No.146773
>>146767>Have you ever taken a test by a psychologist?Nope, and I don't want to because I don't see it having any positive impact on my life
If it's high it'll only just feed my ego and if it's medium/low it's like having empirical evidence for my own insecurities
You're better off not knowing I feel
No.146775
>>146773You should have an intuition of your intelligence, no? It isn't hard to estimate, unless you have a delusion.
No.146776
>>146767>>146773This anon's probably right.
I took a professionally-adminis
tered one when I was like 10.
It just gave me an even bigger head than I already had.
No.146778
>>146775I would imagine it's above average due to all of my siblings (well the ones that have taken the test anyway) scoring above average, but I do not need/want to confirm this like I said
No.146785
>>146780WHAT THE HELL?! SEVENTY FIVE MP!?!
No.146786
>>146779Online tests aren't super accurate.
No.146787
I don't know and I don't care. It wouldn't matter if I was a super-duper genius because all I want to do is take it easy.
No.146789
https://www.mensa.org/mensa-iq-challenge/#testI scored 128 with this and it said it's accurate to ~5 points of what people get on a real test which means my IQ is actually probably more like 133.
No.146790
>>146789online tests are usually 20-30pts too generous
No.146792
>>146790that ESL guy must have an IQ of 55-65 then lol
No.146795
>>146792He's at a disadvantage because its his 2nd language
No.146800
>>146789I'm way too tired to do an IQ test, but I remember mine being like 105-110 or something a long time ago. I'd probably get like 100 now just because my motivation and focus are gone.
No.146804
>>146767I have, in the context of being tested for learning difficulties at University. The factors which measure working memory and information processing speed on the test I took were in the officially retarded range, which I always find funny to share. All the other measures were at least average.
No.146813
>>146789Scored 125 but quit early because I got bored.
No.146821
In the psychological test I took, I ranked really low on a handful of intelligence types (related to language and memory). However, I find solace in one test that I ranked as a genius. It was a pathfinding type test (make the shortest path that connects all the dots). I think it may be related to having played too many video games.
In my defense, one of the language related tests was "name all the words you can think of that start with a given letter". I was too much of a prude to say all the sex related terms that came to mind, so I couldn't concentrate. For example, I was trying to think of words that begin with "P", but my inner monologue was occupying all my thoughts: "Don't say penis. Penis, penis penis, penis. Is she wondering if I'm thinking about Penises? Do I come off as a prude for not saying penis? Maybe I should say it. No, it's going to be awkward". I say "Potato". I keep thinking about penises while she thinks I'm retarded.
>>146804hello fellow based retard
No.146829
>>146821different anon than who you're replying to, but i think we took the same test. my letter was "e." i dont have any funny stories to share about that. my psychologist was initially testing for the tism, but ruled it out. he also didn't assign me an actual iq number since he thought my mental illness was interfering with the results. but i did score considerably high in longer term memorization.
No.146833
Poor people without health insurance don't see a psychologist unless they're really fucked up.
No.146845
>>146804>in the context of being tested for learning difficulties at UniversityWhat lead to this happening? I failed multiple classes - even the same class multiple times - and was never once offered anything like this.
No.146849
>>146767Only someone with something to prove would fixate on IQ. I wouldn't take it as anything other than a measure of severe learning disabilities (or absence thereof). Beyond that it is pretty useless.
That being said, I had a proper test done in a shrink's office (came in for some other stuff and didn't realize they'd be testing for it).
My impression was that "performance IQ" (AKA nonverbal IQ, which is determined by your answers to those funny boxes in the second picture) and working memory are the real essence of intelligence. Having a high nonverbal IQ is strongly correlated with aptitude in maths and sciences.
As for verbal IQ, someone who reads a few books, owns thesaurus and knows some disparate factoids that span both cultural and scientific fields could score well on the "vocabulary" and "information" subtests respectively, thus bumping up their verbal IQ and bringing up their overall IQ. The "information" subtest amounts to trivia, in most cases - one question asked me to name the author of Sherlock Holmes, another the circumference of the Earth at the equator. As another anon notes, these parts of the tests don't even account for language proficiency.
In other words, many tests factor acquired knowledge (which is contingent on education and cultural background) into their consideration of IQ, which makes them unreliable as a measure of raw intellect.
