Any thoughts on this “which one is least like the other” question: Horse - Zebra - Deer - Moose - Eland?
I picked eland, because it’s the only one that’s not either equus or cervidae, but it’s a pretty stupid question. I suspect it might be zebra because it’s the only one with stripes.
Or horse, because it’s the only domesticated one.
It’s a classic example of a stupid “IQ” question, which in actuality only determines how likely you are to respond in a fashion similar to the group the test maker considers to be more intelligent.
I went with Horse for your reasoning, except I did it knowing that deer farms exist. My BIL has a mountain property next to a large deer farm in Upstate NY.
I had no better answer. I thought the Eland was another animal in the Deer & Moose family.
Jim
Thanks. Domestication seems like the most likely “survey says” answer.
I got a 131. I struggled with the algebra-type questions as I haven’t used that knowledge in years; it seems odd that my IQ would decrease as I remember less and less of grade school. 
In all seriousness, though, it was a pretty stupid test. A lot of the questions were bad - trivia, vocabulary, and that sort of thing.
I picked Eland at that point because “Eland is the only animal that I don’t know WTF it is.” 
And, to further illustrate just how lame these sorts of questions are: Deer is a perfectly valid answer: it’s the only one with only 4 letters; the others all have 5. Since the question was simply “Which one of the following five is least like the other four?”, and not “which of these five animals is least like the others?”, there are numerous “correct” ways to answer the question.
I chose ‘deer’ because it is the least specific as far as classification goes. I think there are species of horse, zebra, and moose, but there are families of deer.
Eland, I have no idea.
I chose deer for that very reason. I couldn’t think of a commonality among four of the animals that the fifth one didn’t share, so I took a step back and looked at the words themselves. It felt gimmicky, though, hence my question.
There’s only one extant species of horse (and lots of relatively well-known extinct ones), but three extant species of zebra (and zebras and horses are in the same genus). One species of moose, which is really an elk, but 5 recognized subspecies. There are two species of eland. So really, none of them are terribly specific, taxonomically speaking.
I chose horse, because it is the only domesticated animal in the group.
Deer was the answer; I went back and checked it, and my score improved. The first time I took the test, I said eland because I didn’t know what it was, so it might be different. I took the test a second time for kicks, and said zebra because it has stripes. Also I was thinking it might be horse because horses are domesticated.
I confirmed my childhood IQ test by reading my high school administration score upside down in an open folder on my guidance counselor’s desk. In that era, this sort of test could be administered by a person with a master’s degree. There was a cut-off for going into a particular science class.
I don’t know which IQ test I took as a teenager. I’m pretty sure it was the Stanford-Binet as a kid, and I know it wasn’t the WAIS. I do remember that I contested one of the answers, and wrote a letter to the test publisher. I did not receive a reply.
Counselor, psychologist…whichever. Even so, I would think it’s not the sort of thing they’d hand out to a teacher. If you wanted to know Billy’s IQ, you’d probably have to look up Billy’s file, not consult some teacher’s “IQs of Students in My Class” list.
I did not see them, however the scores reported were all within an expected range of IQ scores, and I can’t imagine what else it would be. This was in 1965, when our current notions of privacy didn’t exist. When I was in grad school, we posted the scores of the kids in our class by SSN - hardly something you’d do today. And, as I said, the scores were confirmed another year by another person.
For all I know, the column was headed IQ. I wasn’t in the first row, so I didn’t see them.
I am having flashbacks reading these names.
I want my early childhood back.
Careful what you wish for…
I took the WAIS in high school. It was administered by a psychologist sent in by the school district, along with some other tests. I’m pretty sure my guidance counselor was trying to make sure my “dark and moody” phase hadn’t slid into “homicidal.”
I’m not sure if they told me outright what my score was, or if that was among the numbers I gleaned from a quick perusal of my permanent record one day when my counselor left me unattended in her office with it sitting on her desk, open.
Ah. In short, you actually know nothing about them. You are reporting hearsay.
I suggest you were misinformed. Or, as suggested earlier, the scores are a mistake. I’d recommend under the circumstances not being so insistent upon the accuracy of what you are asserting to be true.