Intelligence (not at all multiple)

[jrandom]

Righto, folks. Bugger all that new-age nonsense, let's have some real online testing and results comparison.

The IQTest (http://www.iqtest.com/index.html) website has a pretty decent test up. Questions are well-designed and the test is timed.

Take the test honestly and get your anonymous result up on the poll. Let's see if KB represents a full spectrum across the bell curve.

And yes, feel free to debate the merits of IQ testing as a measurement methodology in this thread. But not until you've taken the test and contributed to the poll...

[placidfemme]

hmmm... Not too bad I guess.

[Squeak the Rat]

Are you allowed to resit the test?

I got 129 while on a conference call. A couple of questions that i couldn't quite concentrate on. Have i shot my load, or can i have a resit? (haven't voted the score cause its probably not aqqurate).

[jrandom]

Are you allowed to resit the test?

I got 129 while on a conference call.

I'm pretty sure that any result you'd get while on a conference call is not at all valid.

Resit it.

[Hitcher]

My head hurts...

[Finn]

Three problems;

1) There is no 0 - 39 tick box. :wacko:
2) It there was I couldn't tick it anyway as my arse is very infracted.
3) I forgot what my 3rd problem was. May be related to 1).

[skelstar]

My workmates thing I have a neurological disease (fingers twitching counting and stuff).

I watch too much House.

[Squeak the Rat]

I'm pretty sure that any result you'd get while on a conference call is not at all valid.


Yeah that act itself probably deserves a "moron" score. Will do tonight. Nice test btw. Intresting colour.

[jrandom]

Sigh.

Who's the joker fucking up my results by choosing 40-54?

I checked before posting the poll (of course) and determined that a random answer selection on that test will tend to get you a score around 80.

I don't think it's possible to be dumber than dumb chance.

Even on KB.

[The Stranger]

Three problems;

1) There is no 0 - 39 tick box. :wacko:
2) It there was I couldn't tick it anyway as my arse is very infracted.
3) I forgot what my 3rd problem was. May be related to 1).

Don't worry Finn, you know the old saying.
We need the C students to employ the A students.

[Macktheknife]

Interesting test, slightly lower score than most others I have done.

[skelstar]

Hmmm...thought they generally tested alot of graphical pictures etc. I like those questions :)

[BuFfY]

Done... but only because I was told to!

[jrandom]

Done... but only because I was told to!

You're a good girl, and you may have a treat.

[BuFfY]

You're a good girl, and you may have a treat.

Oooh exciting!!

What is my treat?

[vifferman]

Three problems;

1) There is no 0 - 39 tick box. :wacko:
2) It there was I couldn't tick it anyway as my arse is very infracted.
3) I forgot what my 3rd problem was. May be related to 1).
I suspect I'd have the same problem as you. (Just the first one - I can't count to whatever comes after 1.)

[bungbung]

136

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[yod]

Three problems;

1) There is no 0 - 39 tick box. :wacko:
2) It there was I couldn't tick it anyway as my arse is very infracted.
3) I forgot what my 3rd problem was. May be related to 1).

good answer :laugh:

[Ixion]

Gosh , waht an intelligent lot we are. Or, maybe, those who are smugly confident of their probable scores are more likely to undertake such a test than those who suspect that their scores might be less gloatworthy.

In which case the entire excercise is rather pointless ?

[jrandom]

What is my treat?

You get to eta beta pi...

[jrandom]

... those who are smugly confident of their probable scores are more likely to undertake such a test than those who suspect that their scores might be less gloatworthy.

In which case the entire excercise is rather pointless ?

Not at all.

Even if half the potential audience are scared off, the simple fact of their being scared off is an interesting basis for discussion.

I was very curious to see where the bell curve would be centered.

[BuFfY]

Not at all.

Even if half the potential audience are scared off, the simple fact of their being scared off is an interesting basis for discussion.

I was very curious to see where the bell curve would be centered.

