Whats your IQ?

RandolphEsq

I did an IQ test on www.iqtest.com and got 134 but i have no idea if thats good or bad so I think it would be cool if other people did the same test and then we get some sort of average and see how intelligent people on boards actually are

Le Rack

118, if I remember correctly... above average for my age....
I'll just go do this one.

LovelyHurling

oh no. this is going to turn into a *ya think yer feckin great just cos ya got the leavin'* type brawls isnt it:eek:

damienom

Got 136 twice on different ones. Is that good or am I thick??

dr zoidberg

Internet IQ tests vary a lot in quality, they're not exactly reliable. IQ tests are very flawed in any case.

BTW 134 is a very good score, officialy to be considered a genius you need an IQ of 135 + . Only about 1 % of the population would get that score.

Just did that and I got 149 - excuse me french but that's beaucoup de merde!

madbabe(",)

I got 178

Closing Doors

I think there are different types of scale? On the "most used" one the average is 100. From what I remember from a test I did when I was 14/15 I'm in the high 140s on that scale.

Gazza22

Would this be a thread where everyone lies through their teeth about their actual intelligence?.....Oh wait i forgot, this is the internet...:p

If you want to do an accurate and respected IQ test, do a mensa IQ as alot of the free IQ exams on the net are rubbish

casanova_kid

149, but the questions seemed a bit too easy

LovelyHurling

casanova_kid wrote:

149, but the questions seemed a bit too easy

once did an online iq test and i got something great like 2 million or something and just when i was starfting to think i was a genius they offered me to buy an official certificate of my genius for only $49.99... now i hate the feckin internet

madbabe(",)

Gazza22 wrote:

If you want to do an accurate and respected IQ test, do a mensa IQ as alot of the free IQ exams on the net are rubbish

I did a mensa iq test!

Giblet

138 but I think I'll leave the real testing to the professionals.

rubadub

132, I think the fact that people are getting over 130 and do not know that the average IQ is 100 just shows how bad the test is!
They are trying to flog certificates, I can't see many people wanting to frame a cert saying their IQ is 68!

Mossy Monk

that test is asking me to pay for my results. did i go to the right place?

muletide

Just ignore that bit and go to your email address account it should be in your bulk folder

dr zoidberg

Closing Doors wrote:

I think there are different types of scale? On the "most used" one the average is 100. From what I remember from a test I did when I was 14/15 I'm in the high 140s on that scale.

All decent IQ tests standardize the scores so that the vast majority end up in the range 85-115. Really only an absolute genius should be getting 140+. Also, women almost always outscore men on IQ tests, and so they are punished for it to "bring their scores in line". You also get much better at IQ tests as you get older so you get punished for that aswell (because IQ scores are supposed to measure innate ability and not change over time).

TBH if you did the DATs in school they're a much better measure.

casanova_kid

it's a sham, i mean most of the questions you can answer just by being able to read.

WhiteWashMan

for so many intellectuals here, we certainly seem to get some sh1te threads....

Semper Fi

dr zoidberg wrote:

Internet IQ tests vary a lot in quality, they're not exactly reliable. IQ tests are very flawed in any case.

BTW 134 is a very good score, officialy to be considered a genius you need an IQ of 135 + . Only about 1 % of the population would get that score.

Just did that and I got 149 - excuse me french but that's beaucoup de merde!

In 1993 for mensa it was 149 and over was less than 2 % of the population.

Then again you might mean Ireland? So it is quite possible that the standards are lower than the mainland.

The Free Man

143, and im no genius...

dr zoidberg

Semper Fi wrote:

In 1993 for mensa it was 149 and over was less than 2 % of the population.

Then again you might mean Ireland? So it is quite possible that the standards are lower than the mainland.

Well, I didn't mean exactly 1 %, around that mark. I was basing it on the Bell Curve distribution, and I didn't look it up, so yeah. Point is it's small though and yet everyone in here is getting these scores.

stingy

124.

Meh, it's okay. I guess.

December Son

iQ tests are very flawed IMO. But online IQ tests are even MORE flawed. Ive yet to see ANYONE score less than about 120 in an online IQ test. And i dont know THAT many geniuses

WhiteWashMan

December Son wrote:

iQ tests are very flawed IMO. But online IQ tests are even MORE flawed. Ive yet to see ANYONE score less than about 120 in an online IQ test. And i dont know THAT many geniuses

i got 199?

am i geniuses?

