Looking at one of the previous blogs that I have written, I have decided to take a look at Yahoo! Answers.
This is a great community, and that is what it really is. You can ask a question and if it hasn’t been answered someone will most likely answer it for you. This service has been in Yahoo’s service lineup for just about over a year. There are many different topic areas from travel to arts. This service works with a yahoo username. Some of the new questions are on the top page. This is one of the best ideas from Yahoo because they do not pay anyone that answers your question. If you know the answer to a question that someone is asking you can answer it. Hopefully in return they will answer your question. It is also a great idea for a brand manager or business owner to look up questions about their brand’s product or service.
Lets look at one of the questions that has been answered. This is the first one that came across the little ticker on the top of the page.
How can I find out what my Real IQ score is?
I’ve taken a few online tests, and usually get somewhere between 136 and 150… but I’m skeptical these are actually accurate.
For one, they seem far too short. Secondly, they seem to focus strictly on seeing patterns in shapes, and a couple of logic problems.
What is the actually test, and how does one take it?
- 4 weeks ago
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A real IQ test is administered by a doctor(usually a psychoanalyst). Ask at your school, they will have info about local clinical IQ tests.
- 4 weeks ago
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A psychoanalyst would probably be among the last people to give an IQ test, since that kind of measurement testing is not up their alley – think Rorshach – and typically would not be relevant to psychoanalysis. Don’t know why you’d need a doctor either, since this is not medically related. Report Abuse
A true IQ test will measure problem solving abilities not acquired knowledge. ACT and SAT tests measure how much knowledge you acquired up to 12th grade or high school graduation. We all absorb more or less of what we are taught, and the quality of the schools have an impact as well. Report Abuse
WILLIAM : “What is the ACTUALLY test?” and “how does one take it?” OMG… Your IQ is no where near 136. Oh and genius? You take the test like you take any other test, you fill it out! & as far as the actually test,,, I don’t know what the heck an “actually” test is genius. Report Abuse
Sorry Ben K,
IQ is NOT a measure of what you know. It is a test of memory, reasoning, and other brain function data. Although the Stanford Binet test is very old, it still seems to be the standard, although I do have a few concerns with its efficacy. Report Abuse
As your IQ changes with ages it has been discredited as any indication of intelligence. Report Abuse
No IQ test is truly accurate. For example, half the IQ tests I’ve taken rate me as average, most of my teachers consider me slow, and yet I can combine supposedly random items into a functional hovering roomba without any effort. They don’t really test you after you pass a certain point. Report Abuse
They’ve tried. My brain boggles the minds of anyone I try to talk to, because I talk at levels they can’t understand. I think thirty steps ahead, and can beat anyone I know at strategy games, yet I can’t visualize a piece of paper if it was in front of me.
Until they make a test for my mind, Report Abuse
they fail in that department. Report Abuse
I chair the school assistance team for my school….IQ tests like the WISC cost a few hundred dollars to give (thats what it costs a school to buy it from the testing company) your school psych would not keep giving you tests just to see if you can do better.Scores dont usually change after age 8 Report Abuse
Schools are not made of money, just like the rest of America these days. Valid IQ scores can only be taken every 2 to 3 years. If you are being tested repeatedly, using a valid and reliable test, given by a trained professional (and not the online mumbo jumbo) the results are not reliable. Report Abuse
You may want to contact MIT, the DOD, or any nationally known think tank about the hovering roomba thing they may be interested in your tinkering skills.
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All I.Q. tests are biased and subjective. They are more cultural tests rather than anything else. I have scored high on most of these “tests”…but I come from an affluent white family that has multiple college grads. I.Q. tests mean absolutely nothing!!! Report Abuse
Again…IQ tests mean nothing… Report Abuse
I can see clearly why someone who uses the word “expecially” in their post would be against IQ testing. Just for the record, most everyone with an average IQ, half of the below average population and some of the mentally handicapped know how to operate a spell check!
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IQ tests are a measure of critical thinking ability, hence your ability to learn. Not everyone can be a surgeon (no matter what your mommy told you…you can’t be whatever you want to be when you grow up). Online tests are not completely accurate, but there are a few out there that can give you some Report Abuse
Then as you can see you can rate the answers you get. Hopefully you get more that one answer. That way you can use the best one. Most likely you if you have a question and you do not know where to get an answer from, it will be there answered already.
John Botch
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