2835
      @matthewgillespie2835 4 роки тому

      Haha. But he was referring to how he was gonna talk ab how the lsats and SATs were tests of (crystalized) intelligence. Not ab how he was gonna get to talking about crystalized intelligence in general in a minute.

  • @CharlieTMZ
    @CharlieTMZ Рік тому +3

    Man!!.. the way Mr. Peterson explains all of this makes me want to study, he´s so entretaining.

  • @The-Butcher-Jaegerkorpset
    @The-Butcher-Jaegerkorpset 6 місяців тому +3

    On question 3; Answer Choice 3 would violate the pattern 3 times., Choice 7 would only POSSIBLY violate the pattern 1 time (creating 2 blue horizontal bars on the diagonal line from Row 2 Col 3 down to Row 3 Col 2.) Choice 3 violates the existing pattern horizontally on Row 2, Vertically on Col 3, and Diagonal Row 2 Col 3 up to Row 1 Col 2.

  • @abrown6539
    @abrown6539 2 роки тому +2555

    Here's the problem with this sort of IQ test: in order make the questions more challenging, you have to increase the complexity. But past a certain threshold of complexity, there is no longer necessarily a unique right answer. There is the pattern the test maker intended, but there may be others that are equally valid, and the IQ test is no longer measuring IQ, it is measuring the similarity between the test maker's mind and the test taker's. For example,
    Go to 3:56 and pause the video.
    The answer (the test maker says) is #3. There is a triangle of each color, blue, black, and yellow in each row and column, so the missing figure must have a black triangle. The crosses over the triangles are vertical yellow over horizontal black (appears three times), vertical black over horizontal blue (appears three times), and vertical blue over horizontal yellow (appears twice). So obviously, the answer is #3, a black triangle with the "missing" cross over it. BUT....
    Let's start with agreeing that the triangle in the answer must be black. Looking for a pattern we notice that the prompt can have exactly two color-matching horizontal bars in each row, exactly two color-matching horizontal bars in each column, exactly two color-matching vertical bars in each row, and exactly two color-matching vertical bars in each column... but the only answer that will serve to create this pattern is #7. Choosing #3 creates an asymmetry in that the second row and the third column have one bar of EACH color (both horizontal and vertical), unlike the others.
    So why is the first pattern correct and the second pattern wrong? It isn't, obviously. #3 is the correct choice for the pattern the test maker had in mind, but #7 is the correct choice for a different, but equally valid pattern. So if I give #3 for the answer and you give #7, is my IQ higher than yours? The test would say so, but the conclusion is unsound. This is an inevitable consequence of making the prompt richer in information - multiple patterns can be found and without any logically conclusive basis for the "right" answer, the test will give unreliable results.

    • @mcsynk
      @mcsynk 2 роки тому +207

      Nice find. I think that actually makes this question better. Answer 3 satisfies more patterns than 7. Answer 3 gives three vertical bars of every colour, and three horizontal bars of each colour. I think this is the most important pattern to consider. There are other patterns though.
      If you consider your colour and orientation matched bars par row/column, answer 7 makes for a less balanced pattern overall, because you get:
      - two rows with matching horizontal blue vs one black and no yellow;
      - two rows with matching vertical yellow vs one black and no blue.
      This is still a clean and beautiful pattern, but on the page it's distributed unevenly according to the diagonal logic established by the triangles, whereas if you look at the yellow horizontals and the blue verticals ... sorry I'm giving up. I can't prove you definitively wrong. I do want to thank you for bringing this up because it's something I used to think but now I don't (that the testers failed to see other valid patterns).
      Consider also that the wrong answer to the question might also be the one you take too long to actually decide on. Some extra intelligence can reveal possible answers that then slow you down - these questions may then be testing something like decisiveness. Also, maybe the testers take into account which wrong answer you chose... You'd have to be very high IQ to be interested in making these tests so I wouldn't be so quick to think you're smarter than them or that you saw something they missed! haha!

    • @prata6938
      @prata6938 2 роки тому +82

      Well, I got 7 as well. However, after reading the first reply that u got from @mcsynk, i found a pattern that doesn't require rows or columns. If you look at it, each colour triangle has a different horizontal and vertical bar. Eg. the blue triangles never have a repeating horizontal or vertical bar colour. Hence, by that logic, the last black triangle would have a blue vertical bar and a yellow horizontal bar.
      In hindsight, I think no. 3 would be better if the test doesn't specify that the triangles are in rows or columns.

    • @tibofordeyn1529
      @tibofordeyn1529 2 роки тому +74

      EXACTLY, I got so annoyed by that problem! Thanks for typing it out bro this should be top comment.

    • @abrown6539
      @abrown6539 2 роки тому +32

      @@mcsynk I think you've kind of just restated the reasoning I gave for #3 being the right answer to the test maker's way of thinking, but you looked at the bars individually rather than as a cross. But if the test makers had seen another pattern that was not logically excluded, they surely would have excluded it! The data from these tests is easier to analyze if we say the test taker either saw "the" pattern or they didn't, in which case the wrong answers should be distributed more or less randomly - which we would expect if they are all equally wrong. If you have a second answer that is actually right, but in a different way, how do you interpret the results? I think if the test makers were aware of this alternative pattern, they would have changed #7 to exclude it. Of course, with this much complexity, they might well have created another such pattern when they made the change. I think you're giving the test makers too much credit.

    • @akashsahi6874
      @akashsahi6874 2 роки тому +31

      I actually reached the answer 7 with this method

  • @cheerpack6558
    @cheerpack6558 5 років тому +2409

    Edit: I changed the original comment because you all really need to let it go, it has been a year, get a life.

    • @Vitross
      @Vitross 5 років тому +391

      Well thats not exactly a problem with them. IQ tests are meant to be taken without hyper specialisation in them. Its possible to warp any test. Thats like saying that the problem with entrance exams is that the more times you take it the better you become at it. Yea its true and yea then that might not reflect that that guy should be accepted into university if he had taken 800 entrance exams beforehand. But eventually he will face real challenges that his test repetition hasnt prepared him for and it will show.

    • @cheerpack6558
      @cheerpack6558 5 років тому +173

      @Vitross Absolutely. But it also shows that IQ tests limit themselves on certain cognitive abilities. It is not like he took the very same test every day, but tried to do as many different, well designed IQ tests as possible.
      I do not say that IQ tests are worthless. But they surely aren‘t the best way to measure ones potential. And certainly not in one sitting.

    • @Vitross
      @Vitross 5 років тому +66

      @@cheerpack6558 Well he might have taken "different" ones, but they arent really that different, its like when you heard a 1000 riddles. You might hear one thats technically new but its using so many of the same puns and structures that its easy for you to figure it out. I personally would say they are the best way to measure ones potential. What other way do you know thats better than IQ tests? Remember just because they arent perfect and its possible to do better, doesnt mean they arent the best if there isnt any contemporary way thats better.

    • @cheerpack6558
      @cheerpack6558 5 років тому +40

      @Vitross Exactly, its like 1000 riddles and nothing more. When taking the test you only do it once. So your result is more like a performance rather than an accurate representation of your mental and physicsl capabilities. That is not enough empirical data to make a fair conclusion about ones intelligence. Taking these tests is pretty redundant. There is a reason why these tests are illegal for companies to use at an interview.

    • @Vitross
      @Vitross 5 років тому +40

      @@cheerpack6558 Is it a perfect representation of what we can do? No. Is it the best we got at the moment? Yes

  • @jamesrothwell1738
    @jamesrothwell1738 Рік тому +12

    I’ve always tested 125-135 and I got kicked out of school for selling shit and ended up going into the trades. Went into HVAC-Refrigeration Had a service van within 12 months with no tech school experience. 2 years in making $35/hour and I’m flying up the ranks. Got thrown into the fire and passed with flying colors. I don’t think I’m crazy special but what Jordan said makes sense to me. Im not better than the old guys with lots of experience. But every time I see a new problem I troubleshoot it, ask for help if I need it, wrap my head around what was wrong, what could’ve been the variables involved that lead up to that going wrong. And what the techs before me had done wrong or should have done as well to prevent it from getting there or to fix the cause not the symptoms. Then I file away that knowledge and next time I see that probablem or anything similar I bust that knowledge right out and fly through the service call. So I’m just learning faster than most of my peers. My father is also in the trade and got a BS from UMASS Amherst with a 4.0 GPA. He flew to the top ranks at TRANE before he even finished his apprenticeship he was already running BEMS jobs in 25 story sky scrapers in Boston. 500 Boylston st for example. He planned, and oversaw the entire HVAC install job there. So the intelligence aspect is definitely hereditary.

  • @Talia926
    @Talia926 7 місяців тому +1

    The third set he showed with the triangle and the plus sign the answer is 5 not 3. Answer 3 has three colors in it and row 2 only has objects with 2 colors in them like answer 5.

  • @greggrozdanis5737
    @greggrozdanis5737 2 роки тому +932

    I find that a huge problem I personally had was overthinking questions. Its like I used to solve problems by thinking "harder", but I got radically better when I take a more relaxed approach and not try to overcomplicate the problems. That last question is actually not too bad, but my brain was looking for some complicated pattern that simply wasn't there, and it took me a minute to just think to count each shape and color lol. Occam's Razor: "The simplest explanation is usually the best one"

    • @santimda1990
      @santimda1990 2 роки тому +47

      Well, you can find a pattern that is logical but just different from the one that the person that created the puzzle thought. That's (partly) why IQ tests are not very reliable. As a general rule, I think it is better to analyze deeply instead of just assuming what the difficulty level is and "guessing" accordingly (which is useful only to score better in a test, but serves no real purpose otherwise).

