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**mypharmalife** · 09-08-2008, 12:13 AM

Originally posted by Heraclitus
You do know that if the test is US based you as a European will probably get an anomalous high result right?
(this is due to the better education systems we have) It's a Danish test made by some Mensa member apparently.

Originally posted by Solver
You know, IQ tests are generally poor. This is even worse than usual. For one, all questions are of the same "guess the next shape" format. That being only one area, it would probably be scorned at by most researchers. Yeah I thought of that too.

Secondly, online IQ tests tend to give inflated results. I just clicked through the questions at random in a minute. That's 40 questions, 8 answers - statistically, I probably got 5 right. The site reported an IQ of 90, which is just slightly below-average, no way. The questions get harder as the number goes up. Perhaps that disrupts the random clicking method somehow.
The test has also been taken by 250000 people it says.
Anyway, you state some valid criticisms of course. Only way to be sure is if some people here take the test as well, and see if everyone gets some ridiculous result. Come on!

AFAIK I do probably have an IQ of 125 or so, so the result doesn't seem far off.

09-08-2008, 12:13 AM	#2
mypharmalife Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 340 Senior Member	Originally posted by Heraclitus You do know that if the test is US based you as a European will probably get an anomalous high result right? (this is due to the better education systems we have) It's a Danish test made by some Mensa member apparently. Originally posted by Solver You know, IQ tests are generally poor. This is even worse than usual. For one, all questions are of the same "guess the next shape" format. That being only one area, it would probably be scorned at by most researchers. Yeah I thought of that too. Secondly, online IQ tests tend to give inflated results. I just clicked through the questions at random in a minute. That's 40 questions, 8 answers - statistically, I probably got 5 right. The site reported an IQ of 90, which is just slightly below-average, no way. The questions get harder as the number goes up. Perhaps that disrupts the random clicking method somehow. The test has also been taken by 250000 people it says. Anyway, you state some valid criticisms of course. Only way to be sure is if some people here take the test as well, and see if everyone gets some ridiculous result. Come on! AFAIK I do probably have an IQ of 125 or so, so the result doesn't seem far off.
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