Sometimes I wish my sidebar would say "If you fall for taking this test your IQ is less than 100?" Admittedly, we all fall for things sometimes. It's an odd thing. Did you know that gullibility isn't in the OED?
I've never taken one. I figured that SAT and GRE were the last such tests to which I would submit myself. I have looked at a number of online converters of SAT or GRE to IQ.I have noticed that, based on what I recall of my IQ, most online converters for the GRE overestimate my IQ- by 15 to 20 points. I took the GRE twice, about 15 years apart. First a paper version and later on, a computerized version. The computerized version gave me a GRE score 70 points higher than the paper version. Maybe they changed the percentiles.
There is also a range on SAT and GRE. There is less on a formal IQ test, but some.
I was thinking more of the pictures of some some historical figure that say "If you can answer these 10 historical questions your IQ is over 140." Which is irritating.
Real IQ tests can be had online, and I think the one based on the shapes, and so derived from a Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices, is probably okay, if held lightly.
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Online IQ tests can be amusing. Amusement is the only real reason to take one. With a 50-kilo bag of salt handy.
Online IQ tests can be amusing.
I've never taken one. I figured that SAT and GRE were the last such tests to which I would submit myself. I have looked at a number of online converters of SAT or GRE to IQ.I have noticed that, based on what I recall of my IQ, most online converters for the GRE overestimate my IQ- by 15 to 20 points. I took the GRE twice, about 15 years apart. First a paper version and later on, a computerized version. The computerized version gave me a GRE score 70 points higher than the paper version. Maybe they changed the percentiles.
There is also a range on SAT and GRE. There is less on a formal IQ test, but some.
I was thinking more of the pictures of some some historical figure that say "If you can answer these 10 historical questions your IQ is over 140." Which is irritating.
Real IQ tests can be had online, and I think the one based on the shapes, and so derived from a Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices, is probably okay, if held lightly.
"The first attestation of gullibility known to the Oxford English Dictionary appears in 1793, and gullible in 1825."
Please tell me that the smartest person here didn't just fall for that.
A character flaw--I try to fix things. Is it in the DSM?
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