Why i had only 95 IQ

Page 2 of 2 [ 29 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2

Joined: 29 Mar 2013
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,879

04 Dec 2013, 12:46 pm

:lol: It claims that I got every answer right, and that I thus have 131 IQ.
Given that other people are scoring higher than that, I reckon something is not quite right about this IQ test and the way it calculates scoring.
:chin:

At any rate, if English isn't your first language then that would probably work against you, and really these are just odd little puzzles which wouldn't accurately reflect your actual intelligence.
:-) So yes, I agree with the others here that if you got 95 on this test then it's nothing to be concerned about.

IrishJew
Blue Jay

Joined: 22 Apr 2013
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 82

07 Dec 2013, 3:01 pm

Don't even get me started on IQ tests. If you want, I can provide a point-by-point refutation of an entire IQ test specimen.

For example, consider this question: Circle the next term in the sequence, 288, 252, 203, 139, 58: A) 0 B) -58 C) 288 D) 13.

It can be shown mathematically that any arbitrary whatsoever can be chosen. So no choice is technically "correct", even though the test dictates that B is the correct answer. I can refute every single question if you simply offer me a specimen of an IQ test, but I'll spare yins the time.

pensieve
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Nov 2008
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,204
Location: Sydney, Australia

07 Dec 2013, 6:37 pm

Thelibrarian wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Thelibrarian wrote:

You can't do anything more to raise your IQ than you can to make yourself taller or change the length of your fingers. It doesn't mean you can't study and use what innate intelligence you possess.
.

Untrue. People do have a level of innate intelligence but they can increase/maximize it through environmental means.

The whole idea of basing your intelligence level on an online IQ test is ridiculous anyway - even properly validated and administered IQ tests can only be used as correlational measures to predict success in certain life areas such as likely academic success or getting a good job. Plus as these relationships are correlational, causation cannot be assumed - for example, experts have argued that IQ tests only really measure an individuals ability to do well in academic testing situations (thus why they are correlated with academic success in school, and job outcomes - as entry to university degrees and thus better jobs is based on academic grades, and thus the ability to do well in academic testing situations). Do IQ tests measure actual intelligence independent from ability to do well in testing situations? As far as I'm aware there is no way to separate the two.

As far as taking IQ tests online goes, it's a complete waste of time as they won't tell you anything useful due to unreliability and lack of proper testing conditions.

Let's start off with your claim that IQ can be boosted as an adult. I would imagine you want that to be true, but that hardly makes it true. So, where did you get your information?

I'll tell you this. It is easy to cheat on an IQ test particularly the general knowledge questions. When I took my first real IQ test I didn't know half as much as I know now. You can always practice skills in the other areas (math) to get better at them. When I took Ritalin I could learn for longer, understand quicker and retain that knowledge. All of this can dramatically boost someone's IQ.

I'm not just saying that but had it happen.

Also, OP, online IQ tests are hardly accurate. They focus far too much on math questions.

Given that IQ tests were crafted by the godfather of eugenics, I wouldn't take them seriously. I mean one test determines one's intellectual capacity and career pathway? I don't think so.

_________________
My band photography blog - http://lostthroughthelens.wordpress.com/
My personal blog - http://helptheywantmetosocialise.wordpress.com/

aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

18 Dec 2013, 5:32 am

No it does not make you a moron though being in the company of others may make you feel like one , my guess these sociable autistics have a magnificent iq some where around the 130 mark to compensate those effects , I'd say around -40.

no offense just saying

_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob

aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

18 Dec 2013, 5:34 am

general knowledge is a load of rubbish I've scored in the top 25 percentile (professional testing) in that respect and have an iq similar to the op your average what's wrong with that ?

what can one do with "general knowledge" go on Sale of the Century? nein that show is not on any more and it wouldn't be the same with out Tony Barber .

_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob

Last edited by aussiebloke on 18 Dec 2013, 5:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

18 Dec 2013, 5:36 am

being bored doing one doesn't help :wink:

_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob

Vatnos
Raven
Raven

Joined: 26 Sep 2012
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Posts: 119
Location: Chapel Hill, NC

18 Dec 2013, 4:51 pm

For the sake of science here are my answers -

1 - snake (reptile)
2 - 21
3 - 15264 simple inversion
4 - 24
5 - don't know if this changes every time but i answered 'c'
6 - 8 doesn't belong, with the pattern being 2 numbers 1 apart, then +4 for the next two, +8 for the next, +16 for the next
7 - branch, what else?
8 - ocean (pacific)
9 - 5
10 - 5 trips, is there something deeper going on here?
11 - true, although for some reason i feel uncomfortable saying that, maybe i'm just too open to possibilities (even if they are rhetorically impossible)
12 - reliable
13 - country (england) - this is a terrible one because 'state' is technically also correct; countries ARE states
14 - 48 with the pattern being x2 then +3 alternating
15 - 1600 ralphie only likes squares (racist bastard)
16 - 22 i feel like i have the greatest chance of being wrong on this one, out of all of them.
17 - 64
18 - flower probably, as it's grown and not made but i could see compelling arguments for some of the others. (statue is the only one that gets built, for instance)
19 - c - i really hated this one, none of the answers are really correct, this one is just the least bad starting over
20 - e

136 from that, apparently puddingmouse got 147 so idk there must be some better answer somewhere but... where?

StuffedMarshmallow
Pileated woodpecker

Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Gender: Male
Posts: 178

19 Dec 2013, 12:48 am

I was in the middle of this test... then I quit.

I was afraid it was going to tell me something wrong, or even worse, that I was not above average.

Does it really matter guys? I would be fine going my whole life not ever knowing my IQ. I was freaking out halfway through this because who knows how it calculates your score.

nikaTheJellyfish
Sea Gull

Joined: 30 Sep 2011
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 226

20 Dec 2013, 8:07 pm

I got 151. I generally score around 145 so not bad for accuracy. Still, as mentioned before, this is not an actual IQ test so results don't mean much.

nikaTheJellyfish
Sea Gull

Joined: 30 Sep 2011
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 226

20 Dec 2013, 8:09 pm

Vatnos wrote:

I took this fast so I don't remember all of them, but #7 is twig. Hand is to arm as leaf is to twig. Hand is to shoulder as leaf is to branch.

aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

20 Dec 2013, 8:32 pm

^^^^

are they really that easy I can't be bothered looking , if so I to would score well if that's the case.

_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob

Dan_Undiagnosed
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Jun 2011
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 645

20 Dec 2013, 9:02 pm

A 'real' IQ test should probably take a couple of hours to do. Even then all an IQ test shows is how good you are at taking IQ tests. IQ doesn't really reflect an objective measure of human intelligence. I mean, we know most IQ tests purposely ignore certain types of intelligence. Also if you look at cultures that produce the highest IQs they seem the ones most hell bent on rendering the Earth inhabitable for life. The analogy I use is that human civilisation is like a plane in a nose diving death spiral and a high IQ is like the pilot's licence.

Sarah81
Deinonychus

Joined: 28 Feb 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 337

21 Dec 2013, 12:24 am

117. This is the lowest score I have ever achieved. But for the first time in history I was too lazy to put my mind in it. For example working out the sequence or the anagram. Something I know I can easily do. I do think that my brain is not as sharp since suffering mental illness. But it is more to do with the motivation than the actual astuteness of my mind.

Page 2 of 2 [ 29 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2

Jump to:

Why i had only 95 IQ Post Reply New Topic

Why i had only 95 IQ