Whats your IQ?

[WillJ]

Originally posted by newfangle
IQ tests are irrelavent designs. Unless one can design a test that covers everything ever known to man, it is flawed. Besides, division of labour exists for a reason.

No, IQ has nothing to do with knowledge (as in history, science, languages, etc.), but instead intelligence, which mostly involves noticing patterns and thinking through logic problems. It's generally a good indication of a person's ability to think and reason, and is NOT supposed to represent how much a person knows (although I guess you have to know how to read). At least, AFAIK.

I took a couple of online tests and got just above 150. Whether or not that's accurate, I have no idea.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

I took the testcafe test and got 144, but I didn't think the test was very accurate it played to my natural area of strength, math, and ignored pretty much everything else.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Pontiuth Pilate
I took the testcafe test and got 144, but I didn't think the test was very accurate it played to my natural area of strength, math, and ignored pretty much everything else.

I took the test (anyone interested: click me), and got a score of 155. I disagree that it leans toward math; most of it was logic, IMO.

 

[The Yankee]

Originally posted by Shadylookin


is it possible to only have a 4 IQ?

Well, you can always ask people in the Cabinet and Bush himself....if they can answer, then maybe their IQ is higher than 4 (5?).

Seriously, though, there's no way to measure IQ that low.

Never took a real IQ test, only one of those 5 minute jobs on the internet to pass the time. However, my father had a test on me when I was an infant to see about where I would wind up. I was measured at being at least 2 standard deviations above the mean (at least 130)...projected, mind you. I don't know where it stands now.

And I would believe my father, he was a clinical psychologist, so he had access to tools like that particular test. This is how I also know that there's a low limit before IQ can't be measured. I never bothered to ask what the limit was, but it's filled with people who couldn't even dress themselves or go to the bathroom even in a corner, things like that.....vegetables.

 

[Perfection]

That's where the real life humanity brakes from the theoretical model. Theoretically, there should be a person with an IQ of -12 (Brain dead vegtable with withered nervous system perhaps)
but a test hasn't been created that can deciefer that low of intellegence

 

[WillJ]

I think the lowest IQ a test can give is 19, considering that when I posted that link I accidentally at first posted a link to the page that lists the result of the test, and it said my IQ is 19. Obviously that's not my real IQ, but instead might be because when you click the link but haven't taken the test, it goes with the lowest possible score: 19. (I then noticed it and gave the correct link.) Or maybe it just likes the number 19.

Edit: @Perfection: How the hell can you have a negative IQ?

 

[The Yankee]

I just got 157 on that test mentioned by a couple of people. Still, it is short and time oriented (some other tests on the internet do not take time into account). I'd much rather take a real IQ test, full-length, to figure out what the score is.

The other online test I took gave me something in the 160s, but I must have taken it a couple of years ago and I don't remember the exact number.

 

[Silverflame]

I took an internet IQ test once and got 170 or something, so I don't trust it. My guess is that my IQ is above average, somewhere around 120-130 since I'm Asian. But I'm lazy so as earlier posts have said, it accounts for nothing.

 

[FredLC]

Ah. Look at how many genius there are here in CIVFanatics. I know it's not a game for dumb people, but come'on, what does it say about those tests?

 

[metalhead]

Mine was assigned by a trained professional, Fred

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by FredLC
Ah. Look at how many genius there are here in CIVFanatics. I know it's not a game for dumb people, but come'on, what does it say about those tests?

It could be that the dumb people are too embarrased to vote (or knew that they were dumb and decided not to take the test).

 

[FredLC]

Originally posted by WillJ
It could be that the dumb people are too embarrased to vote (or knew that they were dumb and decided not to take the test).

That’s a most genial assessment of the situation!

 

[Neomega]

146: took it when I was in second grade, allthough I was told 150 is sub genius, and 180 is genius.
I was put in a class called challenge for kids with IQ's above 130.
They were bussed in from all over the district.

I grasp things well, but am not very street smart, or wealthy. And I most definitely edge on insanity. I say the craziest things to people, am very outspoken.... My mouth gets me in trouble all the time.

The I.Q. test is always administered by a professional, and usually at a young age. (between 3 and 7). It uses spatial reasoning problems, so therefore it really only tests spatial reasoning or deduction. It can be administered in any language, and if you ever see an IQ test with a story problem, it's not an IQ test.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by WillJ
I think the lowest IQ a test can give is 19, considering that when I posted that link I accidentally at first posted a link to the page that lists the result of the test, and it said my IQ is 19. Obviously that's not my real IQ, but instead might be because when you click the link but haven't taken the test, it goes with the lowest possible score: 19. (I then noticed it and gave the correct link.) Or maybe it just likes the number 19.

Edit: @Perfection: How the hell can you have a negative IQ?

It's all based on standards of deviation, 15 points=1 standard of deviation, the sixtymillionth percentile should lie about 7.5 standards of deviation away from the middle so 7.5x15 per standard of deviation=112.5, you subtract that from the middle (100) vallue and you get negative 12.5

 

[WillJ]

@ FredLC: Yep.

Originally posted by Perfection
It's all based on standards of deviation, 15 points=1 standard of deviation, the sixtymillionth percentile should lie about 7.5 standards of deviation away from the middle so 7.5x15 per standard of deviation=112.5, you subtract that from the middle (100) vallue and you get negative 12.5

Funny, I supposedly have an IQ of 155, and I don't know what the hell you just said. Please tell me you just make that up....

 

[Japanrocks12]

159 and one layer of frosting topped with a cherry

 

[The Yankee]

I do know that the standard deviations are 15 points each from the mean (in the case of IQ, that mean is 100, with 2 deviations to the right being "genius" or 130 IQ). However, I have not thought about the rest of that, with the percentile that far away and so forth with the negative IQ...although, just reading it, it does make sense. However, there really isn't a way of measuring an IQ that low, so we can't wave a piece of paper about it.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by WillJ
@ FredLC: Yep. Funny, I supposedly have an IQ of 155, and I don't know what the hell you just said. Please tell me you just make that up....

It requires statistics to understand that, calculus to come up with the numbers

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by WillJ
No, IQ has nothing to do with knowledge (as in history, science, languages, etc.), but instead intelligence, which mostly involves noticing patterns and thinking through logic problems. It's generally a good indication of a person's ability to think and reason, and is NOT supposed to represent how much a person knows (although I guess you have to know how to read). At least, AFAIK.

Not really, there is some logic/mathematical stuff, but then theres some "fish is to bowl as glass is to..." which is usually heavily culturally biased. last time took me 5 or more minutes of confusion before i realised that glass meant as in drinking glass, or cup. Heavy cultural bias, and also while it tests some logic/math/pattern recognising stuff, it doesn't test many other things that are types of intelligence too, so the result really can only say how good you are at logic etc, and even that is error-prone.

 

[Knowze Gungk]

Last time I sat down to take an IQ test, I got my name wrong, lost my temper and ate the paper & pencil. If anyone came near me for the next hour, I'd start jumping around shrieking, hammer the groung with my fists and, on one occasion, hurl faeces at them.