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Online Test Measures Speed of your Brain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-kind-of-quick-draw dept.

KingSkippus writes "According to CNet, a company named Posit Science has produced an online test using Flash that uses sounds to measure the speed of your brain down to the millisecond. According to the company, the test 'measures auditory processing (listening) speed—one of many measures of brain function...The faster we can take in information accurately, the better we can keep up with, respond to and remember what we hear.'"

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  1. OMG by irimi_00 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    OMG this makes me feel so stupid and incomptetant.

    Go here to find out what a big racist, jingoist, judgemental biggot you are:
    https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

  2. I got a 27...where's my prize? by stungod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So my score was 27ms. I guess that ain't a bad speed for a 37-year-old.

    So does this mean that I am smart, or that I'm just dumb faster? Really, I think I would rather take a little longer to be more correct. It seems that there's plenty of historical evidence to show that the smart people aren't always the first to come up with an answer to a problem.

    I guess if I was interested in buying whatevr it is that this guy is selling the I could figure it out. But according to the results of his test, I already have a faster brain than just about everybody. All I need is sharks with freakin' laser beams and I could take over the world!

    Then again, maybe I should drink less coffee...

  3. Looks like a scam by jerald_hams · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The company claims that their exercises improves...(ugh) your speed of thinking. Gods, that's horrible bunk. They don't actually show that repeatedly taking their tests improves anything but your performance on those specific tests. There's no research behind this, just a scam to take advantage of the elderly with baseless promises of preserving your aging brain's cognitive abilities.

  4. Mouse use speed? by eMartin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why would this require using a mouse to click on two icons placed next to each other when that takes time itself?

    Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to map the input to two keys on a keyboard?

    I have to wonder about the validity of any kind of intelligence test that lacks common sense like that. Well, that and has the spelling mistakes that others noted.

    Or maybe I'm just upset that I got a 49.