{"id":634,"date":"2010-02-05T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/02\/whats_your_risk_intelligence_q\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:03:20","slug":"whats-your-risk-intelligence-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/02\/whats-your-risk-intelligence-q\/","title":{"rendered":"what’s your ‘risk intelligence quotient’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Risk intelligence quotient’ (RQ) – something I’d heard about but never really thought about until I read one of PZ’s posts<\/a> today. (Where on earth does he find the time<\/i> to write so much???) Turns out that RQ is the subject of a private research project<\/a> that hopes to assess levels of risk intelligence in the general population.<\/p>\n

Risk intelligence quotient is described by the project’s authors as a measure of a person’s ability to estimate probabilities accurately<\/i> – those with a high RQ are better at this task. (They comment that high RQ seems to have been low or missing in action in many lenders & borrowers on the world financial stage in recent times – how true!)<\/p>\n

Anyway, they offer a test<\/a> that you can take to get an estimate of your own RQ. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the answer to some of the questions (I will confess that I didn’t know many of them, myself). What you’re asked to do is give an indication of how certain you are <\/i>that a given statement is true or false. Takes about 5 minutes to complete & you can then decide whether you want your answers to become part of the larger data set.<\/p>\n

I can be fairly sure that my RQ is 73… what’s yours?<\/p>\n

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PS yes, there are some ambiguous questions there & it’s definitely US-centric – but those were the ones where I was most likely to pick 50% & cover all my bases that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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