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IQ Test (You don't *have to post)
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Obviously no correlation between IQ and common sense. Pointless and now-deleted bickering ruined this thread for others so I've cleaned it up instead of closing it.
Aww, but the tit-for-tat was so fun to watch! But I know that deleting it is probably in the best interest of the forum. So I begrudgingly acknowledge you did the right thing. Shucks. Now I'm gonna have to look elsewhere to find a good flame war to watch!
Just done this one and got this result
I did that one and got 124 (compared to 146 in the OP's test). This one is definitely a better IQ test than the original, though quite what a knowledge of WWII/American authors has to do with IQ I will never know.
135 on the OP's test, and I was half asleep and put in 99 as my age.
Quite similar to a formal test for adults I did many years ago when I was 14. The OP's test is rubbish however, as it relies above all on skilled English reading skills.
My partner is more intelligent than me, (she's a skilled manager and runs a theatre company) but she would fail miserably as the education system didn't believe in educating deaf people in her time, so she left school almost unable to read.
I scored 124 on the second test (the High IQ society) which is more believable as I'm not at my best. Some of the questions on there were highly inappropriate such as asking me about the OSS - what's that? Automatic fail for all non-US people. Many of the other questions were also highly dependent on your level of education.
Many IQ tests seem to be mainly about measuring your reading skills, your exposure to formal systems of education, and the amount of training the school gave you in solving abstract problems.
None of which correlates to IQ for people who didn't go through the same education system as the test devisers.
Quite similar to a formal test for adults I did many years ago when I was 14. The OP's test is rubbish however, as it relies above all on skilled English reading skills.
My partner is more intelligent than me, (she's a skilled manager and runs a theatre company) but she would fail miserably as the education system didn't believe in educating deaf people in her time, so she left school almost unable to read.
I scored 124 on the second test (the High IQ society) which is more believable as I'm not at my best. Some of the questions on there were highly inappropriate such as asking me about the OSS - what's that? Automatic fail for all non-US people. Many of the other questions were also highly dependent on your level of education.
Many IQ tests seem to be mainly about measuring your reading skills, your exposure to formal systems of education, and the amount of training the school gave you in solving abstract problems.
None of which correlates to IQ for people who didn't go through the same education system as the test devisers.
Heh, that's uncanny, but I still think that SAT scores have way more to do with studying than with IQ. As a side note, when I looked at that chart on the basis of my "real" IQ score, I underperformed on the SAT by 30 points, despite studying like crazy. So I'm either actually really stupid, the confidence interval is reasonably wide, or IQ and SAT score are merely correlative. I go with door #1.
I Photoshopped my 216 score on that test as well.
Seriously - I just posted the test for posterity's sake. I realize the questions are lame. Hey, it's something to do, right?
Well, not necessarily. I'm sure there are plenty of people in Europe that know what it is. It's probably unknown to many in the U.S. anyway.
