What's Been and What's Ben

I came up with an intelligence test which I call the Frevert Intelligence Test (FIT) because I don’t think any of the 500 Freverts have come up with one. This test is based not on asking if you know something, but demonstrating what you can do with what you know. There is no correct answer. It is a form of a personality test, but I came up with it when I was thinking of a good way to prevent hiring an incompetent idiot. It heavily favors creative people.

The test is simply two dots on a sheet of paper with a short instruction at the top:
“Connect the dots without taking your writing implement off the table. You have twenty minutes and can’t leave early.”

Perhaps applicants will connect the dots and sit there for twenty minutes, make a drawing, fold in the corner so your pen can move there to then move to a new location (see video for explanation), fold the paper in half (connecting the two dots without ink), and connecting the dots and walking out.

You can download a PDF of the Frevert Intelligence Test.