Twelve Tests That Get to the Heart of the Grey Mattermind Quiz These Puzzles Were Devised by a Team of American Brainboxes As an Alternative Way of Gauging Intelligence to the Controversial Mensa System. Our Volunteers Tried Them with Varying Results. How Will You Fare?

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INTELLIGENCE and how to measure it is one of life's great contentious questions. We can be coached to pass exams, but how much does that say about our innate ability? We might outCarol Carol on the Countdown numbers game, but does that really qualify us as "good at maths"? And if someone is a prize-winning scientist but can't empathise with those who are not, do they deserve the label "genius"?

These questions are continually reassessed in the light of cultural and social change. The notion of emotional intelligence, for instance, has gained profile as the importance of communications in our globalised economy has increased. Traditional intelligence testing, meanwhile, has been overhauled due to suspicions of a cultural bias: how can someone from overseas compete fairly in a test which assumes you've been educated in the UK, for instance?

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Twelve Tests That Get to the Heart of the Grey Mattermind Quiz These Puzzles Were Devised by a Team of American Brainboxes As an Alternative Way of Gauging Intelligence to the Controversial Mensa System. Our Volunteers Tried Them with Varying Results. How Will You Fare?

IQ testing, however, is more popular than ever. Psychometric tests for job applicants are still used in the UK, which gives job seekers an incentive to check o...

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