Do you know your IQ

ScumLord · 26-11-2013 02:27PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

I'm crap at maths so I suck at the logic/spatial awareness questions.

Maths has little to do with logic and spatial awareness. So really you suck at 3 things. :pac:

Pj! · 26-11-2013 02:30PM

Dear Pj!,

Thank you for your interest in the test at IQTest.com.

Your general IQ score is: 136

Hoop66 wrote: »

Dear Hoop66,

Thank you for your interest in the test at IQTest.com.

Your general IQ score is: 133

Give me a shout if you ever need a hand with anything.

But seriously, I must be missing the part of the brain that mentally works out the following:

Three congruent regular hexagons can be drawn in such a way that all of them overlap each other and create exactly ten distinct areas or compartments.
True or False

Debtocracy · 26-11-2013 02:35PM

The average IQ in this thread is 135, meaning that posters have an intelligence in the top 1%. I only hope this thread can continue so that the combined intellect can solve some of the great scientific mysteries of our time.

Mousewar · 26-11-2013 02:38PM

Debtocracy wrote: »

The average IQ in this thread is 135, meaning that posters have an intelligence in the top 1%. I only hope this thread can continue so that the combined intellect can solve some of the great scientific mysteries of our time.

135 isn't in the top 1%

Dravokivich · 26-11-2013 02:45PM

I did one when I was 12 or 13. Late Primary School / Early Secondary School anyway. I figured at the time that there wasn't anything I was actually going to get as a result of the test, so just answered bits of it throughout. Still not too bothered by the idea of an "IQ" test.

26-11-2013 03:03PM

Mousewar wrote: »

I did the official mensa one in ucd a few years ago. Strange to see people giving odd numbers on the 140s. My understanding is that that particular scale goes up in multiples of two and so there are only even number scores.

I sat a supervised Mensa one at uni, and even that self-selecting sample didn't achieve the amazing results some here have.

In AH threads on height a large majority is over 6ft 2, in threads on looks at least an 8 out of 10, and now, apparently, is in the top 2% of the population in the intelligence stakes.

I think I'll call this the AH syndrome.

Mousewar · 26-11-2013 03:15PM

Candie wrote: »

I sat a supervised Mensa one at uni, and even that self-selecting sample didn't achieve the amazing results some here have.

In AH threads on height a large majority is over 6ft 2, in threads on looks at least an 8 out of 10, and now, apparently, is in the top 2% of the population in the intelligence stakes.

I think I'll call this the AH syndrome.

Well also, it's probably the case that people with high IQs will rush to post their scores and those with low ones won't be a hurry to advertise them.
And I'd guess that people with high IQs are more likely to actually have sat a proper test and therefore to actually know what their score is.

But yeah, a lot will be telling porkies as well.

April O Neill II · 26-11-2013 03:16PM

No, don't know it, don't need to know it. I'm not going to do things any better or worse with this information.

Boom_Bap · 26-11-2013 03:18PM

My IQ is Potatoe.

Pherekydes · 26-11-2013 03:20PM

My IQ is my intelligence quotient.

There, is that smart enough to be considered one of the most socially retarded, awkward, barely able to start or hold a conversation type of people you'd ever meet?

Thus implying that I have an IQ that is as high as bluewolf's?

With the obvious loss of points due to being male allowed for.

P.S. Mensa says my IQ is a multiple of 37.

:eek::pac::p

Pherekydes · 26-11-2013 03:23PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Maths has little to do with logic...

:eek:

Pherekydes · 26-11-2013 03:26PM

Candie wrote: »

I think I'll call this the AH syndrome.

It's probably online syndrome.

Something to remember when you sign up at findmealifepartner.com

martinedwards · 26-11-2013 03:27PM

I'm smart enough to not get hung up about it

djk1000 · 26-11-2013 03:27PM

176 in a supervised test when I was 18. Feck all good it has done me!

jimgoose · 26-11-2013 03:32PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Some people with an incredibly high IQ might be the most socially retarded, awkward, barely able to start or hold a conversation type you'd ever meet.

Just sayin'.

Like the introverted versus extroverted geek - one looks at your shoes when he talks to you.

My IQ is 9.89, with airshifter, a big-bore and turbonitrous. :cool:

Davidius · 26-11-2013 03:35PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Some people with an incredibly high IQ might be the most socially retarded, awkward, barely able to start or hold a conversation type you'd ever meet.

