03 Aug 2008, 8:45 am
Sora wrote:
olle wrote:
Dragonfly_Dreams wrote:
108 but kids keep interrupting me. I'll have to try again when I can concentrate.
You do know that your score is slightly misleading if you take the test more than once, right? You learn most of the answers, and can use your time more efficiently the second time and concentrate on the more difficult questions, which gives you an advantage.
But isn't there too much time in the first place? The test is done in 15 minutes, although the time limit is 40 minute which is more than twice as much.
Haha Sora, not everyone is as smart as you.
I dare to say using 15 minutes for that test is rather extreme... But i can't say i'm surprised. 
At my first attempt, i thought there was plenty of time, and ended up stressing through the last questions. This time I had time to spend on the more difficult ones, but i still needed all the 40 minutes. (I didn't remember many answers at all, that's not what helped me. I think i just used the time more efficiently this time. Gives me good hope for the Mensa Raven's test I'm doing the next weekend.
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03 Aug 2008, 9:11 am
olle wrote:
Sora wrote:
olle wrote:
Dragonfly_Dreams wrote:
108 but kids keep interrupting me. I'll have to try again when I can concentrate.
You do know that your score is slightly misleading if you take the test more than once, right? You learn most of the answers, and can use your time more efficiently the second time and concentrate on the more difficult questions, which gives you an advantage.
But isn't there too much time in the first place? The test is done in 15 minutes, although the time limit is 40 minute which is more than twice as much.
Haha Sora, not everyone is as smart as you.
I dare to say using 15 minutes for that test is rather extreme... But i can't say i'm surprised. At my first attempt, i thought there was plenty of time, and ended up stressing through the last questions. This time I had time to spend on the more difficult ones, but i still needed all the 40 minutes. (I didn't remember many answers at all, that's not what helped me. I think i just used the time more efficiently this time. Gives me good hope for the Mensa Raven's test I'm doing the next weekend.
)Ah, well, all right. But I'm not smart, just pattern-completion-smart haha
Good luck for the Mensa test. I didn't know Mensa did Raven's too. Where I live they usually just do an almost completely verbal IQ test which I consider quite unfair for everyone who needs a performance score to achieve Mensa's level.
03 Aug 2008, 9:19 am
Sora wrote:
olle wrote:
Sora wrote:
olle wrote:
Dragonfly_Dreams wrote:
108 but kids keep interrupting me. I'll have to try again when I can concentrate.
You do know that your score is slightly misleading if you take the test more than once, right? You learn most of the answers, and can use your time more efficiently the second time and concentrate on the more difficult questions, which gives you an advantage.
But isn't there too much time in the first place? The test is done in 15 minutes, although the time limit is 40 minute which is more than twice as much.
Haha Sora, not everyone is as smart as you.
I dare to say using 15 minutes for that test is rather extreme... But i can't say i'm surprised. At my first attempt, i thought there was plenty of time, and ended up stressing through the last questions. This time I had time to spend on the more difficult ones, but i still needed all the 40 minutes. (I didn't remember many answers at all, that's not what helped me. I think i just used the time more efficiently this time. Gives me good hope for the Mensa Raven's test I'm doing the next weekend.
)Ah, well, all right. But I'm not smart, just pattern-completion-smart haha
Good luck for the Mensa test. I didn't know Mensa did Raven's too. Where I live they usually just do an almost completely verbal IQ test which I consider quite unfair for everyone who needs a performance score to achieve Mensa's level.
Myself I'm more a WAIS guy than a Raven's guy.
03 Aug 2008, 9:25 am
Where I live they usually just do a completely non-verbal test, which i consider quite unfair for those of us who need verbal tests to reach Mensa level (if we can reach 131 at all).
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03 Aug 2008, 1:24 pm
122. That is 21 points lower than my WAIS-II score, but that makes sense because I've always had a large
verbal > performance gap.
The problems were interesting, though. Does anybody else do online IQ tests for the entertainment value? 
03 Aug 2008, 2:16 pm
olle wrote:
Where I live they usually just do a completely non-verbal test, which i consider quite unfair for those of us who need verbal tests to reach Mensa level (if we can reach 131 at all).
That's true. I figured they'd do both, but if they just do a test that focuses on non-verbal abilities, it is just one-sidedness from the other side.
Mensa should do tests that involve both. I don't think it would be that hard to write a test that has a verbal tests part and a performance part that at least involves matrices.
Both are equally easily administered in a group setting.
sim wrote:
143
I more or less agree completely with Sora, and not because she seems exactly like Haruhi.
