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16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

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2 (4%)

Democratic

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Transhumanist

11 (22%)

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8 (16%)

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Total Members Voted: 49

[GentlemanRaptor]

I am apparently good ole' Joe Stalin. That description hit scarily close to home.

[Zrk2]

I am apparently good ole' Joe Stalin. That description hit scarily close to home.

Welcome aboard. It's time to bully others into submission.

[misko27]

I am Lenin, so I have full trust in the many Stalins to advance the Soviet Agenda.

Also, all of my scores were a little under Lenin's, so overall I am a little less Lenin than Lenin.

"Trust is good. Control is better."

[Zrk2]

I am Lenin, so I have full trust in the many Stalins to advance the Soviet Agenda.

Also, all of my scores were a little under Lenin's, so overall I am a little less Lenin than Lenin.

"Trust is good. Control is better."

IIRC that makes you a... Menshevik?

[Leatra]

I decided to try it 2 times to see what happens if I gave the opposite answers for the questions I thought too much about. First, I was Ulrike Meinhof, second I was Stalin.

My conclusion: I'm a commie.

[Itnetlolor]

Let's see how our brains stack up against each other.

* Itnetlolor's pile of brains collapses in a gooey mess of grey matter.

Okay. That doesn't work. Let's try this instead: http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf


I got a score of 130 on this. I don't know how well it measures though, though it calculates at a Deviation 15 (International sounds more brutal at Dev-24).

Had to take the test on one of my jobs I came across as a pre- and post- test. Pre-test, done a month ago, scored 124, same deviation.

So how does everyone else stack up? In the meantime, I'm gonna clean up all these brains.

[Orange Wizard]

118. I might have been able to get a higher score if I'd spent more time on it, but those questions were annoying as shit.

[Cheeetar]

Internet IQ tests always tell you you're a genius- they're pretty much useless.

[Orange Wizard]

So my real IQ is around 80?

[wierd]

pattern recognition testing is only part of IQ testing.  This one focuses EXCLUSIVELY on visual pattern recognition. Where are the logic questions? Where are the math questions? Where are the reading comprehension questions? Where are the memory questions?

This is a terrible IQ test.

[Wimopy]

I have to admit, I really have no idea about the last one. I found a pattern in most others (evidently, not entirely successfully, since my score was 110), but I had no idea about the final one.
By the way, I'm not really sure why people are so obsessed with gradually increasing difficulty in tests. Won't the subject be mentally fatigued by the end? I know I had enough of patterns after the first few questions... Or is mental stamina/endurance also a vital part of intelligence?

[wierd]

No, it isn't.

It's just a bullshit thing that test makers do out of habit.

Again, visual pattern recognition is only one aspect of human intelligence, and this test is bullshit for focusing on it 100%.

Intelligence is how well you can find patters, yes-- it is also how well you can assimilate and use information. It is also how well you can apply past knowledge in new, unexpected ways. It is also how well you can derive relationships between abstractions to come to useful conclusions.

This test NEEDS logic questions. it NEEDS story questions. It NEEDS to test working memory depth by forbidding the "Go back" button, and then asking questions about prior questions. 

[Itnetlolor]

Anyone know any better tests to measure with then? I felt this one was a tad on the easy side. For similar reasons as mentioned. It lacks range and the challenge of no undo button. What I also noticed, that also contributed to my improved score, was also the fact that it never randomized it, and gradually ramped difficulty. My second pass was more remembering the old answers and how I got to them, rather than any actual solving.

Basically, like everyone else, it felt more like a flash game, and less like a test.

[Solifuge]

I was too leisurely and ran out of time, so I ended up leaving 4 unanswered, but I got a 130. I feel pretty good about that.

pattern recognition testing is only part of IQ testing.  This one focuses EXCLUSIVELY on visual pattern recognition. Where are the logic questions? Where are the math questions? Where are the reading comprehension questions? Where are the memory questions?

This is a terrible IQ test.

Huh? This was a language independent test that plays on logic without preexisting knowledge. "Reading" and "Math" were being performed at a basal level here, in that you were learning symbols, discerning meanings, and performing logical operations. And no, there were totes logic questions! All kinds of logic happening!

Spoiler: Don't read if you haven't taken it yet, and want an accurate test (click to show/hide)

Some of the earlier ones had symbols that behaved as abstract "operands" to rotate or skew a shape, etc. And several of the last few in particular were about discerning the behavior of discrete parts within a system, and how they modified their neighbors or themselves, changed the layout of the system based on number or adjacency to other discrete parts within the entire problem, etc. At least that's how I conceptualized it.

I agree that "Intelligence" is a pretty abstract concept, and tends to get conflated with ideas about learning, competence, or capability, especially when we put a Score with it. Questions like these don't test whether people are knowledgeable, skilled, are able to be generally effective in communication or society-at-large, or all the other ways people are effective and great. It's specifically a test of your brain's ability to bootstrap new knowledge/logic by understanding and integrating a system of symbols or logical units, without relying on any prior knowledge. It's base-brain level reasoning, or critical thinking and info-synthesizing. I don't think language, algebra, etc. really apply to that, since those are behaviors based on learning, memory, and experience... like riding bikes or memorizing state names or making pancakes from scratch, or whatever other highly useful and valuabe skills you learn and become knowledgeable about by rote.

EDIT: Wanted to take a crack at the last few I missed. Got 138 on my second pass. I don't think I'd have been able to get that in the time limit, even if I had been going quickly, but I almost always run out of time on tests. Kinda hate timed tests, because I tend to think slowly.

[Orange Wizard]

I hate logic puzzles, so all that test did was piss me off.