Another IQ Test Thread!

[Riley]

Congratulations, Chris!
Your IQ score is 136

Your Intellectual Type is Visual Mathematician.

[bertie]

Ah finally working, 135
"we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Facts Curator."

[Nick]

151

erm, you guys sure this thing is right?

[Rave]

"Congratulations, Richard!
Your IQ score is 136

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results."

I'm krap at those picture ones, I really suck at them. Might as well try the super one.

Rich :¬)

Edit: Super test: "Richard, your Super IQ score is 141
<snip>
The way you think about things makes you a Complex Intellectual. This means you are highly intelligent and have extraordinarily strong verbal and math skills. Compared to others you are a highly conceptual and complex thinker and are able to understand information in an abstract form. You also show great attention to detail. In fact, it's hard to find something you're not good at."

Heh, that's more like it

[fondie]

nice one Deck and no it definately isn't right, sure it'll mark how many you've got right ok, but my faith in it measuring IQ even near accurately are very low. The questions were all of very similar format, and seemed all to be of very similar difficulty, which was pretty easy. A proper IQ test will have questions varying from very easy to very difficult, which makes it much easier to distinguish between people's abillity, but 100 questions all of the same difficulty, you'll end up with some people not being able to answer questions of that difficulty and the only distinguishment you can make between them is how many they fluked, and others being able to answer all of them, with the only distinguishment you can make between them are how many careless mistakes they made and in the case of this test being unlucky in trying to second guess the designer of the questions interpretation over it because they are poorly designed.

[Nick]

I was wondering, cos in a moment of aloofness, I joined MENSA (bloody years ago, tbh)... their quizzes were totally different to this one... plus I scored just a bit higher! (which really put my sister's nose outta joint )

but that's always been me... a classic born in the blood under-achiever!

[Rave]

I was wondering, cos in a moment of aloofness, I joined MENSA (bloody years ago, tbh)... their quizzes were totally different to this one... plus I scored just a bit higher!

walked into that one

Rich :¬)

[Nick]

I'm krap at those picture ones, I really suck at them. Might as well try the super one.

I just look at 'em and get a feeling which one is the answer... kinda like the Force, but not...

[fondie]

I was wondering, cos in a moment of aloofness, I joined MENSA (bloody years ago, tbh)... their quizzes were totally different to this one... plus I scored just a bit higher! (which really put my sister's nose outta joint )

but that's always been me... a classic born in the blood under-achiever!

lol, i wasn't doubting you but don't forget that MENSA aren't without their own motives and they also use a very generous IQ bell curve, http://www.mensa.org.uk/mensa/iqleve...a%20IQ%20Tests

and what more is there to achieve in life than being Hexus's very own resident chef!

[Nick]

yeah... I still to this day dont really know why I bothered, I think it was curiosity to start with... then it was cos I scored well, but after that I lost interest, MENSA, gawd bless 'em, do come over a touch condescending, not something I particularly like... plus they get a tad expensive too!

[revol68]

Yeah iq tests are pretty much bullrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish and alot of the answers are remarkably ambigous for example the peach cherry apricot of grape one??

also people still in school tend to do better as they have more recent experiances with such tests.. they dont measure intelligence cos intelligence is far too complex to be quantified in such a manner.

[Auran]

I took part in an online IQ study for one of the big US Universities (think it was MIT) a couple of years back looking at links between educational backround etc. and IQ scores.

Over a period of 6 months I probably averaged one a week a got a range of scores from 155 on language based tests to 220 on pattern / visual tests.

So it just goes to show how unrealistic the tests are for measuring generic intelligence, because the balance of questions has a marked effect on the result.

I keep trying to do this test but it always crashes when I ask for my score.

p.s. I went for grapes as they have seeds rather than stones, but as you say you could probably justify any of the others as an answer

[Blub2k]

Grapes is right, your reason was wrong, grapes are in bunches, the others are not.

[Auran]

I'd thought about the singular vs. bunch argument, but cheries come in pairs etc. as well

[Allen]

I chose peach coz it has a hairy skin, the others have smooth skins (IIRC and I'm not just being dumb... )

[Blub2k]

Ah go on AL you just wanted to choose a hairy peach innit