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Re: GENIOUS!!!
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.133
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999, at 23:09:02
In Reply To: Re: GENIOUS!!! posted by Issachar on Tuesday, August 17, 1999, at 10:51:54:

> Okay, I've found a couple of other online IQ tests, taken them, and scored 156, 131 and 129. Also scored 96% in a "quickie" (read: not too serious) Mensa online test.
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> Hmm. I'm the same "me", so how come no two IQ tests on the 'Net can agree as to how to quantify me in terms of cranium-power? It's 'cause of what many people already said in the previous RinkForum thread on this subject: IQ tests are wildly inaccurate. Especially these online ones, I guess. I'd expect very different scoring patterns -- mostly lower -- from some of the more established tests. But hey, the online tests are pretty fun anyways.

I'm guessing the reason that the results are so different is that the first one - the one everybody took - is designed to give a very high score, so you'll purchase the full asessment. Though I could be mistaken.

Through an odd coincidence, I also searched for IQ tests as a result of this thread (though I used Google instead of Yahoo!), and the first one I found was the very same one that Iss pointed everybody at. I didn't take it.

Dar "How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll centre of an online scam?" ien