In the DESIGMA-Advanced test, a respondent must work out which shape logically comes next in several series like the ones shown here Benedikt Schneider
People who are given instructions on how to succeed at a widely used type of IQ test end up with far higher scores than those who take the test without learning these tips beforehand – throwing into question the validity of these kinds of tests and contributing to critiques of IQ tests in general.
That’s the main finding of a study that looked at “progressive matrices”, a kind of IQ test that displays a series of changing…
