Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxb!reza From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (H. Reza Taheri) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: 'Intelligence' tests - (nf) Message-ID: <847@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 17:48:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.847 Posted: Fri Sep 28 17:48:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:50:50 EDT References: <331@pucc-k.UUCP> <9900045@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 >> Speaking of IQ tests, has anyone tried one of the 'test yourself' tests >> which can be found in 'know yourself' books ? I remember trying one >> when I was fifteen. I answered all of the questions fairly and only used >> the amount of time that was specified for each test section. When I added >> up my score, it read awefully high. I wonder if the authors intentionally >> made the test easier or the scoring higher just to satisfy the reader. It >> seems that a book which stroked the reader's ego would sell better. Anyone >> else have any more insight ? >> Bart Thielges When I was doing my Master's in college, I picked one of those, too. The test told me that I had an IQ of something like 158! Of course the last page of the booklet told me about excellent learning opportunities for a person of my intelligence and asked why with an IQ that high I wouldn't send for a free booklet on how to get a high school diploma! That't when I found out how low my IQ must have been to pay $1 for that garbage! H. Reza Taheri ...!ihnp4!ihuxb!reza