Intelligence (not at all multiple)

**Deviant Esq** · 3rd May 2007, 00:24

Originally Posted by BuFfY

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** · 3rd May 2007, 09:45

A metal cow goes dung.

**SwanTiger** · 3rd May 2007, 09:57

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** · 3rd May 2007, 10:32

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

**MSTRS:Me** · 3rd May 2007, 10:57

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

**MikeyG** · 3rd May 2007, 10:57

Originally Posted by Fish

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** · 3rd May 2007, 12:59

why are you so mean lol

**mstriumph** · 3rd May 2007, 13:12

Originally Posted by 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 ?

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

**mstriumph** · 3rd May 2007, 13:14

Originally Posted by Colapop

What does IQ mean?

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

**mstriumph** · 3rd May 2007, 13:16

Originally Posted by Hitcher

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

heh heh heh ..... more of a 'belly' curve, methinks!

**jrandom** · 3rd May 2007, 13:20

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:

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** · 3rd May 2007, 13:22

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 3rd May 2007, 13:25

Originally Posted by renegade master

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** · 3rd May 2007, 13:25

Originally Posted by Fish

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

now THAT'S intelligence in action!!

**The Pastor** · 3rd May 2007, 13:27

Originally Posted by Fish

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