Would you be interested in doing the Divergent Association Task?

I scored 85.76 with these words: spoon, cabbage, star, computer, table, god, tarpaulin, spoon. Three other words of mine were not used.

84,34
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Also three words were not used (hydera crane microphone).

@flutherother I think you confused it with your two spoons :-)

Geez, I got 66.31

I got a 82.98 using the words land, temper, clock, soda, captain, age and justice
I took it a second time, knowing that only the first 7 words count and changing some of the words. I got 86.94 with the words land, clock, soda, temper, mosquito, tango and justice.

I got 65 with dog, tree, home, etc… I haven’t had my coffee yet so not shocked.

I got 92.15 with

parsley
fortitude
vertigo
fanfare
infotainment
magenta
sovereign

But I think I cheated, because I believe I did this test (or one like it) a few years ago.

Okay.

I’m a bored princess – 90.19.

Now where’s my freaking tiara?

92.35

Mountain
Transistor
Necktie
Tornado
Mattress
Sedge
Galaxy

Damn you, @Savvy.

84.46 with cup speaker paper coyote ocean pill sandwich

I think I focused too much on objects

84.86, but I didn’t make note of the words.

“Your score is 90.14, higher than 96.54% of the people who have completed this task”

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They didn’t count hair, watermelon, or constancy.

Is that like doing “The Monkey?”

Want to see who can get the lowest score? Spoon, fork, knife type choices.

If I try that, though, I’ll opt out of adding the data to their study. That would just be messing with them, not very nice.

@kneesox I tried that! :P

Your score is 21.34, higher than 0.0% of the people who have completed this task.

Ok, now I have to do it.

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Bah. You beat me by a lot, @raum.

“Your score is 38.27, higher than 0.0% of the people who have completed this task”

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Still—higher than 0.0%. I wonder where the line is where it goes to 0.1%.

I tried a few different combinations. The best I could do was 93.76 points with words
tattoo, pedigree, tetrahedron, conjugation, comet, tarpaulin and piano

My best score thus far is 91.66. The words were: spigot, monstrosity, pectoral, ambergris, helicopter, piston, test.

I managed to get 100.41 with:

• village,
• voltage,
• parody,
• arachnophobia,
• cheque,
• forager,
• parsec.

That’s without stealing words from anyone else. Replacing “parody” with @longgone‘s “infotainment,” however, brings the score up to 100.67.

81.46

Baby, hill, water, pressure, atrocity, company, dragon.

@raum @kneesox a game of who can get the lowest score is nice!

Let’s see @SavoirFaire do it.

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This is even worse. What am I doing wrong?

“Your score is 63.85, higher than 1.71% of the people who have completed this task”

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@kneesox I’m quasi-cheating on the grammatical technicality that colors and numbers can be nouns. :P

21.34
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink.

14.9
One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven.

@kneesox Without grammatical technicalities, I only beat you by a little. :)

36.26
Shoes, socks, pants, shorts, skirt, shirt and dress.

Bicycle
Land
Parsley
Mountain
Salt
Village
Baby
Red
Medaille
Temper

I chose the above words at random from the words others in this thread had already chosen. I thought that would give a good score but I only got 74.24 which I thought was interesting.

@raum That is an error, in my test I chose the word spoon only once.

There really should be a test on how one can think of words that are as related to each other as possible :P

Ok, so I tried trolling the test and inputting my Revolutionary War knowledge into it.

Unit, battalion, squad, platoon, company, regiment, brigade.

And 56.81%

Apparently I’m still too creative :D

Tea, anger, unfairness, tax, musket, ship, massacre.

And 84.91, an improvement!

I think I found a loophole here. I was actively trying to be uncreative as possible and became more creative instead ~

This low-score game is turning out to be a challenge. Looks like even 40 is higher than 0%.

“Your score is 40.05, higher than 0.0% of the people who have completed this task”

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@flutherother Oh, interesting. Wonder if we could use our best words to make an uber-Fluther answer? :P

@Mimishu1995 I think most tests ask for you to think of related items. That’s what I find so interesting about this task, that it’s the total opposite of what I’m used to seeing.