    • @yes-vy6bn
      @yes-vy6bn 2 роки тому +17

      this. in number 3 i got overwhelmed of the possible complexity of the patterns like for example interrelated patterns, but then it all just comes back to "find a simple pattern then log it into memory and find a new one"

    • @yes-vy6bn
      @yes-vy6bn 2 роки тому +15

      ​@@santimda1990 you're focused too much on single questions. there is a reason IQ tests have like 40 questions, and its to be able to average across similar difficulty questions that may have different answers due to the relationship between complexity and patterns
      failing a 100IQ question doesn't make you sub-100IQ. failing 5 100IQ questions in a row makes you very likely to be sub-100IQ
      IQ tests are very reliable

    • @flyingturret208thecannon5
      @flyingturret208thecannon5 2 роки тому +12

      Funnily enough, I'd argue Occam's Razor as to why the "correct" answer is overcomplicated & wrong. It tries to fit too many criteria, thus being less probable.

    • @robertrichards4930
      @robertrichards4930 Рік тому +7

      Occam's Razor is not the end all be all. People regurgitate that little "rule" way too much.

  • @juangomezfuentes8825
    @juangomezfuentes8825 5 років тому +408

    In my home region in Spain the old people use to say: "the dumb kid of a rich man can work his way up to lieutenant and the smart kid of a poor man can work his way up to lieutenant".

    • @deviladvoc
      @deviladvoc 5 років тому +12

      can you explain why a dumb kid of a rich man can work his way up to lieutenant? isnt this kind of situation suppose to be a dumb kid of a rich man dont have to work as hard? because like money or influence so to speak

    • @phresh7784
      @phresh7784 5 років тому +3

      Lieutenants arent the brightest bud...

    • @deviladvoc
      @deviladvoc 5 років тому +79

      @Lifes a Beach lol i asked a simple question and you had to go down a level to insult me? ridiculous.

    • @deviladvoc
      @deviladvoc 5 років тому +5

      @@phresh7784 it seems like im missing something or that we have different meaning of the word lieutenant? what do you mean they arent the brightest? arent they like one of the higher up ranks in the military?

    • @malcolmvexxed9208
      @malcolmvexxed9208 5 років тому +45

      @@deviladvoc It depends where you are from, but in most armies you can either join as an officer or join as a jnr. To join as an officer you usually need to have uni equivalent quals. So if you are rich you can afford to go to Uni, scrape by to get those quals, join as an officer and make it to lieutenant in 1 or 2 ranks. If you are poor you cant afford uni, you start at the very bottom and work your way to lieutenant in 8 or more ranks and it takes a very long time to do it the latter way

  • @Softwiener4u7229
    @Softwiener4u7229 7 місяців тому +3

    @3:35 he said it is #3 but it is actually #7. The horizontal line must match one of the other shape's horizontal color and same with the vertical line.

    • @BasicShapes
      @BasicShapes 7 місяців тому +1

      Yup. The lines both have 2 of one color and 1 of another color. The triangles are 3 separate colors. #7 matches these rules perfectly.
      p.s. it's the same whether looking at the sets vertically or horizontally - it's gotta be 7!

  • @notvladamir4082
    @notvladamir4082 Рік тому +89

    For the 3rd one I picked 7 because I saw a different pattern. I’ve had a few instances like these when trying it tests, sometimes there’s more than one observable pattern.

    • @diegoaguilar6809
      @diegoaguilar6809 Рік тому +49

      I did the same bro and even after being told that the correct answer was 3 I still think that 7 is the one that best follows the patterns being shown

    • @andrewl8524
      @andrewl8524 Рік тому +42

      The correct answer is 7. You guys are 100% correct. The pattern that matches best is #7 for question 3 based on a tri-varient triangle, two of three horizontal bars being an identical color and the vertical bar being tri-varient.

    • @IRedBerryI
      @IRedBerryI Рік тому +16

      I picked three. Of course there are always numerous detectable patterns, but it finished off the triples: being there were 3 blue triangles, 3 yellow triangles and 2 black triangles hence the final one was black. Same principal for both horizontal and vertical bars. I found that to be the most intuitive.

    • @paularmstrong6471
      @paularmstrong6471 Рік тому +1

      @@andrewl8524 Interesting. Subjective obviously, but to me with answer 7, the pattern doesn't appear strong enough. With answer 3 you can infer the pattern across the rows and the answer seems quite distinct. With 7 it only becomes a pattern (vertical bar being tri-variant) when you supply the answer. Still, my brain feels like it got a good workout 🙂

    • @Niftiest112
      @Niftiest112 Рік тому +22

      @@paularmstrong6471 Here is how I got to 7. We can all agree on it being a black triangle. Looking at the puzzle in columns, the horizontal and vertical lines on the 3 sets of triangles follow the pattern of having two of the same color for both vertical and horizontal lines. Column 1 has 2 black horizontal and 2 yellow vertical. Column 2 has 2 blue horizontal and 2 black vertical. Column 3 is the odd one out and answer 7 satisfies the sequence with their being 2 blue horizontal 2 yellow vertical on the obvious black triangle. I don't really understand why they'd include a right answer as a wrong answer, even if 3 is considered more right.

  • @pawntakesqueen9307
    @pawntakesqueen9307 6 років тому +315

    I was at the opticians earlier but there were so many people before me, I had a huge eye queue

  • @lizwynaco2222
    @lizwynaco2222 6 років тому +243

    The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

    • @ReCamHead
      @ReCamHead 5 років тому

      Liz Wynaco- Eyyyyy. Philosophy 101

    • @LOLLYPOPPE
      @LOLLYPOPPE 5 років тому +2

      That’s a logical impossible statement

    • @insertname7750
      @insertname7750 5 років тому

      John think of you brain as an island the area of the island represents your intellect the water represents what you don’t know the edge of where the water and the island meets represents your ignorance or what you don’t know the more you know the more you know what you don’t know as the island gets bigger the edge gets bigger and the the ocean gets smaller

    • @insertname7750
      @insertname7750 5 років тому

      Your cooking a burger and making fries it’s not that hard we have machines making complicated cars if it’s too hard to make a burger I can’t even

    • @briansalter5225
      @briansalter5225 5 років тому +1

      yes but there is a lot you don't know that you don't know yo don't know.

  • @petersalmon2695
    @petersalmon2695 Рік тому +109

    If I had a teacher like Jordan I think I would have enjoyed school for the lessons instead of just turning up for the brilliant best ever dinners.

    • @popdop0074
      @popdop0074 9 місяців тому +1

      Maybe this Peterson but he has absolutely lost it and exists as nothing but a right wing grifter

    • @inoderlulzer5163
      @inoderlulzer5163 8 місяців тому

      @@popdop0074 How do you mean, he lost it? ( i don't particularly _dis_like him, but I kind of get why people would )

    • @Matt-cv6on
      @Matt-cv6on 7 місяців тому

      Fun to watch lectures on youtube, but if you were in his class you'd be too worried about writing down every offhand remark in fear of it being on the final to actually process and enjoy the content. College is just broken.

    • @thebigpicture2032
      @thebigpicture2032 7 місяців тому

      This is a terrible lecture - multiple issues with what he’s saying and implying.

    • @j99044
      @j99044 6 місяців тому

      @@thebigpicture2032like what lmao

  • @jamesthomas6984
    @jamesthomas6984 Рік тому

    What's great about the first one is you could have an empty triangle or a double dot triangle to fulfill one of 2 rulesets.
    Ruleset 1(2 dots), the given: each shape must have 1, 2, 3 dots
    Ruleset 2(Empty Triangle), planar descension/ ascension: if you take a straight unending line and pull it across the board, touch the congruent shapes with dots in ascending/descending order
    Glhf

  • @herrreinsch
    @herrreinsch 6 років тому +759

    *Very smart people down below,* I know that because they said it.

    • @Josh-hh2cu
      @Josh-hh2cu 6 років тому +19

      herrreinsch “I am very VERY smart and I have an IQ of 150, making me superior....” yadda yadda yadda

    • @LethalShadow
      @LethalShadow 6 років тому +59

      I don't know about others, but I am well aware my IQ does not make me superior in any significant way. I'm a lazy f*ck who's coasting through life with minimum effort. I have met so many people who were objectively better people than me, or worked harder and achieved more than I ever will... People who think their IQ is the end-all be-all of their worth as a person are truly pathetic and seriously need to do some introspection.

    • @SheepWaveMeByeBye
      @SheepWaveMeByeBye 6 років тому +8

      Because anonymous dick measuring contests are so much !!fun!!.

    • @romeoneverdies
      @romeoneverdies 6 років тому +15

      IQ does make you "smart" dosen't mean it makes you wise....

    • @romeoneverdies
      @romeoneverdies 6 років тому +2

      IQ makes you more "smart" about what you are doing does not mean it makes you more efficient and even then dosen't mean you WANT to be efficient. everybody has a different life and hurdles and anybody goes about it their own way . Jordan is very wise i must say and he is right that people with very low IQ dont nécéssarily have a place in this world to contribute and he is right about it being a problem when we cant find a place for them in society. this problem will grow as automation takes over virtually all occupations humans can do , including working at McD ... whithin the next 5 years robots will join humans in our daily tasks from cutting grass to complex jobs like cooking and some construction jobs with AI and complex systemes replacing management and clerical jobs . Being smart and being employed are going to be two different things and very soon only litle niches of jobs will remain mostly arts , repairing (technical, plumbing , electrical etc) and programming and even then programming may become obsolete aswell.

  • @ErwinSchrodinger64
    @ErwinSchrodinger64 6 років тому +135

    What's interesting about these examples is when I was in graduate school, the psychology department did a cohort study, on IQ, with students that were taking heavily intensive math courses (topology, partial differential equations, differential geometry, group theory, advanced mathematics of physical scientist, and so forth). At the end, we took a final IQ test upon finishing our dissertation and defense examination. Of all the mathematics courses, one in particular, was found to correlate a small but a significant enough change in IQ scores: group theory. We utilize group theory, to make molecular quantum mechanical calculations much easier to deal with. Group theory is all about symmetry, rotations, inversions, and pattern recognition. As soon as I looked at one of those pictures, I instantly started thinking about group theory and group theory problems.
    I know, overall, IQ can't readily be changed but taking courses of that caliber does make examinations of this type more approachable.

    • @victor7574
      @victor7574 4 роки тому +27

      How's your cat doing?

