IQ Test

[DEL]

http://uk.tickle.com/test/iq/start.html

Last time I was tested was when I was 11. We were sat in a room, not told what the test was. I didn't finish the test in the allotted time, so the results were inaccurate. Maybe if we'd been told what it was, we would have bothered ourselves .

Anyway, this test is fun! It'll give you your IQ score and your 'type'.

I believe such tests cannot be accurate, but they do give you a rough indication.

Enjoy!

[professor ganson]

but they do give you a rough indication.

A rough indication of what, though? Intelligence, creativity, and the like are, I suspect, too poorly understood for us to test for their presence (or degree of presence). I would think that a better, more useful measure of student aptitude is the sort of evidence teachers acquire by looking at overall performance in reading, writing, and math. I admit, though, that this is not my area of expertise.

[rolins]

My test results were 109. Type said I was precision processor. I still think I'm a tard.

[Brian]

I am a "word warrior" at 117.

[captain ahar]

134. -_-

i get dumber since last...

[fl0w]

131, whatever that means...
EDIT : precision processor

[system11]

I believe such tests cannot be accurate, but they do give you a rough indication.

I have tested the testers, and failed them.

1) It relies on knowing a few old sayings
2) It relies on geography
3) This is the big one They fail in life for not testing their javascript in all browsers.

[Ord]

121 Word Warrior.

[captain ahar]

I believe such tests cannot be accurate, but they do give you a rough indication.

I have tested the testers, and failed them.

1) It relies on knowing a few old sayings
2) It relies on geography
3) This is the big one They fail in life for not testing their javascript in all browsers.

its automatically bullshit though, in the end, they just want you to buy something

[howmuchkeefe]

129 (meh) visionary philosopher (well, that sounds cool)

[Ko.oS]

n/t

[Diabollokus]

Funny I've done that one a before, its cheating I suppose but 144. Not quite mensa

I agree thats inaccurate as hell, lot of general knowledge questions combined with mathmatics and literature.

funny using pythagoras theorem though.

[it290]

135, 'insightful linguist'.

I have fun with these things, but this is one of the worst I've seen -- many of the questions relied on knowing certain cliches or figures of speech, something you wouldn't really find on a typical IQ test.

edit - Diabollokus: That's another good example, actually. I couldn't remember the value of 16^2, but given the available choices the correct answer was obvious.

[DEL]

Bloodflowers wrote;

1) It relies on knowing a few old sayings
2) It relies on geography
3) This is the big one They fail in life for not testing their javascript in all browsers.

4) It relies on taking the Maths option at school (if you've studied maths & trigonometry at school/college I believe you have an advantage in all so-called IQ tests - the formulas are already in your head)


Despite these facts, let us continue....

Keep posting those (IQ)scores

[Ganelon]

Your IQ score is 142!

Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game -- to imagine or anticipate what should happen next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with new ideas and this makes you a Visionary Philosopher.

You also have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns in all sorts of situations, a talent that adds to your visionary philosopher mind.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Word Warrior - 126. It didn't help that I saw no point in some of the questions and took a wild guess.

[dial911]

World Warrior (Street Fighter II YES!) - 124

Meh...

[steveovig]

Word Warrior-124, is this number good?

[nZero]

Woooow.

138 / Visionary Philosopher.

[howmuchkeefe]

100 to 111 : 50 – 77
111 to 120 : 77 – 91
120 to 125 : 91 – 95
125 to 132 : 95 – 98
132 to 137 : 98 – 99.3
137 to 150 : 99.3 – 99.96
above 150 : 99.96 – 100

right column - percentile
left column - IQ

...according to wikipedia, at least. Who knows if they're using the same scheme as the makers of this test.

EDIT: Added colons; it looked much neater before I posted it

[howmuchkeefe]

Time for some pattern matching and anticipation: I predict that Randorama will eventually come here and announce his utter disgust for IQ tests and those who take them. He may or may not submit his own IQ score, which is bound to be somewhere between 160 and 180.

[fl0w]

Time for some pattern matching and anticipation: I predict that Randorama will eventually come here and announce his utter disgust for IQ tests and those who take them. He may or may not submit his own IQ score, which is bound to be somewhere between 160 and 180.

and Zakk will bid $1000 over Rando ?

[system11]

Not quite mensa

Some UK schools back in the 80s were experimenting with ability tests and so on, ours had IQ tests. They never amounted to anything in real terms like splitting classes up, but a couple of us did get 'encouraged' to look at joining mensa. I never did, it all seemed a bit creepy and I was just a kid. It still seems creepy

[howmuchkeefe]

I never did, it all seemed a bit creepy and I was just a kid. It still seems creepy.

Yeah, I've heard there's a bunch of eugenics fans in Mensa. I suspect its all some sort of tail-hunting device for brilliant-yet-a-bit-socially-retarded males.

EDIT: removed end quote thingy

[system11]

Yeah, I've heard there's a bunch of eugenics fans in Mensa.

Oh, I agree with a few of those basic sentiments. Certainly in the UK, the lazy, dumb welfare suckers who will never work, are producing endless kids just like them, while some honest intelligent people (and I'm talking anyone past 'average' here) are stuck working themselves to death, unable to afford their own family. You definitely see it - there's a hell of a lot of what I'd call scum around here, and kids with this pretty scary vacant+violent look on their faces.

Of course, while it's plainly obvious that two intelligent people have a better chance of having a smart kid, it's not always the case either way, and the eugenics people go far enough that they appear to be crackpots to everyone else.

[howmuchkeefe]

I don't have so much a problem with the "I want my mate to be intelligent" aspect of eugenics, but rather its authoritarian implications, particularly "...and I think the rabble should be sterilized", when it is present.

I don't know why the poor are so fecund. Perhaps because other forms of entertainment often require expensive equipment, while sex is free. I like many aspects of socialism, but I agree that this propensity for the poor to breed like rabbits can very quickly make most forms of socialism untenable. Education would work, if only the poor would go to school. Free access to prophylactics would work, if only the poor would take them. Denying them benefits will very quickly lead to social disorder, even if the reason you're denying them benefits is because there simply isn't any money to be had. The longer the meltdown is put off/not reversed, the greater the damage to society will be. Mostly, the poor will die.

...and yet, I'd rather we suffer the occasional total societal meltdown than live with everyday, very personal, invasive and discriminatory oppression in the form of eugenics/compulsory population control programs. But then, I'm an American: We like to make lots of "live free or die" noise.

[judesalmon]

What purpose do IQ tests serve?

I have an IQ higher than most of the people I went to school with, but I gurantee you that most of them have more 'worthwhile' careers than I do - doctors, scientists and the like.

I personally think IQ tests are a waste of time - there are much more useful qualities in the human mkind that we should be testing for.

(PS I work as a writer on a PlayStation magazine, so I love my job, but I bet it's not the one my school teachers expected me do.)

[Rob]

Your IQ score is 88!

[shiftace]

So I admit I was curious enough to try taking this thing. Blah blah sequences, blah blah puzzles, what's with these fill-in-the-blank adages? Then I got to a screen asking me to indicate how much spam I'd like to receive, then another screen asking me where I'd like to receive this spam, and I decided that was enough of that. By then I'd seen "your personality is like X;" I didn't notice any IQ numbers.

I could believe that the quote questions only affect the personality category.

[jp]

I'm an Inspired Inventor.


It didn't give me a number though... oh well.. not paying $16 for that.