Only cause you are a copy cat!

My multiple intelligences was much more interesting! :bleh:

[Squeak the Rat]

Gosh , waht an intelligent lot we are. Or, maybe, those who are smugly confident of their probable scores are more likely to undertake such a test than those who suspect that their scores might be less gloatworthy.

In which case the entire excercise is rather pointless ?

You'd expect that the same would happen with every one who took the test, so the mean result here could be compared with the mean result on the site.

Where it might fall down isn't people not taking the test so much, but probably more likely they don't want to post their results having seen so many scores in the mid hundreds......

[kiwifruit]

i got 123
then 117 cheating with a calculator pen and paper :mellow:

[onearmedbandit]

Mine came out within a few points of previous test.

[avgas]

Two ducks and two dogs have a total of fourteen legs.

True False

Male or female?

[yod]

Gosh , waht an intelligent lot we are. Or, maybe, those who are smugly confident of their probable scores are more likely to undertake such a test than those who suspect that their scores might be less gloatworthy.

In which case the entire excercise is rather pointless ?

exactly - otherwise referred to as non-response bias - this poll will most definitely not be accurate

[Sniper]

Two ducks and two dogs have a total of fourteen legs.

True False

Male or female?

False

42

[cowpoos]

I think this poll represents the amount of lier's there are on kiwibiker most than anything!!!! re do the poll and make if public!!!

[jrandom]

I think this poll represents the amount of lier's there are on kiwibiker most than anything!!!! re do the poll and make if public!!!

I'm not sure that that would increase the likelihood of honesty...

[BuFfY]

I'm not sure that that would increase the likelihood of honesty...

Would make it interesting... Would like to know who is where in relation to me!

[yod]

I'm not sure that that would increase the likelihood of honesty...

dead right, the bell curve we have so far is putting average for KB at around 130, altho average worldwide is 100?? i dont think so ppl:laugh:

[cowpoos]

I'm not sure that that would increase the likelihood of honesty...
yeah but we can poke fun at the dumb arses that obviously polling wrong!!

[Big Dave]

Where do you click to do the test?

[SPman]

OK - where are all these MENSA geniuses polling 145+??????

5 so far!

Are you sure it's not an ego test?

[James Deuce]

The results are bollocks so I ticked the bottom one. Someone has to try and get the average back to 100.

[jrandom]

The results are bollocks so I ticked the bottom one. Someone has to try and get the average back to 100.

Oh, I dunno. The non-participation hole in the curve is starting to become quite obvious, and all it requires for normalisation is a simple peak shift.

The more the merrier...

[Mom]

I am a dunce! :Punk:

[more_fasterer]

YAY! I is smarterer then I thunk I wuz

[Ixion]

Now, the bit I liked was at the end when they offered to sell you this "Intelligence Profile" thing.

So , if they're peddling the info, how relaible are their figures.

Cos one thing aboust sales, folk are much more likely to buy if you make them feel happy about themselves.

So if you set up an IQ Test site, and wanted to use it to peddle these profiles - if you tell Joe Soap he's got a below average IQ of 90, you've got naff all chance of selling him his profile. Whereas if Joe hears his IQ is 115, he's chuffed as heck, and slaps down his money for a copy of the profile to show Mrs Joe and his mates.

Which cynically makes me wonder - who says those numebrs are 'right' - even for variable and erratic values of 'right' ?

And what do those numbers mean anyway, if anything?

[Swoop]

I think this poll represents the amount of lier's there are on kiwibiker most than anything!!!! re do the poll and make if public!!!
Bad news for the farming community...

[James Deuce]

And what do those numbers mean anyway, if anything?

That is a question that has plagued the scientific approach to IQ testing as opposed to the marketing/employment agency IQ testing noodles for 2 or 3 decades now.

There are significant cultural skews in IQ testing, as this particular test alludes to at the start. That comment about "American" English establishes that we are already paddling in low tide polluted waters.