    • @masterchief5603
      @masterchief5603 2 роки тому +7

      "Math is the language of universe.."
      Idk if I should take that and rephrase it to
      "Math is the language of most appropriate way to clearly transmit information between any other entity."

    • @sidarthur8706
      @sidarthur8706 2 роки тому +3

      it would be interesting to know the measured IQs of people on that course both before and after learning it

    • @flyingturret208thecannon5
      @flyingturret208thecannon5 2 роки тому +1

      If IQ scores can be raised by taking group theory specifically for pattern recognition, then you're studying the type of problems that specific IQ test is based on. I had always figured that IQ tests are based on raw intellect, and not something you could study for. Isn't that what the SAT claims to be?

    • @TheEvvanw
      @TheEvvanw Місяць тому +1

      I took group theory in college as well and would agree. I got my degree in mathematics and as a whole, u get used to answering questions like this and even taking it a step further where you have to write the correct answer in the form of a formal proof. When you take classes like real analysis, graph theory, upper division geometry that's when the geniuses really start to show, cause proofs are different then any other math where you have to visualize things in your head as opposed to writing scratch work down on paper like you do in calculus. Some people are not good at that type of thinking, but the people who are always outshine the rest in those settings

  • @g-noraturab3052
    @g-noraturab3052 11 місяців тому

    Thank u helpful 😊

  • @mathematics5573
    @mathematics5573 Рік тому +15

    I did an IQ test last week and scored an IQ of 20.

    • @Wolf-ki5eo
      @Wolf-ki5eo Рік тому +1

      lucky pal

    • @mathematics5573
      @mathematics5573 Рік тому +3

      @@Wolf-ki5eo I did another test after, and scored a value of 155 billion trillion.

    • @user-fd6ji8sz8e
      @user-fd6ji8sz8e 11 місяців тому

      Mine -70 IQ

    • @INTJerk
      @INTJerk 10 місяців тому

      At least you can spell IQ. Could be worse?

    • @mathematics5573
      @mathematics5573 10 місяців тому

      @@INTJerk then I did another test and scored 155million billion.

  • @juleswinnfield1437
    @juleswinnfield1437 4 роки тому +108

    As a programmer with an average IQ, I was crying right up until the point he said if you can't program computers - you're going to be left behind...

    • @programaths
      @programaths 2 роки тому +9

      We need programmers with an average IQ (although, they tend to be in the higher average, closer to 115STD15 than 100), because gifted programmers doing simple programming is a waste of resources. And when the thinking is done, it's the typing with minor decisions that an "average IQ" programmer can take and that can be revised later if needed.

    • @juleswinnfield1437
      @juleswinnfield1437 2 роки тому +11

      @@Luke-hr3yg Haha, those online tests are dodgy. Being a second year engineering student should be a good sign :) Stay safe

    • @danielstory2761
      @danielstory2761 2 роки тому +3

      @@Luke-hr3yg online tests are useless, if you really do want to know go to a psychologist’s office, it’ll take half a day though

    • @programaths
      @programaths 2 роки тому +1

      @@danielstory2761 Depends if it's FSIQ (all the WAIS subtests) and if the psychologist need to give you harder tests or refine your results (if you've huge differences in subtests, some can be ignored some can be replaced).
      But for most people, it's indeed quick ^^
      Also, quite a bunch of psychologist skip the anamnesis...

    • @scotland369
      @scotland369 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah but now all the programmers are getting outsourced to cheaper countries such as India

  • @hatokiri
    @hatokiri 2 роки тому +256

    Man Jordan is nice. He chose 3 easy question to boost his students' confidence.

    • @ethanfishell1930
      @ethanfishell1930 Рік тому +42

      If that last question was easy, I must be an idiot.

    • @beastkiller_9998
      @beastkiller_9998 Рік тому +20

      @@ethanfishell1930 You're not, that question in particular requires more time to figure out, looking at the patterns but if you figured it out in a reasonable time, you're good.

    • @ethanfishell1930
      @ethanfishell1930 Рік тому +6

      @@beastkiller_9998 took me 15 minutes.

    • @beastkiller_9998
      @beastkiller_9998 Рік тому +15

      @@ethanfishell1930 Not bad, you were willing to figure it out so that automatically makes you smart!

    • @kanehorn937
      @kanehorn937 Рік тому

      IQ tests don’t prove you are smart

  • @vanir_freyr
    @vanir_freyr 7 місяців тому +2

    The yellow blue and black triangles and cross: what is the rule?
    I came up with:
    Base of triangle one is the horizontal line, base of triangle two is the vertical line, and base of triangle three is whatever color is not yet shown.

    • @Antonio-24
      @Antonio-24 2 дні тому

      The colours of the triangles of the first two figures of the line shows you the colors of the two lines of the last figure.

  • @Elysium346
    @Elysium346 Рік тому +6

    Its funny when you are searching for obscure patterns and they lead to dead ends, and then you decide to look for the simple pattern and its correct -- as is what happened to me for the first question, If I had been more lazy and followed gut instinct and went with the simplest pattern I would have reached the answer much faster, but from my lessons in academia and experiences in life make me want to see "beyond" simplest pattern because If it feels too easy I feel I might be missing something or being tricked lmao!
    3rd one was a nice question, my cautious approach paid real dividends there.
    Just sharing my thoughts on this exercise!

  • @Kryptik33
    @Kryptik33 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you Dr. Peterson. I needed to hear this.👍🏻

  • @seen203
    @seen203 5 років тому +215

    Jordan Peterson indirectly warned Buzzfeed and Huffpost they needed to learn to code.

  • @larryroyovitz7829
    @larryroyovitz7829 6 місяців тому +2

    I started out as a computer programmer, and moved up the "ladder", and at one point was doing process improvement. I would sit with teams, while they walked me through processes they do, and I would be flabbergasted at how manual and unnecessary so much of it was. I would always say, "if I have to do something more than 5 times and it's the same thing, I'm automating it". That was some of my favorite work.

    • @nemiw4429
      @nemiw4429 6 місяців тому

      Im a Software Developer (the arrogant wud call it S. Engineer 😂 yea, no.) and I found the ppl here in Luzern, Switzerland in our fild are very inrelligent. I tested mine at 116 in Zürich and I perform good, but nowhere near top. Sometimes actually, but Im often impresses by my colleagues.

    • @wifegrant
      @wifegrant 6 місяців тому

      Doing repetitive jobs give me panic attacks. Something about repetition gives me anxiety.

    • @naitomea14
      @naitomea14 5 місяців тому

      ​@@nemiw4429 Wie vell het de Test kostet und wie lang gaht so eine?
      Han mich nie testet, well i gar nie han welle wüsse wie dumm i ben xD
      Naja, am Schluss esch au velles eifach Erfahrig. Schaffe sit 4 Mönet ide IT Sec. Und i muess au no velles lehre und verstah, aber usde Erfahrig use lehrsch vell. I bruuche eig. emmer e tatsächliche case wo i das au grad awende chan, was i weiss/glehrt han. Im Luftleere Ruum lehre wie e Firewall ganz genau funktioniert oder Layer 4 genau gaht, wenn du e Websiite uufrüefsch, esch mega schwerig. I kenne niemerd wo ned au Biispiel bruucht und so chan theoretische is praktische ineneh chan.
      Ja, die bi eus ide Bude (IT Sec Bude), wüsse enorm vell, aber sie händ au meh Erfahrig wie i ^^ Und sie sind z.T au hoch spezialisiert. Mer händ eine de kennt sich verdammi guet met WAFs uus, aber bi Firewall fragt de Dude bereits mich, wo erst sit 4 Mönet met Firewalls schaffet xD
      Und denne gehts anderi wo mega vell wüsset bide Firewall, aber alles über Layer 4 es Rätsel esch.
      Somit kei Plan.... Eusi Devs wüsset au nur limitiert sachene und müend oft au pröble, bes sie was händ, was funktioniert und sicher esch (als Security Bude wetsch ned agriifbar sii, Image und so...).

    • @shabadooshabadoo4918
      @shabadooshabadoo4918 3 місяці тому

      My line is more around 30 times. But im barely even a programmer so the time investment is longer for me.

  • @Legitti
    @Legitti 7 місяців тому +2

    Starting to feel myself even more rare

  • @richardherkert7436
    @richardherkert7436 6 років тому +1129

    Never took an IQ test, but watched Rick and Morty so my IQ should be over 9000 :)

    • @sergame3140
      @sergame3140 5 років тому +4

      Shlim shlom slippidy doo

    • @stuffbuttz6428
      @stuffbuttz6428 5 років тому +22

      Hahaha yeah people who watch the big bang theory believe that too hahaha.

    • @ChrisM-bn5vr
      @ChrisM-bn5vr 5 років тому +11

      I swear people watch one episode of Rick and Morty and think they are the most quirky or intelligent person alive.

    • @Michael-jv2cn
      @Michael-jv2cn 5 років тому

      Isn't the creator of that show a pedophile?

    • @sergame3140
      @sergame3140 5 років тому +4

      @@Michael-jv2cn i sure hope so or i will need a refund

  • @reconquista1911
    @reconquista1911 6 років тому +2457

    Those below 87 could go to study gender studies.

    • @williampennjr.4448
      @williampennjr.4448 6 років тому +200

      or just work for CNN.

    • @khatharrmalkavian3306
      @khatharrmalkavian3306 6 років тому +8

      Indoctrinating and agitating the people who are already motivated to seek the destruction of society.
      Great plan.

    • @AwoudeX
      @AwoudeX 6 років тому +59

      plot twist, they're already there ;D

    • @SamuelHauptmannvanDam
      @SamuelHauptmannvanDam 6 років тому +8

      I think it's almost the other way around - those who run with a soundbite of what they believe people who study gender studies believe, might be.
      www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr10001.pdf
      One of the few studies on IQ in the different departments. Anthropology is up there. But being an "opportunist" at ones IQ level, doesn't take a genius. I get the feeling that people who study gender are the same people studying the misuse of gender studies.

