I got a 3.
No, not really, but i felt i was going to score that low. Man, math is way too far back in my past to even try to fake it. I got a 98.
Much like Featherlou, I only scored a 98 whereas I will usually get 135+ on most tests.
I could barely understand what he wrote up at the end, let alone some of the questions.
I got 127. I guess on some of the questions, though. 
That was my first online IQ test, so I don’t know how credible that is.
And no, I didn’t cheat or anything…seriously.
- It seemed like I just couldn’t make myself concentrate on the math - it’s been more than a decade since I’ve had to think about that sort of thing! I did well, I think, on the spatial reasoning things, but bad on the math. I’m sure if it were more balanced verbal/math I’d have done better - I mean, I do tie my shoes in the morning.
When I don’t wear slip ons, that is.
I mean, so they come untied sometimes, that happens to everybody, right?
All you stoopid people, come sit over by me. We’ll eat cookies and make fun of the poindexters. Just don’t type too fast, okay?
- I do find this test rather suspect as I always do to some degree with these things. The broken english at times makes me wonder about it.
The spatial/3-d things were kinda cool tho.
Well hell, I am in MENSA and all I got was a 92.
The “what is the ratio of circle a to circle b” got me because the answers were single numbers.
Ratio != 2. Did it mean like, 2 times larger?
I was totally lost. Got an 83.
Yes it does. And tria[n]gle was misspelled in #21.
By the grace of someone, I scored 123. And I have no idea which ones I got right. I didn’t even understand most of it. 
Gee, that made me feel dumb. I guess I’m spatially-challenged.
:: bumps into door jamb on the way out ::
122, here. Surprising, considering I didn’t have a clue on many of the problems. In fact, I sat there staring at the screen with a befuddled “huh?” expression through most of the test. I must be good at guessing. Oh, and counting on my fingers. 
Yeah, part of the test is being able to understand the sometimes poorly written questions quickly enough.
I assumed it meant how many times larger (for example, if the radius is twice as big, than the area will be 4 times as big).
I got a 169, which I kinda beleive, because I am good at spacial orientation and that sort of thing, which seems to be most of what this test is testing. On IQ tests that add linguistics, I usually get in the 120-140 range. (I hate those questions that show a scrambled word, and you have to determine if it’s a plant, animal, country, or what have you. I SUCK at word problems.)
But yeah, the poorly written questions were annoying. I let the clock run out on a couple, mostly cause I forgot to add more time, but I think that not guessing is makred as better than a wrong answer, like on the SAT’s. I don’t know what was up wuith the clock question. From what I could tell, it was asking what distance the end of the clock’s hand will travel in two hours. Well…
In two hours, the clock hand will circle the clock twice, traveling two circumferences. Circumference is equal to Pi*d, where d=diameter. In this question, d=Pi, so C=Pi[sup]2[/sup]. In two hours, the distance should be 2Pi[sup]2[/sup]. That was nowhere on the list. 120Pi[sup]2[/sup] was, and I think that might have been the “right” answer, since an hour is 60 minutes, and two times that is 120. SOmeone explain how this is actually, in any way, correct.
Yeah, that confused me as well, and I wish there was a way of knowing wich you got right or wrong. Anyways, this is what I decided.
If the hand had been supposed to move around the clock once an hour, then it obviously was not moving in realtime. And also, as you noted, there was no 2Pi answer. So I decided the hand was moving in realtime, maybe once every minute. Which would make the answer 120Pi, as you noted. They never said the hand would move around the clock only once an hour
I can’t remember if this is the one I ran out of time (heh) on or not, and again, this is purely speculation, but it seems reasonable.
This thing said ‘this is the end of part III of the test’. So I think we’re basically engaging in beta testing a full test. I only did an IQ test about 3-4 times in my life I think. Twice for a job application (one job, in fact, taking pre-selection rather seriously). The first time I did the test, I scored high on language, and low on math/analogy, the second time, having my memory refreshed, I scored high on both (different, but similar, questions). Suffice to say, you can train for these IQ tests, as this test indicates because it even has a training feature.
In this particular instance, it was the personality test that didn’t land me the job. I was mostly considered too emphatic to be good in negotiations. I’m not going into what I think about that here.
In two hours, the clock hand will circle the clock twice, traveling two circumferences. Circumference is equal to Pi*d, where d=diameter. In this question, d=Pi, so C=Pi[sup]2[/sup]. In two hours, the distance should be 2Pi[sup]2[/sup]. That was nowhere on the list. 120Pi[sup]2[/sup] was, and I think that might have been the “right” answer, since an hour is 60 minutes, and two times that is 120. SOmeone explain how this is actually, in any way, correct.
It doesn’t take the clock hand an hour, but a minute to circle the clock. 60 minutes in the hour, 2 hours …
Yeah, that makes sense, for whatever reason I just assumed it as more hypothetical, like “how far will a minute hadn travel on a clock after two hours” as oppossed to “how long will THIS hand travel after two hours.”
I got a 160, which is pretty amazing considering that I had a hell of a time comprehending the instructions for some of the questions. They were definitely not in clear English.
I also wonder about any IQ test that doesn’t take into acount the age of the test taker and has no ‘verbal’ or language component. IQ is supposed to be a mental age divided by chronological age, right?
I think I’ll take it again and see how I do just randomly guessing.
In the end, I just decided that 120Pi[sup]2[/sup] had to be right, because it was the only answer that included Pi[sup]2[/sup] (IIRC two were xPi and one was x*Pi[sup]3[/sup].) Since the diameter of the circle was Pi, any distance travelled around the circumference had to be proportional to Pi[sup]2[/sup]
Dani
This was actually kind of interesting for me, because it illustrated for me that the linguistics/verbal parts are a huge part of my scores on other IQ tests. I love scrambled words, etc. Separating them out like this shows me where my weakness lies (although I’m usually pretty good at spatial relations, too - I didn’t understand what the tester was looking for in most of these questions.)
It’s 403’ing again. Apparently, all these dopers hitting it have exceeded his bandwidth.
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