IQ Tests: A Viable Standard of Intelligence?

[Svipdag]

I have an IQ of 180. In 32 years of teaching, I have written about 1600 tests. I have learned to devise a test which measures what I want it to.
IMNSHO, IQ tests measure only test-taking ability, that is, skill in second- guessing the author of the test.

I should expect persons with high IQ's to manifest this intelligence in other ways than merely by taking intelligence tests. This has NOT been my experience. There is a pretentious elitist organisation of self-styled intellectuals which requires a minimum IQ if 150 to join. I have known several members of this "august" organisation , none of whom impress me as intellectual heavyweights.

In my conversations with them I found them to be incapable of recognising a
non sequitur or of understanding the implications of abstract concepts.One of them lives on an annuity wisely set up by her parents who recognised that she was [and is] incapable of managing her own affairs. Of what use, then, is her ostensibly high intelligence ?

And, what of me ? My IQ is 180, yet I am certainly no Albert Einstein. I have known persons whose IQ scores are significantly lower than mine whom I regard as my intellectual equals, and a few whose IQ's would have to be off the scale entirely, if mine is 180.

"Many a man who couldn't tell ye the way to the corner drug store at the age of thirty-five will receive a more respectful audience when age has further impaired his mind." - Finley Peter Dunne

[Supreme American]

You can't measure an abstract element like intelligence in so called test. As well it depends on the level of education of the person taking the test, and how well they respond to the test and the anxiety level which all factor in. So in the end in my honest humble opinion it's bullcrap.

Where do you get this from? It completely flies in the face of science.

[Supreme American]

Well, I'm leaning more towards "no" myself. That said, I took it twice and got 125 the first time and 129 the second time.

Those are pretty consistent numbers for a crap test.

[safinator]

The only reliable IQ tests are the professional ones. Internet ones are pure crap since they put me on genius level, lol.

[Hess]

Those are pretty consistent numbers for a crap test.

Do I not sound smart enough from my posts to have an IQ of 125 or 129?

I took the cogAT in High school (125) and the Stanford Binet 5 (129) in College.

[Supreme American]

I have an IQ of 180. In 32 years of teaching, I have written about 1600 tests. I have learned to devise a test which measures what I want it to.
IMNSHO, IQ tests measure only test-taking ability, that is, skill in second- guessing the author of the test.

Do you know of an online IQ test that is reasonably accurate?

[Supreme American]

Do I not sound smart enough from my posts to have an IQ of 125 or 129?

I took the cogAT in High school (125) and the Stanford Binet 5 (129) in College.

I am not aware of taking ANY IQ test in school. We took things we didn't have really explained to us, perhaps that was it?

[safinator]

Do you know of an online IQ test that is reasonably accurate?

Check this thread of mine.
It was projected from a PHD in Psychometrics.


JCTI

[Hess]

I am not aware of taking ANY IQ test in school. We took things we didn't have really explained to us, perhaps that was it?

It wasn't mandatory, I chose to do it in 12th Grade. I actually had to pay for it as well.

[Supreme American]

Check this thread of mine.
It was projected from a PHD in Psychometrics.


JCTI

I showed 108 but I get bored and impatient with endless patterned questions like those.

I was thinking about fiddling with this one http://giqtest.com/index.html