    • @squarerootof2
      @squarerootof2 6 років тому +23

      I think Dr. Peterson didn't want to say it because he knew those fucking fanatics would probably set fire to everything in sight. If your only ambition in life is to do gender studies, then probably it's because you're too dumb to do anything else. The good thing is you can always delude yourself and blame society or discrimination for your dumbness.

  • @tabbethadobbins1
    @tabbethadobbins1 9 місяців тому +1

    It’s best to take all 9 together and look for which has 2/3 of the elements. (He taught to look at rows and columns- which is harder)

  • @LygarZeroX
    @LygarZeroX 8 місяців тому

    what hole does the triangle piece go into?
    That's right. It goes in the square hole.

  • @SunnehBoii
    @SunnehBoii 2 роки тому +401

    Idk why people get all hung up on IQ tests. Jordan perfectly explains how it is only a tool to see how fast one can produce intelligence and crystallize it. (From his wording, I interpret that as acquiring, storing, and recalling knowledge) Almost all people can do that, but people with higher IQs are able to do it faster. That is why he likens it to a race, and the higher the IQ the faster you are at running.
    That being said you have to be RUNNING to make that high IQ do anything for you. It is still up the the individual to work on acquiring knowledge, and they must have the wisdom to use it.
    It is part of the picture, but not the entire picture.

    • @RohannvanRensburg
      @RohannvanRensburg 2 роки тому +52

      This is why conscientiousness correlates so well with success. You can be a strong runner, but you have to be willing to run to get anywhere. You can also be a mediocre runner with a strong will to keep on running, and not only will you eventually outpace people who are not as willing, you have the potential to outpace people not interested in running.

    • @SunnehBoii
      @SunnehBoii 2 роки тому +18

      @@RohannvanRensburg I was surprised at how many people didn't get the real message from the lecture.

    • @RohannvanRensburg
      @RohannvanRensburg 2 роки тому +24

      @@SunnehBoii Same. People seem to be incredibly fixated on the supremacy of IQ and ironically express this as insecurity by saying it doesn't matter.

    • @mirko85able
      @mirko85able 2 роки тому +5

      I think people got scared/angry after the IQ->job association.
      A lot of people interested in this are people still developing their craft and it is easy to think you are too dumb to do what you want to do in life.

    • @petra07
      @petra07 2 роки тому +7

      I still like to believe that being too lazy to finish an IQ test is proof of the highest IQ possible.

  • @timerson41
    @timerson41 5 років тому +140

    I just love hearing him explain concepts in such meaningful thought processes.

    • @nopenope1264
      @nopenope1264 4 роки тому

      Politically correct speech isn't my thing, fk off 😂😂😂 true

    • @phoneticalballsack
      @phoneticalballsack 2 роки тому

      Death to smart people.

    • @addiart577
      @addiart577 2 роки тому +2

      @@phoneticalballsack interesting take lol

    • @generalmalaise2930
      @generalmalaise2930 2 роки тому +1

      @@phoneticalballsack correct take

  • @a.b.8735
    @a.b.8735 Рік тому +2

    Third question, the answer could be either 3 or 7 depending if your looking at each row the answer would be 7 but if your looking at the whole grid then the answer is 3

  • @freiheut
    @freiheut Рік тому +1

    We should have more teacher like Jordan Peterson

  • @The_Gelatinman
    @The_Gelatinman 4 роки тому +173

    I could tell you who's on the other end but I won't.
    But I really want to.
    Had me dying

    • @kayjaad3349
      @kayjaad3349 4 роки тому +5

      I need to knoooow.

    • @CombraStudios
      @CombraStudios 4 роки тому +15

      I'd guess for religion studies lol

    • @weebrahim
      @weebrahim 4 роки тому +74

      Lesbian dance theory

    • @weebrahim
      @weebrahim 4 роки тому +22

      @@CombraStudios Jordan Peterson studies religion intensely, have u even watched his other lectures?

    • @CombraStudios
      @CombraStudios 4 роки тому +11

      @@weebrahim I know, I know, and no offense to Dr. Peterson. I didn't mean those who rationally examine the validity, value and effect of religion on society, I meant the teachers who know bible from start to finish and present the biblical story as if it really happened despite scientific evidence that the history didn't happen this way

  • @mawdervaart
    @mawdervaart 6 років тому +622

    I was tested to have an IQ of about 70, which I've always boasted about. I always thought that IQ was a digit for percentile, and i thought i was top 30%.. Damn.. Sucks to be me

  • @dazaiosamu7184
    @dazaiosamu7184 Рік тому +28

    The first problem could be solved in another way, imagine that the shapes are moving in the right direction, and the dots are moving in the left direction at a step. So with this, you can basically predict every other new row without needing the other 2 shapes alongside the question mark. It's weird how you can have different approaches to solving these questions but the IQ test generally does not account for that, it only cares about the outcome/ end result.

    • @marionapalm4365
      @marionapalm4365 Рік тому +1

      That's true. It took less than a minute to solve first one because it was easy( I say minute even tho the time required for my brain to solve it was probably less, better said I didn't count the time that passed), on second it took me a minute I'd say, and on third one I went super analytical and basically broke down entire puzzle way more and into segments analyzing each color, shape, pattern, position, direction, amount of colors, amount of shapes and so on.
      On third one, it obviously took me about 2-3 minutes I'd say. Now another problem you might face is what I call "end result over analysis" where you analyze your answer to make sure it is the correct one.
      In this hierarchy related to job position and intelligence, I currently work as a delivery driver, and I must say that being delivery driver isn't a low IQ job, as I need to have a really good memory, really good logic, I must make traffic related decisions quickly, plan out the route, and so on. Besides that I have worked many jobs, and I have a really long list of interests and hobbies and some of them I have occasionally turned into money-making sources.
      So yeah, IQ tests and speed at which you come up with correct results aren't reliable. I am also not the smartest or most intelligent person out there without a doubt and yes, it doesn't bother me nor do I think that I am.

    • @trushbetold
      @trushbetold Рік тому +5

      The tests are designed to determine your ability to get a correct answer, how you do that is irrelevant to IQ. Testing the differences between approaches is more akin to testing wisdom not intelligence.

    • @marcokonst4144
      @marcokonst4144 Рік тому

      Wait explain I'm confused what u did in ur head so the shapes go right the dots inside go left so how does that enable the prediction of the question marked shape? I think what the test does is measure ur response time to indicate how intuitively you see patterns and recognise them, as in 3 of every shape except triangle, every shape has 1 2 3 dots except triangles having 1 3 dots so ur missing triangle, 2 dots

    • @LazyBoyZR1
      @LazyBoyZR1 Рік тому

      It's also how quickly you get the answers.

    • @Josh-cd3zf
      @Josh-cd3zf Рік тому +3

      I solved it that way too, but I think that your approach is substantially better than Peterson's approach. For example, the third question which he presented can be solved in about 30 seconds by noticing the diagonals going down and left. From observing these diagonals, we can see that the color of the triangle will stay the same, but the color of the vertical and horizontal line will change through each diagonal. By process of elimination, it thus must be a black triangle with a blue vertical line and a yellow horizontal line. This leaves only choice three as the answer and, since speed matters on this test, this method is superior.

  • @djtanikgotbeatz
    @djtanikgotbeatz Рік тому

    ahhhh the universal debate about what matters more happiness or how smart you are

  • @tonykennedy5522
    @tonykennedy5522 6 років тому +161

    Actually we prefer the term "Warehousepeople"

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 6 років тому +9

      i think everyone knows professional athletes are retarded

    • @vladimirolujic6637
      @vladimirolujic6637 6 років тому

      Miroslav and Blox - Damn.

    • @roddydykes7053
      @roddydykes7053 6 років тому +1

      Miroslav Baldzhiev I love the term “basketball-Americans” lol

    • @MilkBreakMinecraft
      @MilkBreakMinecraft 6 років тому +1

      I work in a warehouse... I should really reassess my life...

    • @joemcmahon206
      @joemcmahon206 6 років тому +1

      I have an IQ in the top 2% and I work in a warehouse.
      Checkmate, psychologists.

  • @rescyn1190
    @rescyn1190 5 років тому +188

    When he asked who the smartest in the university are I was instantly reminded of Pratchett. In one of the Discworld books he posited that the building itself is the smartest as it clearly absorbs intelligence; students entering in the certainty they know everything and leaving knowing they know nothing.

    • @eustaceh.plimsoll6625
      @eustaceh.plimsoll6625 4 роки тому +1

      ResCyn I read those books for years thinking the post of Senior Wrangler was just a funny name that Terry Pratchett made up only to discover recently that Oxford University - and perhaps others - has one.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 2 роки тому +1

      As it turns out the folks that are brightest are philosophy students. They score on a par with, or higher than mathematicians and physicists.

    • @borodinskyful
      @borodinskyful 2 роки тому +9

      @@mickelodiansurname9578 Bullshit.
      I say that as someone with a joint honors degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from the UK... when we studied propositional logic in Philosopy in the UK most philosopy students stuggled with it..... whereas in Mathematics we derived the whole of propositional logic from first principles which was mind blowing and well beyond what the philosopy course...

    • @Jack-cq9pv
      @Jack-cq9pv 2 роки тому

      @@eustaceh.plimsoll6625 Cambridge also has a Senior Wrangler, at least in Maths. The tradition is that, when reading out results, the reader tips their hat to the Senior Wrangler.

    • @roddydykes7053
      @roddydykes7053 Рік тому

      @@mickelodiansurname9578 with that profile pic and name it’s no wonder that’s what you think. However I do agree that true philosophers are inherently smart, or at least wise. Problem is it’s pretty straightforward to just memorize a bunch of big words and excerpts from ancient texts, and base your degree off regurgitating that (the worst university professor I’ve had thus far was undoubtedly my philosophy professor)

  • @Kasperx138
    @Kasperx138 7 місяців тому

    I always assume every question on the test is a "trick" question and so when I get my answer I assume it's the wrong answer and go back to looking for the right one. A trick question test is a better measurement of honesty and gullibility than anything else.

