soens
.... what's a 2% student anyway?
 

smallstonefan
Craig - you are right about language bias. We have a mental acuity component in a hiring assessment we use and we always have to be mindful of the fact that if English is your second language, you won't score as high. Of course, that doesn't mean you're not as smart - in fact, we tend to round up a point or two (it's a stanine system with 9 being the highest). 
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Moshkito

smallstonefan
Craig - you are right about language bias. We have a mental acuity component in a hiring assessment we use and we always have to be mindful of the fact that if English is your second language, you won't score as high. Of course, that doesn't mean you're not as smart - in fact, we tend to round up a point or two (it's a stanine system with 9 being the highest). 
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English is my 3rd language ... so 124 means ... I'm still stupid.
 
My biggest issue is the color thing on the squares/triangles and the like, because the logic in those is not relative or completely logical, and is in fact imaginary. My issue, is that I can not see the difference in the colors and their locations, they just look to me as light and dark, and their locations, as if it were a clock, are random, not logical. A "supposition" is not "logic"! And this is where English sometimes is nutz. It helps in poetry, though!

craigb

eph221
You've  never seen a PETA commercial.

I have.  Most of those involved are complete whack jobs (even my bud Tom Scholtz).
 

 
 

soens

Moshkito

smallstonefan
Craig - you are right about language bias. We have a mental acuity component in a hiring assessment we use and we always have to be mindful of the fact that if English is your second language, you won't score as high. Of course, that doesn't mean you're not as smart - in fact, we tend to round up a point or two (it's a stanine system with 9 being the highest). 
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English is my 3rd language ... so 124 means ... I'm still stupid.
 
My biggest issue is the color thing on the squares/triangles and the like, because the logic in those is not relative or completely logical, and is in fact imaginary. My issue, is that I can not see the difference in the colors and their locations, they just look to me as light and dark, and their locations, as if it were a clock, are random, not logical. A "supposition" is not "logic"! And this is where English sometimes is nutz. It helps in poetry, though!

Does this mean you'd get a different score if test is taken in a different language? Try taking a different IQ test in each language you know.
 
Then there's color blindness and other factors not necessarily taken into consideration.
 I like it when they assign IQ's posthumously.  I read somewhere that Haydn had an IQ of 170.  HAHA!
I for one put little credence in such tests. You are as smart as you make yourself or allow yourself to be.
 
One of the originators, Alfred Binet, did not believe his "psychometric instruments" could be used to measure a single, permanent and inborn level of intelligence. He stressed the limitations of the test and felt intelligence is a concept far too broad to quantify with a single number. Instead, he insisted that intelligence is influenced by a number of factors, changes over time, and can only be compared among people of similar backgrounds.
- a loose quote from https://www.verywell.com/history-of-intelligence-testing-2795581
 
For fun though, the "experts" (those with high IQs?) have put together some telling stats:
200 + Unmeasurable Genius
160 to 199 - Genius
140+ High
100 - Average
70 to 84 - Borderline mental disability
55 to 69 - Mild mental disability
40 to 54 - Moderate mental disability
25 to 39 - Severe mental disability
1 to 24 - Profound mental disability
 
So if I fail to even take the test, I have no (-0-) IQ...

BobF
Back in '82 or '83 I was tested and the test involved dexterity at things I had never done before in addition to questions/problem solving.  IIRC, there was even a portion that tested awareness of current events.  I scored within one answer of 140, but that might've been a metric test.   Or was it a test adapted for the military? 
 
I barely remember that test and know even less about current tests.  Common sense tells me that language and cultural differences would make huge differences in outcomes.