Nearly everybody could answer the questions with a high degree of accuracy given enough time, the trick and the measure is doing it within a tight prescribed time frame.
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Nearly everybody could answer the questions with a high degree of accuracy given enough time, the trick and the measure is doing it within a tight prescribed time frame.
So the tests arw timed?2
Yes.
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This could be a reason why a few people get really high scores on the paper tests that you are sent. If you give yourself more than the alloted time then you will do well.
yeah it's also why internet based ones are BS.
There are time based internet ones though.
Probably not, but then you're only cheating yourself.It's not that hard to fudge them though
What you place value on or not is irrelevant to the actual test, I am not referring to the internet 'what's your IQ' tests, or the Mensa testers which hold little to no value and which I am sure many here are basing their 'IQ' scores on, either that or OCuk has more genius level members than all the High IQ Societies combined.
If you sit a specific invigilated bank of IQ examinations which are universally recognised, like the Cattell Fair or Stanford-Binet then you can safely state that the resulting score is fairly accurate as a measure of your ability to acquire and apply knowledge and your potential to reason with abstract ideas and solve complex and abstract problems.
Simply stating your IQ is 146 is meaningless without stating which test and in what environment it was taken.
An invigilated Mensa Score of 146 is 8 points above their accepted current entrance requirement by the scale they use.
The confusion here is our differing application of the word 'Intelligence' when referring to IQ.
I am not referring to their proven ability, or their 'common sense' or even their 'knowledge' , simply their raw potential for intelligence.
I agree there are many factors which make up someone's intellect or more accurately, their knowledge, education notwithstanding, but as a raw indication of human potential solely related to their mental capacity a valid invigilated IQ test administered on a recognised scale is a valid measurement.
Probably not, but then you're only cheating yourself.
True, depends how much you care about showing off.
Probably not, but then you're only cheating yourself.
Judging by the sort of person who takes internet iq tests and brags about them i wouldn't put it past em
or 2 points below requirement on a cattell.
or 2 points below requirement on a cattell.
Which is annoying if your result is measured against the Stanford-Binet scale.
But that's what I'm saying, I don't believe that to be the case, it just means you're good at IQ tests.
"Raw intelligence" I see as being quite a vague statement.
A high IQ can sometimes indicate a high level of intelligence, but the presence of a high IQ isn't required to have a high level of intelligence. The way I see it, IQ tests are more of "what you are not" rather than what you are.
Like a "not short" test, just because you don't get labeled as short, doesn't mean you are tall, you're just verifiably not short. A high IQ may mean you're intelligent, but it doesn't mean you are.
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Very true, I'm inclined to believe those that go all the way to being in Mensa really are just trying to show off, I see it as highly lame really.True, depends how much you care about showing off.
I can't remember which ones and where I took them, it was quite a while ago now, but I've done a few of them from different places out of curiosity.Judging by the sort of person who takes internet iq tests and brags about them i wouldn't put it past em
or 2 points below requirement on a cattell.
Uhh, I could've sworn you asked me which ones I took.
Only if they shout about it from the roof tops, if they keep it to themselves then there is no showing off (obviously the op fails at this point).