Jon22: The Website of Jonathan Dobres

I’ve been holding this one in my link queue for a while: The GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) via The Google Story.

It’s a remarkable kind of intelligence test, just the kind of thing you’d expect from Google. Question 8 is, “How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?” This is followed immediately by, “What colors would you choose?” By far my favorite question is, “This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.”

Intelligence, by the way, is one of those notoriously hard to quantify parts of the mind. Don’t believe what you read on the Tickle.com IQ test. One of my rankings came out as Visionary Philosopher, and while that’s flattering, it’s also quite possibly the least true thing ever doled out as scientific advise. Anyway, it’s far more likely that we have what Howard Gardner called “multiple intelligences.” According to his system, we have eight broad domains of intelligence and aptitude. I’d probably be high on the verbal-linguistic scale but embarrassingly low on the body-kinesthetic scale (a talkative klutz).