  • @adam7402
    @adam7402 8 місяців тому +30

    When I was in the 8th grade they measured my IQ at like 86 or something of the like. I was so distraught I kept the test results which were given to me when I turned 18. I'm now the lead engineer at a particle accelerator facility, I only have 4 years experience. I do new stuff and solve new problems every day. When the staff are really struggling guess who they call. IQ is a measure of one thing, how fast you can solve problems, not your general ability to solve them.

    • @erikhordnes7408
      @erikhordnes7408 8 місяців тому +2

      Would be interesting to se what score you would get on an iq test today

    • @Melontusk101
      @Melontusk101 8 місяців тому +1

      I agree

    • @adam7402
      @adam7402 8 місяців тому +2

      @@erikhordnes7408 I'm sure it would still be low. The time constraint is the problem.

    • @jmodified
      @jmodified 8 місяців тому +2

      I test very high but usually time is an issue for me also. On a typical standardized test I barely have enough time to finish or don't quite have enough time to finish, and rarely have time to check anything. So a two hour test takes me two hours - if it takes someone else two and a half hours to get the same number of questions correct, they would score horribly. We'd both have similar capabilities, it's just that one of us would be 20% faster at relatively simple problems. And like you I'm known for solving engineering problems (I work in materials engineering and software visualization research) that others can't.

    • @amandahuginkiss4098
      @amandahuginkiss4098 7 місяців тому +1

      Brag much? Newsflash - no one cares.

  • @arnoldziffle8779
    @arnoldziffle8779 6 років тому +1351

    So if 83 IQ is a non-employable level, shouldn't' it also be a non-voting level as well?

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 6 років тому +140

      Arnold Ziffle No just because someone is not as intelligent as me doesn’t mean am right and they are wrong. And they still are people not giving them the same rights as everyone else might encourage violence.

    • @purpleanex
      @purpleanex 6 років тому +124

      Ted Cruz ..."There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." ... Isaac Asimov

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 6 років тому +19

      purpleanex well guess Isaac Asimov watches rich and morty than. Just like Socrates that’s how he came up with his hate for democracy. Intelligence does not equal to right. I can have a degree in physics take a 9th grade multiple choice physics test and get a worse grade than a random crack head. For me my mother is incredibly stupid for believing in the Christian god for my mother I am incredibly stupid for not believing. She barely finished college and has an IQ of 87. I have nearly double that but that doesn’t mean that I am right and she is wrong. Everyone’s opinion is actually more likely to be right than just one guys opinion and that’s just based on probability. Also collective knowledge way surpasses an individuals knowledge.

    • @MaFd0n
      @MaFd0n 6 років тому +23

      Yeah I would agree to that statement Arnold. I would even go as far as denying sub 115 IQ to vote. Having said that IQ is not everything and denying people freedom of speech, regardless of their intelligence, would be cruel and a leap back to the medieval era. Plus you people who get to the "top of society" do not have an IQ of 83 or lower, meaning that some very bad people have very high IQ and thus know very well what they do and why they do things. The IQ of Hitler was not 83 or lower; nor was Stalin's. I think it's safe to state those men had an IQ of 115+ and their actions caused ~30M people to be killed, tortured, etc. In short, the problem is not the dumb people, it's very intelligent people who are ... well yea ... delusional & insane.

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 6 років тому +8

      MaFd0n A plus 115 IQ would just end up making a libertarian oligarchy. And that just weird it’s looks hypocritical.

  • @enochbrown8178
    @enochbrown8178 4 роки тому +16

    I've never encountered a better explanation of IQ and IQ tests. It's remarkable that Jordan Peterson hits the nail on the head.

    • @dingdong2103
      @dingdong2103 Рік тому

      It would be remarkable if he didn't. He tends to get things right...

  • @Rune2242
    @Rune2242 3 місяці тому

    I love how Peterson doesn't lecture to the class, he lectures to one person at a time. Its a huge sign of respect on the part of the professor and keeps students engaged (also helps with recall). I've sat through countless university lectures of foggy-eyed professors who either can't or wont address the class properly.

  • @edwardroscoe9020
    @edwardroscoe9020 Рік тому +5

    I have an issue with the third IQ question. There are two correct answers
    1. The first is horizontal line is the colour of the first triangle, the vertical line is the colour of the second triangle and the triangle is the colour not yet used. This gives you answer 3.
    2. The second is the third triangle is the colour not used by the first or second triangle, and you never have all three colours of vertical lines, and never have all three colours of horizontal lines, and the colour have the same number of colours used in each pattern. This gives you the answer 7.
    Answer 3 seems better if the lines are to be viewed independent of each other as it can be extended independently.
    Answer 7 seems better if the patterns are to be viewed as a grid as the rules work horizontally and vertically
    I can also make a argument for a black triangle, yellow vertical, and black horizontal. That would work taking the diagonal pattern bottom left to top right. (This would look great as wallpaper.)
    This is like asking what comes next 2,4,6,? The answers 8 and 10 are both right.
    Any assertion based on pattern is only as good as the reasoning why it will keep going.
    Mathologer has a great video on newtons what comes next formula that really shows the math of this ua-cam.com/video/4AuV93LOPcE/v-deo.html

    • @BigAndTall1020
      @BigAndTall1020 6 місяців тому

      I noticed the same thing. I was scanning the comments to see if someone can defend why 3 is the best option. I’m still hoping someone can.
      Also it makes me curious, what if there’s a bad question on an IQ test. Dr. Peterson discussed studying correlations between questions and intelligence, I wonder if the opposite has been studied. Are there questions that are commonly answered incorrectly by the otherwise high scoring group? Could be a means of identifying bad questions.

    • @ncosta3413
      @ncosta3413 2 місяці тому

      ​@@BigAndTall1020 I believe 3 is the correct option: each triangle (yellow, blue, black) repeats in each column, so there's a black triangle missing. There are 3 black vertical lines and 3 yellow vertical lines present in the matrix, so of course the missing one has to be blue. And the same goes for vertical lines, the third yellow one is missing.

    • @NicoAung
      @NicoAung Місяць тому

      It’s 3rd bc there needs to be 3 vertical blue lines

    • @111178403
      @111178403 11 днів тому

      @@BigAndTall1020 you want each of the 9 shapes to have 3 of each colours. By filling it in with option 3 you can fulfil this quota. Number 7 has more requirements for its' pattern, i.e 3 is more correct than 7.

  • @balzor
    @balzor 4 роки тому +11

    I really wish I could take one of his classes

  • @toomanymarys7355
    @toomanymarys7355 Рік тому +12

    One of my friends in middle school had an IQ of about 75. She was a checker at Walmart for years and eventually made head cashier. That's her top. Sweet as can be and a hard worker.

  • @AtticusColdfield
    @AtticusColdfield Рік тому

    Maybe you can program - you right at the next end.
    That one phrase changed my life lol. I was always scared that I "can't". And then tried. hell man, now when I know where the future is going - it is quite fascinating.

  • @darkilluminator
    @darkilluminator 2 місяці тому +1

    for the last IQ test, im pretty sure its No.7 and not 3, let me explain why:
    Triangle:
    There are two ways to figure out what triangle it is, first you can see that if u look at the diagonals from right to left, all the triangles match, so you can figure out that the missing one is black, you can also find that every row has every colour of triangle.
    Rectangles:
    we must compare the horizontal rectangles and the vertical rectangles separately, but they have the same pattern. If you see the rows, out of the 3 rectangles, 2 are the same colour, and one is different. Same pattern applies to columns, Now if you check the second row, the vertical rectangle can be either yellow or black, same thing goes with the 3rd column. checking the second row again, the horizontal rectangle can either be black or blue, same thing goes with the 3rd coloumn
    I think that's enough evidence that its No. 3.
    Note:
    Now stating that, we must also consider that there are millions of different ways to correlate, group, and associate data, maybe there's another pattern or different way to look at this pattern.

  • @jd5393
    @jd5393 4 роки тому +6

    Conscientious. Application/observaton of intelligence is perspective as well as dependent. Knowledge is power

  • @crucifyrobinhood
    @crucifyrobinhood 6 років тому +7

    10:35 I was on a Navy ship in the 80's with 400 crew and in my division alone there were 2 guys who absolutely had downs syndrome. Their lives were miserable and both ended up with OTH discharges for insubordination. They were incapable of going down to gear issue and checking out tools, going to a workstation, setting up the gear and working the task to completion. There is no easier day in the military than what I just described. Add a chain of command and peer pressure to that and it's amazing they didn't just jump overboard. I haven't thought about those guys in 30 years but their story encapsulates my feelings for the military.

  • @HiroNguy
    @HiroNguy Рік тому

    I'd love to hear the unabridged version. Maybe on Rumble!

  • @Wulfiebaby
    @Wulfiebaby 8 місяців тому

    Haha, I overcomplicated this, because I immediately looked to the second side for a pattern of progression in shape and dots to see how that could apply to the first side and predict the missing shape.

  • @noone8418
    @noone8418 6 років тому +22

    I was told my IQ was 124. I always got the “you have so much potential “ speech as a kid. I am 47 now. Some college. I work in healthcare. I have always felt IQ is how quickly and easily you learn. It isn’t the hole picture. It’s nice to hear about other factors.

    • @thecastle09
      @thecastle09 6 років тому +1

      No One whole

    • @noone8418
      @noone8418 6 років тому +2

      Retep Mullenoski 😂-10 IQ

    • @NaNa-re3wc
      @NaNa-re3wc 2 роки тому +12

      Mine is 145 and I got treated like I was dumb in school. Mental health issues and a shit home life made it hard to prioritize school, learned a lot about psychology from trying to help myself though 🤷🏻‍♀️ overall I’m more thankful for the trait of empathy, it’s helped me build a more meaningful life.

    • @TheAnarchist99
      @TheAnarchist99 2 роки тому +5

      @@NaNa-re3wc Do you realize that 145 is borderline genius?

