Originally posted by: el_boss
lol got 113 on the extra difficult IQ test on high iq society. Both these tests are really badly designed, for the purpose of evaluating "raw" IQ. More than half of the questions, you only have a chance of knowing the answer if you have actually read and studied about the subject and know alot of "fancy" words.
I agree totally, one of my first reactions in the test was when the "General Knowledge" stuff showed up I just said "whoa, hold it!" Because IQ tests are supposed to, oddly enough, test your intelligence which has little to do with your general knowledge. Intelligence is your capacity to reason, learn and a bunch of other stuff, not your knowledge. Theoretically a child should be able to take this test (or at least a version of this test, I know from experience that they have IQ tests for young children) and yet I doubt any of them would know the pen name of Mark Twain.

Another thing is general knowledge is relative to a country as well. You could ask a British person a question about Martha Stewart that all Americans could answer, yet the British person, in all likelihood, wouldn't even know who she was. Likewise if you asked an American about the Two Ronnies they might not know the answer, whereas almost any British person would.

Another thing is that this test is quite badly designed, the thing that has you comparing different boxes is lined up so that, while you are supposed to figure out the pattern in the first two rows and predict the last box on the final row, this layout could suggest a 3x3 grid type pattern, having to work out things up and down as well as across the way.

Indecently, 135 on the super-hard one there too. I get there or there abouts in every IQ test I've took (along with a real one about 4 years ago which had me at 132).