[Colapop]

What does IQ mean?

[James Deuce]

Ignorant Quentin.

The more Ignorant Quentins you have, the less social skills you have.

[Teflon]

Fuck me.. 138 i cant no even spell. me > "Highly gifted and appearing to be a Genius"

[Coyote]

120 with music in the background. Not to bad for someone my age I guess

[Hitcher]

There's something wrong with that bell curve...

[Teflon]

i cheated.. i had a hoot before taking the test..

[Ixion]

If you remove the aberrant values at the far end, then move the curve so the present 130-144 becomes 90-105, it's about right. Of course, then it proves nothing at all.

But I suspect that it proves less than nothing as it is.

[The Pastor]

I got 80 - below average.


seems a bit right tho, im bit of a dumbass.

[Teflon]

I got 80 - below average.


seems a bit right tho, im bit of a dumbass.

Have a cone before taking the test.. that should help

[The Pastor]

cone?


10 freeking cars

[McJim]

A few years ago my boss resigned. His replacement started a few weeks after and made us do an online IQ test as a bit of an ice breaker and so he could see if we were fuckwits I suppose.

He scored 135 and was all smug. I turned my screen to face him upon completion and watched his face fall as he saw the same number as the highest break in snooker. Apparently I have a strong skew towards pure logic.

He delegated a lot of his work to me after that......

My opinion - scoring well in an IQ test means you are good at IQ tests - nothing more. What you can actually achieve in the world is a far better way of measuring all round ability.

I have an amazing wife and 2 wonderful children - this is a more accurate measure of me than any test.

[Colapop]

Ignorant Quentin.

The more Ignorant Quentins you have, the less social skills you have.

Who the fuck is Alice?

[Brett]

131 while watchin the tube and topless wife...I is real more dumber than that. I is only good at finks lyk rubbing my belly.

[Horney1]

Didn't do it this time round. did one on a MENSA site (I think it was that) a couple of years back and posted that one. Should be good as was high in the range and I'd have to have taken some good knocks to the head to drop it to the next level - actually! maybe I should do it again!!! :brick: :laugh:

[Madness]

131 while watchin the tube and topless wife...

Bugger, I only got 126. Can I come 'round to yours & do it again?

[Brett]

Bugger, I only got 126. Can I come 'round to yours & do it again?

Heheheheh...you are a bad man.

[enigma51]

What a load of shit I ride bikes and read kiwibiker theres no way my score can be as high as they say it has to be at least 40 or under

[McJim]

I suspect it delivers an artificially high score - there's a financial incentive for them - you pay some money for the full report etc. You're not going to do that if the first report says "You're a dumarse".

Economics and ego massage.

[BuFfY]

But you would also think that they could want to sell you products to get better at the questions in the test... and as a result would give you lower scores, then when you have used their product they give you an easier test... you tell all your friends how much you improved and *zing* lots of money for them!

[Big Dave]

There's something wrong with that bell curve...


What's brown and sounds like a bell?

[Hitcher]

Excellent. It's lame joke night! But not in this thread...


Dung.

[enigma51]

Excellent. It's lame joke night! But not in this thread...


Dung.

Whats wrong with it in this threat is it not about asking question and testing IQ?

Please share Big Dave

And whats with the big moderator warning thing?

[Motu]

How do you get the result? Did you all pay? Half an hour later and I see no result.It was more like a maths test,lots of number stuff.....I don't do that sort of thing in my head,so will probably come out pretty low in the score.

[enigma51]

How do you get the result? Did you all pay? Half an hour later and I see no result.It was more like a maths test,lots of number stuff.....I don't do that sort of thing in my head,so will probably come out pretty low in the score.

it should have asked you for an email address (use a gmail or something like that account) and it will send it to you

[Hitcher]

you should have asked you for an email address (use a gmail or something like that account) and it will send it to you

The truth lies in post #64.

