Also, my username annoys me and I wish I could change it but apparently I can't.
If you ask Tube or Ramius, they could probably change it for you. It does instill me with a deep desire to punch you in the face and steal your lunch money.
I want mine changed too. Stupid numbers. I don't even see the original "MikeMan" post ever anywhere, but his account is still clogging up the PA boards. Time to buy tube a nice dinner...
I don't put any stock in IQ tests at all, particularly not crappy internet ones, but that test gives me 142. That's probably a little high. I think I got all the questions right, anyway.
IQ tests only measure a very specific band of ability. I've met the most obnoxiously stupid people who brag about their high IQ. The only thing worse than IQ for measuring the intelligence of a person is (shudder) "EQ".
I was doing well until my boss came in and I had to close it down.
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I wanted to echo what Wonder_Hippie said on page 1 about the WAIS. If you really want your intelligence measured in a meaningful way, the WAIS is probably the best widely-available instrument right now.
What bugs me about the Tickle test is that I always flub "which one of these things is not like the other" questions, because the characteristic I find most important is not necessarily the characteristic the test creator finds most important. In a choice selection of three herbivorous mammals, one carnivorous mammal, and one omnivorous bird, I'm going to pick the bird, because birds branch off from mammals higher up in the taxonomy than carnivores do from herbivores, but almost always the right answer is "tiger" or whatever the carnivore was, because the test creator was an idiot.
I also dislike obfuscated numerical patterns with multiple answers. You find a mathematical rule that will explain almost any four-number sequence, as long as it is arbitrarily complex.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I took a WAIS tests awhile ago and got a 132. So I guess I'm pretty smart.
Heh, I score a 210 on them now. I got a psych work up not too long ago, after I had started giving these tests. It was something for my health insurance, and I hadn't told them exactly what I did at work. The test administrator was absolutely astounded.
I took a WAIS tests awhile ago and got a 132. So I guess I'm pretty smart.
Heh, I score a 210 on them now. I got a psych work up not too long ago, after I had started giving these tests. It was something for my health insurance, and I hadn't told them exactly what I did at work. The test administrator was absolutely astounded.
Ha ha ha ha.
That's awesome.
Do you break MMPIs for fun, too?
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Back in school we had a sound lab class. One thing we did was to listen to various pieces of music and some white noise, and then the teacher changed a frequency, and we were supposed to guess which one.
I took a WAIS tests awhile ago and got a 132. So I guess I'm pretty smart.
Heh, I score a 210 on them now. I got a psych work up not too long ago, after I had started giving these tests. It was something for my health insurance, and I hadn't told them exactly what I did at work. The test administrator was absolutely astounded.
Ha ha ha ha.
That's awesome.
Do you break MMPIs for fun, too?
The MMPI's that big ass personality one, right? I've never actually taken one myself, just broken them down in your standard abnormal psych classes and such. Damned things are so fucking convoluted and complicated it's disgusting.
The worst part is that, when administered, there's no specific order to the questions that absolutely has to be followed. There's a standardized distribution, but there are multiple methods for randomly distributing the individual items, so unless you've memorized which questions are the under- and over-report items, and which items are used to pick up random answering, it's damned near impossible to really fuck one up.
Useful scales though. Have fun giving them to somebody below 12.
Edit: Forgot to say that I did tell my test administer what my job was. Then she was mad at me because of the amount of work I was making her do after the testing session. Scoring and deciphering a high scoring test is laborious and annoying.
I've always scored really, really high on musical intelligence, but I can't sing worth a damn, can't play an instrument, and I have a kindergartener's understanding of musical theory.
I hope to remedy each of those through the next couple of years.
Edit: Hippie, the MMPI is a personality test, yeah, but it's also supposed to show a tendency towards certain psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia or depression. It's occasionally (and inappropriately, I might add) used by job interviewers to make sure they're hiring sane people. And yeah it's horrendously convoluted.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I don't realize why anyone would really want to take a test to measure their intelligence. You are pretty much yourself 24/7. It would seem you have plenty of time and input to gauge your intellectual abilities.
I don't realize why anyone would really want to take a test to measure their intelligence. You are pretty much yourself 24/7. It would seem you have plenty of time and input to gauge your intellectual abilities.
People really don't self monitor that much. You'd be surprised how many Peggy Hills there are in this world.
You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and an insight into processes and the way people think.
These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people as you can conceptualise ideas internally and understand patterns on an abstract level.
I think thats a little bit true. The word ones were easy as were the shapes, but the math ones were a little hard.
I'm not sure having knowledge of facts should really determine intelligence or not. 'Course, that's because I'm not very well versed in 100+ year old wars.
High IQ Society eh? Didn't realise Mensa had competitors. War of the nerds :P
Online tests are bullshit but fun. Gimme a minute here...
