2016/08/18 00:49:23
DrLumen
Does it count toward your score if you hack (er, reparse) the image URL?
2016/08/18 03:07:36
craigb
Duke got higher than my perfect score because he's smarter.  
 
Actually, if Kenny didn't find that badge on his own, then age is definitely being taken into account!
 
Of course, that whole website is a bit whacked since those questions won't even prove a standard 140 IQ.  For more proof, look at the estimated IQ's of famous geniuses.  Those are a joke!   Ignoring the inflated higher numbers, just look at the placement of Einstein.  Sorry, but I do NOT have a higher IQ than he did.  I call B... S...!
2016/08/18 10:45:26
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). 
 ...



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!
 
I always think of Kafka, when I see crap like that be discussed and thought of as "logic".
2016/08/18 10:49:45
BobF
Those results are metric.  Convert to SAE
 
150 = 59.05
2016/08/18 10:51:04
kennywtelejazz
craigb
You're his "project" Kenny! 


how true
 
DrLumen
Does it count toward your score if you hack (er, reparse) the image URL?


no,  you take the test you get the score simple right 
 
craigb
Duke got higher than my perfect score because he's smarter.  
 
Actually, if Kenny didn't find that badge on his own, then age is definitely being taken into account!
 
Of course, that whole website is a bit whacked since those questions won't even prove a standard 140 IQ.  For more proof, look at the estimated IQ's of famous geniuses.  Those are a joke!   Ignoring the inflated higher numbers, just look at the placement of Einstein.  Sorry, but I do NOT have a higher IQ than he did.  I call B... S...!






 
                    I don't always play an E chord on my electric guitar
                     But when I do , I play it as this E = mc 2 . not this E = E G# B as most folks do
           Duke taught me how to play an E chord that way after I fixed his owners time machine .
                                        
               
 
                        Good boy Duke . Thanks for the guitar lesson ...
                                Is it OK if I use it for other things ?     
                                   
 
Kenny
2016/08/18 16:16:53
craigb
More proof that dogs are smarter than humans:  Consider what they do!  Eat, sleep, scratch, play, love, speak their mind and are always happy to see you regardless of your mood.  No worrying, no clothes, no having to pay bills, no having to understand women, no politics - they just live in the moment and enjoy life.  We could learn a lot from them! 
2016/08/18 16:21:11
eph221
You've  never seen a PETA commercial.
2016/08/18 16:28:18
craigb
eph221
You've  never seen a PETA commercial.




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

 
 
2016/08/18 16:51:59
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). 
 ...



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 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...
2016/08/18 17:30:29
craigb
^^^^This.  (As I believe I alluded to above as well.)
 
As for the geometric questions and Pedro's response, I find it interesting since those are among the most logic-based questions.  Just goes to show I guess, it's obvious his film review IQ is much higher than ours! 
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