IQ tests

Intelligence cannot be measured. By definition, intelligence breaks rules and limits, and does not fall within the parameters of tests.

A test is like a trap. You’re doomed to fail once you start it. And so too with “IQ tests”. You already prove your gullibility by taking them seriously.

I took a paid psychological (career) test when I was 19, but that didn’t give me a score, just “highly gifted”. I found the second test much easier, yes, and in fact find it hard to imagine I made any mistake there. It told me I was in the top 1%, meaning I may have made one mistake and really scored as low as 133.5; in any case, the max score must be 136, if not 134 or 135.

I think the first also doesn’t go much higher than what I scored, surely no higher than the second. Considering the difficulty of the first, with patterns within patterns within patterns at the end, I really think I did quite well, which is why I was willing enough to make my score known here!

Haven’t done the third one, not sure I will, but I might.

P.S.: The second was in my native language, whereas the first was in English. Shouldn’t matter much for me, but it may have mattered a little.

Do you think the formatting of test 2 made any difference? It was an easy read with limited options (2-3 choices), I was able to whiz right through it and if 134-136 tops it out, then I did well too.

I may look into how the tests were designed later.

The fourth test (requiring payment to see results) started out with 15 easy questions, then 15 moderately difficult questions, then 15 torturous questions. This test offered nine answer choices typically. Out of the four tests so far, I believe the fourth one would be a more accurate indicator, sucks that they want $10 from everyone for something that isn’t official.

The third one was another brain drain for me, had to guess at the end to get it over with. You should take it to see if it is comparable to test 1 by way of your scoring. My scores of 102 and 130 are far apart and I’m not sure why, other than the graphics in the first one was distracting me.

The language barrier probably did affect your results. You have my permission to add +5 to your result. :evilfun: :laughing:

I suppose it makes some difference, but if you see the pattern it can only be one answer, anyway, so it doesn’t really matter how many options there are (unless there are so many it’s hard to find the one you’re looking for).

My point exactly, my score was really at least 123. :wink:

Don’t you mean really 128? If not, I’m lost. The joke flew right over my head like a Boeing 747.

132! ← I belong in Mensa!

The test was incredibly easy… got every question right. Unless I’m being timed for each question (the glove one I had to take a moment out and test), 132 seems the highest you can get.

Will have to try the tedious half hour one next.

1 & 3 were both tedious half hours, ah, 3 may have been more like 40 min. I only know that I wanted to stab my eyes out to end it.

No joke. Anyway, I took the third test, and here are my findings. For one thing, I had quite a few problems with the formulation of the questions:

a. “Handwritten strokes”. What is one stroke (this was implicitly answered by a later question, but not without creating another problem–see e below)? And written by whom? Aren’t there different styles of handwriting?
b. “If yesterday is tomorrow”: weird kind of phrase to interpret as homonymous.
c. “Same dice”? Surely that should be “same die” (there was only talk of one)?
d. “A person goes for a walk and passes through every region without using the same path twice.” It doesn’t say the person uses each path once, though that must be what is meant (otherwise the question is unanswerable). Also, it speaks of “blue lines” that symbolise the paths, but they’re actually double blue lines (two lines = one path).
e. The capital C contains a change in direction or a curve, but the capital U does not??

There’s also a complication with my score. It took me quite a while to finish this test, partly because I’m at work and was interrupted quite frequently (much more so than during the first test), and partly because I had a hard time finding a pattern a couple of times. The last question was the worst, I just couldn’t find the pattern. I didn’t want to choose at random, so I looked it up and read far enough to read the pattern for finding variable A. I then found the pattern for B myself, but it was similar, so I didn’t even do the question half on my own.

When choosing the right answer, my score was 210, which would put me in the top 8.70%. When choosing a wrong answer, my score is 195, which is in the top 15.22%. There were four options for the last question, so I would have had a 25% chance to get it right when choosing at random. I therefore contend that I should get a score of 195 + a quarter of the difference between 210 and 195. This would make my score 198.75, putting me in the top 13.59%. Which still sucks.

No can do, Amigo, you cheated! :evilfun: :laughing:

Now take the fourth one, pay the $10, and report back with your score, okay? :sunglasses:

The word was “Extremely”, which contains only one E; the other two are e’s…

Good one, and it’s possible. I don’t remember the exact wording (that was the word I was looking for when I resorted to “formulation” above!).

Test 1: Sauwelios 123, WendyDarling 102.
Test 2: Sauwelios 134, WendyDarling 128.
Test 3: Sauwelios 195, WendyDarling 130.
Test 4: Sauwelios $0, WendyDarling -$10.

What’s your point Sau sau?

  1. IQ test #5 http://www.funeducation.com/Tests/IQTest/TakeTest.aspx

  2. IQ test #6 http://www.free-iqtest.net/

  3. IQ test #7 http://www.myiqtested.com/

  4. IQ test #8 http://www.freeiqtest.info/

  5. IQ test #9 https://www.stanfordbinet.net/

  6. IQ test #10 https://iqpro.org/ Out of this batch, I’m gonna take this one first and it’s timed. (To view score, it’ll cost you $20)

Those IQ tests are created to make people believe that they are intelligent. These types of people don’t even attempt in finding a worthwhile IQ test (we are on the internet, one can find things in a matter of seconds for heaven’s sake) because they’re only interested in tests which stroke their egos. It appears that, people will fall for anything, no matter how ridiculous, if it gives them a positive image of themselves.

What drives one to do these tests? Curiosity or insecurity? Hmmmm, maybe a mix of both! Not that insecurity is wrong, but how one deals with it is what matters, will one move towards deception or clarity, that is, away or toward further insecurity?

A standard IQ test will drop you down significantly. I’m talking big margins. Go find one or just don’t do them at all (that would be a more dignified action). Heavier time constraints. 3 hours long… Not 40 minutes.

Why would anyone waste their time on such tests? Well, I know why.

Then there’s the reality that, one can have an IQ test and be delusional or possess a million other traits or afflictions that suck. Having a high IQ in and of itself is pretty worthless. People can use their abilities (memory, pattern seeking, reasoning) in all manners of twisted ways, degenerating them, and making it (or them) inferior to people with lower IQ.

Naturally, it goes without saying that these online tests are created for entertainment purposes only, and as such aren’t indicative of a person’s intelligence.

Hm, so you can go above 132… or did you fudge the numbers like you did test #3?

How 'bout just for a bit of fun?

You really want to test someones intelligence then give them questions where
they have to show how they got the answers rather than give them in advance

I agree.

If I had an extra $1500, I’d take an official test given by a psychiatric professional because I’m curious of what I am capable of doing and how my efforts compare to others. It would be interesting if the official tests were expanded to measure Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

Fair enough. Well, since you would like to know, I’d check out some torrent sites. They’ve got quite a few decent IQ tests there (supposedly used in various organisations e.g. academia, military, workplaces etc.). They’re usually divided into 3 parts, 60 minutes each, but that varies. I think you would get a better estimation although they are rather boring. There’s also a certain disadvantage in working with some questions where, if you are reading it off a computer, and writing your answers down on a piece of paper, there would be lag created in constantly looking up and down, so, it might be a good idea to print them off.

Oh, and that’s a lousy idea of fun, gib.