Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
So all the ones in this test seem to go top to bottom. Again, this is just annoying. If you know that, it gets a lot easier. I feel like if you do them regularly you're much quicker to catch on to rules like that. Same with number sequence tests. You can be really smart but if you've never done one you get completely lost, but you could be really dumb and have someone tell you which sequences are important in these tests and have them score pretty high. At least in the standard IQ tests. The matrix67 one is all noise to me.
Hence why IQ tests aren't a perfect thing. They have lots of biases.

Pattern recognition though is just that it doesn't matter which way it goes the idea is to see the pattern. As much as following patterns like that is useful there are lots of things you can't prepare for and those preparations can also be used to trip you up.