What is your IQ?
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Ah yes, another post your IQ thread - love it when these pop up. Funny how the online average always appears to be a good thirty (or more!) points higher than the real-world average.
I'll also add my name to the "IQ tests are ****" crowd. Skills and knowledge are what count in the real world, not a theoretical ability to acquire them.
I'll also add my name to the "IQ tests are ****" crowd. Skills and knowledge are what count in the real world, not a theoretical ability to acquire them.
I took one a couple of years ago and got 90. Apparently that's bad because it's slightly below the average score 
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Who cares, I'm doing just fine at Uni in Maths/Physics (top half in physics, top 10% in Maths) so evidently me having a below average IQ won't stop my plans of world domination.....uhhhh I mean becoming a boring office employee...yeah.
IQ tests are just a bit of fun, like that DS Brain Training thing or those Mensa puzzle books. It tickles me when everybody takes this stuff so seriously. And that includes all those people who ***** and moan about how bullshit they are.
.Who cares, I'm doing just fine at Uni in Maths/Physics (top half in physics, top 10% in Maths) so evidently me having a below average IQ won't stop my plans of world domination.....uhhhh I mean becoming a boring office employee...yeah.
IQ tests are just a bit of fun, like that DS Brain Training thing or those Mensa puzzle books. It tickles me when everybody takes this stuff so seriously. And that includes all those people who ***** and moan about how bullshit they are.
These topics are always funny, for a variety of reasons.
Reason the first, an online IQ test is, shall we say, prone to significant levels of error. There aren't enough questions, as a rule, to general an accurate number, or a profile at all, for that matter.
Reason the second, it's REMARKABLE how many people magically score in the 99th percentile on these tests whenever the topic comes up. I mean, REALLY remarkable. I mean, if people were really as smart as they claim to be on IQ test forum topics, then BY DEFINITION they wouldn't be in the 99th percentile, because they'd just be slightly above average.
Or, to be more blunt about it, take the majority of the reported scores on topics like these and axe between 30 and 40 points off the number, and you'll probably be closer to the truth.
And finally, even with professionally administered tests, depending on the precise bias of each individual test, your Spearman G-factor IQ score (largely worthless though it may be) will vary by as much as 5-10% in either direction.
Reason the first, an online IQ test is, shall we say, prone to significant levels of error. There aren't enough questions, as a rule, to general an accurate number, or a profile at all, for that matter.
Reason the second, it's REMARKABLE how many people magically score in the 99th percentile on these tests whenever the topic comes up. I mean, REALLY remarkable. I mean, if people were really as smart as they claim to be on IQ test forum topics, then BY DEFINITION they wouldn't be in the 99th percentile, because they'd just be slightly above average.
Or, to be more blunt about it, take the majority of the reported scores on topics like these and axe between 30 and 40 points off the number, and you'll probably be closer to the truth.
And finally, even with professionally administered tests, depending on the precise bias of each individual test, your Spearman G-factor IQ score (largely worthless though it may be) will vary by as much as 5-10% in either direction.
A hundred and eleven, or so an internet quiz told me. I'm going to go ahead and pretend that it's irrelevant. Seeing all the high-scorers here gives me a sense of unease.
I don't think it's that unlikely that the Escapist community has a higher than average IQ. Most of us are young (the brain is still fresh), a lot of us are still in school and get daily brain exercise and we are all gamers which stimulates brain activity compared to watching TV which again a lot of average people do. I'm quite sure we are not smarter than average but it's not far fetched that we are more intelligent or at least better at pattern recognition than average.
Also it's really a bit silly to compare numbers since the scale I was tested on tops at 145 while others go higher.
Also it's really a bit silly to compare numbers since the scale I was tested on tops at 145 while others go higher.
No nothing like that, but when it comes to math, as soon as I have to start thinking about it I stop. Don't know why, but I do. I've never had that problem in Science, English... anything else really, but I hate math, I always have, and I always will.Monkeyman8 said:
Are you sure you don't have dyscalculia? It's as common as dyslexia but few people give it any thought. I'm quite convinced I have it in some form. I'm not good at math though not generally bad with numbers, I have made my own -/+ system to combat have trouble telling left from right and I'm bad at remembering names and faces. All common symptoms of dyscalculia. I have never been tested and I don't know any where I could get tested either. But a lot of people live with it without knowing.Darius Brogan said:
IQ tests are essentially bullshit.AndyFromMonday said:
They still serve some purpose used as an assessment tool but beyond that... they're mostly just a number that people can use to validate their self-worth.
As I've said before in this thread, IQ tests do not determine your intelligence, they determine how good you are at IQ tests just like how exams do not determine how good you are at a subject but how good you are at taking exams.RhombusHatesYou said:
That's true as far as that goes and they certainly don't measure intelligence.AndyFromMonday said:
However, like what the original Binet-Simon test was designed for, they are still somewhat useful as a tool to help identifying learning difficulties or disorders (especially in children). In employment rehab systems (rehabilitating people who have been out the workforce for extended periods of time due to medical reasons to help them re-enter employment), along with aptitude tests, they form a basis for designing a person rehab scheme... but in both cases it's not like they just look at the final scores and go "righto, this is the case..." they have to actually sit down and analyse the entire testing set to get their indicators.
I agree that IQ tests do have their uses. However, I disagree with it as a use to determine intelligence which is what, at least here, it was used for. In 5th grade I had to take an IQ test. I got a 95 which was the average of the class. After this test not only were kids who got a higher score start bragging about it, they also started to consider themselves more intelligent and as such conflicts started. "I'm better than you because my IQ is higher". This is one of the reasons why I hate IQ tests (due to the "division" they create) and this is why I also hate IQ tests being administered to children since at such a young age they might not understand what an IQ test is used to determine.RhombusHatesYou said:
I have dyscalculia so I'm not sure if it was a factor in my IQ score but nevertheless, when my cousin came home and said he had to undergo an IQ test at school I cringed.
I did one of the online ones on the Mensa site many years ago and it told me to contact a nearby Mensa centre for a more precisely calibrated test as that one did not measure above 155. Never did contact a centre though, so no clue if it was just a fluke on my part, I do remember taking educated guesses on the last few questions.
Yeah, I've never been in favour of telling kids the results of IQ tests because, as most people can tell you, children are evil little shits when you give them anything they could use as a rationale to thinking they're better than other kids.AndyFromMonday said:
Being made to take IQ and aptitude tests used to make be cringe when I was younger because they always resulted in a long fucking lecture about how much potential I had. I just wanted to be left alone to do my own thing. End of Term presentations were my own personal hell, too... making me stand up in front of the whole school (mostly a bunch cunts I hated) to receive certificates I didn't want for subjects I didn't give a fuck about... and they wondered why I started cutting the presentations and then finally just stopped doing the work to get them off my fucking case. Stupid fucks.
'Scuse me if the joke's been made already, but over 9 thou- *Head explodes from making bad, over-used joke.*
In all honesty, I don't know what mine is.
And to be even more honest, I don't really care.
And I wouldn't trust those online ones either.
In all honesty, I don't know what mine is.
And to be even more honest, I don't really care.
And I wouldn't trust those online ones either.
