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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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I agree and was gonna say something like what wirthling said so you can put me down as co-author ;)

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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.

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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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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?

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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?
  ---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.
  

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?

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

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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.

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

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

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Around 170.

That's pretty high. You should get it checked. You might have hypertension or something.

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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.

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

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Mine's 156. I am smart, much smarter than you, Hibbert.

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Could I just point out that this is one of the dodgiest IQ tests I have ever seen? It is not culturally-independent, it is not education-independedent, it is not load-of-uttershit-independent. I have taken some good IQ tests, written by people such as Serbriakov (spelling?) and I have a fair idea of a) what kind of things a good IQ test will have in it, and b) what my IQ is, roughly. This one fails badly on both accounts. It does have a few good IQ test questions in it - pattern recognition, stuff like that - but anything based on maths (there was one in there that used Pythagoras, for fuck's sake), geography, proverbs, language, or any kind of general knowledge is just plain wrong.

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You didn't tell us your IQ ;)

Depending on what test I am taking it is around 160, give or take ten or so... I think... it may be higher (180?) but it has been a few years since I last took a really good one. Pick up anything by Serbriakov (again, spelling?) to do a really good test, based on culturally-neutral recognition of patterns and sequences.

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Depending on what test I am taking it is around 160, give or take ten or so...

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(there was one in there that used Pythagoras, for fuck's sake)

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Or theorem, even. Bah.

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(there was one in there that used Pythagoras, for fuck's sake)

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Of course, a really smart person would be able to formulate Pythagoras's Thereom while actually doing the test, whether they'd learned it before or no.

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(there was one in there that used Pythagoras, for fuck's sake)

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Of course, a really smart person would be able to formulate Pythagoras's Thereom while actually doing the test, whether they'd learned it before or no.

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IQ tests are dandy at predicting one thing: school performance. Now before someone says "I got a 178 IQ, but I made Fs in school because I hated it," I'm not saying a person's IQ determines his school performance-- just that IQ scores correlate strongly with grades (or marks, for you weenie non-Americans).

I also know that there is practically no IQ test that you can't increase your score on by training in things like logic.

IQ tests are terrible at predicting things like income and other "success" measures.

Hell, I can't get past question 25 without it returning me to the main page to sign in.....