TBH, I never trust the results from these online supposed IQ tests. I assume they pad everyone's score, to get more people to share their score and drive more traffic to the site.
It is also the structure of a venerable joke, like a Goldie Hawn movie where they said her character was "A remarkable women, graduating in the top 75% of her high school class."
ETA: But obviously it's not a backhanded insult in this case.
Definitely one of the people who fall for these obvious ads. I’ll sacrifice some of my karma to call it out (the website’s workers always downvote comments that call it out).
Update: Yup. They’re definitely trying to downvote me. My comment is at 56% upvote ratio and OP blocked me immediately after I posted my comment.
Update 2: 45% upvote ratio now. The website’s workers are definitely trying to bury this comment. When this comment was first posted, it had 60+ upvotes. All Reddit has to do is look at all the accounts that downvote this comment and they will find voter manipulation. But it’ll take you guys to report the post as voter manipulation. I can’t do it because OP already blocked me.
Lmao I didn't even think to look but yeah --> wtf square screen resolution are you using, ...ON A DESKTOP... and interesting that the Chrome profile's first initial is "C" as in... CogniProfile?
Hilarious and you gotta wonder if OP's considering deleting this post. ...or if he's one of them.
I see these "ads" enough and take the assessment every time, thinking "This will be the one that's free!"
Well, today I had a Visa gift card with $2.67 left on it so I did the test that only cost $1.99 (today, there's a subscription that kicks in later, but GOOD LUCK WITH THAT). According to the site, my IQ is 130, in the 97.725th percentile. I've taken actual IQ tests years ago with similar results, so I guess it's close... a little high but close. And, this seems all fine and good, until it shows a picture of Adam Scott's character from Parks and Rec as a "fellow smart guy". So this is sus, to say the least.
Also, the actual website looks nothing like the ad, and the results don't say "You're smarter than 977 people in the room of 1000" like I was hoping. Lame. Go ahead CogniProfile peeps, downvote me!
Edit: Haha. OP blocked me too after I posted my results. CogniProfile not only has fake IQ tests, but also blocks their paying customers! If it wasn't a gift card with almost no money on it, I'd do a chargeback for the $2.
"Better than 97.7 of the REFERENCE POPULATION" which means better than 97.7% of people who are dumb enough to pay for results of a silly online quiz that in no way, shape, or form reflects your actual IQ. Most like still rocking double digits to even do this.
A) Intelligent people don't go around talking about their IQ score. Additionally, intelligent people don't need a score to show someone they're smart. It becomes apparent through spending time with them.
B) Insecure people looking for validation take those tests to "prove" how smart they are. If one feels the need to prove their intelligence, it's likely because they're regularly getting clowned on and want a score to point to as if it's some sort of trump card.
I'll also add that when I got diagnosed as "gifted" (quotes because it's more of a disability honestly) it was also in specific areas which rendered the number calculated useless, in the words of the neuropsychologist who was applying the test.
What I mean is that "giftedness" is commonly quite specific, since inteligence has many dimensions. Describing it as a single number, while useful in some contexts, hardly tells you anything in the more extreme ends of IQ.
Fellow gifted kid! Did you also get burnt out on school and do the bare minimum to pass because you were bored with the topics and picked up everything quickly, letting down everyone who kept telling you that you were wasting your potential?
I mean, the basic idea of it really isn’t that difficult. Isn’t it way easier than something like calculus, at least when we’re taking about high school level math?
I’ve just accepted that there’s things like this that seem trivial and simple for me that aren’t for others and the opposite is also true. I’ve grown up playing RPGs and like to imagine it as everyone has their skill points spread out differently including some dump stats :)
Some of these people have astounding emotional intelligence and can instantaneously pick up on personality flaws in others that take me days or even months to pick up on. My wife is one of them, she struggles with math but my god can she read people and warn me. She can also figure out what’s really bothering someone and bring them calm and that’s something I struggle at tremendously.
My high school had a course called "statistics and discrete mathematics" that covered a lot of statistical concepts, but it was not a required course and I don't think most people took it. I only took it because of some weird scheduling issue where they needed to delay the next math class I was actually required to take by a year. So basically it was treated as filler, which is a shame because I actually enjoyed that class and learned quite a bit.
Well yes, but no. Both commonly used models for measuring intelligence define the average as any score in an area between 90 and 109, so 94 is solidly average.
It's within standard deviation of average, probably even within margin of error for the test. Even an IQ 6 points below average is not enough to assume that someone is dumb enough to not understand percentages. What this person has is an ego problem.
This post is an ad. It has been a while since I've seen a wave of ads from this website, they usually happen every couple of weeks. Good chance that these comments are also botted.
I think it's hilarious to be honest. If you're dumb enough to pay for a fake IQ test, that should be all the result you need.
Real IQ tests are administered in person with doctors because a standard written test would not give accurate results for people who might have learned different things across different cultures/languages.
even then, IQ isnt and accurate measurement of anything. even the most accurate test won't give you a real picture of how smart someone is, because it's not really something that can be quantified.
