Someone mentioned that they didn't think I had a very high IQ. I usually place in about the top 2% unless the test is purely verbal, in which I generally ace it. This test below is timed, you get 15 minutes, max. It has some odd questions in it (the spatial ones are weird because it asks you to discuss what folded paper are going to look like, but it doesn't say how far the paper will be folded, which made those questions ambiguous in at least two instances).
At any rate, take this test and see how you do. Make sure nobody can interrupt you for 15 minutes, and then go through it. I got a 134. I aced the verbal and the math portions of the test, but goofed up all the spatial ones. Apparently I suck at manipulating spatially. However, I think those questions were poorly worded, and the diagrams weren't clear. I wonder if George would get all of those right.
At any rate, I'm in the top 2%. Which proves that this week hasn't completely killed me, at least mentally. My spirit is just about gone. But people keep telling me about all the horrible things that happened to their parents. One had a freight car flip off a truck and smash her mom. Another got diabetes and they had to chop off her legs, arms, nose, over a 15-year period, until she died. Another one is still alive at 95, but can't bear to go on living. "What have I got to live for? all my friends are dead, and all I have to live for is the past."
Life's stupid, and having a higher IQ isn't necessarily any kind of advantage, in the long run. Because you might just see how stupid life is all the more clearly. Still, you might have fun taking the test, and it might take your mind off how stupid life is. Who knows.
http://www.intelligencetest.com/convert.htm
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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That's sad about the 95 year old
doesn't she have grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
Even great greats?
She should be having the time of her life with little rugrats loving their gamma.
People move too far away.
Just took it 141.
Woo!
Of course, now Brett & Tom just think the test is invalid ;)
I got all of the answers correct but I may have taken too long in answering them (I did it while kids were working on projects & two kids interrupted me).
But woo!
Way to go, GM!
ouch. 129. Too much spatial reasoning and pattern recognition of the geometric kind. I aced the math, and would've aced the verbal but I forgot to go back and answer the 'part is to trap as net is to ...' (ten, right?) one...
Anyhooch, I'll hold onto my Mensa-worthy GRE score as evidence of my intelligence.
Sheesha...
And no, GM, I'm not surprised that you got a 141 - most of the regular posters here are surprisingly athletic borderline geniuses who have paradoxical world-views.
thst's where i got the extra 12 points from -- I never brained myself playing sports ;)
Brett, I too stumbled on the spatial and geometric reasoning. I wonder if there wasn't something wrong with the prompts on those, but my wife sailed through that part, and had trouble with the verbal aspects (but English is her fourth language, so I guess she could be forgiven).
I still don't understand what was being asked in the one question with Lego blocks -- could someone summarize what it was we were supposed to suss out?
Dang it! I scored 98! When I was in high school I was acing all the IQ tests....highest score: 163. Maybe I've fried too many brain cells in the upper altitudes....
WW
Kirby -- are you talking about the questions with the 3D drawings? You were supposed to imagine the blocks from different angles and infer what they would look like.
There is a similar game on Brain Age for the Wii.
WW, remember that it was speed-timed. If you took too long it penalizes you.
I have sometimes in the past scored very poorly on IQ tests. Once I got a 56. I couldn't stand how ugly the test was!
Then on verbal tests I often score at the maximum, and got a 155 the other day.
A lot of it depends on mood, I think, and also the kinds of question that they ask. I'm very poor at the spatials.
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