    • @harryssonfn
      @harryssonfn Рік тому +2

      my iq is 215
      that's what my opponent said in fortnite 2 years ago

  • @empanada65
    @empanada65 6 років тому +67

    I just found out about this guy and it’s so refreshing to a sane guy in this modern society who knows the idiocy of both political parties that I think I might die of happiness

    • @KevinBurns86
      @KevinBurns86 2 роки тому +2

      And the guy who made your realize this is actually Canadian, not American.

    • @14monkelifter88
      @14monkelifter88 2 роки тому

      @@KevinBurns86 ofc xD

    • @aron7578
      @aron7578 2 роки тому

      ​@@KevinBurns86 Isn't a Canadian an American?

    • @shuki1
      @shuki1 2 роки тому +1

      @@aron7578 sure, but American is widely used to mean people from the USA, and Canadians HATE being called Americans.

    • @superexplosiva2001
      @superexplosiva2001 2 роки тому

      Haaaa, you find sanity in having just two parties??? Insane.

  • @MrGuitarguy16
    @MrGuitarguy16 Рік тому

    I feel that the second question was messed up like he said, the middle ones alternated which color was in the front when they joined, so it should be 3 but with the yellow behind the blue

  • @BarryB.Benson
    @BarryB.Benson Рік тому +4

    Maybe it’s because they’re aware of the camera, but you rarely see students following the prof around the room, let alone having their heads up in general. As a uni student, only interesting lecturers get an attentive classroom. I’ve had soooo many courses where the vast majority of students are not actively paying attention to the prof and not because they don’t care but mainly because the prof is just reading off slides, word for word. The only times I’ve been in classes where the majority of students are actively paying attention and following the prof around is when they show passion in their lectures and at least act like they have something important to share, which I think Peterson does a good job at doing

    • @thezyreick4289
      @thezyreick4289 6 місяців тому

      odd, at the colleges I have been to, the students that show up are all well behaved
      It is just hard to get them to show up.

    • @BarryB.Benson
      @BarryB.Benson 6 місяців тому

      @@thezyreick4289 I definitely had well behaved students as well, but I’ve noticed if the prof is boring students will tend to look at their phones and play games on their laptops rather than paying attention

  • @j.r.r.tolkee7000
    @j.r.r.tolkee7000 4 роки тому +10

    "But we'll get to that in a minute... Ok, so... (gets immediately to it). I love this man.

  • @baconsalad9743
    @baconsalad9743 3 роки тому +3

    On question 2, they didn't flip, but we can infer from the top rows colours that blue should be underneath yellow, I can see where Jordan got confused there, as he was thinking in terms of which side goes under which rather than Colour, which would mean the middle and top row would be conflicting

  • @Phil9873
    @Phil9873 8 місяців тому

    @Phil9873
    According to a study in the 2005 Fall edition of The British Journal of Psychology, men's IQs exceed women's by an average of 5 points. The disparity is more pronounced at higher levels, with three men for every woman scoring above
    130 IQ and more than five men per woman above 145 IQ.

  • @roman111117
    @roman111117 7 місяців тому

    3rd one should be 7 because both vertical and horizontal lines in each row, two match and 1 is random.

  • @colevickery9758
    @colevickery9758 6 років тому +385

    Just have those people watch Rick and Morty and that will raise their IQ by at least 30 points per episode

    • @dorupero
      @dorupero 6 років тому +3

      Cole Vickery Yes.

    • @galindoof
      @galindoof 6 років тому +1

      Dorupero It raises insight not IQ

    • @MrKosobi
      @MrKosobi 6 років тому +8

      On a serious note: I know that there are no reliable studies which would indicate that increasing your IQ is possible, but has anoyne ever tried testing how does intensive language courses affect it? I know that learning languages increases the blood flow in hippocampus and helps establishing a shitton of new neural connections, and apparently IQ is correlated with some kind of activity in areas of the brain responsible for maintaining language skills, but I don't know how does it affect IQ, and my guts tell me there is something there.

    • @freesaxon6835
      @freesaxon6835 6 років тому

      Hooch Smeeth I rather think it was a joke ( he considered r&m to be low stuff..... an insult)

    • @freesaxon6835
      @freesaxon6835 6 років тому +3

      Hooch Smeeth I might just be a self opinionated bigot, but I can't see it any other way than a sarcastic remark ! Lol

  • @mwrightinsurance
    @mwrightinsurance Рік тому +9

    My first answer was three, and then I started to recognize other patterns but didn’t pause the video. Was glad to see others found this as well but then I thought, while we are all debating this, the guy who just answered three and moved on has the job!

    • @datahigh
      @datahigh 9 місяців тому

      Yeah I knew it was 7 too, was imagining if I was in that class if I would've corrected him, but probably not. For one, I don't know if I would've gotten it in that setting as confidently and two you're dead on... it's not a relevant to the point lol... Also, I've seen highly successful people leave typos in different documentations on purpose and it kind of always made since to me. Like it will be their bio or something and sentence two say, "I've making a lot of progress..." for example. Very rare, but especially in STEM fields I've seen it enough times that it has stuck out. I think they're just sending the message that it's not important to them and they want to communicate that. Which is respectable, because then you continue to read on and they have 40 patents, 30 years exp, lead this that and the other, etc. Especially in a professional setting, if a person gets hung up that a tiny error, it really says more about them than vice-versa. As well as, for social media posts it's good to have typos sometimes, because it sort of creates friction to people scrolling through and can catch more attention. Then you get commentors pointing it out, or more likes just because the message sat longer in their minds. Highly applicable tactic, like for dating too, if do something stupid in front of your crush and yeah... people are too easy to manipulate, very sad.

  • @ryanbrock4836
    @ryanbrock4836 6 місяців тому +5

    I might be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that the answer for the one at 3:30 isn't 3 but 7. Pattern recognition tells us that the colour of the shape is black, but also that all rows and columns have two repeating colours, in the first column there are two vertical yellow strips in the second they're black, the same goes for the rows too, the first row has two yellow vertical strips and the last one has two black. Using these variables we've recognised, we just have to look at what singular colour would create two repeating vertical strips where the question mark is. The answer is Yellow, meaning number 7.

  • @Turco949
    @Turco949 Рік тому +1

    3:30 Logical pattern appear to seek balance of numbers. At a glance, it should be easy for most to realize what color triangle was missing (black) so you automatically narrow down the options to #3, 5 and 7. Why? Because each color triangle appears 3 times in total (look at the entire left side of the image not just the row). Following the same logic, each color bar has to exist a certain number of times, count if you have to but again, at a glance I could tell there was less of blue and yellow (should be 6 of each color bar).
    Now, we are down to #3 and 7. Also noticed, the vertical bars are always on top where the horizontal ones are under pick either of the color blue or yellow to see which one has 3, then you will know whether to pick 3 or 7. In my case, visually, I could easily pick 3 vertical yellow lines which meant, the answer with the horizontal yellow line was the correct one, and answer 3 was it.
    I didn't have to bother counting or checking the blue lines at that point.
    This is not a bad test. A bad IQ test I have seen had question about the English language, asking something like; which word following a series of words, didn't belong or was out of place.
    Well, the person taking the test needed to have a very good English vocabulary so, it didn't just test your logical thinking. In my book, that was a fail.
    Logic tests can have algebra based questions in them because Math is universal and most anyone with basic math skills would be able to take the test unlike a language based test.

    • @kaylag5043
      @kaylag5043 Рік тому

      I also noticed that there are three elements in each shape, the triangle, the horizontal bar, and the vertical bar. For the first two shaped in a row, two of the elements are the same colour. But for the last shape, each element is a different colour. That's how I narrowed it down to 3 and 7.

    • @Turco949
      @Turco949 Рік тому

      @@kaylag5043 Good logic! Very quick way of eliminating the choices down to 2 but that was probably as far as you could go based on that logic alone since both 3 and 7 satisfied the initial condition, you still have to figure out the orientation of the bars. If you followed it with "Each color bar exists a total of 6 times, 3 vertical and 3 horizontal bars" and pick either blue or yellow to count which one (horizontal bar or vertical bar) of that color there is are just 2, you can then narrow down things to the correct answer.
      Again, you pick one color, let's say blue, then pick vertical bars and count to see if there were 3 vertical blues in the left side image. Since there were only 2 blue vertical bars, you automatically knew the correct answer had to have an image with a blue vertical bar.

    • @Mr.StealYourGirl81
      @Mr.StealYourGirl81 Рік тому

      Wow I came to the solution a complete different way. The vertical line for the last triangle is always the color of the triangle before it and the horizontal line is the color of the first triangle. That’s my understanding

    • @CountOfWoodlands
      @CountOfWoodlands 11 місяців тому

      Such non-verbal tests have their value but are less good measures of general intelligence than are tests that do require verbal ability - not because g was defined to include verbal ability (which it was not) but because they have lower g loadings when analysed among a variety of tests. The verbal aspect is so important in g that one can almost not afford to leave it out. Spatial correlates lower with G than do verbal and numerical because, in humans, the latter two have "overtaken" spatial. This is why purely spatial "culture free" tests, though well-meant, are less satisfactory than one would hope. Tests that combine visual-spatial and numerical content do better than tests with only visual-spatial or only numerical content though.
      The spatial test genre became quite popular, because many people's notion that non-verbal tests are "culture free" and therefore more fair. This type of test gives a reasonable but not very good indication of general intelligence. It catches in spatial ability, pattern recognition, but not much reasoning (the reasoning required is actually quite easy once you have seen the pattern, so that the term "strict logic" is misapplied with regard to these tests) or verbal and numerical ability. It has been observed that testees lost quite a bit of I.Q. points by avoiding (partly) verbal tests, misled by the prejudice of "it can not be a valid test if it contains verbal items". If verbal ability is your strongest side, you will be at an obvious disadvantage on a purely non-verbal test. When such people eventually try a partly verbal test, they discover with amazement that their scores get higher, not lower.

