Most of the people who say this are covering for their lack of cognitive ability.
You will never understand why both Bluce and I think this is funny.
Most of the people who say this are covering for their lack of cognitive ability.
8 out of 10.
I missed #6 on account of a typo (put a period between 6 and Green instead of a Comma) and I just skipped through #10 (one example of numeric pattern hunting was enough ).
Remember this one from another thread we did a while ago?
http://www.gatefans.net/gforums/threads/ftl-travel-here-we-come.25166/page-13#post-812066
So, not counting that period, you've scored the highest here with an almost perfect score.
Retard.
I got 7 out of 10. Thing is, I see people working in STEM fields who do not seem to belong in their jobs because they lack the ability to think outside of established parameters (outside the box). Believe it or not, amongst these are instructors or professors of STEM subjects. Most of them can rattle off things in their books in a heartbeat, but cannot put much of it in practice in real life applications. Other times, I meet 9 year old kids of friends (usually boys) who have managed to unravel complex networking problems with no formal instruction. Frequently I get from them stuff like "My game would not work, so I ----------------- and that fixed it".
Is it possible that certain people are simply "brain wired" to be technological?
I took the test just now, and it's a dumb test! I do not see where any of the questions asked would reveal any sort of aptitude for STEM thinking patterns. .
A prize is located behind one of three curtains. After you choose a curtain, the prize-master opens a curtain that has no prize behind it and gives you the option to switch curtains. If you decide to switch curtains, what is the probability that your curtain has the prize behind it?
Really?
I knew you would score high--i am sure OM and JIM would score high as well-probably JOE too--just guessing of course based on my "observations" here
Number 7? I didn't even take time to consider an answer-I just typed something to get to the next question!
I did rather poorly. The timed nature of the test and the difficulty I had in determining where to put my answer messed me up. I do better on those standardized tests that are given by educators and organizations like Mensa.
Maybe you did poorly, but that means nothing really. You have a Ph.D. and you are an engineer. Obviously STEM. I would take your demonstrated knowledge over any of these dumb test scores.
ONLY within my area of expertise. I did not install Linux on my computer until you demonstrated how easy it was. Still, I do a lot better with tests that involve geometry and algebra.
I took the test again and got 6 correct.
I do not see what this has to do with liking Star Trek or Star Wars. Star Wars is a basic story about good versus evil. Star Trek TNG was sometimes silly, but the Borg episodes were good. J.J. Abrams Trek is closer to classic Star Wars than classic Star Trek.
All tech in science fiction is "phony tech". The argument here is magic vs science. Phony tech is not the same as sparkly magic.
True, but some science fiction contain a good amount of real science. Even Larry Niven's Known Space stories, which include FTL travel, contain a large amount of real science in them. Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels contain a good amount of real science. A great deal of the technology in Iain M. Banks' Culture stories is fanciful, but does not actually break any scientific law, except for FTL travel. One of Banks' novels involved an assassin with an explosive antimatter weapon implanted in her head that could be triggered with a thought. This is fanciful, but does not break any known physical law.
In real science news, biologists are working on a technique to regrow testicles for injured soldiers and other violence victims. Ten years ago, this would be considered science fiction.
The Star Trek transporter is effectively magic, and was introduced because of budgetary constraints at Desilu Studios. From what I understand about the Force and light sabers is that they are magic as well.
The web site appears to be a SPAM site for dubious colleges with internet learning programs like Liberty University and Western Governors University.
A university cannot be very good, if it requires constant advertising to attract students.
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