Brain power and IQ testing

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  1. brainmetrix Registered Member

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    I don't know what you guys think about the IQ testing, if you wanna give it a try, check this page out: www.iqlogy.com
    any ideas about how credible the IQs test are?
     
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  3. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I'm not signing up with any spammers just to take a test that is this silly! If they can find me already just from answering the questions, I'm gonna come git you!

    I find IQ scores to be reasonable indicators within a ten point range, within a homogenous cultural sample of the population, and as long as the person is not too far out at either end.

    Marilyn Vos Savant is acknowledged to have the highest legitimately tested and recorded IQ in the world. It ranges from 182 to 230 depending on the test and the year. But that's because there are only about 300 people in the entire world in that micropercentile, and she's the only one who's been measured. On most tests you can only get two wrong answers to score that high, so it's not going to differentiate very well between 175 and 185.
     
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  5. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    I recall reading its been demonstrated that reaction time generally is a good indicator of IQ...the faster the reaction time, the higher the IQ.

    So, someone should do a test on those societies who consistently score low to see if their reaction time is also slow.
     
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  7. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    I have always thought that, in theory.. there should be 300 questions or so. You get one point for every correct question. No two questions are similar in any way. Sum the points (1 point per question) and that is your IQ.

    Reliable? Yes. Valid? Yes. Realistic? Probably not. Having no two questions similar in anyway is hard to do, if not impossible for 300 questions.
     
  8. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Are they all of similiar difficulty?

    If they were all easy questions most people would score close to 300.
     
  9. francois Schwat? Registered Senior Member

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    Reaction time... for, like what? Maybe that's why Asians are so damn good at videogames?
     
  10. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Well that's why I said no two questions are similar.. I mean in structure. I wanted this because you notice no two people are the exact same at anything. Two people can be chessmasters.. but do they make decisions the same? Likely not. I think there are BASIC, fundamental attributes of the brain that make it possible to solve problems. The only way we can test these is to identify them and put together different combinations of them.

    Say there are 10 different attributes.. fundemental parts of the brain that we all have in common that are used to solve problems (I know 10 is way too small but it helps in calculations). Using a general formula, there are 2<sup>10</sup> = 1024 different ways these 10 can be put together.. not counting the order inswhich one can use these.

    Am I making any sense? No likely because I am just typing away in my visual mode of thought...
     
  11. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Actually. It depends on the reaction time test. It was shown that the more complex a reaction time test is, the better you do the higher your IQ.. the lower IQ you have, the worse you do. I think what they mean is CONSISTANCY of your answers because the more complex the test is, the longer it takes to answer.

    Like if you have to hit R if the light flashes on the right and L for left, that is one example of a more complex test. Another is for lights that flash in 4 directions and you have to hit the appropriate key.
     
  12. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Well, if two people are extraordinarily good at the same thing, its likely they will have the same kind of intelligence.

    You still need a scale of difficulty, regardless of structure or type of question.
     
  13. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Don't know...the correlation was first discovered by Sir Francis Galton, who also coined the word Eugenics. I don't know what kind of tests he was doing.
     
  14. valich Registered Senior Member

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    This is a similar post to what what posted last week. An IQ test measures nothing more than what is on the IQ questions. Studies have shown that intelligence, creativity and knowedge are not related to IQ tests. So Your point is?
     
  15. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Just out of pure curiosity, how did they test intelligence to measure it against IQ? Real life success? I've seen many smart guys lead mundane lives... or just sit around all day and basically do nothing.
     
  16. brainmetrix Registered Member

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    Good point, the IQ doesn't really mean success in life, Mozart is thought to have a very high IQ, but yet he was in too much debt and he was hiding from his indebtors ...
     
  17. Exhumed Self ******. Registered Senior Member

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    IQ tests definitely do not measure long term things, like strategy. Creativity is often long term as well (like epiphanies... you don't just start concentrating and have them at will).
     
  18. Fafnir665 You just got served. Registered Senior Member

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    Your Results for the IQ Test!
    Your IQ test score is 140

    Congratulations, your score is 140, it could be even highter, because 140 is the maximum score for this test, people with this score make less than 1 percent of the population!


    Yawn...
     
  19. brainmetrix Registered Member

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    impressive! was that in your first try?
     
  20. Fafnir665 You just got served. Registered Senior Member

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  21. brainmetrix Registered Member

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    I always think that if you get a low IQ, that can be due to many reasons (not only that you're not smart), but if you get a high IQ (like 140 and over) that would only mean one thing, you're Smart.
     
  22. Blackrain Registered Senior Member

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    So I'm assuming you got all of the answers right. So when It came to the dice, which one did you pick and why?
     
  23. brainmetrix Registered Member

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    Try to flip all the dices in your brain to one position, all of them will match except one, which is "D".
     
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