"I'd like to hire a Swedish PhD to sit down and do this test, he would get 1 or 2 out of 9"
Wouldn't that be the expected result? A PhD is probably not the best suited person for a career in military.
There are plenty of PhDs in a uniform and they do just fine. I've worked with a few of them.
So I'm a Swedish PhD (who did actually do their pre-computerized tests 19 years ago), and I got a "below average" with I think 3 out of the 9. I would probably have gotten one or two more if I'd actually paid attention but since the load times were so long I sometimes missed the instructions (notably the colors where I also got 0/16).
The test I did 19 years ago also did have some of these "psychological" aspects to see how you reacted to impossible tasks, etc.
Things that bug me about this test: Q 10 - not enough time to evaluate each group so you auto fail, but upon redoing it and only choosing one without checking every group out I'm told I failed because I didn't check out every group. Autofail, unless you have reflexes like a cat.
Q 8 I purposely got 2/3 both times I took the test. Once the test was over, I rated the first time as under average and the second time as over average. Both times I was told that I misjudged my abilities. Which is it?
Q 4 The first time I did this test I thought she asked to look at the tape, as in the background color, so I got 0 out of 16 which put me in the bottom 10 percent (I'm not alone!) The second time I did it I got 16 / 16 with little time elapsed and only received top 22 percent. Ya right. Something fishy is going on here.
Q 2 the physics were ridiculous (too much energy lost to wind resistance, not enough energy lost due to elastic deformation) and the aligning of the paddles was annoying.
Q 1 stupid question. "save two people, also here is some useless information" ... "HAHA, you only saved 2, you could have saved 4"
After redoing the test and getting every question except for the ball one, the telephone one, and the group one right I still get "below average" Hahahahaha. Right. I'd like to hire a Swedish PhD to sit down and do this test, he would get 1 or 2 out of 9 (the racial ethnicity question doesn't count). The accent of the woman giving the test is unbearable and the little clues like "Memorize" written on the wall are no help at all due to all the visual noise.