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The Ultimate IQ Test Congratulations, trace! Your IQ score is XXX (I intentionally hid that) This number is the result of a formula based on how many questions you answered correctly on Emode's Ultimate IQ test. The even better news is that at Emode, we've taken your IQ test one step further. During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. We were able to analyze how you did on each set of those questions, which allows us to shed light on the way your brain uniquely functions. At the same time, we compared your answers with others who have taken the test, and according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is an Inventive Inquisitor. Try it out for yourself |
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either that online test is messed, or ye olde standerdized IQ tests i took in school are very very slack. Still, it got my brain going at this early hour. |
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The ones on paper are better, but also questionable. There is no consensus on the definition of intelligence, for starters. |
I would have preferred to be a cunning linguist but oh well... (ba dum dum!) |
It said I was a visionary philosopher. WTF? What pattern of right and wrong did I display to get that? |
i bet you would get different point levels just from taking it on different days |
whats the scale? meaning, where do i measure up? |
definition of intelligence has been canonized. One feature of all of the standard IQ tests (Stanford-Binet, Wexler, WISC) is that they are statistically reliable over time -- it's one of their hallmarks. |
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120 Smart enough to finish most college undergraduate level courses. 130 Entry level "genius" score. 140 Definitely genius level. 150 Less than 1/2 of 1% of all IQ test takers achieve this score or higher. |
i think that's 20 points in the wrong direction (from a hundred) based on the description |
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i did not take the test. i only meant that 120 seems a little high for what's necessary to pass most undergraduate level classes. i suggested 80. that is all. |
140 and over Genius or near genius 120-140 Very superior intelligence 110-120 Superior intelligence 90-110 Normal or average intelligence 80-90 Dullness 70-80 Borderline deficiency Below 70 Definite feeble-mindedness Go here for more information on the distribution of IQ scores. Patrick, most people get their IQs tested in elementary school. Ask your mother. |
Don't worry spunk, I lost a few points myself. Somebody has to have them. Maybe they are with my missing socks. |
Now I feel compelled to relate my father's favorite saying regarding intelligence: "It's not what you have -- it's how you use it." |
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You can have a temporary drop due to sleep loss, illness, chemical influence, etc. |
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it seems everyone lost some points with this online version, assuming i did, if i was tested early on, im totally shocked at my score, but then again, i have a habit of underestimating myself. |
Second of all, as I said earlier, all online IQ tests are bogus. This page -- http://www.cps.nova.edu/~cpphelp/WAIS-R.html -- describes the Wechsler IQ test for adults. A friend of mine is at Bryn Mawr in their psychology grad program, and when she does her internship in a school this year, she'll give kids a battery of ten IQ tests to determine their score. We were just talking about this last weekend -- a school that teaches its students to question the validity (I don't mean that in a statistical sense) of IQ tests are requiring its grad students to be proficient in scoring ten of them before certifying them in school psychology. Hilarious. |
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Paper tests have many more questions, are timed, give you several scores in different areas, are scored by a human being who is trained to make subjective decisions when answers are ambiguous, etc. Paper tests are also rigorously analyzed psychometrically to determine whether or not the test measures what it claims to measure, whether or not all of the questions are relevant, whether the test is biased in favor of a particular population sample, etc. etc. |
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after my alarm clock went off, i got up to make peepee, crawling back into bed for a snooze session, the hallway smoke alarm went off. I get up and see there are cinders burning in the heater box, below the grate. All I can think is the gas line is going to blow! Gas heat makes me nervous at times, especially really old units such as this. "SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! GET YOUR SHOES ON AND GET OUT, " i yell to the wife. I manage to blow the cinders out, but more catch on. I turn the heater off and dart for my shoes and the phone. I realize i have no pants on. Aside from the fire, one of my greatest fears is darting out of the house in a fire or quake with no pants on. By the time i get off the phone with 911, the cinders are out. They come anyway to double check. Turns out, the landlord didnt clean the previous tenents debris, cat hair and dust out of the heater box in the floorboard. It was just a matter of time before it caught on. The Fire Dept. takes approx. 3-4 minutes to get to my house. It doesnt take a genius to know, even if you dont experience them first hand, that fireman have to be the most reassuring breed of human there is. |
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the test found me higher than trace's score. i'm a Visual Mathematician. ooooo. |
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of course I have no way of knowing if that was correct |
I think they got their "IQ types" from the Wu-Tang Clan name generator. |
another one that didnt make any damn sense to me is: two dudes in a car start from the same spot, travelling in opposite directions travel 6 miles each. they take a left turn and travel another 8 miles. how far apart are they. remember that one? to me, answer is 28, surface miles. that is, if they were to turn around and drive ba...wait a minute...im seeing two isocelese triangles here? dammit, they must have been wanting that distance, the two unfinished legs of the triangle. unfortunately, i forget my geometery/triangle rules. nevermind |
6^2 + 8^2 = 10^2 36 + 64 = 100 Pythagorean theorem. |
isnt there a relationship in a triangle, that if you know the distance of two sides you can figure out the third? |
10 miles (which is what antigone was referring to) |
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diiiiick. |
I just studied for my NLP final, took the final, started, researched and wrote my final project, all in 8 hours. I have another take home final to start and finish within the next five hours. Gimmie a break, k? |
i'm so glad you said it was the pythagorean theorem, tiggy, because that was really bugging me too. i even drew a picture. still, wouldn't it be 16^2+12^2=x^2? i'm an insightful linquist, not to be confused with a cunning linquist. |
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That's because any right triangle with sides proportional to 3,4,5 will fit the equation fine, so 12,16,20 works. There are infinitely many of these triples, and they're called Pythagorean triples, oddly enough... |
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A Judge. A Lawyer. A Polititian. A Manager. A janitor. Maybe, some have scored higher. |
Whats that mean? invent reasons to inquire? Or if you don't know the answer you make it up? |
but damn i'm feeling smarty today it will pass |
I like the goddess test better. My blood type is A negative. I'm a (post)structuralist materialist. |
http://www.emode.com/tests/starwars/authorize/register.jsp?url=/tests/starwars/index.jsp I'm R2-D2. |
I am strong in the force. |
i'm a cute and quirky little trash can. *beep boop BEBE boop* i was hopeing for Ewok. |
what's wrong with my car? why didn't they want mine? |
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You are wise beyond your years — a sage for the ages, the master's master. That's why your Star Wars type is Yoda. Sure, you might not look too much like the little green Jedi Master, but you have a quiet contemplative way about you that commands respect. Cool.... |
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