Poll: What's your IQ
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Everyone on here is a gamer and everyone has had the choice to take the test or not.Kailat777 said:
Such a biased sample could well produce such a result.
Of course the test quite likely has added a few points onto everyone's score but, nevertheless, the bias of the scores on here does not prove that the test is biased.
[http://www.free-iqtest.net]
Honestly, one of the easiest IQ-tests I've made, completed it in uder 4 minutes and had no patience for those silly anagrams.
A joke, really. From a slightly more realiable test, standardizised one they use at the entrance exam for Mensa, I got 141. If this particular test was standardized to give the average of 100, then it was done on the basis of extremely small sample group. My little cousin, who happens to be 12, could have answered every single question there if given a dozen or so minutes to think of them. And he doesn't even speak english all that well, having studied it only for 4 years.
And even that number from the Mensa tells almost nothing. Sure, It says I have decent spatial imagining skills and can see patterns in images and numerical series but it tells nothing of my ability to apply those skills or even use them on everyday situations.
That is why, when someone asks me for my IQ, I usually refuse to answer. If it is my potential boss, I re-evaluate if I wish to work under him/her after giving said answer or completing the test given to me.
Honestly, one of the easiest IQ-tests I've made, completed it in uder 4 minutes and had no patience for those silly anagrams.
A joke, really. From a slightly more realiable test, standardizised one they use at the entrance exam for Mensa, I got 141. If this particular test was standardized to give the average of 100, then it was done on the basis of extremely small sample group. My little cousin, who happens to be 12, could have answered every single question there if given a dozen or so minutes to think of them. And he doesn't even speak english all that well, having studied it only for 4 years.
And even that number from the Mensa tells almost nothing. Sure, It says I have decent spatial imagining skills and can see patterns in images and numerical series but it tells nothing of my ability to apply those skills or even use them on everyday situations.
That is why, when someone asks me for my IQ, I usually refuse to answer. If it is my potential boss, I re-evaluate if I wish to work under him/her after giving said answer or completing the test given to me.
IQ Score [http://www.free-iqtest.net]
Pretty good for someone whos DRUNK
I got 139 on the MENSA test
Pretty good for someone whos DRUNK
I got 139 on the MENSA test
I got a 130 something last time I checked, granted that was a year ago... anyway genius-near genius
Web of Trust and Norton SafeWeb report that that side is highly unsafe. Not to mention it requires quite a lot of personal details which certain idiots might get said details stolen.
Personally, IQ tests are a load of rubbish.
Personally, IQ tests are a load of rubbish.
Yeah that was kind of a tardass move on my part... I had just got the phone. But there was no easy way to stop it.Rascarin said:
Because high school is essentially 80% worthless, if not higher. You are taught garbage you will never use and gradually forget over time, which is my qualm with the schooling curriculum.NeedAUserName said:
IQ Score [http://www.free-iqtest.net]
The test was painfully easy. Plus all of the advertisements afterwards dissuaded me from believing that it actually gave real information.
The test was painfully easy. Plus all of the advertisements afterwards dissuaded me from believing that it actually gave real information.
The IQ tests that I've taken have never really given me a formal number for the whole thing. Usually it puts me in the 90-95%, though. What that means in terms of this poll is beyond me.
I've been questioning the accuracy of IQ tests a lot recently. If you think about it, questions where you didn't actually know the answer, but just guessed at it are given the same number of "points" as a question you did know the answer to. A more accurate representation of IQ tests would require two questions to evaluate your specific level of knowledge or ability to comprehend. The first would have the be a general question(2x+3=13 solve for X as an example) and the second question would have the gauge how sure you are of the answer of the first question. This would determine if you're just a good guesser or you actually know what they're asking. It also shows a fundamental understanding of the meaning behind the question(if you can solve for X in this example), which goes much further in explaining the particular dynamics of your IQ. Since I've never found a test that actually takes these concepts into account, I don't care about them.
I've been questioning the accuracy of IQ tests a lot recently. If you think about it, questions where you didn't actually know the answer, but just guessed at it are given the same number of "points" as a question you did know the answer to. A more accurate representation of IQ tests would require two questions to evaluate your specific level of knowledge or ability to comprehend. The first would have the be a general question(2x+3=13 solve for X as an example) and the second question would have the gauge how sure you are of the answer of the first question. This would determine if you're just a good guesser or you actually know what they're asking. It also shows a fundamental understanding of the meaning behind the question(if you can solve for X in this example), which goes much further in explaining the particular dynamics of your IQ. Since I've never found a test that actually takes these concepts into account, I don't care about them.
Hmm... Every time I take an IQ test, i get the same result: 118.
But IQ Tests mean nothing, so it's all OK!
But IQ Tests mean nothing, so it's all OK!
The point of the 7 intelligences is to question the definition we have long held of intelligence, which is the one you have presented there. The definition the 7 intelligences presents is far more complex than "The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience."Kubanator said:
The point of my comment was to show that IQ tests don't measure all 7 intelligences and therefore cannot completely measure your intelligence. It measures two parts of your intelligence and should be recognized to do only that.
I agree. IQ tests measure what they are intended to, which is only two parts of an individuals intelligence. I'm saying that relating an IQ score to your overall intelligence is simply wrong. It's the idea that we as a society claim that your IQ score is your level of intelligence in all activities, when that is not at all the case.Maze1125 said:
It's a critique on the thought process we go through when looking at an IQ score, not on what they are testing for.
p.s. It should be said that the original bold faced comment in my original post was meant as a joke. It seems it didn't come off that way for some of the more irritable people of the escapist.