On-line IQ tests

[Rick]

A few that I've seen:

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and, finally, the Mensa workout:
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[Paul V]

So far, I've taken the High IQ Society one. I scored 126.

I got a 134 on the second one. WTF?

Ok, this is seriously wrong. I got a 154 in the third one.

Look:

Congratulations!
Your general IQ score is 154.

A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 144-160 is considered to be "gifted".

An IQ is a composite of your scores across 12 distinct aspects of intelligence. Each person has a unique intellectual make-up, with strengths and weaknesses that affect their methods of understanding, recognition, communication and association. Using a carefully cross-reference scoring scheme, TestCafe is able to accumulate a profound quantity of information about your natural intellectual abilities.

For example, your Pattern Recognition score is 100.

[HarleyQuinn]

Scored an 18/30 on the Mensa Workout Quiz. I don't do well when I'm "timed" because I always feel like I don't have enough time and end up finishing early and with more than enough time left.

[Rick]

I'm with you on the timed tests. I don't do as well on them, either.

If memory serves, some schools of thought characterize intelligence as either crystallized or fluidic. Crystallized intelligence would be where conclusions are arrived at based upon mentally comparing the current problem with past experiences. Fluidic intelligence would be working out a brand new solution. Some call it "deep thinking".

So, where someone who relies to a large degree on crystallized intelligence might be quick to pick an answer, a deep thinker might also see that same answer quickly, but also suspect there are other answers and search for them before choosing. This could be viewed as indecision by the uninformed, but is not the case at all. Short shrift, if you will, for the deep thinkers.

[INTJoe]

#27 on the Mensa challenge...those types always give me fits. I can't keep track in my head how many I've counted. Uggg.

[lebowski]

I take exception to IQ tests having verbal analogies and especially factual knowledge. They're making an inference that you must be well read and well educated to have a high IQ. Granted, people who are well read and well educated tend to have higher IQs. However, I feel penalized since I am not well read and do not command an expansive vocabulary, nor do I keep up on current events, nor a real interest in history.

A few that I've seen:

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[fynwyk32]

I once saw an online IQ test that explicitly stated that scratch paper was not allowed. That drastically lowered my score as compared to other IQ tests. Does anyone else have an extremely difficult time visualizing 3-D objects or doing mental math?

[Paul V]

I once saw an online IQ test that explicitly stated that scratch paper was not allowed. That drastically lowered my score as compared to other IQ tests. Does anyone else have an extremely difficult time visualizing 3-D objects or doing mental math?

Not me, but English is not my primary language, and that reduces my score dramatically.

I'm good in visual/spatial intelligence, as well as math, vocabulary and logic. The rest, meh.

[Firelie]

I take exception to IQ tests having verbal analogies and especially factual knowledge. They're making an inference that you must be well read and well educated to have a high IQ. Granted, people who are well read and well educated tend to have higher IQs. However, I feel penalized since I am not well read and do not command an expansive vocabulary, nor do I keep up on current events, nor a real interest in history.

I have to agree. I was trying to take that High IQ Society test and I kept thinking to myself...In what way does it signify that I'm more intelligent if I know who the prime minister of Malaysia was in 1989? (That wasn't really one of the questions, I was just throwing out something random...) I don't know anything about politics, so does that make me less intelligent than someone who is up-to-date on stuff like that?

I don't get it.

[Kfbr]

Got a 23/30 on that mensa one.. actually had to use scratch sheet, hehe

[Duncan Cade]

I hate IQ tests. I don't think you can scale intelligence just like this:

0--------20---------40---------60--------80----------100----------120---------140 etc.

It's total bull, there aren't enough factors taken into the tests. What if someone can't concentrate for longer then 10 mins? What if someone tends to double check his answers?

Also, there is a huge difference between knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, and prolly lots of other words i don't know about.

