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 		Don't forget to look at the bottom tag:
(between the < and >, it has a question mark)
This could be a question too that needs to be solved first, before you attempt to solve first one by trial and error

PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:14 am
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draghkar
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 		Is this site down?

I seem not to be able to connect.

Greetz,

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:32 am
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gj
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 		No, it has another URL now.
http://www.paulcooijmans.lunarpages.com/p/gliaweb/tests/colt/

PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:48 am
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Tengu
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 		just a thought.......
i was thinking.....perhaps the seemingly random trial-and-error character[s] are a pattern in combination with the other answers to the questions on a page;maybe you have to convert the letters to numerical value in order to reason the complete pattern of the particular URL;look at the Nemesis Test of the same author......because the author says that the COLT is based on the Isis Test and the Nemesis,in that they have the same kind of questions an require the same logic/pattren recognition.It seems the author has used coding systems like the enigma-like riddles

PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:41 pm
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Thorndike
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 		Validity of the COLT
Have any of you gotten past level 6? I haven't yet, but the reason I'm asking is that he equates level 6 with an IQ of 137, but level 7 with an IQ of 150.

Now an IQ of 137 outscores about 99.3% of the population or is about 1 in a 100. Though this is a high IQ, it's not so high as to be rare in university (average IQ of university students is probably 115 or more, and I have had classes with over 600 students in them, so there would be more than 6 people in that class with an IQ at least that high, a few more with IQs of 135, 130, and so on...).

An IQ of 150 however scores above 99.96% of the population. So it would be close to one in a thousand, and therefore nearly always the highest IQ around, unless you're in very biased sample such as a high IQ society, or a group of Nobel laureates in physics.

So my question is, if any of you have reached level 7, do you think the score is realistic? ie have you ever taken a valid IQ test where your score was near that level? Otherwise, do you tend to outperform others in school? Did you have unusually high SAT or GRE scores?

Sometimes 1 in 1000 has nothing to do with intellect (or school aptitude), but with the activity you're scoring, and unless the scores show a good correlation with other measures of interest (in this case, SAT, IQ, GRE, which are all highly correlated), you can't really make any conclusions about what your score means.

Dave

PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:49 pm
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Z
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 		Re: Validity of the COLT
Thorndike wrote:
So my question is, if any of you have reached level 7, do you think the score is realistic? ie have you ever taken a valid IQ test where your score was near that level? Otherwise, do you tend to outperform others in school? Did you have unusually high SAT or GRE scores?

Dave


I found the COLT by accident and got to level 7 in about half an hour, but have not been able to get further since. The first question on level 7 is a verbal analogy, but it is an unusual one to say the least, and makes little sense to me.

I have no idea as to whether the scores realistically mean anything at all, though I do consider myself pretty bright.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:43 pm
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Tengu
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 		Dear Z

Did you reached 7 by triall and error,or did you find a logical pattern underlying the seemingly nonsense codes?

Could you at leat hint as how to reach page 7?
Any clues would be appreciated

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:52 pm
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Z
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Tengu wrote:
Dear Z

Did you reached 7 by triall and error,or did you find a logical pattern underlying the seemingly nonsense codes?

Could you at leat hint as how to reach page 7?
Any clues would be appreciated


A bit of both, and on this sort of test I think that is the right thing to do.
I am not sure if there is a pattern in the codes between the <> marks at the bottom of each page, and if there is I didn't find it or use it. However, those codes (all of them, but especially the one on page 6) did give me a hint as to the solution to reach page 7. The math is obviously easy, so when you figure the first part out it should be obvious that you have the right answer.

Z.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:39 pm
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Tengu
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 		Thanks for your kind reply

Some of the questions refer to answers given earlier in the test;if that was what you meant.
I tried every possible character on my keyboard;thus i conclude that it must be a word or a acronym perhaps.I know that Cooijmans does have a wry sense of humour and very creative items.

the math is easy indeed,it's the 1st item that is very strange i've been looking into my url if the characters that accompanied the actual items on each page form a code or serie or something;rather fruitless

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:01 pm
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pwin26
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 		can someone give me another clue to get past page 6...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:19 am
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Curlytek
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 		There is a bit of a clue on the site when you find the right character for <6>. Think about what it is asking you for, and you will work out what you need to do.

<7> is trickier, but I think it is do-able. Only started this today so I will sleep on it....

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:44 am
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Gt
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 		Can somebody give hints to answer of page 6?
Have already looked at all bottom tags, can't find a pattern

PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:43 am
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karthoum
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 		page 7 is very hard.
Anyone any tips? first two questions seem impossible

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:52 pm
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e
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 		Does the answer to go to <7> require english knowledge(word or something) or it is culture fair?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:38 pm
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dennis
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 		As for whether or not this is an accurate judge of IQ, I would say "No." Who is this Paul Cooijmans? What makes him qualified to determine our IQ's?

I solved the Daedalus test in about 15 minutes, and got a score that supposedly puts me in the ludicrously high 165+ range, the highest possible score for that test. And as for COLT? A friend and I working together only got to page two, working together, which puts us at 115 combined. This big of a discrepancy surely proves that the tests are inaccurate.

BTW, can someone please just tell me the answer to number two? It's very frustrating.

derobertSPLATusc.edu

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