>>13226340Maybe, when I started doing these Raven matrices logic puzzles I had problems with identifying simple patterns (they are all simple, they all rely on simple addition, subtractions, parts moving clockwise or counterclockwise, merging parts and so on) also the name "Progressive matrices" for me suggests that in 3x3 grid each 'thing' is a part of sequence and the changes that occur to these 'things' progress left to right and top to bottom.
So in a 3x3 square
123
456
789*
Or
123
123
123*
(3 separate transformarions on the same principles where last item of last transformation is left for you to choose)
Which is often not the case with "IQ test" type matrices, they can go diagonaly, top to bottom, they may even as a whole form an image etc. We could argue that one's ability to identify that the pattern is going diagonally not horizontally is a sign of higher intelligence. But there are people (myself included) that thought every question is a set of 3 transformations A-B-C, first two are examples and the last one is just A-B- and one must fill in the appropriate C.
Idk some of these iq tests leave you without explaining the rules of the game, which is "every solutions is simple, every pattern is simple" many people try to find some esoteric high level math genius logic solutions so they miss these very simple but somewhat hidden patterns, and of course if you try hard enough you could find many different possible solutions, for example in 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, x the x could be both 21 and 12, 21 because each number is the sum of two preceding numbers but also 12 because each number is the sum of the digits of two preceding numbers, and you could find many more numbers that could work just as good. It is not an intelligence thing, it's not a midwit cope, some people just have a personality type that makes them think "if I don't instantly know then it must be extremely complicated and hard to solve". So idk, "think simple" is what I learned from these logic puzzles
