IQ Survey

Hagar

The rest of us poor plebs know that all you guys are gifted.
But just how gifted are you?
What IQ range do you guys fall into?
I know there are different scales but for the purpose of the exercise lets use the scale Mensa use.

I don't expect any one to leave names or any thing like that, just click the button. Thanks

It wasn't me!

I've never taken a Mensa test and I have no intention of going to great lengths to do so. If there's an online one though I'd do it as I'm killing time at the moment. Have you a link to an online version? According to IQTest.com I'm 170 or thereabouts, but I don't trust it because it took me five minutes or something and the questions were all incredibly easy.

Raphael

Hagar, in this country, people don't take IQ tests. I'm going to assume from you assuming that we do that you are either not irish, or in the david beckham bracket =p

And if you suggest we take online ones.....your below the beckham bracket. Online IQ tests are abysmal

Not to mention the fact that high IQ doesn't mean genius. IQ measures intelligence potential. Having a high IQ by no means indicates that you are the next Einstein, merely that you could be.

Davey Devil

I'm from Ireland and I did IQ tests in school.

It wasn't me!

I did an IQ test years ago when I was like five but nothing since then. And I have no idea what the results were except that they were high. Also, a quick recheck on IQTest.com has shown 150, proving what I already knew, that it's a pile of bollocks as IQ doesn't fluctuate through life.

Hagar

Rapheal, I am Irish, I am not in the David Beckham bracket.
I'm a Mensa Member and have been for the last 30 years or so - Membership No 10890 if you feel you must check, and I didn't scrape in either. So lighten up on the assumptions please. :mad:

Irish people do take IQ tests.
If they didn't there wouldn't be any Irish Members in Mensa would there?
I just rechecked my original post and there was no mention of online tests.

I was just trying to satisfy my curiousity, there is no need for anyone to respond in any way if they don't choose to.

Raphael

And did you do that particular IQ test to gain membership to MENSA, or did you gain membership on credit of a good result in an IQ test

Online tests are the only ones I know of that can be taken in this country, Perhaps things are different in dublin, but the only IQ test I could take would be internet based. I apologise for that assumption.

So, satisfying your curiosity? I suppose that's one way to phrase it...

It wasn't me!

I think it was an IQ test I took years ago but it was really weird considering the guy who tested me managed to work the fact that I shoot off my left shoulder and eye into his assessment. May have been something different but other than that I think it's only online tests. Hagar, how did you do yours?

Hugh Hefner

Just to say the scale Mensa uses is the Cattle B scale. Most of the internet tests use a different one but you can find scale translators if you look on google or somethin'.

162 on the Mensa scale by the way!

Crash

I always turn em into a race - i find em hard to take seriously. must take one properly some time.

Piste

Below 75 Learning difficulty

75 - 85 Below Average

85 - 114 Average Middle school graduates

115 - 124 Above average High school graduates

125 - 134 Gifted University graduates

135 - 144 Highly gifted Professionals

145 - 154 Genius Professors/Researchers

155 - 164 Genius Nobel Prize Winners

165 - 179 High genius

180 - 200 Extraordinary genius

PurpleFistMixer

Is that right? o.o

That'd make my sister a Nobel Prize winner... and as smart and all as she is...

Hugh Hefner

Drt. Hibert- 158
Lisa- 159
Maggie- A suspected 167
Dr. Frink- 199 now 197
Comic Book Guy- 166 (I think)

pinkpimp

Kev, if you've seen it thirty three times already, change the station.

mentalimplosion

IQ testing is how I was scouted out for CTYI. A friend of my parent's is a psychologist who was studying for a diploma in IQ testing and she needed some volunteers to run tests on. I can't remember what the name of the test was but it took ages and a couple of months later I got my results back and part of the recommendations was that I apply for CTYI. There was no one definitive number, it was mostly done in percentiles I think.

halenger

Hagar wrote:

Rapheal, I am Irish, I am not in the David Beckham bracket.
I'm a Mensa Member and have been for the last 30 years or so - Membership No 10890 if you feel you must check, and I didn't scrape in either. So lighten up on the assumptions please. :mad:

Irish people do take IQ tests.
If they didn't there wouldn't be any Irish Members in Mensa would there?
I just rechecked my original post and there was no mention of online tests.

I was just trying to satisfy my curiousity, there is no need for anyone to respond in any way if they don't choose to.

Nevermind him. He likes a good fight. :P

Also a Mensa member but I was utterly disgusted with the supervised exam though. There was no maths on it at all. English is my weak side of things, which is fairly typical of nerds (computer nerds - according to a lecturer of mine).

