What is your IQ?
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punkbass2000
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IRL IQ tests? 160-170. Online it usually depends on what the maximum score is.
I also suppose that if most of you took a modesty test, it would range between 10 and 15...
Oruc
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last time i took an IQ test i got a pretty low score, not like you honest joes
Doc Tsiolkovski
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Uh, before everyone starts bragging about his insane IQ, you need to be aware that any IQ test can only measure reliably within a range of +/- 3 standard deviations. And, for reasons I never could find out why, one SD sometimes means +10, and sometimes +15. The curve is a Gauss' Bell.
Then, anything not exactly +/- xSD isn't accurate (if your test contains several hundred questions, it starts working).
The population mean is by definition 100. Let's look at a test with SD=15 (most of the popular ones; the more refined medical ones use 10 frequently).
All we can get here with a short test are groups, in the range of 55 - 145. Usuall Gauss stuff; ~68% are within 85-115 etc.
And, 0.3% are out of that range, with half of them below, other half above.
Now, the technical problem is: It is almost impossoble to measure the IQ of someone more than 2 SDs below 100...so while tests with a range of 3 SD are mathematically fine, they do not make much sense. In other words, any publical test you make that contains a range of more than +/-2SDs (=below 70/above 130) is BS.
So, how do you get those astronomic IQs you can read about? You need to test to a preselected group. If the mean in the test resembles IQ130, you can now confirm IQs from 100 to 160, and so on.
It's a lot harder to confirm IQs below 70, of course.
The link doesn't name the SD, and it gives pseudo-exact values (133 in my case, but I had problems to get the graphics loading anyway, so needed to guess some of the questions).
FWIW, if you wanted to study medicine in Germany, you needed to make a specific test until recently, and this test is nothing but an elaborate IQ test without looking for the ability of expression. But unlike that online test, it also includes memory capacity and fast recognition. Takes a whole day. SD here is 10, and the mean is seen as resembling +1 SD compared to general population (since you only test highschool absolvents). Well, I scored above the scale
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That's more than 4 SD above average, or above 160 for the most common tests...
Then, anything not exactly +/- xSD isn't accurate (if your test contains several hundred questions, it starts working).
The population mean is by definition 100. Let's look at a test with SD=15 (most of the popular ones; the more refined medical ones use 10 frequently).
All we can get here with a short test are groups, in the range of 55 - 145. Usuall Gauss stuff; ~68% are within 85-115 etc.
And, 0.3% are out of that range, with half of them below, other half above.
Now, the technical problem is: It is almost impossoble to measure the IQ of someone more than 2 SDs below 100...so while tests with a range of 3 SD are mathematically fine, they do not make much sense. In other words, any publical test you make that contains a range of more than +/-2SDs (=below 70/above 130) is BS.
So, how do you get those astronomic IQs you can read about? You need to test to a preselected group. If the mean in the test resembles IQ130, you can now confirm IQs from 100 to 160, and so on.
It's a lot harder to confirm IQs below 70, of course.
The link doesn't name the SD, and it gives pseudo-exact values (133 in my case, but I had problems to get the graphics loading anyway, so needed to guess some of the questions).
FWIW, if you wanted to study medicine in Germany, you needed to make a specific test until recently, and this test is nothing but an elaborate IQ test without looking for the ability of expression. But unlike that online test, it also includes memory capacity and fast recognition. Takes a whole day. SD here is 10, and the mean is seen as resembling +1 SD compared to general population (since you only test highschool absolvents). Well, I scored above the scale
. That's more than 4 SD above average, or above 160 for the most common tests...
Scuffer
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I just asked a PhD friend of mine of mine to write me an IQ test. Turns out I have an IQ of one million billion. But she didn't have a beard, so perhaps it doesn't qualifyMasquerouge said:
Syterion
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My real IQ is 148, but I don't know what that means. The only reason I took it a few years ago is for a scholarship program I might've made, but I didn't score high enough. Online tests are usually your real IQ + 35 or so.
I'd actually like to take a 'proper' tests, one that doesn't say "Congratulations, you're a frickin' genius, everyone else is a tard compared to you", and which a significant amount (say 100,000) of people have taken. Is there such a thing?
MarineCorps
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ainwood said:
Thats were the name John Oliver comes in handy for me.
nonconformist
Miserable
It's a load of arbitrary crap used by people to sound smart.
Masquerouge
Deity
emu said:
That, my friend, is because you did not take an PhD-Bearded-certified internet IQ test.
And Steph, you're talking about modesty ? Well, let me tell you, once you've been Iqed by bearded PhD, your modesty ends up in another dimension.
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Over the years I have become more and more sceptical of all IQ tests. Right now I am at the point of considering all IQ tests as pure bs. How can you measure something as complex as intelligence (which has not even been defined yet) in say 100 questions. Let alone intelligence, even its small parts that these tests measure are horrendously complex. Let's take memory for example. There is short-term memory and long-term memory. Then comes the fact that memory capability/capacity of individuals vary depending on what they are memorizing. (Give me a string of 20 numbers and it would take me an hour to memorize. show me 20 pictures one by one and I will remember them all without any effort. So is my short-term memory good or bad?)
if memory which is so easily definable can be so hard to measure then we are far from measuring logical analysis capability, which should also be part of IQ.
IMHO, the only thing that can be objectively measured is comparative IQ in a strictly defined area. So for example, we can measure two individuals and say which one has better short term memory for numbers. So these IQ tests are great for recruiting purposes where you can measure specific abilities required and compare individuals. But to use those tests to come up with an absolute IQ number? Gah!
Also, why is the mean IQ of the population always 100? What if people are actually getting smarter/dumber over time? Is that impossible (especially considering that we eat more food/see more information etc as time goes by)?
if memory which is so easily definable can be so hard to measure then we are far from measuring logical analysis capability, which should also be part of IQ.
IMHO, the only thing that can be objectively measured is comparative IQ in a strictly defined area. So for example, we can measure two individuals and say which one has better short term memory for numbers. So these IQ tests are great for recruiting purposes where you can measure specific abilities required and compare individuals. But to use those tests to come up with an absolute IQ number? Gah!
Also, why is the mean IQ of the population always 100? What if people are actually getting smarter/dumber over time? Is that impossible (especially considering that we eat more food/see more information etc as time goes by)?
punkbass2000
Des An artiste
Steph said:
What's a modesty test?
@ Doc T and beta: Well said, boys, well said
To try to answer one thing, though:
The average is the average, so to speak. In theory, any reliable and modern test would take into account the fact that population is "smarter" on the average; thus, 100 remains the mean. It's an arbitrary setting. It is not based around an absolute IQ, but rather the other way round.
cgannon64
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Knowing that is supposed to show my intelligence?
greekguy
Missed the Boat
i'm not old enough to drive and i got a 112. 
nonconformist
Miserable
IQ, IIRC, has to be based on soething that required no prior knowledge.
Arminius
Jeff Vader
greekguy said:i'm not old enough to drive and i got a 112.
You could add 10-30 points by displaying dislike for both American main-stream political parties.
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