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  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    the only thing it measures is how good you are at taking an IQ test

    The axis need to be swapped.

    • Amon@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      the punchline is that if you pay for the iq test you are instantly considered stupid and if you bribe the iq test you get a high score. everyone in between won’t pay for an iq test

    • warm@kbin.earth
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      3 months ago

      Yup. You can practice for it like any other test. There’s no way to score human intelligence, except anyone who talks about having high IQ, then you know they are unintelligent.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Anyone that cares about an IQ result is a permanent clown that deserves to be laughed at until they’re dust

    • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      When I was a kid I took a two-page IQ test in a Reader’s Digest and I got 125. It meant a lot to me.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Has anyone here actually had a real IQ test? They’re administered by psychologists and it takes like 2-3 days of different tests. No one doing any online test is doing a real IQ test. Not that they’re the end all be all for intelligence anyways.

    • darksiderbun@lemmy.ca
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      I took one as a kid, my parents had all of us tested. I was always told I was smart but they never told me the number. Just that “you can do anything you put your mind to”. I literally didn’t know I was taking an IQ test and have no memories of what it was like other than the person doing the test was a lady and she had me doing something with wooden blocks. This was all as a prerequisite to get into some gifted program. They lost my results for a bit so I didn’t get in until second grade (USA) so it had to be some time in first grade or before. I won’t spell out my life story here, so I’ll stop there. Anyway yeah that was my experience with it.

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        3 months ago

        Similar to mine! School psychologist with blocks, asking me about fluid ounces, and then about how similar or different things were (ended at time and space). Didn’t really feel like a test but I was in Grade 5.

        My parents thought I was cognitively challenged so they had the test administered (I got an F in math in grade 4). Turns out I’m just ADHD.