BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?

Subject: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 12:31 AM

Bored and fiddling about I've done some that report I am an idiot, while others tell me I am a genius. What is going on with these websites, besides the come-on for payment to get the complete report?

Any ed professionals on the Mudcat? What do you guys think about this one.

The most elaborate I tried was on the 'tickle' site off of Space News Daily website.

The most horridly prepared site is I think off an Aussie TV documentary listing.

My lowest score 89 my highest 129

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 12:41 AM

Which is just about the way IQ tests work. If you gave me a Weichlser IQ test I'd score lower than I would on a Stanfod Binet. Weichsler measures verbal and mathematical skills. I'm not very good with numbers.
When I was in the second grade, I was given an IQ test. I remember the tester asked me what was the capital of Greece. I remember because I didn't know the answer, and when my mother found out, she was incensed that I had achieved the age of 7 without knowing about Athens and the Athenians. If they'd asked me the capital of Ireland, I could have told them. Dad spent a lot of time telling me about Ireland and the Irish. I'm not sure intelligence can be truly measured.
If you think having a high IQ means you're smart, go to a Mensa meeting.

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 12:46 AM

Imagine this:

2, 4, 6, 8, _____.

The correct answer should be x plus or minus y where y. If you say that, you will be marked wrong, and wrongly too I might add. So, in the interests of doing the test, we lead people to understand that the 'right' answer is 10. That's sad.

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: michaelr
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 01:28 AM

Hahahahahaha, sorefingers -- you're a hoot, you are.

Gotta get up earlier to fool me!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 01:54 AM

I work as a teacher, and I don't see much value i IQ tests. OK, ya got the number. Now what?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 04:23 AM

I dunno, why don't we send all of the Guests to them and find out?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:35 AM

I've got it brucie!

2, 4, 6, 8, ____

Never to late

(Tom Robinson Band I think.)

What makes you think it might be 10? ;-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:36 AM

And then following the same test complete

3, 5, 7, 9, ___

:D

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:53 AM

Sure they indicate something -- the good ones do, anyway. But if you're desperate for reassurance about how smart you are, your best bet is to go do something smart. If you're not, then you're best approach is to live as intelligently as you can and not worry about it. I've been to MENSA meetings and those smarty-pants are dullards of the first order, generally, and often are putting their vaunted intelligence to no valuable use -- and that is the real key to success. Not "IQ", but value delivered.

A

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:57 AM

One of my university profs told a story of working as an IQ test administrator during his earlier days. He was adminstering a test in Lakeland, Florida where citrus crops are a major business. He was asking the questions verbally to a group of young children. One of the questions was, "What is an orange?" He asked the question to one young boy who replied, "I don't know." At that point, he should have just marked the answer as incorrect and gone on to the next question, but he couldn't believe that a kid in Lakeland didn't know what an orange was. So he stopped and asked the kid, "You don't know what an orange is? What are those thing growing on all the trees around here that you pick and squeeze the juice from."

"Oh!" replied the kid, "You mean urnjes! My daddy owns a orchard, but we don't call 'em oh-ranges."

He aslo said that one of the questions on the test was, "What is Mars?" The correct answer was that Mars is a planet. Identifying Mars as a candy bar or as the Roman god of war were incorrect answers.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 11:24 AM

"Roman God" is the correct response to the question "Who is Mars"? in the parallel form of that test.

You see, Bruce, it actually has something to do with what it claims to test (big grin)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 12:42 PM

Heck, I took one in second grade and they said I was smart. So they gave me glasses so I could see better. Then I had to take another one in the 8th grade; they said I was purt near a genius (but they didn't hide the next questions very well so I was always a couple questions ahead of 'em). Then the Army gave me a test and I did purty good on it, too, so I got a job as an inspector when I was overseas instead of being a full time ground pounder.

If I'm so smart, how's come I ain't rich?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: pdq
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 01:10 PM

Speaking of performance over numbers, if president Gearge W. Bush ain't so bright, why does he make his competition look like a bunch of checkers players coming to his chess game?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 04:05 PM

Because his pieces move any way he decides they may or can. Checkers has rules.

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Roughyed
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 04:12 PM

Er, Dave the Gnome, that would be "little white line" a sneaky drugs reference that got past the BBC censors. Do I pass?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: pdq
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 06:45 PM

brucie...are you waiting for Bush to make his checkers speech?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 07:01 PM

So, if I took a test and scored 'not quite a genius', but I screwed up and told them I did it in 13 minutes instead of the actual 11 (so the score was lower), should I have been a 'real genius', or would I actually lose points because I can't tell time, and would now be considered stoopit? I can write fairly long sentences, some of which make sense. I should get some credit for that! I can pronounce 'nuclear' and spell 'skeptic' correctly, so it doesn't look like the word should be followed by 'tank'. Just because I still use my fingers to add shouldn't count (sorry), right?

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 07:18 PM

OK, I treat IQ tests with the same sense of floccinaucinihilipilification (often spelled floccinoccinihilipilification) that Jeri does. I figure if you have the brains to take one voluntarily, and then don't have the good sense to cheat, what the heck good are ya anyway?

pdq: I'm waiting for Bush to see that if he puts one WMD on the first square, two on the second, four on the third . . . . then he will be able to justify the war he started to the people who are payin' for it in both blood and cash. My dislike of President Bush is not that he's a little dim or socially inept (I am both those things and it don't bother me none; rather, I dislike his neocon agenda because it will hijack democracy and enslave six billion people. He willingly shills for these despicable bastards, pimps for them. I don't hold him in very high regard.

Subject: RE: BS: I-Q test websites are they a con?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 09:41 PM

You probably...in reality (Bell-Curve)between 90 and 110 ...if you were gullible enough to orignally snap at the "BAIT" they dangled before you.....

Below 90....you would just be searching the net for sex, drugs or rock and roll.

Above 110....you would already know it was a scam.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle