this quiz put my vocabulary in top 8 percent of population- who here can beat me?
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Top 5.31% level of professional white collars
Vocabulary Size: 22,812
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@n8nrgim
So how many different words do you have stored in your database?
Vocab size of 29334
Top 0.26% apparently.
I’m a poet and didn’t know it, but Longfellow’s feet show it.
Top 0.33%
29,014 words
I'm apparently Shakespeare too, and I know I'm definitely not in top 1% for vocabulary. Process of elimination and guessing on a few. Mostly lucky and I didn't know the meaning a good number of the words.
A real vocabulary test would probably show me only slightly above average. Got to enjoy tests that show 25% of population in the top 1%-5%
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@oromagi
I'm guessing oromagi will be in the top 1% at least.
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@CoolApe
I remember an online IQ test that gave results above 140 when I picked all the answers randomly.
Picking random answers here puts me at the bottom 22.82%. So it's not giving random results, but it is scoring people higher than it should.
z-score of top 5.31% is about 1.6 (22,812 words)
z-score of top 0.26% is about 2.8 (29,334 words)
1.2 standard devs for 6522 word diff. St dev = 5435. 22812-5435*1.6 = 14116, significantly higher than the reported average for men or women. Looks suspect.
When I pick random answers, it puts me at the bottom 22.82%, which implies a z-score of -0.8. 14116-5435*0.8 = 9768. Yet it tells me the corresponding vocabulary score is 2282, so the bell curve model here is inconsistent. Numbers are definitely off.
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@Savant
"Picking random answers here puts me at the bottom 22.82%. So it's not giving random results, but it is scoring people higher than it should."
if you pick a random number, you have a 25% chance of guessing correctly given there's four choices. how are you so sure that the bottom 22 percent of people should get better than 25% of the answers right? is the assumption that even dumb people should be able to do better than random picks? that might be a fair assumption, but i dunno.
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@n8nrgim
I got to 2nd part of quiz, in red was ' antonym ' questions and didnt know what the word meant so could complete quiz.
So it appears to be color quiz as well as a word quiz. Good thing I' not color blind :--)
So it appears to be color quiz as well as a word quiz. Good thing I' not color blind :--)
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@ebuc
Well I know what antonym means but I thought red was just to indicate the difficulty increasing, which it was. I couldn’t even read half the words in the second half. Anyway i have the vocabulary of on 18 year old in the US apparently. Top 23-25%
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@n8nrgim
I just did them all random and it gave me bottom 2%
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@Reece101
...I thought red was just to indicate the difficulty increasing,...
Or ' danger ' ahead :--)
Some times I feel like an ant, some times i dont. --single.narrow minded--
Some times I feel like an onym, sometimes I dont. ---concept.word----
Some times I feel like an onym, sometimes I dont. ---concept.word----
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@ebuc
After some research I’m wondering why Ys aren’t officially vowels.
“It turns out that Y is not just "sometimes" a vowel. It is almost always a vowel. It is only a consonant around 2.5% of the time. That means about 97.5% of the time it is a vowel.”
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@Reece101
After some research I’m wondering why Ys aren’t officially vowels.
Beyond my expertise. However two things I came across in last 20 years and not sure a I find the one that relates Y's ch's etc
1} ..." Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. "...
2} .." Linguistic humor, English spelling reform
Source: An old chestnut. In its globalized incarnation below,via Steven Gearhart. English in the Future
Source: An old chestnut. In its globalized incarnation below,via Steven Gearhart. English in the Future
>>> Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement toadopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather thanGerman, which was another possibility.
As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that Englishspelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-yearphase-in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft"c". Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will thisklear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.
There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when thetroublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like"fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan beexpekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish havealways ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horiblemes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing "th"with "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be droped from vords kontaining"o", and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be nomor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat vizeash ozer.
Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikationvia DaimlerKhrysler.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru. "...
Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikationvia DaimlerKhrysler.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru. "...
I can't read.
I can't write.
But i can drive a tractor alright.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Deb.
No worries
Your vocabulary is in the top 1%.
As regularly demonstrated.
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@zedvictor4
I was 36 when i realized the word wasn't eggnormous, it was enormous.
About the same time i learned the diffrence between ( their ) and there.
I still right now do not know when to use ( were ) or ( where )
Anddddd i still can't spell pearents. (Parents)
With this said.
I'd like to make a shout out to one of my best frends. freinds. (friends)
The T9 dictionary.
Respect.
Without T9 I'd be illiterate.
With T9 I'm semi illiterate.
Auto correct made me not want to bother learning how to spell property.
I mean (properly)
Thanks Zed for never making fun of my apauling ,,, my apparel
My apaulinndg .
Fuckkkkkk it.
My bad grandma. ( grammar )
Cheers man.
Cough, cough never scored below 176 iq cough.
Especially the two main tests took.
Sooooooo, I Im like a real fucking smart dumb kunt.
Im smart as fuck when it comes to crime.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I'm smart as fuck when it comes to crime.
All you need is to be smarter than the Police.
Hey.
String letters together and make words...Who needs a dictionary to put them in.
In that sense you have loads more words than someone with an English degree (Australian).
Do you play the didgeridoo Deb?
Or is it the dijjereedoo Deb?
Or the didjheridodah?
Or dijjin her doodah.
137 days later
I got 22015 words with a top 6.6%.
I got 22015 words with a top 6.6%. But in reality I think I barely scratch top 10.