And another also: You can actually get good at IQ tests. Do 1. Do another one. And another one. You will see you'll keep scoring higher, just because you understand the typical, 'always there' questions better. I can assure you you haven't become smarter, yet you score higher. That's stupid.

I usually score around 125 though.

[Solnath]

I don't trust the online tests one bit and I laughed out loud when I got my Mensa test results. Needless to say, for the time being, I'm a member of the conceited organisation filled with people who think they're better than all others. As flattering as it may be, I hate it when someone imitates me constantly and poorly.

[rantsRus]

They will just take it down =/ they always did mine :( I hate how they make the interesting ones the ones you cant see or post on because not enough comments. I can understand posting SORT OF but making it so people cant read is irrationally protective of useless information that's mostly just fun.

[TheStranger]

I have to agree. I was trying to take that High IQ Society test and I kept thinking to myself...In what way does it signify that I'm more intelligent if I know who the prime minister of Malaysia was in 1989? (That wasn't really one of the questions, I was just throwing out something random...) I don't know anything about politics, so does that make me less intelligent than someone who is up-to-date on stuff like that?

I don't get it.

If this is the case, then math questions shouldn't be allowed either. Educational tests, if assessed objectively (taking into account non-native English peoples), somewhat accurately measures someone's ability to amass knowledge. Also, the whole "visual spatial pattern recognition" is the holy grail doesn't sit well with me. First off, there's more to patterns than the visual spatial variety. Secondly, pattern recognition is merely one aspect of cognition. Scoring highly in one doesn't always imply similar global intellectual functioning, although such a skill tends to correlate with others.


New tests are being marketed to assess intelligence on visually-presented items, with either verbal or nonverbal instructions. We find these tests to be excellent additional measures for gifted assessment—to document visual reasoning abilities or identify capable children with language limitations—providing there are other options, as well. The visual reasoning abilities of children can be obscured by visual processing deficits on such tests when complex visual patterns are involved. Likewise, we find that some children simply demonstrate stronger verbal than visual reasoning. Furthermore, it is important to use a test that is compatible with the program offered. If the program is a gifted classroom, emphasizing conceptual complexity in discussion, debate, and in-depthwriting, a nonverbal test may not identify the children who fit best. One child at the GDC, who had previously scored at the 99.9th percentile on a Ravens Progressive Matrices Test, and was offered admission to a highly gifted program in a California school, subsequently scored no higher than the 75th percentile on any WISC-III subtests. An autistic boy, his strength was in pattern recognition, and gifted programming for him would need to revolve around such ability. In general, classrooms for children with gifted visual-spatial strengths need to employ related activities—visual/hands-on projects, constructions, teaching approaches that utilize visual aids (maps, models, etc.). Typically, identification procedures that employ varied measures are more successful identifying a variety of gifted children.

[Haumea]

In what way does it signify that I'm more intelligent if I know who the prime minister of Malaysia was in 1989? (That wasn't really one of the questions, I was just throwing out something random...)

Yeah - it's not exactly Jeopardy champion tournament stuff. There are no questions so abstruse that they don't strongly correlate with IQ in some manner. It signifies that the subtest has relatively high g loading.

Some subtests have high g loading, others not so much. E.g. processing speed questions don't g-load highly. Information and Matrix Reasoning do.

It is what it is.

[TheStranger]

Vocabulary correlates the highest, either that or Arithmetic, I'm not sure, entirely.

[Haumea]

Yeah, it varies with each edition. Information used to be higher - but all those subtests are a lot higher than, say, Cancellation.

[TheStranger]

Right, as far as I know Vocabulary correlates the highest on the WAIS IV. Of course Information is still a pretty decent indicator of g. Cancellation is garbage in that respect.

In fact, it is recommended for gifted assessments if money is tight that Vocabulary, or if funds allow, the entire VCI index, be administered as they are the best indicators of giftedness. Obviously, these aren't perfect correlating tests, but they are the best predictors as far as I know in this current edition.

[RadiGen]

You scored 25 / 30
Mensa Workout