Your Questions About Iq Test

BrainSpeak answers:

An IQ test only tells you how good you are at taking an IQ test. It almost never matters how smart you are, anyway. If you just think things through, you’ll be better off than most people.

BrainSpeak answers:

I always hated IQ tests!! I mean there are so many facets of the human mind that one test cant possibly measure overall intelligence.As we grow older we gain intelligence through life experiences. My Grandmom always said to keep reading and learning all your life. I spent years wasted with alcohol and drugs and now i finally realized that ( ihate to quote this but..) “the mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

BrainSpeak answers:

There are no genuine IQ tests on the Internet. The companies who develop real tests of intelligence for use by psychologists and psychometricians spend millions of dollars preparing and norming them. They do not make them available to the general public at all, let alone publish them on the Internet. Basic starter kits for professionals cost over $1000 and go up from there.

Some people like to put together collections of interesting or challenging problems and puzzles, label them IQ tests and publish them on line. It’s a free Internet (mostly), so they can do that, but no one who has legitimate reason to be interested in a person’s IQ will take them seriously. Even Mensa ignores them (and, in the USA at least, Mensa no longer tells applicants their scores on application exams — only whether they qualified or not).

It’s best to think of such web sites as puzzles and games, suitable for amusement only. If a psychologist or organization really wants to know your IQ, they’ll arrange to test you themselves or look at prior evidence from school or military tests. They will not look at your scores on some internet game, no matter what it calls itself.

If you want to take a real IQ test, contact the Student Counseling Center at your local college or university. They often have psychologists or psychometricians on staff who can administer a test or refer you to someone who can. Sorry, it won’t be free.