I more or less agree completely with Sora, and not because she seems exactly like Haruhi.
I hope that is good that I seem exactly like Haruhi to other people.
Anyway, since you got 143 too, do you think you got one wrong or do you think you got all right? I want to know whether that test really ends at the weird score of 143!
Callista wrote:
The problems were interesting, though. Does anybody else do online IQ tests for the entertainment value?
I do. But only such tests as Raven's that involve analysis and completion of patterns or tests that involve other visual/spatial thinking. Verbal tests give me a hard time in comparison, it's no fun.
03 Aug 2008, 2:17 pm
03 Aug 2008, 2:42 pm
Callista wrote:
122. That is 21 points lower than my WAIS-II score, but that makes sense because I've always had a large
verbal > performance gap.
The problems were interesting, though. Does anybody else do online IQ tests for the entertainment value?
verbal > performance gap.
The problems were interesting, though. Does anybody else do online IQ tests for the entertainment value?
Yep. That's why I do all these tests over and over. Why else would I? Entertainment and curiosity are the only reasons for doing IQ tests that I can think of. (Besides from when you actually have to take some IQ test because it's needed for some diagnosis... or something.)
03 Aug 2008, 2:56 pm
Sora wrote:
olle wrote:
Where I live they usually just do a completely non-verbal test, which i consider quite unfair for those of us who need verbal tests to reach Mensa level (if we can reach 131 at all).
That's true. I figured they'd do both, but if they just do a test that focuses on non-verbal abilities, it is just one-sidedness from the other side.
Mensa should do tests that involve both. I don't think it would be that hard to write a test that has a verbal tests part and a performance part that at least involves matrices.
Both are equally easily administered in a group setting.
Absolutely. I would have proposed separate tests for verbal and non-verbal, but one combined test might work just as well.
Sora wrote:
sim wrote:
143
I more or less agree completely with Sora, and not because she seems exactly like Haruhi.
I more or less agree completely with Sora, and not because she seems exactly like Haruhi.
I hope that is good that I seem exactly like Haruhi to other people.
Anyway, since you got 143 too, do you think you got one wrong or do you think you got all right? I want to know whether that test really ends at the weird score of 143!
Wikipedia wrote:
Haruhi also has a very competitive personality and accepts without hesitation any challenge that crosses her, regardless of difficulty or time constraint. Her constant optimism and over-confidence make her seem arrogant. She has very high standards and won't accept anything less than perfection from herself and her Brigade. She places a lot of trust in her Brigade members, especially Kyon, to get the task done whatever it may be. This can sometimes make her seem selfish and unkind.
She is not shy and often attracts a lot of attention to the point of not minding changing clothes in front of various people, more so when her SOS Brigade is in mind. When it comes to Mikuru she is very physically playful. She often comments on Mikuru's attractiveness and seems to find a kind of enjoyment in exploiting it to her own ends, often through forcing Mikuru into and out of various costumes such as a bunny girl costume as if she were a human dress-up doll.
Haruhi also seems to hate showing signs of vulnerability to others. Following her concert performance at the school's culture festival when she and Yuki filled in for two members of the band ENOZ, Haruhi showed awkwardness towards the band members when they thanked her the following day. As Kyon pointed out, Haruhi was not used to receiving praise from others because of how mischievous she regularly acts towards others because of her abnormal interests.
She is not shy and often attracts a lot of attention to the point of not minding changing clothes in front of various people, more so when her SOS Brigade is in mind. When it comes to Mikuru she is very physically playful. She often comments on Mikuru's attractiveness and seems to find a kind of enjoyment in exploiting it to her own ends, often through forcing Mikuru into and out of various costumes such as a bunny girl costume as if she were a human dress-up doll.
Haruhi also seems to hate showing signs of vulnerability to others. Following her concert performance at the school's culture festival when she and Yuki filled in for two members of the band ENOZ, Haruhi showed awkwardness towards the band members when they thanked her the following day. As Kyon pointed out, Haruhi was not used to receiving praise from others because of how mischievous she regularly acts towards others because of her abnormal interests.
Ohkay.
Sora wrote:
Callista wrote:
The problems were interesting, though. Does anybody else do online IQ tests for the entertainment value?
I do. But only such tests as Raven's that involve analysis and completion of patterns or tests that involve other visual/spatial thinking. Verbal tests give me a hard time in comparison, it's no fun.
I like both verbal and non-verbal.
03 Aug 2008, 3:09 pm
