What is your IQ?

ainwood said:
MY IQ is high enough that I don't get suckered-in to adding my name to a database.
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I second that ;)
 
Actually the "standard" IQ tests do measure intelligence. IQ is just restricted to language and analytic intelligence. I don't remember Gardner's list off the top of my head, but I think he outlined seven areas of intelligence.

The whole IQ testing business grew out of Binet's tests he developed for Parisian schoolchildren. It was only ever his intention to use the test to isolate ******** children and give them special help. He never intended it to be an actual measure of intelligence. Other psychologists latched upon the idea of being able to express the intelligence of an individual simply using a number. However, it is accpeted now that IQ scores are generally poor predictors of success.

Intelligence testing became very popular in the US because it was seen as a democratic way of measuring ability and potential. The Army needed a way to evaluate the hundreds of thousands of recruites enlisting for World War I. Intelligence tests were a way to scientifically disprove the old stereotype that blacks were fundamentally less intelligent than whites.

The history of testing in the US is actually quite fascinating.
 
penvzila said:
Actually the "standard" IQ tests do measure intelligence. IQ is just restricted to language and analytic intelligence. I don't remember Gardner's list off the top of my head, but I think he outlined seven areas of intelligence.
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It's more then restricted to that, as a whole lot of it is experience biased (if you take lots of IQ tests your scores will increase quite a bit). These tests are also far from comprehesive within these fields. Componants of language ability like the ability to synthesize coherent essays fall to the wayside. Also, a lot of IQ tests measure spped of thought, not depth another detrractive point.

The only real reason why they have any validity whatsoever is there's a decent correlation (but by no means absolute) between IQ and similar intelligence items (such as coherant writing) and thus can provide somewhat valid statistical data.
 
Tickle is BS. Would be funny if someone deliberately chose the wrong answer on all questions. I bet you would still get more than 120.

I can't be arsed to do it myself - perhaps someone else would?

BTW a question about the IQ - is it normally distributed, or is the curve assymetrical? Meaning for example that there are more people with >160 IQ than <40? [hope so ;)]

And what is the maximum score on the scale? If it is more than 200, is it then also possible to have a negative IQ? That would be kinda cool...
 
The Fjonis said:
Tickle is BS. Would be funny if someone deliberately chose the wrong answer on all questions. I bet you would still get more than 120.
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I don't know if they were all wrong, but I answered every question with the first option. I got 83 or something, but I did it in 1m13s. I was hoping it would take into account the genius quick thinker I am. It didn't.
 
Mise - well that's a bit surprising. Perhaps we are all geniuses after all, then!? (I got one hundred and thirty something - did it long ago..) When you think about it, being a good civ player does involve many aspects of intelligence - analysing the consequences of your moves, keeping track of many things at a time, good memory etc etc...
 
Last time I took an IQ test, I found myself arriving at the correct answer via the "wrong" method (i.e. find the pattern in this or that set of numbers, and complete the pattern). So I came to the conclusion that IQ tests are kind of pointless--they're measuring your ability to think a certain way.

I take pride in being a screwball. :crazyeye:

Edit: and I never bothered to compute my score from that test, either. All previous times I've taken IQ tests, I got bored and quit halfway through. :)
 
The Fjonis said:
Mise - well that's a bit surprising. Perhaps we are all geniuses after all, then!? (I got one hundred and thirty something - did it long ago..) When you think about it, being a good civ player does involve many aspects of intelligence - analysing the consequences of your moves, keeping track of many things at a time, good memory etc etc...
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Yeah, but ComradeDavo's crap at Civ and he got 120 something... :p
 
Not everyone with high IQs are good at civ, but I'd think that in order to be good at civ you need a high IQ. I'd have thought so, anyway.

Is there any other free IQ tests on the Internet that maybe are a bit more trustworthy than tickle? I've never done a proper one. Recently, there was a nationwide IQ test on TV here, for which there were maybe 30 sample questions on the internet. I did them and got them all correct, but I never did the proper test... I'd have liked to do a real one - just to see..
 
I know the BBC has a website with its "Test the Nation" IQ test, but IIRC it has LOTS of regional/pop-culture questions, making it a bit unreliable if you don't read UK tabloids unfortunately. I don't expect it has any reason to inflate the IQ results though. Here's the link if you wanna try it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq/ . I got 128 or something on it when I did it on TV (the previous year), but on the internet I can't remember (it was lower, because of all the pop-culture questions).
 
Mise said:
I know the BBC has a website with its "Test the Nation" IQ test, but IIRC it has LOTS of regional/pop-culture questions, making it a bit unreliable if you don't read UK tabloids unfortunately. I don't expect it has any reason to inflate the IQ results though. Here's the link if you wanna try it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq/ . I got 128 or something on it when I did it on TV (the previous year), but on the internet I can't remember (it was lower, because of all the pop-culture questions).
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I got 84 on that one.......

stupid distracting parents.
 
The Fjonis said:
Tickle is BS. Would be funny if someone deliberately chose the wrong answer on all questions. I bet you would still get more than 120.

I can't be arsed to do it myself - perhaps someone else would?
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You haven't read the thread. I did just that, and I got 90, apon which they called me a "jerk", since I wound NEVER buy their "results".
 
That BBC one is tough. It's confusing at first too. Interestingly done, though. IT is a bit esoteric though, especially the faces part. IT was obvious to me with one that it was a Beatle, and then I look to see the four choices are the four Beatles :crazyeye: Like I know what they look like that well :lol:
 
I bet most peoples (including me) IQ's are about 20-40 points lower than they think they are.
 
Did the BBC test again, got 117. I think that's fairly accurate. I would have liked to get 125+ like I did on TV (just to reiterrate, I got 128 when I did it on TV), but I didn't. So yeah, I didn't get 125+ like I did when I did it on TV, but I did get 117, which means that either I'm getting dumber (because otherwise, I would have got 125+, like I did 2.5 years ago when it was on TV), or the pop culture questions are skewing my results. Also, there were fewer "maths" and "language" type questions, and far more "memory" ones, which will clearly disadvantage me, because I'm quite absent minded, despite getting 125+ when it was on TV.
 
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