one of the mensa members with one of the highest iq's is a bouncer at a bar...it was on 20 minutes or 60/60 or one of those style shows..so in other words if you do have a high iq what are you proving here? intelligence can help yet definitely doesnt lead to success or happiness or being a 'gr8-1' for that matter... just because you know all about the great capital of pyongyang,the lemurs of madagascar or your ability to know a hat is to a head as a glove is to my a$$...what can you do with it now?iq tests are a joke.. the smartest ones are those that do not flaunt it... ------------------ "no matter how good she looks someone... somewhere..is tired of her sh*t"
Here's another problem with these tests: They're wrong. Example: Question 28. "Using six toothpicks you can create three equilateral triangles (where each triangle's side is the length of a toothpick)." If you click "false," you get a higher score than if you click "true." But in fact, if you arrange the first three toothpicks in a triangle on the ground, and then you arrange the last three in a tripod leading up from the corners of the ground-triangle and converging at a point above that triangle equidistant from each corner below, you get a pyramid consisting of FOUR equilateral triangles, with each side of each triangle the length of a toothpick. In other words, the test tells us more about the IQ's of the people who created it than about the IQ's of the people who take it.
Gr-8: Right-- but I said "IQ above 150". As for the time, I can't speak to this particular test, but the IQTest.com version limited you to 13 minutes... ...by asking you how long it took and then refusing to compute your score unless you entered 13 or less (if I remember correctly). So you could take 30 minutes and it wouldn't even let you honestly enter that figure. Will: real intelligence tests would not have true/false questions on them. That gives the test taker a 50 percent chance of guessing the right answer. Multiple choice tests are better assuming the three incorrect answers are not obviously wrong. (This question's not directed at Will or anyone else; it's just to clarify my point). If I want to determine if a person... we'll call him Frank... knows how many points Hakeem averaged per game in 1986, what's the best way to test him? A) Ask him "True or False: Hakeem averaged 30.5 points per game in 1986?" B) Ask him "How many points per game did Hakeem average in 1986? 30.2, 19.8, 224.6, or 31.3?" C) Ask him "How many points did Hakeem average in 1986?" I'd also keep a close eye on Frank to make sure he didn't copy off of his neighbor Dave's paper. ------------------ "Corpses are icky." --Chris Robinson
sir, my post looks bad, I know, and that is my fault. I guess my point was that I scored a 140 on a legit iq test and I am saying that eitehr this particular test is a joke or all Rocket fans are geniuses. I personally think IQ tests and SAT scores are a small part of the equation of intelligence. They are rather meaningless, imo. Furtehrmore, a high IQ does not pave the road to success, although it could help. I am not a very conceited person at all. I feel bad that it came out that way. I also don't know the capital of Pyongyang. ------------------ "We don't have any plans. We just plan to win." Mack Brown
you proved your humble side and i apologize for being an a$$.. my internet personality especially here is one of rudeness and discredit of anything anyone posts..i am not really like that in person.. i suppose here on the bbs it is easier to spot fault in someones opinion then truth or validity.. actually pyongyang is the capital of n korea so now i look like a real sh*t know it all...but i have problems adding double digit numbers...anyway see a little humility is not that bad and I think some of the people here could say 'i was wrong' once in a while..or 'i am sorry' but they never do..that shows a lack of intelligence..over time you see who those people are and i love to give them sh*t any chance i get here..take care i got your back.. ------------------ "no matter how good she looks someone... somewhere..is tired of her sh*t"
BK, how can you change the time on a test like this? OK, when I posted 159, I did not really beleive that I have a 159 iq. I always take these thingsbecause I think they are funny...I have ranged from 120-170. I do not believe any of them. All these internet IQ tests are biased to the tekkies, anyway! SAT's are bunk, too. As are GREs. I actually had an argument my fresh year in college with a guy about the importance of SAT and what it measures. I was taking the side that it meant diddly - he the other. Finally, he said.."well people always just say that if they do not do well." So he asked me what I got...I told him and it turned out mine was higher than his. But that means nothing. Anyway, the people who usually put emphasis on such things are insecure and need that validation...bla! Will, I always hated "reading comprehension sections of standardized tests ecause I would know the real answer...but it would not be on the test -- you simply must determine what the test takers determine is the real answer... huh? ------------------ Big A, little a bouncing B, The System might have got you, but it won't get me.
OK, I got 147 on the Stanford Binet when I was twelve and I got 136 on this test and I got 157 on Moe's test so I'm going with Moe's test. The SAT measures your ability to take the SAT. BTW, BrianKagy, I got 1530 on it. (only because I fell asleep during one of the math portions, otherwise I would have done better).
