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There is a type of problem called a Bongard problem, where participants are required to find the rule distinguishing images on the left from images on the right. There is an index of Bongard problems (and a nice explanation) here [1]

Bp's skirt the line betwen well defined and ill defined questions: there is no general rule you can follow to always solve it, but the answer can be trivially checked. I'm sure there is data on whether the ability to solve BPs is correlated with IQ, I assume so. It would be interesting if it was not, or only weakly.

[1] https://www.foundalis.com/res/diss_research.html



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