So I took it but I dunno how to upload image though so...
Body smart: 16 (far too high, perhaps because I chose always for "I like to think when running/walking". Assuming this was a body smart question, the phrasing was poor... and upon checking it was indeed a body smart question)
Word smart: 13 (fair enough)
Logic smart: 17
Interpersonal smart: 15 (I am extremely withdrawn and hate crowds, but I also generally have a good grasp on how to deal with others and what they are thinking... of course, it was a struggle for me to even get to this point. Accuracy hard to tell, but probably should be a bit lower if we are assuming intelligence is something more innate.)
Intrapersonal smart: 19 (again, fair enough)
musical smart: 23 (I love music, and it always drives me up the wall when I hear somebody singing out of key. For me, it is almost unfathomable that somebody can't notice this even if they are the one singing. That being said, I feel that everybody should not feel self-conscious about singing or playing an instrument just because they are bad at it. If they're having fun, then that tends to come through regardless of whether or not it sounds like they're cutting steel... If there heart isn't in it at all though or I'm trying to sleep then I will be merciless)
visual smart: 20 (maybe... I'm terrible with art though. The getting lost was a visual/spacial smart question which is fair enough. That being said, one could make the argument that there are nature smart and logic smart elements to getting lost as well.)
nature smart: 21 (not really. I'm just able to identify a reasonable amount of flora and fauna because I'm a biology major. Just because I know it, doesn't mean it all comes to me naturally. One may say at this point that I should have just answered the question based upon whether or not that kind of stuff comes to me naturally, but a good test is one where you can just answer the questions as they were asked and not have to think about what they're really asking. With this kind of a test you are supposed to answer the questions fast so as not to introduce bias.)
Do I think the test is accurate? I think it probably would come up with reasonably accurate results. Do I think this test is good? No. First of all, there are only a total of 5 questions pertaining to each category. This means each answer has a major impact on the results. I feel it would be better to have several questions for each to minimize the impact of things like a bad question or an answer that was given with the goal in mind of getting a certain result. Secondly, a number of these questions relate to multiple intelligences. Honestly, I find the idea of a test for multiple intelligences where you ask a person for a self-evaluation seems flawed to begin with. We may have "multiple intelligences", but when push comes to shove those multiple intelligences work together. Logical smart can be closely related with pretty much every other smart other than perhaps body smart. Word smart can also go with interpersonal smart. Intrapersonal smart too can go with interpersonal smart. The notion that questions about everyday life can succeed in separating these different intelligences when in everyday life those intelligences are working together is a concept that I find ultimately flawed. Who is to say, for example, that remembering pieces of music isn't something purely logical, or even spacial (starts here, two steps up, one step down, half step up, ends here)? Is there something other than a false distinction to separate these intelligences in everyday life?
That being said, do I think the test was meant to be good? No, not really. Just good enough... ah figured it out.
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or not...
Edited by ragnarok_grindstone, 02 November 2011 - 03:54 PM.
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