Intellectual Decathlon is a 1984 computer game for the Apple II. It pits one player's intelligence (as stated by the Author) against another's, both on the same computer. It contains no trivia, no actual knowledge needed, only intelligence (as stated by the Author). In a way it is an IQ competition (stated by the Author).
Intellectual Decathlon was written by Gabor Laufer, M.D.
Not in any scientific fashion, but the game is made of ten different ...
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Intellectual Decathlon is a 1984 computer game for the Apple II. It pits one player's intelligence (as stated by the Author) against another's, both on the same computer. It contains no trivia, no actual knowledge needed, only intelligence (as stated by the Author). In a way it is an IQ competition (stated by the Author).
Intellectual Decathlon was written by Gabor Laufer, M.D.
Not in any scientific fashion, but the game is made of ten different events (sub-games) which tests ten different aspects of the human intelligence (as stated by the Author). The more intelligent a person is, the more likely to score higher (as stated by the Author). The score is structured like in the real Olympic decathlon, with about the same range too. The scores of the individual ten events are added up and the final score is the total of the ten individual events.
All ten events are randomly generated/presented every single time one plays the game, thus it is not possible to learn it, as far as learning...
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