# Test The Nation (U.S. - IQ) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899 "2003-06-05T18:59:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/21 "2003-06-06T08:28:21Z")
118 (guessed 130) language 11/12 memory 11/12 logic 18/22 numbers 9/12 perception 9/12 ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/22 "2003-06-06T09:39:20Z")
137 (Highest score yet!) guessed 135 Language 10/12 Memory 11/12 Logic 21/22 Numbers 11/12 Perception 10/12 If you check the tables, it’s only possible to get over 150 if you’re 55 or over. In my age category (35-54) the highest possible score is 144. For 20-24, it’s 137. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/23 "2003-06-06T09:52:48Z")
136 - I guessed 130 Language 11/12 Memory 11/12 Logic 19/22 Numbers 11/12 Perception 11/12 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/24 "2003-06-06T11:17:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tigers2B1 \* > \*\*I should add that the average ON-LINE test taker score during the English version was about 105. \*\* OK, without venturing out on the whole “IQ is bunk” argument, I’m going to start subtracting 10 IQ points off all Dopers in this thread that confuse “English” with “British”. ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/25 "2003-06-06T13:08:25Z")
Sorry **Futile Gesture** - 123 - got a perfect score in memory. Missed one in logic and got killed in language (as you might guess 🙂 ) 123 -10 * * * 112 ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/26 "2003-06-06T13:31:29Z")
IQ – 133 Language – 12/12 Memory – 12/12 Logic – 22/22 Numbers – 8/12 Perception – 10/12 It’s too bad the [results](http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/results/index.shtml) page doesn’t report sample size or standard deviation. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/27 "2003-06-06T14:28:06Z")
109 \ I don’t do well under time pressure. Yeah, that’s it. \ ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/28 "2003-06-06T14:35:42Z")
130 (estimated 110) Language 11/12 Memory 11/12 Logic 21/22 Numbers 10/12 Perception 9/12 I think my doors of perception need to be cleansed… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/29 "2003-06-06T14:55:47Z")
Call me high… 137 Language 11/12 Memory 10/12 Logic 20/22 Numbers 12/12 Perception 10/12 I usually score higher than that. The last time I took a real (non online) IQ Test I scored in the 160s. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/30 "2003-06-06T15:25:47Z")
111 Confirms that I can’t add 2+2 and arrive at 4. ---
**Author:** ![hedra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hedra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hedra)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/31 "2003-06-06T16:09:18Z")
125, and that’s with being dyslexic (reversal of image, and sequence - makes math in the head HORRIBLE)… I guessed 130, estimating on their scale maximum. Language:10/12 (anagrams are hell for me, or I’d have done better on that one) Memory: 10/12 Logic: 21/22 (which reflects my 700 analytical GRE score) Numbers: 8/12 (16 … wait 61 … no, wait! AAAHH!) Perception: 11/12 Oh, and I also protest the British phone question. My IQ was formerly tested as 157 (as an adult) (160 as a kid, but standard deviation and all that). And aren’t we now skewing the British IQ results? What city do YOU live in, in England… ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/32 "2003-06-06T16:52:16Z")
I said I was from (London)Derry in N. Ireland, because I’ve got family there. And whaddayaknow – looks like “we” have got the highest IQs out of the bunch. (Though the small differences in these averages are most likely not statistically significant.) ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/33 "2003-06-06T20:32:05Z")
This is interesting, isn’t it? Normally an IQ thread would be on page 3 in 24 hours. Maybe this one is just a bit more demanding than the Sesame Street type (Which one of these is not like the other…?) usually found on the web. I see this thread has a reply to view ratio of just under 1:20, while the SAT one below (typical answer - "I only got 1560, but I took 3 hits of acid just before, had a feral cat stuck in my trousers, and forgot my pencil so I had to mark out the answers with my blood…) is a litte greater than 1:10. I tried to find one of the older IQ test threads, but the search tool won’t let me use “IQ”. 118 ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/34 "2003-06-06T21:23:50Z")
1. I guessed 120. Those anagrams were difficult for me after they started spelling out actual words. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/35 "2003-06-06T21:28:27Z")
One other thing - Did you notice the chart matching scores vs. income? A perfect correlation, poorest=smartest to richest=dumbest. ---
**Author:** ![HughManatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HughManatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HughManatee)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/36 "2003-06-06T21:41:58Z")
Also, the Lookup Table pegs the highest and lowest scores. For example, if you are age 20-34, you will score between 70 and 137. Even if you are much smarter, you’ll never score over 137. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/37 "2003-06-06T23:30:09Z")
1. If I’d taken the test last week, I would’ve been at 136 or 138, but my 20th birthday was last Saturday, so I now fall into a different age bracket. This was harder than the other online IQ tests that I’ve taken. Mostly because of all of the visualization in the last part–I REALLY suck at that. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/38 "2003-06-06T23:53:52Z")
your IQ score is 116 (you estimated 100) Language 10/12 Memory 10/12 Logic 19/22 Numbers 10/12 Perception 8/12 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/39 "2003-06-06T23:55:11Z")
I’ve got a serious headache going right now, but scored a whopping **142**. Oddly, I was sure it was the memory section that was going to give me problems. Language 11/12 Memory 12/12 Logic 22/22 Numbers 11/12 Perception 12/12 ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899/40 "2003-06-07T00:33:41Z")
1. I’m exactly average, which means I can comprehend any conversation, but without adding any thoughtful insights. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-u-s-iq/179899.md?page=3)