IQ test re-written in php -- please try again!

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The Mayor

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I managed to figure out the scripting language php today and re-write the exam from JAVA into php. It should work in all browsers, though the format of the exam is a bit different.

Here is the link:

(Dead link: http://www.cardcounter.com/BJ_IQ/BJIQ.html)

All comments welcomed.

Thanks,

--Mayor
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

Banned
Huh. It says I have a blackjack IQ of only 118.

Of course there are a few questions in there that ned a bit of modification. I answered literally using no preconceptions of the way we normally say things and what we normally mean. One that stands out- must you show your ID to a police officer in a casino if he requests it? Not enough information. In the US, no. In many other countries, yes. But here you will be asked to leave any casino if you refuse to show ID.
 
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The Mayor

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LTC please comment

We should have LTC comment on this one. He was the one who told me about this -- but yes, I am assuming USA. oops.
 
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suicyco maniac

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Agree

I got 144 but agree some questions are misleading like the flashing question are we talking only about blackjack or other games too...also the being arrested for tresspassing it is not 100% you will be arrested but it could happen. and a few others SM
 
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Abraham de Moivre

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Welcome to Amerika

IF a casino employee, or casino security, asks for your ID, you can laugh and walk out of the place.

If a POLICE OFFICER asks for your ID, and you refuse, you can be locked up for up to 48 hours until they can identify you.
(after all you have two legs and two arms and two eyes, etc. just like the guy who held up the liquor store last night, how do they know it wasn't you?)

This right of the police to demand ID has been strengthed since 9/11 with the Patriot Acts.
 
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cphessy

Member
Re: LTC please comment

hrmmm i got 145

who is inga??
if its someone's family member then yes she's pretty =P

anyone gonna be in vegas next wk?
hit me up
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

Banned
Re: Oh come on now

Well, there is a little more to it than that. A policeman has to have "reasonable suspicion" to stop you and question you and this includes asking for ID. The test for reasonable suspicion isn't very hard- a casino employee can tell him that he thinks you are cheating, or that you look like you might be underage. Just like if you were in a store and the store clerk tells the clerk that he saw you shoplifting, his statement alone is enough to cause suspicion. To arrest you he has to have "probable cause"- evidence that to a trained police officer makes it look like you are probably guilty of a crime. This would include seeing a tape of you cheating, or finding stolen property in your pocket, or witnesses who tell him that you have been read the trespass act.
 
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Rob McGarvey

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Your blackjack IQ: 160

There are some questionable questions, not really blackjack realated IMO. I mean, who really cares if Stanford Wong is pretty and Inga is over 6 feet tall? This might mean you have read this article or that book with other pertinent material in in. Some readers simply forget the non issues and remember the real meat and potatoes. If I have time I will hack the test to get all the scores right.
 
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Abraham de Moivre

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A nice urban myth....

"A policeman has to have "reasonable suspicion" to stop you and question you and this includes asking for ID."

WRONG.... Thanks for playing, please try again.

It has been upheld in court many, many times. Police don't have to have any suspicion, reasonable or otherwise, to ask for ID.

RE: when you are being stopped at the police checkpoint for drunk drivers, (which amazingly enough always write more tickets for other types of offences and warrents than catch actual drunks), WHAT was their "reasonable suspicion" to stop you and ask for ID? The fact that you were on a public roadway?

A police man can ask any one, any where, for ID. Of course, it has also been upheld by the courts, once this little formality has taken place, unless the police officer places you under arrest, you can just walk away and not answer any questions.
 
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Rob McGarvey

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Your blackjack IQ: 200

Is 200 the max?? It's nice to see where the differences were! After everyone is done the test we should do a round robin discussion.
 
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Rob McGarvey

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Re: A nice urban myth....

It is illiegal to have no ID on you in Nevada, no? That is reason enough to ask you for it. All the COP has to say is that he thought you had no ID on you and was just doing his job.
 
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Felix Rue-de-Guerre

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Re: Your blackjack IQ: 160

>>...not really blackjack realated IMO. I mean, who really cares if Stanford Wong is pretty and Inga is over 6 feet tall?

Yup, that's why In my feedback to the Mayor I worded this as being "A good test of exposure to the Blackjack community".

But by the same token, What Hi-Lo player really cares what the -6 indecies are for Hi-Opt2? Peripheral information like the Wong question is probably necessary to make a fair, general test with some harder questions on it.

-Felix
 
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Rob McGarvey

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Re: Your blackjack IQ: 160

A little trivia made it fun no doubt. I got the Inga and the Wong one right off the top. And one of the ones I got wrong is of great interest to me for a multiplicity of reasons.
 
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The Mayor

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Re: Your blackjack IQ: 160

In the extended Stanford Binet IQ test, one of the questions is "Who is Amelia Earhart". Such cultural questions test exposure and retention, and are quite arbitrary -- but necessary.
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

Banned
Re: The problem with all IQ tests...

... is that they request digital data in an analog world. If you are smart enough and "different" enough you can work your way around to all the answers being correct, or the best answer being not one of the offered choices. It easily becomes a question of "Guess what I'm thinking".

This happens a lot with the number progression questions that are on most IQ tests: e.g. "Which number comes next in this series? 8,6,7,5,3,0..." If you like addition and subtraction you get one answer, if you like parabolic functions you get another one, and if you like 80's pop music you get yet another.
 
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john

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Re: Your blackjack IQ: 200

Lets go kick some Casino tail.

Just want to say that this is the best counting site. No one is selling anything. No agenda here. It's probably the most mature one, too. My trip is tomorrow morning. I hope to see some of you on the tables.

Maybe I should change my name to Off-topic.
 
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The Mayor

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Re: Your blackjack IQ: 200

Thanks for your kind words about this site!

I hope you take their money tomorrow, a lot of it :cool:

--Mayor
 
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