Hugh Hefner

Semper Fi wrote:

In 1993 for mensa it was 149 and over was less than 2 % of the population.

It's currently 148 (on the Cattell Scale). The average of most IQ tests is 100. For instance, the Test The Nation IQ Test test has an average of 100 but a score of 148 on the Cattell Scale would ba the same as somewhere around the 135 mark on the Test The Nation test.


There's a nice conversion chart here.

Dooom

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i got 199?

am i geniuses?

Well you can't really call a bunch of people who are geniuses "geni's" or whatnot.

Aladdin'd be out of a job.

Geddit? Geni..Jeanie..hell I can't even spell.
Nevermind..I'll just leave.

marshmallow

I got 129...

plonk

IQ tests only measure how good you are at IQ tests. So who cares really except people in mensa.

Civilian_Target

Yeah - never done an IQ test before. Got 125. Which is probably a bit on the low side for someone doing Physics in uni...

arbeitsscheuer

Online ones are boll*cks tbh.

I got 151 in one, haven't bothered to do this one.

But in 2004 I did the MENSA test in UCD, got 144.

Missed out on getting into MENSA by 2-4 points, if I remember correctly.
I was in the top 4% in the country, but as someone already pointed out, membership is only offered to the top 2%.

Meh. Someone once said, "If I know anything, it is that I know nothing."

That'll do me.

I got 156. Although I'll admit those questions did seem very easy.

I got 147 on a proper IQ test, so I'll stick with that result.

Dman_15

136

But i have been studying flat out since 10 this morning

Fecking exams

county

too drunk for this

monkeyfudge

I had mine measured a good few years back at the Matter Hospital.... but I really don't think an IQ test is a true measurement of intelligence and certainly not genius. Genius should be measured by a persons abilty to juxtaposition.... I'm sure imagination plays a large part in it too.

Hagar

Mensa official test 157. That and a euro will get me a can of coke.

@ Semper Fi What mainland are you talking about?

Franky Boy

142 for me.

monkeyfudge

Hagar wrote:

@ Semper Fi What mainland are you talking about?

I think he must live on Craggy Island.

Hagar

LOL He will be when they get through with him on Feedback;)

Shabadu

"I done de test an it sed im so smrt it coudnt compute my intelegence quotas or sumtin lol"


ROLLEYES

Gibs

IQ testing is a highly complex process which should only be carried out by, at the minimum, a trained psychometrician, or preferably, a clinical psychologist with expertise in psychometrics.

The only legitimate tests that yield results that are both reliable (i.e. can be reproduced) and valid (i.e. actually measure what they purport to measure) are produced by companies like the Psychological Corporation and others. Legitimate test batteries include the Stanford Binet, The Woodcock-Johnson and the Wechsler scales. The Wechsler Scales are typically the most widely used (for adults the Wechsler Adult intelligence Scale, 3rd Edition (WAIS III), is the most recent incarnation and for children, it's the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 4th Edition (WISC IV)).

These tests are highly standardised and have norms that are based on reasonably representative samples of the general populations. Importantly, they also have non-US norms (although typically its UK norms rather than Irish ones). They are also protected by copyright and their content is not available to the general public. Only Clinical Psychologists are permitted to purchase and use these tests. This is to avoid people becoming familiar with the content and thereby invalidating the tests.

The standardised tests generally yield a lot of information, one part of which is an IQ score (known as a full-scale IQ score in the Wechsler tests), but this is only a summary score, derived by combining the results of 10 or more subtests, each of which taps into a different aspect of intellectual functioning . This is really important to note because it means that 2 people could therefore have exactly the same overall IQ in numerical terms, and yet have two entirely different profiles of ability - perhaps one person could be highly able in terms of verbal abilities and another in terms of non-verbal abilities.

In addition, the administration of these tests is not a straightforward process. The tests are not available to do online because of the considerable clinical skill needed to administer them and to judge the nature of the answers given.

Even before you get into a debate about what IQ tests measure or whether they should be used at all, one should bear in mind that none of the tests that you can find online (including the MENSA ones) is sufficiently reliable, valid or well standardised, for the results to be a psychometrically sound, acceptable measurement of a person's intellectual functioning, at least by any mainstream clinical psychologist. The majority of the online tests appear to be in the business of "vanity IQ testing" and they charge accordingly. However, even the ones that are not money-making scams are simply not well-enough designed or standardised for one to have any faith in the results they yield. To demonstrate one small example of the difficulty in ensuring meaningful test battery development, when the Psychological Corporation upgraded the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test from the WAIS-R to the next revision (WAIS-III), they had over 100 Psychologists researching and working on it, collecting standardisation data for many years. And that was only a revision of a test!

