Buttercup said:
I've gotten around the same results on other tests...usually in the 115-120 range. But, what do you think of this test? Is it an accurate example of an IQ test? I sincerely don't know. I've taken several online tests but am never sure how close they are to actual tests. It is odd that I usually score in the same range pretty much.
Yes, but there is that section that is a "knowledge" test, and that will cause scores to vary somewhat. It just happens that I read a lot and live with someone with an English Ph.D. and worked shelving books in libraries when I was young, so ... duh...d'ya think I can associate the names of authors with the titles of their works?
The analogies, spatial problems, and mathematical patterse are pretty typical. It's usual to have sequences of numbers also and be asked which is the next in the series.
Also....I have a problem with a test that measures intelligence using multiple choice answers. Just for fun, I'm going to go take it again and pretty much just guess to see where I land.
I'll post the results.
True. The best one I took had more fill-ins. The spatial problems "which pattern comes next?" had multiple guesses (presumably because to do otherwise creates scoring problems), but other things you just had to come up with the answer.
Language testing is always dicey. One test I took asked about the meaning of "sesqui-" but seeing as my alma mater had just celebrated its sesquicentennial, duh...think I might know it means 150? Some of those things come down to dumb luck at times.
I did guess on a few of the questions. I've been at an all day meeting, and on about three of them just said to myself, "oh sheesh I'm just dead tired, click on anything who cares it's just for fun!"
One of the tests I took years ago was from the Triple Nine Society. The 999 part of the name refers to scoring in the 99.9th percentile. That puts your IQ somewhere 150 or above. I usually get somewhere in the high 50s or 60s, so this test you linked to, given I'm tired, seems decent.
I'll have to take it again when I'm actually awake and see what I get. It would be nice to have more data to work with. That tends to eliminate anomalous results.