It’s hard to rein in the creativity. ~ :P

@SavoirFaire I managed to get 101.83 with:

• analyst
• succotash
• ravine
• telepathy
• logo
• filibuster
• alloy

I wonder what the highest score is (that’s not from a computer algorithm.)?

Your score is 88.52, higher than 94.23% of the people who have completed this task

Microcosm
Andrioid
Nebula
Tequila
Eyebrows
Succulent
Skeleton
Biography
Frenulum
Fish

I played around with it a little more and managed to get up to 102.95 with:

• president,
• succotash,
• eruption,
• telekinesis,
• cheque,
• sidebar,
• alloy.

P.S. My wife beat all of our first tries with a 95.86. Her words were: celery, hydraulics, quest, quark, contusion, chair, visibility.

@raum The highest score they’ve seen so far is 109.5, so we still have some room for improvement.

Uber-Fluther answer for the win!

Your wife beat my first and second tries. :P

The first time I took it was at 2:33am.
I got 92.76 with:

• asteroid
• mite
• couplet
• tourmaline
• flier
• stilts
• whistle

I took it again when I woke up and got 94.89 with:

• trolley
• putty
• amethyst
• hiccup
• vaccine
• pirouette
• priest

Which was curious to me, since I’ve always thought I was at my most creative at night. So much for that notion.

The 109.5 score was achieved with a computer algorithm. I think we have room for improvement for sure. But something lower than 109.5?

I managed to bring the score up to 103.12 by replacing “eruption” (which was the lowest performer) with “forager” (which is still the lowest performer, so I’m sure we can find a good replacement).

@raum Yeah, my wife basically runs any table she chooses to show up at. If she wanted to spend a night on this, she’d probably hit 105 in the time it took me to break 100. I didn’t realize the 109.5 was from a computer algorithm. Still something to strive for, though!

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Cliff Huxtable and @SavoirFaire

LOL Oh, good lord. Where is the editing button? That sounds like I’m saying Cliff Huxtable is saying that to @SavoirFaire. I meant both saying that to their respective partners. hahahhahaa

I knew what you meant! In any case, there’s a reason this was one of my top answers for a long time.

Also, she’s currently trying “joke” lists—like all rhyming words—and still getting relatively high scores.

Awww…I love that.

I did that too! And lists that all start with the same letter. :P

@raum yeah, but the problem is that I got higher score when I didn’t actively trying to make things unrelated.

Did you get the reference of my last choices of words? :D

Possibly. But since I don’t have a clue what it is, and I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed anyway, I think I’ll pass.

@Nomore_lockout Click the link in the OP. It brings you to the task and gives you instructions on how to complete it.

86.2 Not to shabby I suppose.

@Nomore_lockout Wow you are better than me!

89.98

Radio
Canyon
Palette
Cheese
Penny
Novel
Roundabout

@Mimishu1995 Yes! Your creativity just comes out, even if you’re not trying. :P

@Nomore_lockout Not too shabby! :D
Apparently I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. Because it took me three tries to properly type your username. Ha!

@Kardamom Only one food-related word! I’m a little shocked. :P

@Mimishu1995 Don’t beat yourself up, I got lucky. English is a second language for you, so you’re still tops. More smarts in your index finger than I have in my entire head. : )

@raum Yeah, not too shabby to.

@Mimishu1995 Yeah, pretty impressive considering it’s your second language.

@Mimishu1995, I did. The Boston Tea Party.

I finally beat the low score! I managed a 6.2 with three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.

I guess “one” and “two” are more creative?

How interesting!

Maybe because one and two are more commonly used in other context, so are less exclusively connected to 3–9?
[scratches head]

Hey! They changed the layout of the graph. Kind of miss the grid. Though appreciate they added another option under gender pull-down menu.

I decided to take a stab at this today and managed to get up to 103.35 with:

• president,
• succotash,
• rapscallion
• telekinesis,
• billion,
• sidebar,
• alloy.

@raum I also miss the grid. I get that this is technically more efficient, but the grid is more accessible.

Whoa! Rapscallion is fun. :)

It’s the only word out of almost two dozen that outperformed “forager.” To get higher than 103.35, I think I’d have to start over with new words. This seems to be as far as I can go by tweaking the current set.

Maybe I’ll start with rapscallion and see where I can go from there.

So much easier to tweak an existing list with the grid. :/