Online "IQ" tests are fun and maybe give you some idea of how good you are at particular types of problem solving compared to someone else who also takes the test, but they do not yield results that can be classified as IQ scores, at least not in the sense that mainstream Psychologist would find acceptable.

Just say that you got 80. We understand.

arbeitsscheuer

Deleted User wrote:

Just say that you got 80. We understand.

Roffles...

Inspired.:v:

Gone West

WhiteWashMan wrote:

for so many intellectuals here, we certainly seem to get some sh1te threads....

indeed. This thread will go over most people's heads, and I doubt many will even read it.

*sigh*
Isnt it strange that nobody has scored under 100? I was expecting a significant number of people to do so. Its statistically improbable that noone from boards.ie would score under 100. Perhaps people are telling little lies to make themselves feel better?

couple of points:
@aristotle/kenny_007 nice high IQ. Pity your posts' quality doesn't reflect your supposed intelligence.

@ the dude who has an IQ of 178, well done. Higher than einstein. Im hoping to see a theory of physical (nay, metaphysical) unification come from a bright young irish scientist sometime soon.

@ the mensa fanboys, I never saw your usernames on any of the mensa boards or the usenet feeds... And Mensa is limited to the top 2% of the populace, whatever the IQ happens to be at the time. Its around 150. I wouldn't bother joining, theyre a bunch of elitist wannabe pseudo-intellectuals who wouldn't know stimulating conversation if it anally buggered them. Tis the reason why myself and some friends quit. High IQ or whatever doesn't mean that you are a nice person. Nor does it mean that you are better than anyone else.

This is like the new cool thing to be. Its like celtic tiger #2.
"Ok were rich, lets get smrt now!"

democrates

I left mensa too a few years ago on principle.
No beef with the members, it was because the constitution claims it was founded for the good of all mankind, yet 98% of the people are excluded from joining and gaining any member benefits.

nowuckenfurries

Semper Fi wrote:

In 1993 for mensa it was 149 and over was less than 2 % of the population.

Then again you might mean Ireland? So it is quite possible that the standards are lower than the mainland.

Please explain "Mainland", Do you mean The Continent of Europe??

LovelyHurling

FuzzyLogic wrote:

theyre a bunch of elitist wannabe pseudo-intellectuals who wouldn't know stimulating conversation if it anally buggered them.

Dear Mr Fuzzy

Excuse me. What other kinds of buggering are there?

Thank you please.

Gone West

LovelyHurling wrote:

Dear Mr Fuzzy

Excuse me. What other kinds of buggering are there?

Thank you please.

pm me.
Ill show you.

I didn't believe it possible until last year.
SarkysBeard(tm) showed me things I didnt believe possible.:v:

tba

IQ tests are culturally biased, for example being from the planet zog pushed my IQ up into the low 300's they wont tell me the actual score...


*shakes fist

TerrorFirmer

I did a proper one awhile back, got something like 128 or something very close. I have no idea what the average is and I don't care either. I know stupid people who do well in exams by studying non stop. I know really smart people who **** up exams. It means very little other then the basic number you get to flaunt in this thread.

Unless your IQ is really low.....

Have to laugh at all the people here saying they got 178.....what a joke.

Hagar

FuzzyLogic wrote:

@ the mensa fanboys, I never saw your usernames on any of the mensa boards or the usenet feeds... And Mensa is limited to the top 2% of the populace, whatever the IQ happens to be at the time. Its around 150.

I wouldn't bother joining, theyre a bunch of elitist wannabe pseudo-intellectuals who wouldn't know stimulating conversation if it anally buggered them. Tis the reason why myself and some friends quit.

The entry level is 140.
Not everyone uses the same username on other forums. I know I don't.
You say you wouldn't bother joining and then give a reason why you left? That makes no sense to me.
If you have no interest in Mensa why hang around the forums like a wannabe?

Saviour_Angel

Offical non internet IQ test... IQ = 152
Same as Einsteins

I did best in spacial reasoning and maths...
Not so good at spelling/grammer as you can probilly tell by my post..

MobileInfantry wrote:

I know stupid people who do well in exams by studying non stop. I know really smart people who **** up exams.

I always do crap in exams...

Most internet tests are rubbish, with only maybe a hundred Q's.
You really need a lot more Q's to even just grasp someones IQ..