Anyhow meh. IQ is what it is. It's just one of those things that you throw around. I don't feel it measures much particularly. It just leaves you with a number you can try to throw at some people and then you sit quietly as they throw something larger (number of other) back!

I'm talking crap cause I'm sick and don't feel like thinking.

Spraypaint

I dunno about the rest of you but I've done a few IQ tests, mostly online for the hell of it and I've seen some major variations in my scores. We're talking up to 30 points here. As far as I can tell none of us have a definitive IQ or can have because tests and the conditions under which we take them can differ greatly.

Anyway we're members of CTYI so I guess that goes most of the way to proving that we're smmmarter than the av-e-rage bears.

halenger

What about very smart bears though? Are we smarter than them?

pinkpimp

No-one is smarter than very smart bears.

PurpleFistMixer

What about very smart foxes? With all the cunning, you know...

Piste

But then again some of us CTYIers are more cunning than a fox whose just been made professer of cunning at Harvard. (Yeah I ripped of someones sig there)

Raphael

Actually, that's just a bastardisation of a blackadder quote

For the terminally curious:

As cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning.

It wasn't me!

Aonghus, remind me to disconnect your DSL line.

Raphael

It wasn't me! wrote:

Aonghus, remind me to disconnect your DSL line.

Someones jealous

It wasn't me!

Errr... No. I just think it would be for your physical and mental wellbeing. Yeah, that's what it's about. Ahem
/Goes to hide bitterness.

Piste

Yup thats the right one. love them bastardisations.

It wasn't me!

Heh. "I Love ^_^" Much entertainment.

Hugh Hefner

Boldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?

Blackadder: Yes.

Boldrick: Hmm... That's cunning.


That's the full thing. Ahh Blackadder.

Bazookatone

It's generally agreed that:
1: anything above 160 is very intelligent
2: 170-180 (it's a bit vague) or above is a freak thing that you're born with, you can't learn yourself that clever
3: people who are that clever usually have the social skills of a Lemur trying to mate with a rock, and are tiresome, because they are told from an early age how smart they are and become arrogant little snots, I kow because I was one until I came to CTYI.
4: IQ tests are a pretty crappy measure of intelligence.

A much better test is the D.A.T.S. test (Differential Aptitute Test) which measures your intelligence in 7 or 8 areas (Mathematical, verbal, spatial, visual reasoning as well as perpetual speed and accuracy ie doing something repetitive correctly over and over again correctly)
I took this in my school, it takes as long as the SAT test to get into CTYI. I scored H+ (much higher than average) in almost everything, so tecnically, I am brilliant in virtually every aspect of human endeavour, however, I got 425 points in my Leaving Cert, much less than everyone expected. Which test shows how clever I really am? you decide

The moral of the story
1: Brains aren't everything
2: Being too brainy will not make your life better
3: CTYIers won't miss any oppertunity to remind the world how clever they are (and they are)
4: CTYIers haven't got enough motivation to get of their arses and d anything useful with their "gift"
5: I love posting long lists of definitive facts

Now, where's that rock, me's gonna get some lovin' (scratches head like Lemur)

Bazookatone

One more thing:
The smartest animals in the world, according to the faultless logic of Terry Pratchett, is the camel. Most people think it would be dolphins, but if we've cottoned on to how smart dolphins are, obviously they weren't smart enough to pretend not to be so smart, try saying that ten times really fast!

Camels have four stomachs and complex digestive systems, therefore they need a smarter brain to control them, plus, unlike dolphins who'realways helping shipwrecked sailors, camels are smart enough to leave people to die in the desert, thus doing their part to kill off the human race so that camels will be the dominant species on the planet.

doonothing

wow. good going man. but yeah, intelligence aint everything, and in a slightly grander scheme of things, its fairly low down the list of important things.
im trying to go somewhere with this.
the planet probably wont last very much longer and all this will be forgotten. so yeah.
im going even further from whatever point i thought i had.
ahh.

Raphael

Damnit Jack, you're right!

Those bastard camels have been trying to get us for years

TO THE CAMEL ANNIHALATION MACHINE

(you better remember the appropriate response man)

jono087

anyone know any decent online iq tests? i'v tried a few and i get very different answers..,..

It wasn't me!

Such a thing does not exist.