[enigma51]

The truth lies in post #64.

cheers only noticed it now

[avgas]

What's brown and sounds like a bell?

Holden HQ running super

[Mental Trousers]

Interesting test, slightly lower score than most others I have done.
Indeed. And therefore probably more accurate cos most of them tend to lean towards being very pc, ie telling you you're not dumb!!

[DEATH_INC.]

Again, slightly lower than what I normally get, though a lack of sleep may not be helping.....

[The Pastor]

How do you get the result? Did you all pay? Half an hour later and I see no result.It was more like a maths test,lots of number stuff.....I don't do that sort of thing in my head,so will probably come out pretty low in the score.

If you can't work out how to get your answer........ Maybe your score won't be so high......


just kidding, old people cant use computers eh?

[Jantar]

145 when sober. 132 after two bottles of wine. And the yachting is about to start so I wont try a third time.

[Mr. Peanut]

The bell curve is in the wrong place, and KB certainly seems to have a normal demographic.

[Big Dave]

Please share Big Dave



Hitcher has it:

'Dung' - Eric Idle 1972.

[Deviant Esq]

Done... but only because I was told to!
Me too. First and only IQ test I've ever done - true story. Possibly means a slightly lower score than I'd otherwise have got. When that program was on TV... "Test the Nation", I made a point of not watching it. Never really wanted to do an IQ test either, have always avoided them in the past. Interesting... but irrelevant. My old man is intelligent but would have an awful result due to dislexia.

Still, the site said I was "gifted", so I'll take that. :)

[Squeak the Rat]

A metal cow goes dung.

[SwanTiger]

Remember the movie Forest Gump where his mother takes him to enroll in a new school however his IQ test comes back showing he is below the entry requirement. So his mother fucks the principle.

Would you, my esteemed biker comrades, call that a show of intelligence, desperation, or just plain sluty?

[The Pastor]

Well i just did it again. and got 102. Im so smart.

[MSTRS]

138 - much the same as that bloody Test the Nation thing - fuck, I'm nothing special.

[MikeyG]

I don't think it's possible to be dumber than dumb chance.

Even on KB.
You're forgetting Disco Dan and Renegade Master.

[The Pastor]

:( why are you so mean lol

[mstriumph]

Gosh , waht an intelligent lot we are. Or, maybe, those who are smugly confident of their probable scores are more likely to undertake such a test than those who suspect that their scores might be less gloatworthy.

In which case the entire excercise is rather pointless ?

veeeeeeeeeeery interesting post!! *slinks away into corner to ponder the question .............*

[mstriumph]

What does IQ mean?

*sigh* - i can't even spell 'IQ' ............

[mstriumph]

There's something wrong with that bell curve... heh heh heh ..... more of a 'belly' curve, methinks! :shutup:

[jrandom]

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a result.

Comparing the shape of the poll response bar graph from 85 to 175 on this thread with the expected normal distribution of IQ measurements:

<img src="http://iqlogy.com/iq_definition_files/image003.jpg" />

I think we can draw three conclusions:

1. The test itself was a fairly representative measurement of whatever IQ is supposed to measure,

2. Distribution amongst a sample of several dozen KB members follows the usual pattern in any population, and

3. Either:

(a) The IQTest.com website is skewing results upward by around 30 points, or

(b) KB membership is, somehow, weighted toward the upper end of the scale in the context of the larger population. You would not expect to see IQ scores coming out above 150 until you'd covered at least a thousand respondents.

I'm going with (a), here. What a disappointment. Curiously, though, I am no longer tempted to give money to IQTest.com in return for further automated ego massaging...

[mstriumph]

I suspect it delivers an artificially high score - there's a financial incentive for them - you pay some money for the full report etc. You're not going to do that if the first report says "You're a dumarse".

