I realize that I didn’t grow up in Lake Wobegone, where all the children are above average, but I was expecting to get at least an average score. I can blame my old computer or the bad speakers or the ambient drone of the furnace blower or the persistent tinnitus in my ears. It could also be too much cheap beer and late night TV. That makes me feel better.
Okok…so I took it again just now, at my quiet office. 88.9% Only marginally better. Maybe that means that due to the session environment, i’m really good at blocking out distraction? 
Even so, 88.9% is in the 93rd percentile, so I’m not ashamed of it. 
Darn, first time I got 86.1%, and second time 94.4%, but I’m still not certain what I did get better the second time, I think the second time was mainly luck.
I just tried it for the first time, using the tiny built-in speakers on my laptop.
88.9% Correct (93rd Percentile)
In every case I “failed”, it was a set they said was the same, but I heard a slight difference. I’d like to know how they define “same”.
Slude–I had the same problem with a few of the pairs, but since I was “wrong” I’ve had to attribute to things like maybe I focused on the bass note of the chord more the second time so it seemed different.
Aren’t they computer generated tones after all, and therefore completely reproducible?
But how can you know where you “failed” ? I mean, you only get the result at the end, don’t you?
88.9% for me too. I found the experience seriously humbling, as so many experiences of mine seem to be!
Carol
nope..up at the upper right is an arrow and “next”..i missed i the first time around too. It will show you where you stand compared to the other people who took the test, which ones you missed, etc, and let you listen to them over and over.
Around 68% below average.
I did horrible when I tried it again this morning. I hadn’t known you could see the results each time. I think it clouded my hearing.
I must have been in another world the first time because I can’t seem to duplicate that feat.
OK, I did it again and got 86.1%. On all my errors, I thought a “same” was “different.” I listened several times to the errors and can clearly hear what I thought that was different.
It’s not clear to me what was being tested. Is it the tone? Or is it whether the phrase is exactly the same? Because those were not the same–there was an intensity difference, or a different-instrument kind of difference, or something.
Heh. It’s probably testing something totally unrelated to music.
Yes, yes! That’s what I meant. Like they a gave certain tones greater emphasis the second time.
This is the reason that “true and false” questions are not good test questions. Some “test-takers” see things differently than the “test-writers”, and, naturally, they often do poorly because they perceive relationships and nuances that the writers of the test didn’t think about when they were writing the questions. With regard to two audio passages, do you mean “the same sequence of notes” or “exactly the same”, and are we comparing only pitch, or are rhythm, sound quality and intensity also included in the domain of sameness? Actually, these are only excuses for why I did poorly on the test. 
Yes. On a first grade placement test one question involved black&white line drawings of 3 dogs–a boxer, a retriever, and an afghan. My highly competitive sister griped mightily, even at age 6, that this question had been marked wrong on her test. The question? Which dog has the shortest hair? Well, it was obvious from the line drawing that the boxer had no hair at all, so the answer, she reasoned, must be the retriever.