25$ yours for a 45 minute survey

[bpesta22]

I get a feeling this thread might be a goose egg, but if anyone's interested in earning 25$ for government funded research, please click the link below.

The test measures personality and some cognition.

You must reside in the USA and be between 18-35 to do it.

I guarantee the payment, and thanks to those who do it!!

http://www.workskillsfirst.com/vaone.html

[Ladewig]

I am not eligible, but I skimmed the questions. Number 9 stood out - which one is least like the other three: halibut, trout, octopus, salmon. There appears to be two answers. Octopi are invertebrates, but trout don't live in salt water.

[Modified]

I am not eligible, but I skimmed the questions. Number 9 stood out - which one is least like the other three: halibut, trout, octopus, salmon. There appears to be two answers. Octopi are invertebrates, but trout don't live in salt water.

The question is which one is least like the other.

[rjh01]

There are 192 questions. To answer them in 45 minutes requires you to answer them at one question every 14 seconds. This does not include time to read the instructions or to fill in information to get your money. Or time required to bank the cheque.

Good luck.

Edit. Also you cannot rush this.
If your responses indicate that you are answering the questions without reading then carefully, you will not be paid.

[Hokulele]

The question is which one is least like the other.


Halibut have both eyes on one side of their head.

[BTMO]

I am not eligible, but I skimmed the questions. Number 9 stood out - which one is least like the other three: halibut, trout, octopus, salmon. There appears to be two answers. Octopi are invertebrates, but trout don't live in salt water.


Yes they do. Look up "steelhead"....

;)

[GlennB]

I am not eligible, but I skimmed the questions. Number 9 stood out - which one is least like the other three: halibut, trout, octopus, salmon. There appears to be two answers. Octopi are invertebrates, but trout don't live in salt water.

Sea trout do sometimes. It's octopus - only they can strangle you to death.

[quixotecoyote]

Huh, I just finished and I answered that question by asking "which one haven't I seen in porn flicks."

So trout, obviously.

[DevilsAdvocate]

If your responses indicate that you are answering the questions without reading then carefully, you will not be paid.Was this part of the test? Because I did read then carefully. ;)

[rjh01]

My quote is a cut and paste job. It is not an error on my part.

Lesson for the day. Never trust a spell checker. MS word does not pick up the error.

For idiots.
It should be them not then

Wonder if someone will be paid $25 for pointing the error out?

Edit.
I have sent them an e-mail, telling them of the error.

[bpesta22]

Thanks to those who did it, I do appreciate it. Curious how long it actually took for those who think I misunderestimated the time involved.

[Careyp74]

Halibut have both eyes on one side of their head.

Only the adults. I don't think the question specified age of species. :)

[Careyp74]

started it right after posting that last comment, just finished.

So it took me roughly 30 minutes. A lot of the questions are easy to breeze through. I did put thought into all of them.

[dogjones]

I am not eligible, but I skimmed the questions. Number 9 stood out - which one is least like the other three: halibut, trout, octopus, salmon. There appears to be two answers. Octopi are invertebrates, but trout don't live in salt water.

(Smug mode) You mean "octopodes", of course...

[GlennB]

(Smug mode) You mean "octopodes", of course...

'Octopi' and 'octopodes' are both pompositudes.

[casebro]

Probably about 40-45 minutes.

I'm out of the age group, so I won't be sitting on the curb waiting for the mail man. Several sections, several payments, anybody keep track of how much I won't get paid? Or will I get a free ride when the black helicopters scoop me up while I'm sitting on the curb?

I wonder if Bpesta is simply doing some recruitment for the Defense department?

Otherwise, it looks like they are trying to connect mental abilities with personality traits and/or judgment? for something like "we need to find somebody who is good at math, but can't see through tricky psych questions"?

Bpesta, can you adequately allow for the fact that you have recruited test subjects from a skeptics board? Or was that your point?

[bpesta22]

It's not my study. The PI's criterion was to use "smart people". I can tell you a little bit more about the study but would rather wait in case others are still going to take it.

[I Ratant]

Sea trout do sometimes. It's octopus - only they can strangle you to death.
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Saint Blaise will have something to say about that!

[dogjones]

'Octopi' and 'octopodes' are both pompositudes.

There doesn't appear to be such a word as "pompositude". Which is a shame. I like it.

[GlennB]

There doesn't appear to be such a word as "pompositude". Which is a shame. I like it.

Start a trend! Neologisms rock :)

[casebro]

There doesn't appear to be such a word as "pompositude". Which is a shame. I like it.

I like it too. It's an alternative to 'euphemism'.