  • @Phenolisothiocyanate
    @Phenolisothiocyanate 6 років тому +268

    RIP Forrest Gump

    • @wearealljustclowns
      @wearealljustclowns 6 років тому +7

      "because you told me to drill srgnt""God dam it Gump! your a God dam genius! you must have an iq of 150"!

    • @coreycox2345
      @coreycox2345 6 років тому

      Good point Nunya Biznazz. What are the people in this category doing then?

    • @holden_tld
      @holden_tld 6 років тому

      i've worked with people with mild mental retardation (iq ranges from ~50-80) and a number of them worked on farms doing various menial labor such as cleaning waste, removing dead animals, baiting traps for rodents, etc.

    • @coreycox2345
      @coreycox2345 6 років тому +2

      I think it is more economically driven, ParallaxView111. Illegal immigrants are compelled to work for lower wages because of their immigration status. This money goes to corporate profit, and the political and legal system are influenced accordingly.

    • @L2Xenta
      @L2Xenta 6 років тому +2

      Forest will run fast to reach his goals, literally .

  • @virtuousvillain9874
    @virtuousvillain9874 4 роки тому +11

    Great stuff, need to talk about this more in mainstream interviews!

  • @yddub111
    @yddub111 Рік тому

    well, this is great news for us older people. I do not learn as fast as I used to but I still have what I know and I can still learn if I stay at it...I just have to be a little more patient with myself . and practice things that use my mind. this is part of the reason I always defend playing video games loll I believe they are good for us at all ages. (not that JUST playing video games is good by themselves, of course) and everyone should have a time every day where they just sit in quite and think about stuff. mine is the first hour or so when I wake up and have coffee at , usually , 4 or 4:30.
    IF anyone cares what I think, of course, lol

  • @scottboy
    @scottboy 6 місяців тому

    How you get the third one: first row has two shapes that are two colors and one shape with three colors. Same with bottom row.
    So the middle row is going to be a shape with three colors. But that doesn't rule enough out yet.
    Top row has a black, yellow, and blue triangle. Same with bottom. Middle row is missing a black triangle. So put it together, you need a black triangle, that also has three colors.

  • @Glaedr11
    @Glaedr11 5 років тому +175

    I guess this sort of clears a little bit up for me. In first grade I got an IQ test that was 138. Now, I got excellent grades growing up and and everyone noticed i was smart and stuff, but I never felt like any genius or anything. I couldn't do math in my head like a whiz, higher level math was hard for me, and I couldn't just recall any fact I heard whenever I wanted. You know, the kind of stereotypical smart person stuff.
    What I've really felt my whole life is just an ability to learn quickly. I can pick up any task or concept and get the basic framework cemented in my mind almost instantly. And on things that interest me, I can devote periods of time to them with extreme focus and nearly perfect them, or at least get very good. So that's how I feel smart. I guess fluid knowledge would kind of be what that is.

    • @thenamen935
      @thenamen935 5 років тому +23

      Nearly the same situation for me. But I'm great at mathematics (In school I've got the highest mark one can get in maths) and I can remember new words pretty quickly but I'm not good at grammar related stuff. I've had made an IQ test when I was 5 to enter school a year before I would have normally entered. I've had a score of 132 and a few years ago I took another IQ test and scored 134.
      And what I find most interesting about my learning capabilties is: If I'm interested in something I just need to hear it once or read it once and I can remember it (often I can even remember the exact words). But if I'm not motivated and something doesn't wake interest in me I can read and hear it and study a lot about it but I just can't remember anything about that longer than a day. That's why I often study for a geography-exam in the night before the exam at midnight or later so it is in my short-time-memory.
      And what really freaks my out is: Everyone thinks I'm a living encyclopedia but I didn't feel like that's right at all until a few weeks or months ago when I realised the informations and facts I believed were common knowledge, which everyone has, aren't known to anyone around me.

    • @Glaedr11
      @Glaedr11 5 років тому +12

      @@thenamen935 lol sounds very similar. I cant so much as recall specific bits of information as much as a 'rough sketch' of what that information meant. Idk, hard to explain, which is probably why I feel different than everyone around me everywhere I go.
      It's so exciting when someone thinks the same way as me. Met my now-girlfriend and was friends with her for half a year. As soon as I realized that she undoubtedly understood how I thought and thought similarly, I asked her out and 3 years later, we plan on getting married soon. Gotta hold on to those people when you find them, lol.
      And yeah, sometimes I can't fathom that other people dont understand knowledge that comes as a breeze for me. I struggle with guilt of being perceived as an arrogant know-it-all

    • @thenamen935
      @thenamen935 5 років тому +1

      @@Glaedr11 That's nice to hear. Congratulations on your engagement.
      Yeah, I totally felt that last paragraph. I've had a situation like that yesterday. Someone I know asked me if I knew why wasps are more agressive in the late summer. And I answered the question correctly (because they switch their food source and also they can get 'drunk' because they switched to fruits which might already have fermented). When she and everyone around me asked me why I knew that, because they hoped I didn't know that, I just said "Because I know it" ... Probably these weren't the right words to say ...

    • @Glaedr11
      @Glaedr11 5 років тому +2

      @@thenamen935 lol yeah you really can't win. I spent my first year of college actively trying not to give it away that I was pretty smart.
      I've since transferred out of that school, but on Instragram the other day a guy I knew from that college but havent spoken to in over a year put up a TBH story. I gave it a shot and asked for a TBH and he wrote "You seemed way smarter than me." ... that really wasnt what I wanted to hear I was remembered for lol.

    • @thenamen935
      @thenamen935 5 років тому +1

      @@Glaedr11 It's nice to write with someone who shares the same experiences. Probably my classmates will remember me as "the smart guy" as well. So I guess I'll try not to be 'the smartest' when I'll have to go to military duty. I guess this will be pretty exhausting for me, because if someone tells something stupid I laugh and correct it -> I'll need to stop doing that. (By "stupid" I mean things that really are stupid and not only so in my opinion) But afterwards I'll try to seem like "the smart one" again because I'm gonna be a teacher and I guess it wouldn't harm if pupils thought of me like that.

  • @AverageChild55
    @AverageChild55 4 роки тому +101

    Lol I might be dumb then, but at 3:57 why is it number 3?
    I'd choose 7, because in every row the vertical and horizontal pillar is always 2 colour.
    Vertically in first row: Yellow - Blue - Yellow
    Horizontally in first row: Black - Yellow - Black
    Vertically in second row: Yellow - Black - ? ( if it's number 7 then it completes as Yellow - Black - Yellow)
    Horizontally in second row: Black - Blue - ? ( if it's number 7 then it completes as Black - Blue - Blue)
    Vertically in third row: Blue - Black - Black
    Horizontally in third row: Yelluw - Blue - Blue
    You'll see the same thing if you see them in columns, there's never three different colour in horizontally or vertically.
    And the fact that the reverse triangle is black is true, because there is no black triangle in that second row... But I'm genuinely confused why it's number three lol.
    I might overthink it or miss smth, idk.
    EDIT: Nvm, I got it... There has to be 3 triangle 3 horizontal 3 vertical lines of a particular colour, no need to bother with the placing of the triangles or pillars/lines... I think it's kind of a bad IQ test(or rather, makes you follow a bad logic), because there's no pattern to follow, just the sheer number of lines and triangles has to complete.

    • @mikeb3081
      @mikeb3081 4 роки тому +35

      no way i found this comment, you thought about it the same way i did, i think the question is flawed

    • @omarshareef489
      @omarshareef489 4 роки тому +15

      I think in the third question : the right answer is 3 because every color and every shape repeat itself 3 times . Take a deep look my friend

    • @xThvnd3rstorm
      @xThvnd3rstorm 4 роки тому +15

      I would argue that the question is well designed - the logic you pointed out is not conclusive. Completing the matrix with 7 does not solve for all logical implications of the 3x3 system. If you look at the 3 rows separately the same rules would apply. However the added logics in the vertical/diagonal (sum etc) are not satisfied. The only way to account for the 3x3 logic is number 3. in other words „the whole“ trumps the separate „smaller logics“

    • @HatemSinokrot
      @HatemSinokrot 4 роки тому

      I am pretty sure it’s 7

    • @victor7574
      @victor7574 4 роки тому +11

      Look at the whole picture without breaking it down by rows and columns. There are three elements (triangle, vertical bar, horizontal bar) each in three different colors. (black, blue and yellow). Choice 3 gives you 3 of each element in each of the 3 colors. Choice 7 gives you 4 yellow vertical bars and 2 horizontal yellow bars. Choice 3 gives you 3 horizontal yellow bars and 3 yellow vertical bars. (The poor contrast between black and blue makes this problem more difficult than it should be.)

  • @neuroversse
    @neuroversse Рік тому +2

    the biggest tip for taking a proper IQ test that can most accurately reflect your intelligence is to minimize as much interference as possible. Any distraction can impede on your focus on the test; especially if you already have an attention deficiency.

  • @peterb9407
    @peterb9407 11 місяців тому +33

    For context, I’m 22 years of age and have had a multitude of jobs, ranging from working in schools to labouring, I eventually had to stop doing the labouring as I was physically fine but it was mentally draining, almost robotic really and I had other things going on at the time.
    I also have bipolar disorder and in the UK you can be sectioned for a plethora of reasons, under the mental health act (I was manic at the time). During my sectioning I was assessed and for whatever reason, had to partake in an IQ test, I had never taken one before and scored 137, apparently that was pretty good, although I couldn’t care less at the time.
    Long story short, I lost my mum just before this, I was in a hole of despair and deep sadness and you helped me get out of it, I’m currently in university studying Law and I just wanted to share part of my story with you and whoever reads this, many thanks Dr Peterson.

    • @appleman_123
      @appleman_123 10 місяців тому +2

      good for you hope you doing great!

    • @peterb9407
      @peterb9407 10 місяців тому +1

      @@appleman_123 ah you know, just rolling with the punches, thanks for the kind words, I hope you’re well yourself my friend, much love.

