Video: How quickly can you solve this problem? Intelligence Test – The Cup and Water Problem

How quickly can you solve this problem? Questions like this, don’t often show up on IQ tests, but perhaps they should, as they demonstrate how stingy the brain is when it comes to allotting cognitive resources to problems that it thinks are not important. If the brain is tripped up this easily, then how should we measure IQ and intelligence? Very intelligent people with a high IQ often get this type of question wrong. So what does IQ measure?