Thread: IQ Tests - Good Test of Intelligence... maybe Potential instead?

What is new? IQ tests give an indication of some type(s) of intelligence. Not some super-magical value.

Internet I.Q. tests give a very, very vague indication. But I am pretty certain most of those online I.Q. tests are made easy, for fun or something. You have to be an idiot to click on those banners anyhows : )

I doubt internet I.Q. tests all give the same score, while real I.Q. tests probably do (with the same person).

If you get good scores at IQ tests, it means you're good... at getting good scores on IQ tests.

Also, if you're a fan of the online IQ tests, ask yourself how they make their money. Usually, you pay, and they send you an "intelligence profile" or some crap, with a big red dot indicating where you figure in. Now, when are people more likely to pay for that thing, if they get a low score, or a high one? That's right...

Originally Posted by Replicon

If you get good scores at IQ tests, it means you're good... at getting good scores on IQ tests.

I partially agree with that, in that the more you take IQ tests the better adept you become at solving those sorts of problems, but it is a relatively effective indicator of someone's problem solving skills in general.

Person A has an IQ of 90, while person B has an IQ of 120. Give them some various educational books, and assuming they put the same amount of time and effort into reading those books and trying to understand them, it would make sense to me that person B would have learned and understood more.

That is probably true for a lot of people, possibly even most people, (but I doubt it) but some people would not follow this standard. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. A person who did well on an IQ test may have just as hard of a time trying to read the books as the other person, but may be great at rearranging shapes for some reason and doing whatever it is you are supposed to do w/ them (I took the test once, but honestly can't remember:p ). Really, a complete idiot could pass one of those things. Or a really smart person could fail it b/c they are not good test takers.

The other problem with standardized testing is that there's no such thing as standardized. That's because there's no such thing as a 'standard' person. There are cultural differences that are at the root of not just grammatical issues, but also intuition. No test design committee could possibly guess what they're missing, and that affects the results as well.

Now, when are people more likely to pay for that thing, if they get a low score, or a high one? That's right...

Honestly - I don't know. You do not need to pay to receive a score... only some crappy in-depth analysis that'll end up telling you you are good at whatever.

How about... neither? Dumb people don't care, and smart people know better, so how about the average people?

I'd like to take a real test. My IQ is somewhere in the 130s but I don't know for sure.

Cymek... 130 is below average for internet IQ tests. I made this kid who was a feckin retard take an IQ test and he got like, at least a 150.