Piste

Yeah the iqtest.com thing is really bad. There are questions like 'There are 7 letters in 'Monday' true or False?' and 'Drat saddam, a mad dastard is spelt the same forwards as it is backwards'

Bazookatone

Here's the Bzookatone patented IQ test
1: 2+2=
a) 4 b) 2 c) none of the above d) have sex with me

2: A train leaves Euston station at 9.00 am travelling from Dublin to Cork at 100 mph. How long will it take Cathal to freak everybody in one carraige out by talking excitedly and doing his blinking-while-I'm-talking thing.
a) 8 minutes b) 8 seconds c) according to Cathal, "we won't exist in precisly this state ever again so all our Chi energy is focused on..... hey why are you blinking like that" d) have sex with me

3: How long does it take one bad tempered, sunburned, dehydrated, red headed boy to cut miles and miles amd miles of grass
a) Apparently more time than it takes anyone else according to his foul mouthed foreman
b) Depends on how many trucks almost run him down
c) 4,.......4 what?,.....I don't know, just 4
d) have sex with me

4: Why can I not get a woman to like me?
a) bad breath
b) no social skills
c) intimidating amounts of sexual energy, and a complete lack of redeeming features of any kind whatsoever
d) have sex with me

If you answered D to any or all of the above, you are probably as smart as me. Or at least, your actions are controlled by the same set of organs, either way, same thing.

Bazookatone

TO THE CAMEL ANNIHALATION MACHINE

(you better remember the appropriate response man)

The correct response is
"...........................................you mean your Chevy?"
".....yes"

How dare thou test me, I am Jack, I don not answer to the queries of mere mortal man!!!!!!!

Raphael

Just checking man. Get MSN yet?

Undergod

Well, maybe not very smart bears, but probably a smidgen smarter than your average bear.

IQ test are one of the least reliable ways to test intelligence. They only test visual intelligence, english and maths to a degree, and all other forms of intelligene are ignored. [sorry... Psychology Session 2 2004]

Anyway, I've done various IQ test under abysmal conditions (while having n argument, while in a hot, smelly, stuffy room of annoying children, &c...) and performed reasonably well.

The most awful one I did recently- first it measured maths (about 20 questions) then it measured visual reasoning (about 10) and then it measured how well you know proverbs! Now, as any scholar (or RPG player) will tell you, proverbs and such like are not involved in intelligence. The way this test asked them was more testing memory/knowledge than actual smart-ness (or, to RPG players, WIS rather than INT).

Bazookatone

No I haven't, I need someone to send me a long E-mail with simple instructions written in Large, easy to see writing to tell me how to do it, didn't I say that CTYIers are lazy, I'm a CTYIer, therefore I'm lazy

Bazookatone

Here's a good question:
What would George Doob-aya Bush score on an IQ test.
a) below average
b) way below average
c) way, way below average
d) clinically in a coma
e) clinically dead
f) Dumber than his father, who at least had the good sense to get out of Iraq.

BTW: Any Americans who are offended by this mocking of your figurehead and the sole leader of your nation's destiny, Ha! Ha! You elected an idiot!
And to be honest, Kerry's not much better.

ll=llannah

Ha! Ha! You elected an idiot!

in our defense, we didn't elect him. (and that's why the electoral college is obsolete and undemocratic. not that we know the meaning of democracy any more, only corporations and duopolies and oil. *unearthly shriek of rage*
and i couldn't possibly be offended by your understatement of his inept behavior in office.

i mean... IQ surveys! and stuff.

rainbow kirby

According to the last waste-of-time online test I did (the Spark one years ago...) it was about 145.
DATS? Did that in 3rd year in school. Scored crap in mechanical reasoning because that section ran into lunchtime, and I was damned if I was doing anything more till I got food.
I'm a 3rd year maths physics student now. Go figure.

lucernarian

Scored 149 on the Sparks test but I have a strong feeling that the results vary depending on when you take the test. Once I got 116 in a test, another test put me at 172. The 116 one was in a very stuffy computer room at 7.30 at ses 2 last year so things like that can easily affect it I suppose. In any case IQ tests are not a very good guide and I couldnt care that much what the actual value is so long as I'm happy with my intelligence (which I sort-of am)

jono087

Bazookatone wrote:

Here's a good question:
What would George Doob-aya Bush score on an IQ test.
a) below average
b) way below average
c) way, way below average
d) clinically in a coma
e) clinically dead
f) Dumber than his father, who at least had the good sense to get out of Iraq.

BTW: Any Americans who are offended by this mocking of your figurehead and the sole leader of your nation's destiny, Ha! Ha! You elected an idiot!
And to be honest, Kerry's not much better.

Ok, that's taking the piss a bit too much. Realistically Mr. Bush wouldn't fit any of those descriptions........ he's much stupider than any of those!