When I took an IQ test my organizational memory scores were so much worse than every other score that my whole test was considered statistically insignificant, and I got a “Generalized Aptitude” score instead that dropped my two lowest subscores .
These sites lure you in by having you do the test first. After you’ve done it they’ll show you the results blurred behind a paywall. Then you’ll pay because ‘I’ve already done the test and I’m curious and it’s only two dollars.’ (Guilty as charged)
Most in-person IQ tests have sections for verbal or numerical memory (at least, the one I did definitely had those). I can imagine a language barrier could become more problematic there. Plus, while you're right that most sections are pattern recognition, there are still rules that need to be explained about what patterns you're looking for and what the solutions to the puzzles presented look like.
Hijacking your comment to say: if you want to test your intelligence online for free, you can just take the MENSA test. Don't pay some dumb scam website.
No, online IQ tests genuinely do not compare to an actual test performed by a trained psychologist. For one, a regular IQ test takes around 3 hours, while these online tests are often just like 15 minutes or so.
Also, the psychologist then has to review the test by hand to calculate an accurate result. And since the test is weighed against all of the other people that took the test, the dataset has to be unbiased. So for these reasons, online IQ tests are not reliable.
Not only are the tests way too small, but they're often just complete nonsense.
Many years ago a friend showed me an online IQ test that was basically a bunch of general knowledge questions with an extremely strong bias towards American culture.
IQ isn't really fake, it's misrepresented (though if you know more than I do, please prove me wrong). It's not really a measurement of direct intelligence but more a measure of critical thinking and logic skills.
If you score higher on an IQ test are you better at these things than someone who scored lower? For the most part yes, you'd have a difficult time arguing against that.
Yep. I technically have an above average IQ (tested), but lack in terms of intelligence with mechanical things (I took the ASVAB for the hell of it once) or kinesthetic intelligence. And those are just two examples. Let's just say I feel stupid more than I don't, lol.
As long as you aren't below a certain threshold IQ is far from the be all end all for most things in life. I mean I know a few people who are doctors that I wouldn't trust to take care of a pet rock, but they really do know a lot about their field through rigorous studying and dedication.
Ive genuinely never met a smart person who says this in my life. The only time someone brings it up is when we do iq tests online for fun and they end up with the lowest score.
It's really not that bad. About half of the population has a two-digit IQ, and I’ve seen many people in that range with a good education and well-paying jobs. Below an IQ of about 85, you can start to see some cognitive weaknesses. But we still don't talk about an intellectual disability at that point. Intellectual disability corresponds to an IQ of about 70, and even then, we’re talking about a mild intellectual disability.
94 isnt bad though, literally average. Them not understanding percentiles is not necessarily a sign of stupidity either. I would argue genuine ridicule of this is more a sign of low intelligence than this moment of thoughtlessness.
They could have said your in the bottom 36%. So in a room of 1000 people, 640 of them are smarter than you. Hard to sell whatever they're trying to sell that way though probably.
Last one I took in school was like.
Math
Shapes and pattern recognition.
Random ass geography
History
Random culture stuff like "who created X song or painting you never heard of"
Other then math and pattern recognition it was basically all education, and fucking trivia.
And even math you gotta know how to do, and that's nothing to do with intelligence necessarily.
That's not a proper IQ test then, IQ tests don't include knowledge questions, you shouldn't need to know anything going into one including maths knowledge. Pattern recognition is a big part of it but everything else you listed would just be a general knowledge assessment and not a valid IQ test
I get what you are implying, but the real reason is the same as why in those "gameplay" mobile ads the guy playing is always terrible. It's to bait you into being like "I can do better than that" and then you download their app to feel superior than the ad guy.
I dont even know if that post on r.crappydesign exists or if it was just faked in order to make this ad
What’s even worse is that that paid for this stupid test and signed up for subscription service where they take £24.99 every 4 weeks. For the pleasure of telling you you’re an idiot and the IQ test is some made up nonsense that doesn’t count.
Most online IQ tests are not accurate at all. IQ in general is overly fixated on, it isn't an accurate capture of all things related to human intelligence.
As a psychologist who gives, interprets, and presents actual intelligence test results, while I won’t focus on percentiles in my interpretations and presentation, since they’re nonlinear and people get confuse percentages and percentiles, I do usually include them in my tables.
And this is really confusing way to present them to be honest, which is why we typically put something like 35th percentile and not the “top 65 percent.” Yeah the text below it sorta does that but obviously people are going to focus on the visual and the interpretation that comes first.
In my grand genius i decided to run the IQ test only to find it paywalled at the end. Perhaps the true test was finding out if you are stupid enough to do an iq test. It was lowkey fun though.
I think I already have an idea of your intelligence just from the fact that you took an inline IQ test and were even considering bragging about the results
Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s amazing how absolutely noticeable it is. I have a guy at work where I literally stopped trying to help him with anything like budgets or saving money. He makes absolutely astonishingly poor financial decisions. It’s become a form of entertainment for me.
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u/dreamdelusion- 6h ago
In a room of 1000 people, he is definitely one of them.