IQ

[BARMK_RULEZ]

Re: IQ

I didn't lie

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I took this one

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[Reach]

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This test is garbage and part of an Internet IQ phenomenon that puts up bogus tests that generally just inflate your score. Not to mention the fact they're constructed so poorly it's almost laughable.

Take the test I posted on the first page. It's not perfect either, but much better.

[devonin]

Re: IQ

1. you are using a variety of intellectual abilities in order to solve these problems. Even verbal skills, in many cases.

2. Matrices are known to be highly g-loaded. This means performance on them correlates very highly with performance on all other mental tasks. If you are good at them, you're probably also good at general knowledge questions, vocabulary, analogies, processing speed, sequences, memory and working memory, etc.

I find that I'm better at pretty much all of the things you've listed here than I am at the "What's the missing thing given pattern X" tests.

[argo15]

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I should have paced myself I had 15 minutes remaining ^.^'

[OrganisM]

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I find that I'm better at pretty much all of the things you've listed here than I am at the "What's the missing thing given pattern X" tests.

Same here.

In the interest of satisfying my curiosity, I might go and take a few tests sometime soon.

[Reach]

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I find that I'm better at pretty much all of the things you've listed here than I am at the "What's the missing thing given pattern X" tests.

Just because you feel worse at it doesn't mean you are with respect to everyone else. Remember, scores are scaled arbitrarily based on how other people do. You might feel your 'sequencing' abilities are worse than say, your vocabulary, but if you took the scaled score of each they are likely similar. Also, to be fair, you could easily be overestimating your other abilities (No offense. You're a smart guy. It's just something most people have a tendency to do).

However, everyone is better at some things than others.The point is that your scores from various tasks will cluster together. I suppose it's possible that matrices could be your weakest ability, and say, vocabulary your strongest, but you would still expect your scores to cluster together.

It's very unusual that they wouldn't cluster, but I should point out that it does happen. Sometimes people score radically different in different tests. It's usually indicative of some underlying issue with either the tested (e.g. language based learning disability) or how the test was administered (e.g. The subject was way too nervous and anxious but the test proceeded anyway).

[DarkManticoreX2]

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Scored a 126 on the analytical test Resch posted on the first page. I probably could have scored higher, but i was limited by time constriants outside of the test. I randomly guessed on the last 4 questions, I kinda feel like it's a good representation of my analytical process.

It's probably why I'm aweome at games like psychopath and other puzzle games.

[devonin]

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You might feel your 'sequencing' abilities are worse than say, your vocabulary, but if you took the scaled score of each they are likely similar. Also, to be fair, you could easily be overestimating your other abilities (No offense. You're a smart guy. It's just something most people have a tendency to do).

Much beyond the first few obvious and easy problems, the vast majority, especially on the second test, I could make neither heads nor tails of, and could at best make a pseudo-educated guess.

Potential overestimation of my abilities or not, I've done more than enough work on things testing the other elements you've listed and scored well above the average of those around me on the majority. I've also tested via formal legitimate tests through my school, into a much higher percentile than either of those tests wanted to place me, and to the best of my fairly keen memory, very little if any of the content of those tests were matrices.

[clarinet89]

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I got 112. Meh, I never said I was the brightest tool in the crayon box.

[Reach]

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Much beyond the first few obvious and easy problems, the vast majority, especially on the second test, I could make neither heads nor tails of, and could at best make a pseudo-educated guess.

Potential overestimation of my abilities or not, I've done more than enough work on things testing the other elements you've listed and scored well above the average of those around me on the majority. I've also tested via formal legitimate tests through my school, into a much higher percentile than either of those tests wanted to place me, and to the best of my fairly keen memory, very little if any of the content of those tests were matrices.

Well, the second test is much harder and there's no point in taking it unless you scored over 130 on the first one. The average person is only going to understand the first few problems.

Anyway, it's possible you just have poor spatial abilities. Most people have fairly equal verbal and spatial skills, but there are always outliers, and you could be Verbal >>> Spatial.

In practical terms this doesn't have much consequence. You are a philosophy major, no? Unless you plan to jump into mathematics/physics/engineering, your Verbal abilities will get you through life. It's usually people with verbal deficits that run into problems.

What formal tests have you taken? Matrix reasoning is found on most professional IQ tests.

The old GRE doesn't use them, and it measured IQ pretty well, but tended to do it using verbal analogies. I would expect you could place fairly high on that test.

[Chrissi]

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I got 108 on reach's first test. But I guess I didn't try THAT hard. I should have used all the time but I had 20 minutes left and was kinda getting tired at the end so I didn't want to go back over the ones I guessed on.

Meh.

I, like (possibly) devonin, have terrible spatial abilities. I can't use a map for my life. I cannot turn objects in my head in space. In fact I can barely visualize anything in my head which is three-dimensional. I think this impairs me for art, since I can't turn something three-dimensional into something two-dimensional in a proper manner.

And of course, it means I'm worth **** when it comes to directions. I have no mental map. Whatsoever.

[qqwref]

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I took the TRI52. I have no idea what the score-IQ conversion is but my final result was 890, which is +3.26 sigma if I read the results sheet right.

[foilman8805]

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+3.26 sigma on ANY statistical chart is way, way on the outer edges of the distribution curve. Like 99th percentile.

You're pretty much an outlier at that point.

[NFD]

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I always get somewhere between 135 and 150 on IQ tests.

[qqwref]

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+3.26 sigma on ANY statistical chart is way, way on the outer edges of the distribution curve. Like 99th percentile.

You're pretty much an outlier at that point.

Yeah, but I thought that test was supposed to test outliers :P

My calculator says +3.26 is at 99.944% but that sounds a bit high.