Normally I am not big on these things, but took an online one for fun (although I skipped a question as I was too lazy to do a word scrabble question- how does this test IQ?)
They do ask for an email but it seems on the up and up. Heaven’s know how accurate it is, but hey give it a spin.
My Results:
Congratulations, elf6c!
Your IQ score is 133
This number is the result of a formula based on how many questions you answered correctly on Emode’s Ultimate IQ test.
At the same time, we compared your answers with others who have taken the test, and according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Visionary Philosopher.
The first thing we can tell you about that is you’re equally good at mathematical and verbal tasks, and learn best through experience. But that’s just scratching the surface.
That test tends to inflate everyone’s IQ scores by at least 15 points, or so I’ve seen. They clearly want people to buy a nice little IQ certificate, and nobody wants to spend 10 dollars on a piece of paper proclaiming their average intelligence to the world.
Just a suggestion to not take this site too literally.
Wait! I’m smart enough to figure it out! I scored 131 and am an “Insightful Linguist”… what this means is that I have strong verbal and spatial skills. Not suprising considering everyone in my family either writes for a living or does some kind of art/design.
Another “Visionary Philosopher” at a score of 136 here.
I wouldn’t mind knowing which questions were wrong - the math ones all seemed to be about junior-high level, but the which fills in the empty space: the white square with black circle on the left side, or the black square with the blue triangle… ones always stop me for a couple minutes to think about them.
I took it last year, got 133, and was told I was ‘facts curator’ or trivia collector or something of that nature. It’s true I tend to remember all kinds of interesting but useless trivia, but with the test score itself I suspect a Lake Wobegone effect–everyone’s score will be above average. (Didn’t “King of the Hill” have an episode about something like this once?)
144 and Visionary Philosopher. Interestingly, when I took the personality test, it recalled my IQ test score as being in the 120-144 range. I thought that was a pretty vague range.
Dammit, Vixen and Thud, until you guys posted, I had the highest IQ! And I didn’t have to share it with anyone else! Curses, there goes that ego lift I mentioned
Oh well, I got to be the smartest person in this thread for just over 2 and a half hours!
Hell, I just guessed at a couple of them. That’s probably why my score was that high. Online IQ tests tend to be highly inaccurate anyway - I’ve been everything from a 100 to a 155.
I was going to start a new thread, but found this in searching to see if it had already been done.
The BBC have a real, true bona fide IQ test on their website. It was used in their “test the nation” show, in which they ran an IQ test on the telly so that people could test themselves. Importantly, this actual test has been compiled by someone qualified to do so and callibrated to centre on 100 (not 115 or anything like that) and also have the appropriate spread.
Your score is age dependent and the test is not sensitive enough to deal with high-end IQs accurately. For this reason, the highest IQ you can get in the 25 to 34 age bracket is 137. It’s higher if you’re 35 - 44, for example, or 16 to 24.
There are also some questions about your socio-economic status, so that the site can compile statistics. One of the more interesting quirks is the perfect inverse correlation between IQ and salary! I suspect that this is because a large number of zero- or low-earning students have skewed it, but there you go. Certainly the average for those earning more than £50k ($75k) was 99 when I last looked.
Anyway - for full disclosure I scored 63/70, which gave me a 130. Excuse time: I did it at work, which put the pressure on a bit as you’re always looking over your shoulder. Now enough with the excuses!
Much more modest on this one - 111. It didn’t help that everything was in British measurements and they only gave you 10-20 seconds for each problem (not to mention I kept going to click answers the second the time had expired, only to see that my click counted as an answer to the NEXT question…ugh).
