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EARTHDATE: November 21, 2010

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ON THE WEB: THE ULTIMATE INTELLIGENCE TEST

by Hazed

Are you smarter than average? Well, of course you are, or you wouldn't play Fed. But actually it's a harder question to answer than you might think. There's no real agreement among researches about what the word "intelligence" actually means.

But over the years, many scientists have tried to quantify this elusive quality, coming up with tests to show that one person is smarter than another. And now a team at the UK Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge has devised the ultimate intelligence test.

They started out, like many researchers before them, by looking for the smallest number of tests that could cover all the cognitive skills that make up intelligence - from memory to planning. They then used brain scanners to make sure the tests involved as much of the brain as possible.

The result was a bank of tests that take about half an hour to complete. Give it a go here.

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