Per saturn’s comment, online tests can be pretty accurate, especially the ones which are imitating (copying) the matrix-style tests; I keep a list as part of the DNB FAQ.
Note the many caveats. In particular, you cannot take multiple tests! Obviously for most of them you can’t take it twice because the questions don’t change, but less obviously, they’re all similar enough that if you take one, you can expect your score on the second to be noticeably increased just from familiarity/experience. (This is why I suggest that people doing dual n-back do before/after IQ tests with a minimum of months in between, and preferably years.)
Someone once said: if you do lots of IQ tests, you’ll eventually get better at them; does this mean you have become more intelligent? If it doesn’t, then IQ tests are not a good measure of intelligence; if it does, we all should do lots of IQ tests so that we’ll become smarter. :-)
If you mean that seriously, you’re simply wrong; if it’s meant to be humorous, meh. I won’t downvote per my usual practice for replies, but I could understand why the others did.
Per saturn’s comment, online tests can be pretty accurate, especially the ones which are imitating (copying) the matrix-style tests; I keep a list as part of the DNB FAQ.
Note the many caveats. In particular, you cannot take multiple tests! Obviously for most of them you can’t take it twice because the questions don’t change, but less obviously, they’re all similar enough that if you take one, you can expect your score on the second to be noticeably increased just from familiarity/experience. (This is why I suggest that people doing dual n-back do before/after IQ tests with a minimum of months in between, and preferably years.)
Someone once said: if you do lots of IQ tests, you’ll eventually get better at them; does this mean you have become more intelligent? If it doesn’t, then IQ tests are not a good measure of intelligence; if it does, we all should do lots of IQ tests so that we’ll become smarter. :-)
Even a metric that can be gamed is possibly useful when not being gamed.
If you mean that seriously, you’re simply wrong; if it’s meant to be humorous, meh. I won’t downvote per my usual practice for replies, but I could understand why the others did.
I didn’t say I agree with that person… (I think IQ tests are a good measure of intelligence provided you haven’t taken similar tests for a while.)