Analogy Help

Factual Questions
21

Alright, shaddap you. :stuck_out_tongue:

22

Thanks for all the feedback so far. Supposedly these were on an online test for applicants of a Public Defender position.

23

Maybe they’re giving you the old “Kobiyashi Maru” treatment. A multiple choice test for which there are no right answers.

24

Or maybe the people really are too ignorant and lump frogs with dinosaurs as reptiles, and mouse and whales as mammals, so the real test is whether you want to work for /spend time with people who dream up such silly questions?

25

Bingo.

  1. passive:completion::active

a. inertia
b. energy
c. peanut butter
d. corvette

Passive=3 vowels, Completion=4 vowels

Active=3 vowels, inertia = only choice with 4 vowels.

Choices have 2,3,4 & 5 vowels. (unless you count the y as a vowel in energy, but it still doesn’t give 4)

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That’s where my money is. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt, the frog/dinosaur question is exteremly poorly written, since we have several possible answers (none of them very satisfactory). Given this, it’s pretty certain that the passive/completion question is also merely stupid, instead of being hyper-clever.

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Here’s my take on it, which will just add to the confusion.
All the animals mentioned in question 1 are verterbrates.
Verterbrates have 5 classifications:

  1. fish
  2. amphibians
  3. reptiles
  4. birds
  5. mammals

The rank is based on how highly developed each class is (fish being lowest and mammals being highest).
So, to me “frog is to dinosaur as whale is to” translates numerically as “2 is to 3 as 5 is to”? (Okay, here’s where I’m really stretching this analogy.) The answer should then be bird (or 4). Frog and dinosaur are 2 adjacent verterbrate classifications as well as a whale and a bird. Only trouble is, the second half of that analogy works backwards as if you were saying 2 is to 3 as 5 is to 4.
So, it is tenuous at best but still, if you had an analogy that asked:
2 is to 3 as 5 is to:? and 6 is not one of your answers but 4 is, doesn’t that seem as if it would be a correct answer? (Yeah I know, that’s really pushing things isn’t it?)

Oh and I think the answer to question 2 is inertia.