How smart are you?

[Tekkawarrior]

Got 14 but I realized some answers where wrong after clicking from panic.
If I had one more second for each I'd do alright I think.

 

[Mechsoap]

most these questions seems to be aimed at the inhabitants of the U.S.

why do people keep saying this? why would Americans know better what language a roman scholar spoke, or what language is spoken in Brazil or Pakistan? Are Americans better at doing math quickly in their heads? Is knowing who the first and only world leader to ever authorize the use of an atomic bomb esoteric knowlege? Did everyone outside of the U.S. forget when WWII happened? Is it just the Obama one and the pop culture one? The Obama one has been all over the news and interwebs lately, and im pretty sure they have both of those outside of the U.S. I didnt have a clue on the pop culture one, but i may be the exception there. Oh and i'v shared a pizza with a muslim before, but i doubt that means that only Americans know what muslims dont eat.

i was more reffering to the historical questions asked about America, and locations.

 

[loc978]

24... but that was ridiculous. Car commercial slogans? Popular music song titles? Seriously?
Oh, and a warning to anyone not from the US: this is yet another one biased against you.

Really it is? Because Mitsubishi is of course a US company, and world war II was fought completely inside the US by US troops only right?

The test is far less biased then you are implying. I can think of only two questions that where biased towards people in the US and these deal with wildly popular icons. There where many more questions that would be far easier if you lived outside the US.

...the only thing about Mitsubishi in there was an ad slogan in english. I don't know if that's biased for any particular country (certainly not Japan. Very few folks there recognize the english slogans that companies stick beneath their kanji/kana slogans), but it's not something that an American would find obscure. World War II is only biased toward nations that were involved in it (and yes, it's drilled into the skulls of kids from the US, UK, Germany, Japan, et al), and the only question regarding it asks what years it took place in. Easy and almost country-neutral.
But the distance between any two US cities, even icons such as New York and LA... measured in miles? Seriously, I've never seen the old Standard system used overseas by anyone not from the US... and I've been around the world a couple times.

Exactly, there are a few questions that are biased towards the US, but there are just as many that are biased towards other countries.

lol wut? I just kinda rebuked that point.
but whatever, not worth arguing about.

 

[rokkolpo]

19 I think many Americans here will do better.

 

[SaturdayS]

Data regurgitation does not adequately represent intelligence. That being said I only got 17.

 

[Ampersand]

First, this is not an inteligence test.
Second, there is no such thing as an intelligence test. You're aptitude for one specific task can be measured, but your over all intelligence can't.

 

[manaman]

24... but that was ridiculous. Car commercial slogans? Popular music song titles? Seriously?
Oh, and a warning to anyone not from the US: this is yet another one biased against you.

Really it is? Because Mitsubishi is of course a US company, and world war II was fought completely inside the US by US troops only right?

The test is far less biased then you are implying. I can think of only two questions that where biased towards people in the US and these deal with wildly popular icons. There where many more questions that would be far easier if you lived outside the US.

...the only thing about Mitsubishi in there was an ad slogan in english. I don't know if that's biased for any particular country (certainly not Japan. Very few folks there recognize the english slogans that companies stick beneath their kanji/kana slogans), but it's not something that an American would find obscure. World War II is only biased toward nations that were involved in it (and yes, it's drilled into the skulls of kids from the US, UK, Germany, Japan, et al), and the only question regarding it asks what years it took place in. Easy and almost country-neutral.
But the distance between any two US cities, even icons such as New York and LA... measured in miles? Seriously, I've never seen the old Standard system used overseas by anyone not from the US... and I've been around the world a couple times.

Exactly, there are a few questions that are biased towards the US, but there are just as many that are biased towards other countries.

lol wut? I just kinda rebuked that point.
but whatever, not worth arguing about.

Really the test is only biased towards the western world, and not any specific country. Seeing how that is their target audience for this test it's not much of a failure on their part. Sure there are a few questions that are easier if you are from the US, but there are a few that are easier if you are not. I doubt this argument would be coming up if they asked the amount of kilometers between London and Cardiff, and a question about the Beatles - giving the test more of an UK slant then US. Still the question about the distance from New York to LA is realistically the only biased question there. Seeing how the miles measurement is pretty much only used mainly by the US.

 

[Whitenail]

My score was 20 so apparently I'm smart.

Then again I've always thought of intelligence as being somewhat subjective.

Intelligence isn't subjective. An artistic genius will do just as well as a math genius on a proper IQ test because both exhibit excellent analysis and problem solving skills.

True, but someone who holds a multitude of degrees in history is bound to get a low score on an IQ test and some renowned nuclear physicists can barely tie their shoes.

Personally I don't much care for IQ testing, it's always struck me more as a basic assessment of skills and logical thinking rather than a "what do you know?" test, but like I said it's open to interpretation.

 

[the fake]

hooray for 24!

 

[Skorpyo]

I refuse to believe that pop-culture references have anything to do with intelligence.

But, I got 21.

 

[RatRace123]

I got 18, I'm stoopid.
I don't test well under pressure, nor am I any good at geography.

 

[archvile93]

I don't think that test is very valid. And before you say I'm just saying that because it said I'm dumb, I got 21.