But I think it may need a bit of re-work so it is sure to describe a word, not be a contraction of "pompous attitude'. Though with the proper interpretation, it could be both: "Her use of a pompositude was an indication of her pompositude".

Or is it a transitive or dangling transmission, or one of those other pompositudes?

Or, horror of horrors, could the use of "pompositude" become pompositudeness in it's own right? Ohhh, I'm pretzticulated with anxiety....;)

[casebro]

Halibut have both eyes on one side of their head.

Where as an octopus can have his head on either side of his eyes.

It's a good thing he has eight arms, or he couldn't find his ass in the dark. But on the other four hands, the Hali-BUT doesn't have that problem.

[Molinaro]

It's obviously the octopus, as it's the only one who can unscrew the lid off a jar.

[JoeTheJuggler]

There doesn't appear to be such a word as "pompositude". Which is a shame. I like it.

Would that be a cognate to "pompatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pompatus_of_Love)"?

[dogjones]

Or, horror of horrors, could the use of "pompositude" become pompositudeness in it's own right? Ohhh, I'm pretzticulated with anxiety....;)

Bow before its sublime homologicitude!

[dogjones]

Where as an octopus can have his head on either side of his eyes.

It's a good thing he has eight arms, or he couldn't find his ass in the dark. But on the other four hands, the Hali-BUT doesn't have that problem.

I'm not sure I understand. I need to mullet over awhile.

[JoeTheJuggler]

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[casebro]

Would that be a cognate to "pompatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pompatus_of_Love)"?


Isn't that the Australian critter? Used editorially to mock a particular politician down under.

[I Ratant]

Originally Posted by JoeTheJuggler View Post
Would that be a cognate to "pompatus"?

Isn't that the Australian critter? Used editorially to mock a particular politician down under.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYA9QBrALc

[rjh01]

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Edit.
I have sent them an e-mail, telling them of the error.

Just received a reply thanking me for letting them know about the error.

[Doghouse Reilly]

It's not my study. The PI's criterion was to use "smart people". I can tell you a little bit more about the study but would rather wait in case others are still going to take it.

I'd be interested in hearing more about it, if you think enough time has passed now.

[bpesta22]

Anyone get paid yet?

[BTMO]

Anyone get paid yet?


Hahahahahaha!!!

;)

[Doghouse Reilly]

I'd be interested in hearing more about it, if you think enough time has passed now.

Repost

[Silly Green Monkey]

Anyone get paid yet?

I have.

[Wowbagger]

Wow. They mailed those checks out, fast!

[bpesta22]

I never read any draft of the research but it seems he's trying to find alternate predictors for success in the military beyond IQ. It seems like he's developing an integrity test-- a test that tries to measure how honest/ethical one is. Even though the questions for these tests are obviously transparent, the variance on the test predicts job-related outcomes (and as far as I remember, is not redundant with what IQ predicts, so can be very useful).

I think he's also measuring some of the big 5 personality traits and IQ to see how well the integrity test questions predict once those are controlled.

It also seems like he's developing a social desirability scale (much like the MMPI has) using an empirically keyed approach. Get a bunch of people to fake / answer questions as if they were trying to make themselves look good. Some of those questions will show high agreement among the "hired fakers" (for whatever reason, lots of people answer the same way to the question). These items can then be put in a scale, where if the recruit scores high on the scale, the inference is he's not being sincere / trying to make himself look good. It's totally atheoretical and completely statistical, but it seems to work.

I hope that helps!

[Careyp74]

Took the test on the 20th, got my check yesterday. Those guys are fast.

[Careyp74]

I was in the navy, these types of questions are asked a lot in screenings. I think he is trying to prove or disprove screening processes in the military. See how different answers are to percieved "right" answers or something like that.

[casebro]

Got a check too, and a thanks for reading the directions.

I guess I read better than they do. I'm too old to qualify for the cash, but they sent it anyhow. But maybe they learned something from my test?

They are soliciting more subjects, so the study is ongoing. I don't think Bpesta will clue us in on the actual goals until the program ends. I wonder if they have a particular quota?

[casebro]

I was in the navy, these types of questions are asked a lot in screenings. I think he is trying to prove or disprove screening processes in the military. See how different answers are to percieved "right" answers or something like that.

Or maybe just studying the particular questions, looking for the ones that are hardest to 'give the answers that we think they want' ?

[bpesta22]

I am pretty sure he's almost done running subjects and whoever here wanted to do it, did. I know he was very much interested in getting military people to do the study, but did not want to advertise that.

Case, are you a vet?

Thanks again fer doing it!