# I'm a visionary philosopher! (Online IQ test) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904 "2002-11-26T15:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/41 "2002-11-26T21:02:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mtgman \* > \*\*Hmm, maybe I misread, but I thought it said the results would be e-mailed to the address. How would putting in a fake address help me if I can’t get the one thing I came to the site for? I’ll go back and look again. > > Enjoy, > Steven \*\* It’s a ruse. They give you the score on the final page. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/42 "2002-11-26T21:06:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfman \* > \*\*Im a 138 precision processor. > > Im curious what people put for the dissimilar fruit. > coconut > grape > banana > apple > pear > > I finally went with banana cause all the rest are mostly round, but the grape is different because of size, and the cocnut is a candidate to cause it comes of the tree in an inedible state. \*\* I reasoned that four have soft skins and one a hard shell. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/43 "2002-11-26T21:06:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfman \* > \*\*Im curious what people put for the dissimilar fruit. > coconut > grape > banana > apple > pear > \*\* I put coconut. The rest are friut, have seeds, and/or are soft. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/44 "2002-11-26T21:12:28Z")
Another thing **Washte** and I have in common – I’m a Visionary Philosopher with an IQ of 138, but last time I took this test, it was 135. By the way, for all you folks who keep saying you’re not smart enough for Mensa – a lot of you are smarter than I am, so there! CJ ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/45 "2002-11-26T21:13:18Z")
I got 129, and am a “visual mathematician,” and I usually keep score when we play Spades because I’m so terrified of losing what very little mathematical ability I **have** that I figure I’d better stay in practice SOMEHOW. Then again…I have, for years, been living proof of “It’s not what you have; it’s what you DO with it,” - in that I have it but I haven’t done bubkes with it. So…YMMV, to an extreme degree. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/46 "2002-11-26T21:16:27Z")
136, but I didnt get a type! Must be because I put in a fake email addy ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/47 "2002-11-26T21:22:48Z")
Logging in with the fake email addy I gave (haha at their domain and I signed up for alllll the spam) gives me my results. 136 Fact Curator. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/48 "2002-11-26T21:29:54Z")
I went with grape, because the others all grow on trees. But thats just a visionary philosopher’s view. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/49 "2002-11-26T21:46:31Z")
I took this test about a year and a half ago, but wanted to see what I’d get this time: > [@](#): > > Your IQ score is 122 > > This number is the result of a formula based on how many questions you answered correctly on Emode’s Ultimate IQ test. > > The even better news is that at Emode, we’ve taken your IQ test one step further. During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. We were able to analyze how you did on each set of those questions, which allows us to shed light on the way your brain uniquely functions. > > 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 an Insightful Linguist. > > The first thing we can tell you about that is you have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. But that’s just scratching the surface. Hmm. Not too bad, I guess… F\_X ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/50 "2002-11-26T21:53:45Z")
Visionary Philosopher, 138. What was the scramblet word for ANLDEGN? I passed in case this was timed. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/51 "2002-11-26T22:08:00Z")
129, Facts Curator. And ANLDEGN is England, a country. ---
**Author:** ![kylen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@kylen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kylen)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/52 "2002-11-26T22:08:51Z")
135 Facts Currator. I guess I recognized a lot of the cliches and addages… ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/53 "2002-11-26T22:11:23Z")
A two page test taken in 5 minutes, and we’re looking for insight into our “intellectual type”?! It was fun, though. xeno 135, Visionary Philosopher (I keep dropping points every time I take one of these. In no time I’ll be eating soup with a fork.) **lieu** : Just close your eyes and think of England. What was the answer to “What number is one half of one quarter and one tenth of 800?” (This is the only question that threw me.) ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/54 "2002-11-26T22:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*135, Visual Mathematician. > But since I’m not a native speaker of English, I get to add 20 points to my score. 😉 \*\* Cool, with the non-native bonus I would have a 158 IQ. 🙂 The e-mail said that 27% of Facts Curators had their first makeout session at a school dance. Apparently Bill Gates is a Facts Curator too … ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/55 "2002-11-26T22:15:44Z")
135 and apparently I need my eyes open to do math. Visual mathmetician is pretty funny, since if I have any abilities in any areas, they certainly ain’t math. Course I guess this test must be right, and my life experience to this point wrong! Would have been interesting if they added a time component, as I’m just about due to leave the office for the day, and didn’t want to do this on my own time! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/56 "2002-11-26T22:43:35Z")
**punha** - That one (#35) took me a minute, but once I saw it, I really, really liked it. But I can’t tell you, because then I’d have to kill you. 🙂 It took me longest to get #34, the one with the multicolored squares. But I was sure of my answer when I figured it out. Another one I’m wondering about was #2: “Which one of these five is least like the other four?” (Mule, Kangaroo, Cow, Deer, Donkey) I went with Kangaroo because of the mammal/marsupial difference, but IMHO it could just as easily have been Mule because of the reproductive/sterile distinction. Which one’s a bigger difference, making the differing one least like the other four? Depends on how you look at it. Other than that one, I was least sure of #37 (the one with the cross/triangle/square above a circle/square/oval, either of which could be grayed in or just outlined). But now that I’ve looked at it again, it seems obvious. And the coconut one - I went with the coconut because of the hard/soft and fruit/nonfruit distinctions. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/57 "2002-11-27T01:12:02Z")
Doh! The answer to “one half of one quarter and a tenth of 800” hit me as I was driving home. I hate questions like that! It’s one of those questions that depend on an imprecise sentence structure (or on an unusual parsing of a sentence) to get the “correct” answer. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/58 "2002-11-27T01:21:50Z")
Doh! _Again!_ Upon review of the damn thing, I read the question wrong the first time, and placed an “and” where there’s an “of”. [sub]Never mind.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/59 "2002-11-27T02:01:36Z")
Why, “England”, of course. At least, I certainly hope so. I’m just trying to figure out which ones I got wrong. Not that I’m a perfectionist, or anything. CJ ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904/60 "2002-11-27T02:46:05Z")
134 – Insightful Linguist. What a mouthful, eh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904.md?page=4)