Verbal IQ test

[badonkadonk]

there was a post here a few days ago about online IQ tests and how they are inflated. i just did this verbal IQ test and found it to be very difficult. i got 127. what do you think?

http://www.highiqsociety.org/noflash/nonmembers/iqtests.htm
click on verbal iq

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

I scored 134, which is precisely what my IQ was listed as when I graduated from high school. I guess I'm no smarter or dumber than I was 36 years ago.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

I scored 16 points lower than my actual IQ. I was drunk as hell, i guess that is a factor.

[brassnuts]

Wow, I qualify.... whoopity doo! These types of societies are so pathetic.

[jason_t]

146.

I'm guessing that "f[/i]uck" is not the correct answer to

monitor (tote) computer
economic (_ _ _ _) agenda.

[partygirluk]

The answer is "mind".

[vulturesrow]

I thought it was twat. Oh well.

[jason_t]

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The answer is "mind".

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Clever. I see it now. Thank you.

[spamuell]

This is not an IQ test at all. Whether or not someone has read 1984 or knows who Roebling is or when Voltaire lived can't be part of an IQ test.

Yes, this is partly bitterness, I got 142. And I know the test says it's not "culturally fair", but it's just not an IQ test unless you understand every reference in it. And whether or not you are familiar with all of these can't be a measure of IQ, even if you could argue that an intelligent person should be familiar with each name/date/place.

[jason_t]

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1984

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So that's what that bloody "Bloody sock" question was about. I've never read it. /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I completely agree that this test is not a measure of intelligence. Most of the questions are a measure of knowledge, rather than of intellectual ability. There's a huge difference.

[Victor]

126

i didnt really know any of the literary ones. i didnt know the ones where you fill in words either.

but i think i got all the definitions and analogies right.

i do far better at the logic type tests tho.

[twang]

Hi, my name is Twang and I live with my tribe in the deep Amazon rainforest. When I was a kid we never did IQ tests in school. We didn't do anything that had even the furthest resemblence of conventional IQ tests. To be perfectly honest, we didn't even have school.

Therefore I was very happy to see that The International High IQ Society had a culturally unbiased IQ test. I have to admit I had some problems with words like "determine" and "analogy" and phrases like "odd one out". The notation was a bit tricky too, you know stuff like ":" and "::" - WTF???

But I figured "hey, if it's a culturally unbiased test it's the same for everyone" so I completed it anyway. I'm not too happy with the results though. The good news is that it proved that I am dumb so I can now get on with my life here in the woods. Thank you, International High IQ Society! /images/graemlins/smile.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif

/twang

[Homer]

123. I should read more books, I guess.

[twang]

I like your post.

(130 and I'm Swedish)

/twang

[gumpzilla]

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I completely agree that this test is not a measure of intelligence. Most of the questions are a measure of knowledge, rather than of intellectual ability. There's a huge difference.

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All tests require some knowledge. Try taking this one without speaking English, for example. And I don't see much complaining about the fancy pants vocabulary, but that's probably because you know most of the words involved. Yes, I had no clue about the bloody sock one either. The tote/mind question was one of the few on this test that had any kind of reasoning or thinking that was different from something you'd see on the SAT.

What examples of questions that are divorced from prior knowledge and are exercises in pure reasoning can you present? I'll be surprised if there are (m)any.

[astroglide]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Yossarian&db=*
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Pirrip&db=*
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Prynne
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Raskolnikov
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Meussault

i gave up on the test right there and went to dictionary.com to look up the words. i didn't recognize any of them, they were all capitalized and looked like names. this isn't an IQ test.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

You know, I also thought there was an awful lot on the test that was based upon knowledge rather than intelligence.

[Shajen]

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You know, I also thought there was an awful lot on the test that was based upon knowledge rather than intelligence.

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agreed.

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