No.146860
>>146842matthew mark marvin melvin mat memphis moneybagz milkman moonwalker9000
No.146863
I don't need some test to tell me how dumb I am
No.147161
>>146821Hello my fellow brother in retardation. Funnily "verbal reasoning" was my strongest factor, in comparison to you, which I still doubt to this day.
>>146845I'd already been flagged by my high school as having these difficulties, mainly because I could never finish any of my exams. I just never got an official test by and Educational Psychologist (probably because I lived in a rural hick town) until I went to university. I do recall having to request the tests and everything when I started attending, though, I don't think they'd have lifted a finger, otherwise.
It's a good thing, too, never would have made it through high school or uni without the support they gave me for exams.
No.147199
>>146779If the test you took has language at all, it's a bad test. I like the Mensa test which is only shapes. Mensa is stupid don't get me wrong but their test does exactly what IQ tests are supposed to do.
No.147380
>>147378Did you at least get your 300k starting fry cook salary?
No.147384
>>146789Got 142 (again)
An older version of this test used to tell that the test is only accurate within 1 sigma which is 85-115. So any higher score isn't really meaningful other than an indication of above average.
>>146849A large amount of "verbal IQ" includes reading comprehension and logical reasoning which represent the ability to decode the relationship between words and phrases, so these tasks can be completed with only the provided materials and don't require other information (pure trivia knowledge) at all.
For example, LSAT is a standardized test specifically for these skills, which are mandatory for lawyers who want to comprehend long and complex law texts and find and exploit loopholes in them.
No.147385
>>146789How the hell are you guys getting these later puzzles?
I score 105 on this test which is fine but my IQ is 113 to 115 when on a test with other types of questions mixed into puzzle questions
No.147396
>>147392Once you have a fast food job in your resume it will taint your job opportunity forever. Try to find an internship in the financial/HFT industry instead.
No.147409
>>147392>Right now I get just enough for living expenses by TA'ingSame, although my department is cutting out TA work for PHDs due to budget cuts, so I'm a bit fucked next year.
No.147411
>>147396You choose for yourself what you put on your resume.
No.147413
>>147411That would leave a time gap without a job on the resume and it's a red alarm for HRs and no different from putting "NEET" as the job title for that period.
No.147418
Took one as a kid and had 139, probably killed off much of that with video games and anime wwww
No.147624
>>147396>internshipI refuse and even if I was stupid enough to participate in this kind of humiliation ritual I still can't AFFORD to spend all day doing unpaid work because I need MONEY hope this helps
No.147625
>>147624Just use your math phd to trade stocks until you have enough money to retire
No.147632
>>147624All companies worth going into have paid internships since they profit from the intern's labor. Unpaid internship is a scam.
No.147641
>>146767I remember taking one in high school for something. I ended up arguing with the test proctor because she had asked me the symbolic meaning of an object in a fictional story and I told her that even if I give her an answer, fictional stories can be subjective and shouldn't be on the test. Think I ended up scoring a retard score of 88 because of that lmao.
Otherwise I took an online test as an adult once and got 110. I may be stupid regardless.
>>147199>If the test you took has language at all, it's a bad test.Explains that I guess.
No.147756
>>147385A lot of the sequences use logic operators. The most common are
- AND (two lines in the same location = a line in the same location)
- OR (one or more line(s) in the same location = a line in the same location)
- XOR (ONLY ONE line in a location = a line in the same location; two lines in the same location = no line)
The rest are pattern recognition:
- Rotation (Left -> Up -> Right ->
Down)
- Shading (Black -> Lines -> White ->
Black)
A lot of the patterns are basically:
1 | 2 | 3
--+---+--
2 | 3 | 4
--+---+--
3 | 4 |
1Or:
x + y = xy
w + z = wz
a + b = ab
No.147794
>>146779>ESLThat's fine, many smart people weren't good at English
>bad at mathAnon, I...
No.147807
>>146828>however remember that 100 iq is the average and the average can only ever increase so much + more people are being given iq tests these daysDoes that mean that they recalibrate IQ tests over time? If the Flynn effect was real up to a point and then reversed, then a person B 100 IQ in 1980 would be smarter than a person A 100 IQ in 1940, but a person C 100 IQ in 2020 would be dumber than person B?
No.147814
>>146862The puzzles are simpler than they look, you probably just overthought them. I was schizoing out on them at first and got a 82. Then I tried it again with "what would be the easiest answer" in mind and got a 140.
I don't think the test has much value once you realize it's just testing against schizo behavior.