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Experimental Assessments
Thank you for completing your project description. Next you'll be presented two assessments: a 10-minute personality questionnaire, followed by a 20-minute brain teaser.
This part is an experiment. Selections will be driven by your project description, not your score on this test. However, you're required to complete this section to submit your application.
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I would suggest to the creators of this that they immediately delete existing data collected through this part of the application until they can put together a proper privacy policy and be more transparent about how they're going to use the data.
[E: this should have been down there sorry]
Kudos on the process. Nothing wrong with it.
So adding an IQ test changes that to something meaningful, that correlates with AI (what these applications are for). After all, how is a low-intelligence person supposed to make a project in artificial intelligence!
I stand 100% by my support of their process.
There might be a lower limit IQ you might need to be able to hold enough data in your head to archive specific thoughts but i don't think that this limit is very high.
There are enough dedicated human beings out there who are not that smart but dedicated. They are easily able to do projects in artificial intelligence.
AI is not that complicated. It takes probably more stamina than IQ as a lot of research does.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
I will go ahead and guess 127: nearly two standard deviations above the mean. (i.e. IQ-wise in the top 5%.)
Call it dumb all you want: that's just you being modest.
I'm not being modest. I'm lucky to have smart people around me and I know how smart they are and how smart I am, and I'm not that smart. Anyway I've learned not to worry about it. I'm tenacious. That's taken me a long way already.
If it helps, though, I once cheated on an online IQ test for a job. I took it with a friend and we got 130 points together (I didn't like the job).
I guess that means my IQ is somewhere around 65 :P
Here's an example discussion of how this works, drawing on various studies: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/02/stalin-and-summary-stat...
IQ is inherently different. I really support the IQ test they decided to give and I definitely think they should glance at the results - especially to basically approve any applications from people with great results even if the evaluators don't understand the proposed application exactly.
But I think such tests have no relation to the mission. Mandating a short video on capabilities and need of problem area is likely to filter out most candidates. Making video requires effort.
This will get you people who are serious.
Further you could add option to either take test or 15 min video. Just a suggestion.
Plus you might want to change your claim from 'minutes' to 'hours'. You won't put off people who really want to apply and you'll get less people who just want easy money, trying to apply and reacting angrily.