Economics and ego massage.

this is wat Ixion said earlier
- and i think you are prolly both right
and they think we'll be too full of ourselves to question the results
it's fixed

- cause there's no way i'm a ferkin genius .......especially with no little diagrams and pictures in the question mix - numerical logic AIN'T my strong point....

[jrandom]

why are you so mean lol

You scored about 100 on that test, right?

100 is supposed to be the peak of the curve. The average score, representative of a typical member of the population. And that, dear boy, was what you got.

Even on my most cynical days, I'm afraid that I can't bring myself to believe that New Zealand is quite that dumb.

The test is definitely skewed.

[mstriumph]

..............I am no longer tempted to give money to IQTest.com .........................

now THAT'S intelligence in action!! :yes:

[The Pastor]

You scored about 100 on that test, right?

100 is supposed to be the peak of the curve. The average score, representative of a typical member of the population. And that, dear boy, was what you got.

Even on my most cynical days, I'm afraid that I can't bring myself to believe that New Zealand is quite that dumb.

The test is definitely skewed.

I got 80 :(

[jrandom]

they think we'll be too full of ourselves to question the results...

Question everything, my dear lady. Question everything. And then set up an experiment to test your hypothesis (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=49074).

That's science (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/science/)!

[jrandom]

I got 80

http://www.cyburbia.org/tmp/you_win_the_prize.jpg

[The Pastor]

I cant unduuuuur stand that, what prize are you talking about?

[Squeak the Rat]

Question everything, my dear lady. Question everything.

why?

..........

[mstriumph]

Question everything, my dear lady. Question everything. And then set up an experiment to test your hypothesis (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=49074).

That's science (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/science/)!


- you know, i do so ENJOY the way you think!! :yes:

[Deviant Esq]

I think we can draw three conclusions:

(a) The IQTest.com website is skewing results upward by around 30 points
Initially I thought my result might be skewed a little low for a couple of reasons I posted a couple of pages back. But reading through people's results on here and the surprising amount of gifted individuals we seem to have... it does seem to skew the results upward somewhat. I mean, I know we have a number of special (read: spethool!!) members, but that many intellectually gifted? Dunno. Wouldn't have thought so.

My result was 140.

[Toaster]

Did it a while back.... 143 I think..... too dumb to remember.

Had my pants down at the time.

[Horney1]

Initially I thought my result might be skewed a little low for a couple of reasons I posted a couple of pages back. But reading through people's results on here and the surprising amount of gifted individuals we seem to have... it does seem to skew the results upward somewhat. I mean, I know we have a number of special (read: spethool!!) members, but that many intellectually gifted? Dunno. Wouldn't have thought so.

My result was 140.

So the clever ones know that motorcycling is a good way of life and cages suck - logical really. Unfortunately it's looking to me like confirming that the distribution curve would skewed the other way for those car drivers! :laugh:

[Mole_C]

Think you need more options on the higher end. Just missed out on the next gap up :(

143 for me

[Motu]

I hope they aren't squewd 30% up - I just got my result (24hrs) My score of 78 has been confirmed by my wife.

[Big Dave]

I hope they aren't squewd 30% up - I just got my result (24hrs) My score of 78 has been confirmed by my wife.

Dopey - That's her mum's record collection you are looking at.

[Motu]

I better keep away from the LP collection then!

[Hillbilly]

I managed to score 149. I guess that just means I'm really good at doing IQ tests.

[kiwifruit]

Just re-sat the test....
I'm still average

*waaaa*

[McJim]

Just re-sat the test....
I'm still average

*waaaa*

Pay someone else to sit it then. Sheesh.

[kiwifruit]

Pay someone else to sit it then. Sheesh.

You just saved me having to employ at team to come up with that

TA! :sunny:

[McJim]

You just saved me having to employ at team to come up with that

TA! :sunny:

The bill is in the post. :rofl:

[Zuki Bandit]

105:pinch:

[Sanx]

139. But the test's bollocks, as I know I'm not that bright.

[McDuck]

119
Not to bad for 11pm