Anybody ever take that IQ test at Emode?
Good stuff or just a way to generate income?
http://www.emode.com/jumpto?c=40656&test=uiqogt
I got a real zinger of a score!
http://www.emode.com/jumpto?c=40656&test=uiqogt
I got a real zinger of a score!
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If I remember rightly I got 140, but I wouldn't hold much stock in that... (if I was smarter I would remember, and if I was really smart I wouldn't be wasting my time taking the test!)
being tired and not knowing the exact meaning of all the words (adjectives, expressions etc) in the alternatives, and doing that in the same room with 2 people talking loudly about cheat codes of vice city on the same time (circle, l1, r1, r2, r1, triange, square etc) i got 135. it doesn't feel so good as someone got 145 or 150 or soemthng ...
Originally posted by Randycat99
I was just wondering if it is routine for people amongst us here to blow away this test or is 100 still a meaningful average?
ask it in the pc forums... maybe they score an average 98?
Why you would ever want to join mensa I don't know, bragging rights?
Originally posted by jwri004
Mensa takes the 98th percentile which equates to an IQ of 130 to 148 depending on the test you take. It costs you about $40 to take the test, but failure = no acceptance ever (unless you take a 3rd party test, which to me doesn't seem that smart).
Why you would ever want to join mensa I don't know, bragging rights?
I was wondering about the Mensa thing. I imagined that maybe with this test result I could just squeak in. Looks like I was right!
As for why- I heard they have a "hot chicks room".
If i have a bad result in a IQ test, it will not change my life, and IQ are never asked in my aera. So a bad IQ will only give me a bad mood. In reverse a good will only give me a better opinion of my self, and i will tend to become an arrogant asshole ...
In otherway, IQ test was a good thing for somepoeple. I know somebody who used to work in a bakery since the age of 14. During the milatary service, he had an IQ, and he discovered that it was high, and it changed his life. He decided to change of jobs, and worked in the assurances with sucess.
An IQ test is something that can give confidence to people who do not suceed in school, otherwise it's a waste of time.
Originally posted by tonton
IQ is not everything. In fact, it's very little. I just scored a 136 and at 32 I'm still working on getting my career going.
*Twlight Zone Theme*
Stop it. You're scaring me. I just turned 32 today, took the test a couple weeks ago and scored a 136, and am also looking to get back on track with my career after getting used and abused by my former employer. However, I only have one woman in my life and she's not inclined to bringing other women into bed (which is a shame but I'll survive).
IQ is a strange thing. I'm sure you could make the argument that it has potential to postively impact your career in ways not possible with a much lower score... but the thing is, it's like any other talent or gift or whatever you want to call it. If you don't apply the talent well or in the right time and place, it's pretty much useless. Also, I think people's scores naturally tend to increase as they get older.
I took a similar test some years back and scored 124 or something like that. I remember specific types of questions that for whatever reason stumped me back then, but were easy for me to figure out now. Therefore I think IQ tests are more tests of acquired knowledge and knowledge application than "natural intelligence" (i.e. "what you were born with").
The test is quite culture and language biased.
fallacious? inept? kangaroos and mules?
No good test would have such variables.
Originally posted by New
135
The test is quite culture and language biased.
fallacious? inept? kangaroos and mules?
No good test would have such variables.
What is so cultural and language biased about those items (other than needing to know English as a language)?
Originally posted by Randycat99
What is so cultural and language biased about those items (other than needing to know English as a language)?
well, the first two words are not in my (english as a third language) vocabulary. Using the kangaroo as the odd one is a classic cultural bias case. Australia being a slightly exotic country within the english speaking hemisphere. Luckily we norwegians grew up with skippy and spell England the same way.
Then there are the proverbs. Are they real? I can't tell. I don't even know if proverb is the correct term.
English units like miles? How many asians and africans have seen an iceskate?
Originally posted by New
well, the first two words are not in my (english as a third language) vocabulary. Using the kangaroo as the odd one is a classic cultural bias case. Australia being a slightly exotic country within the english speaking hemisphere. Luckily we norwegians grew up with skippy and spell England the same way.
Then there are the proverbs. Are they real? I can't tell. I don't even know if proverb is the correct term.
English units like miles? How many asians and africans have seen an iceskate?
...but you still got a 135! Were you expecting something far higher?
I don't think they intended to mean a kangaroo is "odd". It was just the "one" that was based in a different geographical area than the others.
Yeah, even I was unsure about some of the proverbs, but we still got into the 130's, so clearly that was not such a detriment to the score.
True, they did use English units, however, it was not necessary to make any unit conversions. So it is largely irrelevant. They could have been units of "cubonians" for all we care. The answer would still be numerically the same as long as you consistently reported in "cuboninians".
The iceskate is a little more difficult to explain. I could argue that it is shaped to go on a foot, and that should be inference enough to get the right answer. However, I'll concede it could go either way.
Originally posted by New
The test is quite culture and language biased.
Gould's Mismeasure of Man. He systematically goes through the history of IQ and how BS it all is.
How about those sayings? Pretty nuts, huh? "Even the most ___________ rose has thorns." Where do they come up with this shit (or as trumptman puts it, "shit")?
I got 136, but I can't see what I could have done wrong. It was probably one of the math ones, though I don't see any that were difficult. I have a hard time doing math in my head, hence my casio calculator watch. Of course, it really is just me being lazy.
If someone gets the answer key you should pass it around. I know I'll do a big "Doh!" when I see which ones I screwed up on.
I was merely pointing out that the further you move away from the US/northern Europe, the harder it would get to score high on this test.
Originally posted by New
135 is great
I don't like that I got less than 140
So the ones I got wrong were 40, 27, 20, and 7
Answer key: http://www.btfindustries.com/Personal/IQ.htm
I feel like an idiot. I feel even more like an idiot because I still don't understand what make the correct answers right on all except 20.
Originally posted by giant
I don't like that I got less than 140
So the ones I got wrong were 40, 27, 20, and 7
Answer key: http://www.btfindustries.com/Personal/IQ.htm
I feel like an idiot. I feel even more like an idiot because I still don't understand what make the correct answers right on all except 20.
I haven't figured out 20, either. Why isn't it a tie?
Astonishingly, the questions I got wrong follow the same ones you did. So maybe this is a common thing?
7, I still don't know. I just lost patience to analyze it any further.
27, my best guess is that everything but the grape has a "tough skin", but that still seems like a weak association, so maybe it is something else, still. Originally, I thought it was the coconut that didn't belong since it traditionally comes from a tropical climate unlike the others.
40, evaded me for a moment, but it became clear that the correct answer was different since it contained two small shapes instead of a small and big shape.
BTW, my intellectual type came out as the "visual mathematician". Everybody else, feel free to chime in on your IT designation, please!
John likes 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99; he likes 2500 but not 2400. Which does he like?
_900
1000
1100
1200
I thought maybe he didn't like numbers divisible by 3, but then both 900 and 1200 are divisible by 3. It must be something even dumber? I think I put 1100 just for kicks.
I also got a 136 on the test. The only scores I've seen here are 135 and 136.
Originally posted by BRussell
I also got a 136 on the test. The only scores I've seen here are 135 and 136.
It looks like all it does it chop off a point for each one you get wrong, though I know age is supposed to be considered a factor in IQ.