Anyone tried this test out? What is your opinion of it? I know it is probably another load of bullcrap, but I actually thought for a while it might be a little valid.

I know I'm probably going to be impaled, decapitated, and have my guts ripped out, but please try and keep the hatred down to a minimum...


http://www.iqout.com/

I normally score between 125 and 135 on IQ tests.  This one I scored 105.  I think that some of it has to do with the fact that the timer has something to do with my slow interface to the net.  Also, it was very different and I didn't catch on to the shape thing very well.  And if it isn't any of those, I'm just dumbing down, which is entirely possible.

Cindi

Similar gap here, Cindi. Usually score about 150-155 on tests with Cattel distribution, scored 121 on this.

It took me a while to get the hang of the shapes (also I didn't see that A and B, which are beside the patterns, are possible answers rather than part of the patterns for about 15 questions).

I may try it again to see if the score changes.

Or, I could be just dumbing down with age and not enough Arrogant Bastard Ale in my system.

Dennis

QuoteI know I'm probably going to be impaled, decapitated, and have my guts ripped out, but please try and keep the hatred down to a minimum...

Nah... I love these kinds of tests... they are a challenge more than anything. I'll try it when I'm feeling
more fresh and report my score. How long does it take?

Amanda

35 questions at 45 seconds timer.

Dennis

I tend not to do IQ tests. Or rather, I do them, but stop before it comes up with the result. I like doing the questions, but I'm happy remaining blissfully ignorant of my IQ itself.
     A few years ago (I was 16 or 17), I tried a some, and one said my IQ was 117, another 147, and another 162.
I also have issues with some of the questions themselves - I started one recently, but it was obviously written in America for Americans, 'cause it talked about dimes and quarters and which city was in which state (state? county?) and states' respective sizes - e.g. Which is larger, Texas, New Mexico, New York or Pennsylvania? (sorry about spelling if it's wrong! ). As I live in Adelaide (Australia), these 'general knowledge' questions aren't as 'general' as the name suggests. This is probably the biggest problem I have with IQ tests - they tend to rely on 'general knowledge' that is really only general to specific areas. It'd be like writing an IQ test for someone from Oslo and asking if the tallest building in Adelaide is the Santos building or the Festival Centre. Most people in Adelaide would know, but it's fairly certain that not many Norwegians would (or anyone else, for that matter ). So yes, I have big issues with them.

That said, however, I have a great time doing the other questions!

As for this test...I'll get back to you on that.

Posted on: June 07, 2008, 08:28:52 AM

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Interesting...the layout was a bit confusing, which doesn't help in a timed test. Didn't finish it either (Mum and brother arrived home and started asking me questions), but what I did get to do was fun.

If the lunatics in the asylum write the sanity test, most would be considered sane, so who is to say who is a genius and who is not?

I don't put much stock in them, but of the ones I have taken I usually score quite high.

I think just about everyone does -- well at least me -- because most of the online iq tests I have taken are really trashy...

Another fun iq test I have found in my journey on the net...

http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf

IQ test results tend to be used to establish some sort of 'smart credential' for people who are have great trouble proving it any other way.

I never take these. I suck so bad at Math, I'd probably come up in the retarded range.

Quote from: Nero on June 07, 2008, 03:35:58 PM
I never take these. I suck so bad at Math, I'd probably come up in the retarded range.

Most are not based on math, but logic.
Mensa uses movie quotes and other oddities.

Got 86!!!

I've taken at least a dozen real IQ tests and always score around 135!!

Think I zoned out on what needed to be done... Or I'm THAT dumb 

I'm usually very good at patterns.

As for quotes, or music excerpt, I'm very very good, I can tell
which song it is even with a few notes. Not sure how the brain
does that. I can also recall

Quote from: Nero on June 07, 2008, 03:35:58 PM
I never take these. I suck so bad at Math, I'd probably come up in the retarded range.

There is no math and no questions in this one.  It's just pattern recognition.

C

That's why I don't mess with those questionnaires. When I tested my self for IQ in college, sheeeeeesh that was to many years ago, well, a long time ago anyway. I tested at 150 back then. The last time I tested myself on the Internet it was about 4 years ago, I was 120. I wouldn't fret to much about it Cindi. I have spent enough time on this group with you to know you are way more smarter then that, you are certainly not small time stuff in the brain department, and that's good enough for me. No need to respond to this post if you desire not to.

Cindy

heh...I'm not so good at the ones that are only shapes.  I took a real iq test once and I scored 127.  I only got 97 on this one.  I prefer a test that is more well-rounded, that includes verbal and other things.  I have a bad habit of making things harder than they are, so a patterns test is hard for me. 

I got 113 which is in the low end range I score on my online iq test scores. My test scores generally fall in the range 112 - 129.  I really don't care this kind of test too much of the same thing. I had a real IQ test as a kid to see why I was having trouble in school they said I was above average then next comes in the school counselor and then the social workers oh my.


Anna

Geez everyone says they have taken a real iq test. And lookey here, omg, everyone says they scored at least above average. Why am I not suprised? Since I actually know I have taken a real iq test as a kid, I might as well share what it feels. It feels like s**t to score so low on an iq test as to probably never have a chance in life at anything. Too bad, I can't shove this paper into the computer so that everyone believes me.

Not long ago a person hanging out in our world tried to tell us how high their IQ was and one of my buds said "Gee, if you're that smart how come your not rich or happy, even idiots find a way to be happy and many of us even make money."  That ended that.

It ain't about tests.  It's about life.  If your a success in life, no one cares about the tests.

IQ scores don't really mean much.  And just because someone can score high on a test doesn't mean they'll be successful.  Believe me on that one.  I had a 3.98/4.0 in high school and I am not a successful person.  I'm a temp who barely makes ends meet.  Tests aren't relevant in real life. 

I don't care anymore. It isn't something that particuliarly bothers me. The WISC is just another tool to make people hate themselves. Just another f**ked up way for those ->-bleeped-<-s with their giant degrees to make me feel like garbage.