Are you smart enough to be an astronaut?

Platapus · 04-15-21, 01:18 PM

Here is a small sampling of the cognitive tests that ESA astronauts are asked during their training.

What's the answer and more importantly, why is that answer correct?

Catfish · 04-15-21, 02:01 PM

B.
B?

Buddahaid · 04-15-21, 05:22 PM

I think B would be the answer because it doesn't match any of the others in arrangement or shading.

Platapus · 04-15-21, 06:31 PM

According to the website, you have to explain why you selected your answer.

Texas Red · 04-15-21, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

Here is a small sampling of the cognitive tests that ESA astronauts are asked during their training.

What's the answer and more importantly, why is that answer correct?

I think I'll just stick to Elite Dangerous and KSP..lol

August · 04-15-21, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

According to the website, you have to explain why you selected your answer.

B. The grid pattern is that the colors stay in the same places but all four shapes have to be different than the grids on either side. Only choice B meets both of those requirements, vertically, horizontally and diagonally.

Reece · 04-15-21, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Are you smart enough to be an astronaut?

No!

vienna · 04-16-21, 01:05 AM

I am certain the answer is "B", but I'm taking the reasoning for the answer to my grave...

Somehow, I think I would have made a very poor astronaut candidate; I have this proclivity to look at a panel of buttons/levers and say, "Hey, I wonder what this one does...?..."...

Empiricism is not a good trait for a task that involves sticking to a set of precisely choreographed actions...

<O>

d@rk51d3 · 04-16-21, 04:56 AM

B

To me, in each box, running left to right, the left hand shapes and the right hand shapes switch side and colours. Then switch back again..... if that makes sense.

But I’m smart enough to not want to be an astronaut.

Catfish · 04-16-21, 05:23 AM

What if it's not your decision.. and the name's not astronauts.

Dowly · 04-16-21, 12:27 PM

B?

The shapes and colors alternate, only B matches horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

Catfish · 04-16-21, 12:52 PM

While i posted it should be 'b', there would be another possibility.

Making the case for 'd' it is the only one that has nothing in common with all others, which is also a solution in itself

Dowly · 04-16-21, 01:34 PM

D was my other candidate before I noticed B lines up diagonally as well. Another thing I noticed just now about B is that all the corners of the center piece supplement the shape and colors it touches outside of it.

i.e. if you put B in the center, the top left shape is black triangle. To the left of it is a light grey triangle, diagonally there's a white triangle and upwards there's a grey triangle. All four colors are touching. This is the same for the other corners of the center B.

So that's four things going for it being B. I think I'm ready to place my bet.

Catfish · 04-16-21, 01:52 PM

Accepted .. was there already a finnish astronaut?

Dowly · 04-16-21, 02:38 PM

Nah, just one with Finnish ancestry; Tim Kopra. (our media of course made a big deal about it, small country issues.)

04-15-21, 01:18 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Are you smart enough to be an astronaut? Here is a small sampling of the cognitive tests that ESA astronauts are asked during their training. What's the answer and more importantly, why is that answer correct? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	B. B? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

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Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	I think B would be the answer because it doesn't match any of the others in arrangement or shading. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

04-15-21, 06:31 PM	#4
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	According to the website, you have to explain why you selected your answer. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-16-21, 01:05 AM	#8
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I am certain the answer is "B", but I'm taking the reasoning for the answer to my grave... Somehow, I think I would have made a very poor astronaut candidate; I have this proclivity to look at a panel of buttons/levers and say, "Hey, I wonder what this one does...?..."... Empiricism is not a good trait for a task that involves sticking to a set of precisely choreographed actions... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

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d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,951 Downloads: 207 Uploads: 0	B To me, in each box, running left to right, the left hand shapes and the right hand shapes switch side and colours. Then switch back again..... if that makes sense. But I’m smart enough to not want to be an astronaut.

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Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	What if it's not your decision.. and the name's not astronauts. __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

04-16-21, 12:27 PM	#11
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	B? The shapes and colors alternate, only B matches horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

04-16-21, 12:52 PM	#12
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	While i posted it should be 'b', there would be another possibility. Making the case for 'd' it is the only one that has nothing in common with all others, which is also a solution in itself __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

04-16-21, 01:34 PM	#13
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	D was my other candidate before I noticed B lines up diagonally as well. Another thing I noticed just now about B is that all the corners of the center piece supplement the shape and colors it touches outside of it. i.e. if you put B in the center, the top left shape is black triangle. To the left of it is a light grey triangle, diagonally there's a white triangle and upwards there's a grey triangle. All four colors are touching. This is the same for the other corners of the center B. So that's four things going for it being B. I think I'm ready to place my bet.

04-16-21, 01:52 PM	#14
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Accepted .. was there already a finnish astronaut? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

04-16-21, 02:38 PM	#15
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Nah, just one with Finnish ancestry; Tim Kopra. (our media of course made a big deal about it, small country issues.)