What you think about this IQ test?

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What you think about this IQ test?
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My Iq is 119

― betons42 (betons42), Thursday, 7 September 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

Too many QUESTIONS!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

That's the worst IQ test I've ever seen. It only provides spatial and logical "questions" - no linguistics at all.

Anyway, there are different types of intelligence, and these tests fail to acknowledge this, by assuming that a smart person must be smart at EVERYTHING.

I refused to enter any answers and got to the end with a measurement of 55!

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago)

I got a 115 - it's a pretty tough test. There were at least four or five where I had NO idea what was going on. I'm not a very visual/spatial person though.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

i got a 98. i'm horrible at spatial logic stuff...a lot of those were really hard.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

I picked random shit and got a 104.

Let's guess the IQ of the person who wrote the FAQ:

What is an IQ?
An Intelligence Quotient indicates a person's mental abilities relative to others of approximately the same age. Everyone has hundreds of specific mental abilities--some can be measured accurately and are reliable predictors of academic and financial success.

Why does my IQ changes?
In the time more an more people are taking the test. So your relative position is changing and so does your IQ.

Who created this test?
This test was created by profesional psychologist. The questions in the test are carefully selected using experience gained in past several working years.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

well as long as he's profesional

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

IQ tests are weird. I took one that was basically all linguistic stuff and got a 178, one that was a mix of that and this kind of shit that I have no patience for and got a 135, and then there's this one where I dicked around and got a 104. Whatever.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

I got 116, but had no clue about a lot of the questions. For comparison, I usually score somewhere around 140.

One of them seemed to be "how does Tetris work?" - I wasn't sure how that links to general IQ.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha I totally thought of Teris on a couple of them.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tetris, guh I'm tired.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:42 (eighteen years ago)

This also reminds me of that Bill Murray part in the Royal Tenenbaums, "Make yours like mine."

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure the correct answer to one *was* reached by following the rules of Tetris. A couple of others were similar, but worked differently.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

there's this one where I dicked around and got a 104.

if you dicked around, of course your result will be lower...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I'll try it seriously tomorrow.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

As a philosophy grad, my indignation rises with geometic/shape patterns in these tests.

I resented the very first question. Just because something forms a consistent pattern doesn't mean it's a logical flow.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

i don't believe in iq.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Neither do I, but I have to declare a conflict of interest here - not believing myself to be particularly intelligent.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Just because something forms a consistent pattern doesn't mean it's a logical flow.

A fan of David Hume?

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

I am actually...Good guess

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

I got 128. Tetris + Rubik cube + crap.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

x-post If you stuck it out with philosophy that requires a lot of intellectual persistence, if not intelligence.

FWIW as declared above, I believe not in these tests either. Every person has their own special skills and they're rarely measurable.

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

i believe in iq. i believe it is a measure of aptitude of certain sections of intelligence. just because it doesn't measure other type of intelligence, doesn't invalidate it. detractors of iq seem to want it to be something it isn't.

the questions in this were annoying, especially the rubiks cube one, i couldnt be bothered. i stumbled to a 124 in the end,

― -- (688), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

detractors of iq seem to want it to be something it isn't.

not so. i don't want it to be anything. i just don't believe in intelligence, really. i definitely don't think it can be measured.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

WHY DOES MY IQ CHANGES?

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Hormones.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Because more an more people are taking the test!

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

130. I just guessed a bunch of them because I got bored (I used to do that in exams when I was at school too - is that a typical Aries trait, I wonder?)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm Gemini and I did the same. Not that I believe in that crap (that's me, cynical Gemini).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

115 between the time of the previous posting and now..

xpost before bob-b-6's "Neither do I"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

so, 20 mins for this test.

I can never be bothered to contemplate these things for too long.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Five points off your IQ for horoscope talk.

I keed.

This test is a great example of what I dislike about IQ tests though - they give you a set of questions with no instructions and assume that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to figure out what to do on your own. But in fact how fast you get them has a lot to do with prior exposure to similar types of tasks and questions - had I not taken other IQ tests before, for example, I wouldn't even get as far as I did.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Practice is key like with most things.
And people also take different amounts of time to solve problems. This does not mean that those who need extra time are thick.

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

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