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The first things I filled out were '22 years old' and 'boy'. Then I stopped caring what my answers were and clicked with reckless abandon.
I scored a 95. Just below average. Clearly, a person of average intelligence is little better than random chance. "Huh. I need to plug this hairdryer in. Where does the plug go? Quick, the first object I see! ...The dog? No, that's silly. But what's that behind the dog? A FAUCET! SCORE!"
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hah, the IQ society's one won't load. Not so smart now are you! 133 on the tickle one. I got high 160's way back in Grade 5, but I don't think juvenile results are very relevant, and there's been a lot of beer under the bridge since then :P
Atleast, it's no more meaningful than numbers such as age, weight, height, but just as volatile and variable.
Most people I know who bitch about how unreliable IQ tests are have taken maybe one proper Wechsler test and then spent the rest of their lives trying to prove it wrong with the internet and dumb conversations. Meanwhile, the test keeps on doing what it does just fine. It's a predictor of future achievement, just like weight is a predictor of future deliciouness.
Even in job performance, where IQ isn't taken particularly seriously, it's been found by some pretty thorough poking around of the literature (booo meta analysis) that IQ is more useful than any kind of aptitude testing, interviewing or work tryouts.
In short: IQ tests are nifty, don't bother staying in school kids.
I don't realize why anyone would really want to take a test to measure their intelligence. You are pretty much yourself 24/7. It would seem you have plenty of time and input to gauge your intellectual abilities.
People like to see where they stand, even if they know it's not truly accurate. I think most people realize that they're just for fun. Anyone who scores over 100 at least :P
Most people I know who bitch about how unreliable IQ tests are have taken maybe one proper Wechsler test and then spent the rest of their lives trying to prove it wrong with the internet and dumb conversations. Meanwhile, the test keeps on doing what it does just fine. It's a predictor of future achievement, just like weight is a predictor of future deliciouness.
Thank you. IQ tests have come a long, long way since Piaget. They are valid and consistent nowadays. There are some problems with them, but that's why we've got revisions, right? Just like software, they're constantly being judged, tweaked, and reissued. Wizards of the Coast just wishes they could pump out as many expensive books and suitcases full of toys as the Weschler folks do.
hah, the IQ society's one won't load. Not so smart now are you! 133 on the tickle one. I got high 160's way back in Grade 5, but I don't think juvenile results are very relevant, and there's been a lot of beer under the bridge since then :P
hah, the IQ society's one won't load. Not so smart now are you! 133 on the tickle one. I got high 160's way back in Grade 5, but I don't think juvenile results are very relevant, and there's been a lot of beer under the bridge since then :P
Ha! 135.
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Did it call you a Visionary Philosopher too? Did you pay them thirty bucks so they could suckle on your nuts a little a longer with stories about what a special boy you are?
Did it call you a Visionary Philosopher too? Did you pay them thirty bucks so they could suckle on your nuts a little a longer with stories about what a special boy you are?
I don't know why they threw that in, eh. I thought those labels were generated from personality tests, not IQ test data. I guess its just bullshit alert #67 :P
I talked to a guy who went to a Mensa meeting once.
He said that they were probably smart as hell, but god damn were they utterly socially inept.
Being a member for 5 years, and after atteneding several regional gatherings, one annual gathering, and numerous other small get togethers with them, I can say that the majority of Mensans have social skills on par with the rest of society.
However, there is also a disproportionally (when compared with society as a whole) large number of stuck up assholes who think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm talking dickweeds that rattle off their IQ score as part of their introduction to someone, and they fully expect said new person to be greatly impressed and even awed by their raw quotient size.
Man, if someone did that to me I'd headbutt them, then say "what is it now?"
I don't realize why anyone would really want to take a test to measure their intelligence. You are pretty much yourself 24/7. It would seem you have plenty of time and input to gauge your intellectual abilities.
It's basically reassuring yourself that you're not a complete and utter tard.
I've done a supposedly official IQ test in an un-official way, and got 143. I find in my later years in seems to be inversely proportional to how much I give a shit (ie: I don't).
I got 135 on tickle, 137 on high IQ society, which qualifies me to join their stupid club.
I think that this proves both tests to be Bullshit, I'm the dumbest person on these forums.
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I want mine changed too. Stupid numbers. I don't even see the original "MikeMan" post ever anywhere, but his account is still clogging up the PA boards. Time to buy tube a nice dinner...
Anyway, not to derail the thread.
Everyone should read "The Mismeasure of Man."
Sorry if that's been mentioned already.
IQ is stupid to put stock into.
Here is another one that was a bit more interesting.
http://www.highiqsociety.org/iq_tests/
IQ tests only measure a very specific band of ability. I've met the most obnoxiously stupid people who brag about their high IQ. The only thing worse than IQ for measuring the intelligence of a person is (shudder) "EQ".
I was doing well until my boss came in and I had to close it down.
