Sorry if this is a repeat, I found this:

emode

and took "The Ultimate IQ Test" - my score was 127. Seems I'm more mathematically inclined than I thought.

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

They take to long and every time I try I come out stupider.
Maybe I'll do it later.

on the other hand, emode is great. It says that I'm a critic, have lucky pennies, lucky number is seven, "My Way" is my theme song, Brown is my true color, Dress Oxfords fit me, I'm a kinda evil, slightly introverted perfectionist that's more ready to meet my maker, has a emerald aura, and is a renaissance man with Xray vision.

I spent alot of time there.

126. What's the highest? Most of the test seemed to be about balance and symmetry, so those parts seemed easy to me. It also told me I was an "inspired inventor". Whatever that means.

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Skeeter Valentine = hot.

My IQ is 136, and my Intellectual Type is a Visionary Philosopher, meaning that I am equally good at mathematical and verbal tasks, and learn best through experience. And, Chicka...according to the site, most people's IQs are between 70 and 130. In fact, 95% of all people have IQs within that range. 68% of people score between 80 and 120. Their scale only registers up to 160, but I have heard reports of people being tested higher. Einstein is believed to have tested somewhere between 160 and 180.

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If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all. D'OH!

153.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I thought Einstein was over 200. Madonna's supposed to be about a million, anyway. Perhaps she did a special celebrity test.

I got 135, and am also a Visionary Philosopher. Aren't IQ tests supposed to be timed, though?

If this was, we would all be in trouble.

I seem to have only gotten 122 ::sob::... and I appear to be the first Word Warrior here to take the test.

I wouldn't worry. I reckon IQ tests are only a valid measure of intelligence if you're at either extreme. A person with an IQ of 50 is likely to be very dim; one with 180 is probably very smart; but if you're just around the middle, I don't think it's particularly reliable.

I quite agree with Andy. And yes, IQ test usually are timed. Einstein would never reveal his actual IQ, thus the birth of the 'over 200' rumor. I tried looking it up, but none of the reference materials I've found have a definite answer...but most agree on the 160 - 180 range.

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If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all. D'OH!

Also, it apparently penalises younger people. Older people's brains are expected to have deteriorated more, so their scores are bumped up. So don't despair, Nate!

IQ tests are only marginally useful. They are highly unscientific. Do you suppose the people who design the IQ tests have IQs of 200 or so? If not, then how do they know which answers are correct and what it means if they do know the correct answer. True, there is some vague meaningfulness to the results, as a person with a low IQ score (below 90) is usually correspondingly slow-witted while those with higher scores tend to have better aptitude for learning. Beyond that, however, one's precise score is irrelevant. I think I remember reading that Marilyn Vos Savant took IQ tests something like 8 times before she got the score which made her "the smartest person in the world." If you can take an IQ test several times and get different results (especially when each result is higher than the last), how accurate can one say the test is? Did Marilyn get smarter between each test? It's possible, but unlikely. What is more likely is that the IQ test is flawed and prone to skewed results based on how well one understands the types of questions asked.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

It's alright, I'm just a little envious(not the best word) and can get jealous. It's like I gotta be the best.

I agree and was gonna say something like what wirthling said so you can put me down as co-author ;) I also think that the IQ test are designed so that one over 200 is not posible- I may be wrong though.

If you didn't read Guide to a Better Life Through Stealing Office Suplies by Scott Adams you wouldn't get it.

IQ tests were made to accurately measure below-normal intelligence. They're only really good for screening out Icosishes.

Finding this out was damn unpleasant for me, considering that I turned out to have one of 155.

Oh yeah, the highest IQ so far recorded is 240.

I'm not sure about the lowest ever. Gabe, what did you get?

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

8.

I was browsing through an IQ test book back when I worked at Borders and it had some really weird questions in it. I was under the impression that IQ tests should be based on concepts such that people from a wide variety of backgrounds should be able to deal with them.

Take a question like this, for instance...

What comes next in this series?

