they couldn't score mine - i was well beyond the top end of the bell curve both times i took the test
bloody newbies need to write a better test so they can tell me
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the "compare to einstein's IQ" doesn't work - intelligence tests then and now are fundamentally different.
While the term IQ is still used the scores off of today's tests are anything but a quotient. IQ is actually Intelligence Quotient = Mental Age/Physical Age - It was never meant to be used as an intelligence test but as simple a placement test for the french school system. The mental age was determined by what they know in comparision to what they should know had them been going to school the entire time they should.
Modern intelligence tests are based off cognitive ability and not knowledge, their scoring is based off a standard deviation with the Z=0 being mapped to "100 points" - Z+1 = 120, Z+2 = 140 and likewise Z-1 = 80, Z-2 = 60 -- It is possible to have extremely high scores blasting well beyond the defined limit of Z+5 but not be "send him to physics camp" -- this is due to the nature of the tests -- they measure cognitive ability, not knowledge.
Cognitive ability tells us what we can learn, and how fast we can learn it. A good modern intelligence test will be accompanied by a more specialized CAT (Cognitive Abilities Test - as opposed to general intelligence test) and a Multiple Intelligences test to determine areas the individual has the most ability it
it should be noted: internet IQ tests mean exactly bull****
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IF you're asking how I know this ****? History of the IQ test comes from college pysch class, straight out of our 2003 printed Pyschology textbook - and the knowledge of modern intelligence testing comes from first hand expirience
btw i was subjected to the testing battery TWICE - once in 4th grade and once in 7th grade - the first was the juvenile (middle school aged) test then the second one was the adult (Read: post 4 year college) test