What bugs me about the Tickle test is that I always flub "which one of these things is not like the other" questions, because the characteristic I find most important is not necessarily the characteristic the test creator finds most important. In a choice selection of three herbivorous mammals, one carnivorous mammal, and one omnivorous bird, I'm going to pick the bird, because birds branch off from mammals higher up in the taxonomy than carnivores do from herbivores, but almost always the right answer is "tiger" or whatever the carnivore was, because the test creator was an idiot.
I also dislike obfuscated numerical patterns with multiple answers. You find a mathematical rule that will explain almost any four-number sequence, as long as it is arbitrarily complex.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Heh, I score a 210 on them now. I got a psych work up not too long ago, after I had started giving these tests. It was something for my health insurance, and I hadn't told them exactly what I did at work. The test administrator was absolutely astounded.
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Oh man, I didn't figure out a single one in the first category. Wow. Just couldn't see a pattern at all.
Ha ha ha ha.
That's awesome.
Do you break MMPIs for fun, too?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Back in school we had a sound lab class. One thing we did was to listen to various pieces of music and some white noise, and then the teacher changed a frequency, and we were supposed to guess which one.
I always got everything right.
Though that's not really about music at all. :P
That's what I got too...
The MMPI's that big ass personality one, right? I've never actually taken one myself, just broken them down in your standard abnormal psych classes and such. Damned things are so fucking convoluted and complicated it's disgusting.
The worst part is that, when administered, there's no specific order to the questions that absolutely has to be followed. There's a standardized distribution, but there are multiple methods for randomly distributing the individual items, so unless you've memorized which questions are the under- and over-report items, and which items are used to pick up random answering, it's damned near impossible to really fuck one up.
Useful scales though. Have fun giving them to somebody below 12.
Edit: Forgot to say that I did tell my test administer what my job was. Then she was mad at me because of the amount of work I was making her do after the testing session. Scoring and deciphering a high scoring test is laborious and annoying.
I hope to remedy each of those through the next couple of years.
Edit: Hippie, the MMPI is a personality test, yeah, but it's also supposed to show a tendency towards certain psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia or depression. It's occasionally (and inappropriately, I might add) used by job interviewers to make sure they're hiring sane people. And yeah it's horrendously convoluted.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That's retarded. Personality scales are largely based on trait theory, and trait theory is largely retarded.
Yeah, it really is.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That test was fun. Though I really sucked at the memorization of the color tile layouts.
People really don't self monitor that much. You'd be surprised how many Peggy Hills there are in this world.
I think thats a little bit true. The word ones were easy as were the shapes, but the math ones were a little hard.
Word ones and logic ones are easy for me, but anything with numbers just goes over my head.
Kinda makes me depressed.
Also, these tests are timed arent they? The longer you take the lower your score, also your age is taken into account a lot too.
Online tests are bullshit but fun. Gimme a minute here...
I scored a 95. Just below average. Clearly, a person of average intelligence is little better than random chance. "Huh. I need to plug this hairdryer in. Where does the plug go? Quick, the first object I see! ...The dog? No, that's silly. But what's that behind the dog? A FAUCET! SCORE!"
Means shit.
Atleast, it's no more meaningful than numbers such as age, weight, height, but just as volatile and variable.
Way to bring me down, Captain Bringdown of the Buzzkiller Brigade.
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Most people I know who bitch about how unreliable IQ tests are have taken maybe one proper Wechsler test and then spent the rest of their lives trying to prove it wrong with the internet and dumb conversations. Meanwhile, the test keeps on doing what it does just fine. It's a predictor of future achievement, just like weight is a predictor of future deliciouness.
Even in job performance, where IQ isn't taken particularly seriously, it's been found by some pretty thorough poking around of the literature (booo meta analysis) that IQ is more useful than any kind of aptitude testing, interviewing or work tryouts.
In short: IQ tests are nifty, don't bother staying in school kids.
People like to see where they stand, even if they know it's not truly accurate. I think most people realize that they're just for fun. Anyone who scores over 100 at least :P
Thank you. IQ tests have come a long, long way since Piaget. They are valid and consistent nowadays. There are some problems with them, but that's why we've got revisions, right? Just like software, they're constantly being judged, tweaked, and reissued. Wizards of the Coast just wishes they could pump out as many expensive books and suitcases full of toys as the Weschler folks do.
Ha! 135.
#2 mod. #2!
Did it call you a Visionary Philosopher too? Did you pay them thirty bucks so they could suckle on your nuts a little a longer with stories about what a special boy you are?
I don't know why they threw that in, eh. I thought those labels were generated from personality tests, not IQ test data. I guess its just bullshit alert #67 :P
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It's basically reassuring yourself that you're not a complete and utter tard.
...maybe if I eat some tuna...
I think it has gone down.
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I think that this proves both tests to be Bullshit, I'm the dumbest person on these forums.
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