I understand that tonight at 8pm Eastern, 7pm Central Time, the Fox network will run a two-hour program called Test The Nation 2. This was done last year and is based on a popular program by the same name that has aired in Britian and other countries over the past few years.
If you need a ‘warm-up’ for tonight’s test, linked is the British National 2003 IQ test on the BBC site. BBC apparently sponsors the British version of the show. Warning, this is a pretty difficult test with the average scores ranging at about 105 for those computer literate testees who took the test last year. So, I’ll wager we will not see many high scores on this test! Each of the questions are timed and must be answered in about 10 - 15 seconds. There are 70 total questions. This is not your typical on-line IQ test – and with some questions, it helps to be British.
Here’s the link to that BBC IQ test – for those who care and dare-
Ahh cool! I did this last year and turned out to be smarter than I thought. Lot of us posted our scores and sure nuff, Dopers are intelligent. Shall we do it again?
I got a 130 on the BBC test. Breakdown of the different areas in the order the results are given (I failed to write down the categories.):
11/12
11/12
19/22
10/12
11/12
In that next to last category, I think I would have gotten a perfect score EXCEPT one of the questions took me until the very last second to answer … and I think it switched to the NEXT question just as I clicked … therefore I got two wrong instead of one or none.
Nope – the test is culture free and general knowledge will not be a factor. So even though I knew the ‘right’ answer to your hypothetical - those of us who are factually misinformed still have a chance for an honest score. FOX would have it no other way.
Well FOX just changed the URL for the test. For those that are interested - here is the correct link for the test that begins at 8 pm Eastern, 7 Central time tonight. (In about 10 minutes)
Well, the test is over and all of the answers are given. How’d you do?
I got 55 points, which apparently translates to an IQ of 132 for a person of my age (40-something). This is not quite the score I acheived when I last had an IQ assessment, but that’s been a few years, so maybe I’ve lost some points. :eek:
Apparently, the oldest quiztakers got higher IQs in the calculation, due to timing and memory components, but even with a perfect score of 60 the highest possible IQ was 143. That seems low to me, is my thinking on this skewed?
There’s only so much you can do in the limited period of time available to you on network TV. 99%+ of all people are below 144 - 144 is a very high score, it’s a logarithmic scale - so it should work for most people.
I’d agree that 143 isn’t likely to be the highest measurable IQ a person could have, just the highest that this test can measure.
For what it is worth, I got an IQ of 130, despite having gotten two of the logic questions right for bad reasons. (I picked the watermelon for no explainable reason and the cow because it was a mammal, not because I noticed the size trends). Still, my score fits with my perception of my IQ and based on what they said, I’m probably on the border of qualifying for MENSA, If I had any interest in doing so. (Something tells me MENSA would make me take a more difficult test before they wer impressed anyway).
I can’t get the American Links to work, and the Brittish one seems a bit Eurocentric for the American culture. Is there some online site that would let us take real IQ tests for free?
I fully appreciate the ironicness of this post that I may be asking a question I asked a year ago and completely forgot about
Generally Mensa will accept any IQ test for which there is a large enough sample and which you took under supervision. In other words, at least a few thousand will have to have taken it before you, and if you did it online, it doesn’t count.
Whoops. Don’t know why I was quoting you for the above post, blasphemer. If you want a real IQ test, ie. something with meaningful results, you’d have to take a supervised test and they usually last a few hours. If you just feel like challenging yourself, try IQtest.com.
They appear to grade on a curve because I’ve gotten scores upward of 150… I’m definitely not that smart.