Just sayin'.

Nah that's just what the intellectual untermensch say to make themselves feel better.

My IQ is a transfinite cardinal. You can tell because I use smart people words in the sentence having.

Maximus Alexander · 26-11-2013 03:45PM

It strikes me as odd that 100 is, by definition, the average IQ of all test takers. Yet everyone on here appears to be far above that and in the gifted, or even genius part of the bell curve. Something smells funny.

josip · 26-11-2013 03:52PM

That funny smell is maybe me coming along. My measured IQ is 84. Anyone want to ask me a qeustion?

Davidius · 26-11-2013 03:54PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

It strikes me as odd that 100 is, by definition, the average IQ of all test takers. Yet everyone on here appears to be far above that and in the gifted, or even genius part of the bell curve. Something smells funny.

It must be that an IQ at least one standard deviation above the mean is a necessary prerequisite for using a computer. Yes, that is clearly the most sensible explanation and the matter should not be looked into any further.

josip · 26-11-2013 04:00PM

Davidius wrote: »

It must be that an IQ at least one standard deviation above the mean is a necessary prerequisite for using a computer. Yes, that is clearly the most sensible explanation and the matter should not be looked into any further.

I'm an amonaly then.

Dolbert · 26-11-2013 04:03PM

Our class all did one in secondary school when I was 13, I think it was in the 130s. It'd be interesting to see if that's changed for better or worse now!

Maximus Alexander · 26-11-2013 04:03PM

josip wrote: »

I'm an amonaly then.

Maybe you're actually intelligent so they've given you a low score to encourage you to pay for an analysis to figure out what the hell has gone wrong.

Then they give out high scores to the dummies so they'll pay up to get their "IQ Certificate" which they can display on their office wall.

Seems legit.

Antar Bolaeisk · 26-11-2013 04:09PM

Apparently I'm ranked in the top 1 percentile in the country for my gender and age category according to some supervised test I sat at secondary school.

I've never felt the need to sit a mensa test, I'm comfortable in my own intelligence without the need to prove it to myself or others.

I do, however, have a very low social IQ and I suck at speed and accuracy so it all balances out.

josip · 26-11-2013 04:11PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Maybe you're actually intelligent so they've given you a low score to encourage you to pay for an analysis to figure out what the hell has gone wrong.

Then they give out high scores to the dummies so they'll pay up to get their "IQ Certificate" which they can display on their office wall.

Seems legit.

Maybe. I used to usually only get 40-50 on the school tests. I was surprised I got as high as 84 on the IQ exam. How can you get more than a hundred?

BillyMitchel · 26-11-2013 04:11PM

Put it this way - I'd have to lose 50 IQ points to be considered smart.

Shamelessly stolen from Sheldon Copper.

Maximus Alexander · 26-11-2013 04:13PM

josip wrote: »

Maybe. I used to usually only get 40-50 on the school tests. I was surprised I got as high as 84 on the IQ exam. How can you get more than a hundred?

100 is the average score of all test takers, it doesn't mean you got 100 percent of the answers right. So above 100 just means above average.

josip · 26-11-2013 04:19PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

100 is the average score of all test takers, it doesn't mean you got 100 percent of the answers right. So above 100 just means above average.

How can they know before everyone takes the test that 100 is going to be the average score?
Something doesn't seem right about that.

jester77 · 26-11-2013 04:21PM

No idea what mine is, but it's high enough to know that I'm not stupid.

Mousewar · 26-11-2013 04:22PM

100 is set as the average. It actually moves with the generations. The human species is getting more intelligent at least in so far as it is measured by the IQ test.
A score of a 100 today is actually higher than a score of 100 fifty years ago but both are still average for their time.

Maximus Alexander · 26-11-2013 04:24PM

josip wrote: »

How can they know before everyone takes the test that 100 is going to be the average score?
Something doesn't seem right about that.

They don't, they make 100 be the average score. If you get 1000 people to take the test, you then decide what a score of 100 is based on the results.

Of course you could argue that all an IQ test does is tell you how well you performed compared to other people on that particular test. I'm not convinced that intelligence is tangible enough to be able to say that an IQ test is really quantifying intelligence. It's just quantifying your ability to do that test.

Do you know your IQ

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