    • @appleman_123
      @appleman_123 10 місяців тому

      @@peterb9407

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 5 років тому +8

    I often imagine being in JP's lectures. How can ANYONE absorb such a flood of such brilliant info while he talks? AND ... he says "don't take notes whilst listening" !!!! I guess his students pass his assignments because later on they read and write his recommendations. I've never been to uni, and hated school, but I'd love to learn from people like JP. Thanks to youtube and its uploaders.

    • @slowster2945
      @slowster2945 5 років тому

      If you stop to write a note, you'll miss something.

    • @wave6826
      @wave6826 5 років тому +2

      What you consider brilliant, a lot of us consider common knowledge. In fact I think more people listen to what he has to say as affirmation, rather then breakthrough thought.

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 5 років тому

      @@wave6826
      Dear Mr Wa vE.
      Thank you for your pathetic condescension. Although you may think otherwise, when I complimented Petersons lecture as "brilliant", I did not necessarily infer that everything was information/knowledge that I did not know myself. Unlike you, I am able to recognize and acknowledge brilliance without reflection of my own ego to condescend over others who may or may not know such stuff. Yes, there are viewers for whom Peterson confirms/validates suspected or subconscious knowledge. There are also viewers who Peterson is "waking up" for the first time. And yes, there are others who already fully know well some of what he has said. But those of us in the first and third categories do not need to blow our own trumpet like you do. Now fuck off and grow up you arrogant prick.

    • @nuqqets9570
      @nuqqets9570 5 років тому +1

      A common thing in universities (I don't know about his one specifically) is that lecture slides are released and lectures are recorded. So the slides help students to recall what the lecture was about (seeing the visual can help recalling what he was talking about by association) and are generally good for notes depending on the type of lecturer/topic (not so much in this videos case but for say maths yes). And the main thing is that the lectures are recorded in many unis mine included so you can review it and take down notes on the second viewing

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 5 років тому +1

      CabooseGI
      Thanks for the info. Things are very dufferentvthese days! I imagined that uni was like high school (my years were 1969-1974), where you took scribbled notes, then did assignments based on what was said plus the reccomended reading list. JP's lectures, for me, just go so fast and are jam-packed with insights I'd not want to forget!

  • @daedalusdreamjournal5925
    @daedalusdreamjournal5925 4 роки тому +15

    For those who mention the problem with training in IQ testing, I need to remind you that between two IQ tests, there needs to be at least 2-3 years between each tests. If a person can acquire valid IQ tests questions to train themselves, the problem lies in protecting those questiosn and not the IQ test itself.
    The rorscha test (before it went out of commission) suffered the same kind of problems, as in: Too short times between testing and people having access to both the ink-blots and how to fool them to have a "good" result.

    • @momentary_
      @momentary_ 2 роки тому +5

      Those three questions were just pattern recognition and you can train yourself to be better at pattern recognition. That's not cheating. That's just becoming more "intelligent".

    • @masterchief5603
      @masterchief5603 2 роки тому

      If you know how to apply maths I bet you can beat any IQ Problem coming on your head.

    • @BeEnNLGaming
      @BeEnNLGaming 2 роки тому +1

      You also have cases of me where I score 110 at age 6 & 127 at 12. My verbal IQ stayed 110 but my performal went from 112 to 131. Not 100% sure why but do have some 2 theories. 1 being that since im a really mathatically type of person I think as you get older IQ test tend to be more math based favored ( atleast on performal side ). Second one is just focus, I had problems with it since I was a child and every year I grew better in it. But who knows I guess.

    • @keineahnung652
      @keineahnung652 Рік тому +1

      Yes, what if I train pattern recognition and persistence? My intelligence according to the test would get higher and higher...

    • @Theuglymug
      @Theuglymug Рік тому

      $f%%TY jg%fjfhff8gjkf GJmjjk

  • @contestationvoice4410
    @contestationvoice4410 8 місяців тому

    He is a genius: one more into the world.

  • @SevereFamine
    @SevereFamine 2 роки тому +310

    It’s incredible that he’s able to weave in such important applicable knowledge in with his curriculum. What a masterclass

    • @_Dylanm
      @_Dylanm Рік тому +4

      The last few minutes of this clip were incredibly insightful.

    • @jacobsmith831
      @jacobsmith831 Рік тому

      @@_Dylanm agreed. the last couple minutes should be it’s own clip.

    • @destroyer08114
      @destroyer08114 Рік тому

      @@_Dylanm I wish he was my teacher for every subject, he is what a teacher should be.

    • @sokaia
      @sokaia Рік тому

      I rly hope you aren't doing anything important!

  • @ozyozk9466
    @ozyozk9466 6 років тому +4

    For the third question, he said it's three because in the last shape, every component is a separate colour, the vertical bar colour is dictated by whichever colour appears twice in the second column and the horizontal bar colour is dictated by whichever colour appears twice in the first column. In the second row, first column, triangle and vertical bar are yellow so horizontal bar in column three must be yellow. In the second row, second column, triangle and horizontal bar is blue so vertical bar is blue. The triangle must be black as each colour only appears once in each sequence.

    • @leandrogomes7738
      @leandrogomes7738 2 роки тому

      Perfect, but what about the following logic:
      1. The last picture must have three colors displayed on it.
      2. The triangle color must be unicque among the same line: thus, black
      3. The vertical and horizontal bars must be one of the colors that the vertical/horizontal bar had in the same line.
      To not clash with rule 1, the only possible answer is vertical is yellow, horizontal is purple.
      So the correct answer would be 7.
      Now tell me, why is this logic "less" valid than yours / his. Who gets to determine which logic fits worse or better in a situation?

    • @saoj123
      @saoj123 2 роки тому

      @@leandrogomes7738 The rule that each component (vertical bar, horizontal bar, and triangle) has exactly 3 occurrences for each colour would be a 'stronger' rule because it arises more often (once per colour per component, 9 times total) vs each of your rules which apply once per row. If it can be solved with 1 rule rather than 3 then that rule is more likely to be the answer

  • @mamoako1521
    @mamoako1521 Рік тому

    4:42 Crystalized and factual knowledge

  • @darkxxdude6727
    @darkxxdude6727 Рік тому

    Idk if im wrong but i thougbt at 3:52 the correct option is number 5 because the other 2 rows have 2 vertical lines of the same color, one different color for the triangle and horizontal line. But there are supposed to be 2 vertical lines with the same color

  • @TravisArk
    @TravisArk 5 років тому +60

    Nobody:
    Jordan P: *GIVES YOU FEAR AND MOTIVATION AT THE SAME TIME*

    • @Suger18
      @Suger18 5 років тому +1

      Fear is motivation, to a certain degree

    • @DocUno1
      @DocUno1 5 років тому

      @@Suger18 it's a great motivater. It's the reason society has formed into what it is today. The Fear of other countries attacking us. The Fear of starving. The Fear of going to hell. Greatest human motivator. That's why people with little to no fear are very hard to deal with. Like terrorists or psychopaths.

    • @RandomBJJGuy
      @RandomBJJGuy 5 років тому

      This is a low iq meme. "Nobody:" means nobody was silent. So someone said something. So this meme is retarded.

    • @greatwhiteshark9355
      @greatwhiteshark9355 5 років тому

      how the fuck did you find this motivating

  • @SkateSage
    @SkateSage 2 роки тому +4

    Simple explanation of the answer to the third problem:
    First, it must be a symbol with a black triangle, because each other row has one triangle of each color. That leaves 3, 5, 7 as possible correct answers. Now, it has to be a symbol where the triangle and each of the two bars are all different colors, since the other two rows both have at least one symbol where the three components are all different colors (and they’re both on the right side). That leaves 3 and 7 as possible answers. Finally, the vertical bar on the rightmost symbol in each of the two other rows matches the color of the second triangle in that row, while the horizontal bar matches the color of the first triangle in that row. That only leaves 3!

    • @hhjg8855
      @hhjg8855 2 роки тому

      For me every bar is limited to two colours in column and rows so it would be 7
      I guess 3 and 7 are correct?

  • @leftovercrass5210
    @leftovercrass5210 7 місяців тому

    That last one was definitely 4.
    the vertical line

  • @joshuasimmons696
    @joshuasimmons696 8 місяців тому

    Now I'm depressed.

  • @ryan_raus
    @ryan_raus 2 роки тому +13

    What I love about JP is that he doesn’t affiliate with one political party, he’s just a very intelligent free thinker.

    • @mixstardust429
      @mixstardust429 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/51cJQRXtsFk/v-deo.html

    • @dannybrown5889
      @dannybrown5889 9 місяців тому +1

      Actually he’s advised Canada’s Conservative Party. Quite literally he has affiliated with them.

    • @ryan_raus
      @ryan_raus 9 місяців тому +1

      @@dannybrown5889 oh I’m aware. This is a very old comment. I was kind of just on a JP rabbit hole back then

    • @freedomextremist7215
      @freedomextremist7215 8 місяців тому

      @@dannybrown5889 Just consider who tried to start a witch hunt against him and you will understand why he would be forced to affiliate with those who oppose the people trying to ruin him. Peterson didn't just follow the tide when it comes to certain social issues. A liberal who didn't change much of their political views from 2000 to now will be considered a conservative by the modern left. if you think of politics as a spectrum, the right got closer to the center on social issues and the left is drilling a whole to escape the spectrum. A modern conservative has more in common with Bill Clinton in policy than a leftist has. Take abortion as an example. The left started the slogan "Safe, legal and rare". Now who is closer to that? The right is mostly trying to put limits based on a genuine debate over when a human life starts. The left isn't bothered by women celebrating their abortions on tiktok and we have to hear about babies still alive after an abortion, to the point where they could potentially survive if provided medical care. The left goes against legislation allowing doctors to save the baby. What does that mean? Women are having abortions so late that the child is already viable if medical care is provived. It doesn't happen often, but a lot of things that don't happen often are still well legislated.

    • @shabadooshabadoo4918
      @shabadooshabadoo4918 3 місяці тому

      @@ryan_raus I've heard recently that JP apparently has really bad takes on laws regarding the internet. He thinks people shouldn't be allowed to be anonymous and stuff. But i've only heard it from people in comment sections.