ST, ND, RD, TH, ... ?

With a little pondering, you can come up with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. Whoever the genius was that wrote this particular book had such little gems as a similar question along the same lines but using the first letter of books in the Old Testament. Or something like that. I know nothing about the bible, so had no idea what they were getting at. And they had I think three questions based on bible references.

The only beef I had with this one is the first question. I had some trouble with the colors, being color blind, and wasn't sure if color was supposed to factor into it. I like B&W line drawings better.

Anyhoo, it seemed like a decent test.

I got a 138. I also took this, http://www.mensa.org/workout.html, and got a 29/30. I think maybe some of us should start hanging out with Kaufman at his Mensa shindigs.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I have a Mensa book that had 6 or so IQ tests in it. I took all 6 and the scoring was roughly as follows: 108, 124, 136, 144, 156, 148. I either got alot smarter in a week, or the test doesn't hold water.

A better method would be to have the person take multiple tests and use the scoring gradient (mine would be 108, 124...148) to determine a person's score. But even that would be dependent on how often the person's taken a similar test. So, instead I offer my IQ test, devoid of all dependencies on outside factors (including race, gender, SES, etc) other than intelligence.
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[*]Question 1: If the guy to your right is reading "Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of the Universe as Wavefunction" and the guy to your left is reading "Cheese and its Workings", which one would you more likely see falling into a singularity made entirely of cheese?

[*]Question 2: If Jack is 22 and John is twice Jack's age, how old will Jack be when John is 44?

[*]Question 3: If your uncle and aunt are named Aunt and Uncle, respectively, how fucked up are your cousins?

[*]Question 4: If 1 + 2 = 3, and 3 + 6 = 9, where'd you bury her?

[*]Question 5: "What I did on summer vacation." 200 words or less.[/list]

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

[list]
[*]Question 1: If the guy to your right is reading "Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of the Universe as Wavefunction" and the guy to your left is reading "Cheese and its Workings", which one would you more likely see falling into a singularity made entirely of cheese?
---Both, cause they're William Shatner impersonators.
[*]Question 2: If Jack is 22 and John is twice Jack's age, how old will Jack be when John is 44?
---Traped in a distortion of the space-time continuum.
[*]Question 3: If your uncle and aunt are named Aunt and Uncle, respectively, how fucked up are your cousins?
---Like the Osbornes.
[*]Question 4: If 1 + 2 = 3, and 3 + 6 = 9, where'd you bury her?
---In my square root canal.
[*]Question 5: "What I did on summer vacation." 200 words or less.
---Things I did; eat sleep, excrete.
[/list]

What'd I get?

I decided to go check out the "Ultimate IQ Test" and I think the real test was to see how gullible people are about their "don't worry--the personal info you send us will be private" statement. As we have learned from other online companies, they will keep your personal info private until they decide it will be much more profitable to sell it to spammers.

I think they are presenting these various online test not for our self-improvement but rather to attract visitors (most people enjoy taking inconsequential online tests) and collect an assload of detailed demographics. I could be wrong, but why would they require that info just to take the test?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Well, I gave a fake name and e-mail address. Does that push my IQ up a few notches?

Duh. That's why I gave them your email address.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

My scoring is a little different than most. It's based on barnyard animals.

You got a horse.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

BTW, my favorite IQ test is the one at the site whose name I can't remember, that starts out normal, then starts asking really stupid questions and starts repeating them, and bases your IQ on how many pages your slog through before you give up and quit. I think the average was 30 some, with 10 questions on each page. I gave up around 6, because I'd seen the same question three times and thought it was dumb. Turns out I was right.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

spark.com. I could never forget a test that consumed so many w...er, seconds of my life.

You were the guy with 160,000 page views, weren't you?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Dang, I only got 142 blah blah "Visionary Philosopher" blah blah blah.

And back in 8th grade, I got a 144. Must be slipping in my old age.

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"There's no point in beating a dead horse ... except, of course, for the pure joy of it." - A. Whitney Brown