IQ test

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
When I was 12 I sat the Mensa test and was accepted. They said I had an IQ of 177, which may have been inflated because of my young age.

Probably. Did a bit of the reading on the Mensa site, and minimum age for membership is 16 for that reason. Also 177 seems really unlikely. It is possible they gave you a test with a higher standard deviation of eg 24. Those exist apparently. Then transferred to standard deviation 15, your score would be more like 145. Or even more likely a test that just gave you a ratio, not a number based on standard deviations.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Well I just sat the website test, and my final score was 118.

Which may go to show that I was smarter as a 12 year old than I am as a 28 year old

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Which may go to show that I was smarter as a 12 year old than I am as a 28 year old

Nah, you have just changed your way of using your head

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Well I just sat the website test, and my final score was 118.

Which may go to show that I was smarter as a 12 year old than I am as a 28 year old

Then again, this test only seems to test for spatial/visual skills, which men are better at, while other IQ tests also test for verbal intelligence, which women are better at.

[Dauphin]

I found that choosing the one that felt right (rather than working it out which I can't be bothered to do) yields a reasonable 122. :shrug:

[Xorbon]

Am I supposed to go cross-eyed and lose focus while doing the test?

I think I need to get more sleep.

[Deity Dude]

Not that I necessarily believe the final score is accurate, but, I wonder how many of the complainers had a bad score.

Actually wouldn't that make a great psychology test?

1) Give a bunch of self-professed intelligent people an IQ test

2) Tell them they did below average.

3) Watch the reaction.

[Maniac]

Hurray I passed.

[Ben Kenobi]

Did ok, but the test confirmed that spatial is not my strong point. Scored on the low-end of high.

[loinburger]

I'm not going to bother taking the test, thus proving that my intelligence is ridiculously phenomenal.

[Japher]

Mensa or Menstral?