When I first took my online Mensa test and scored in the top percentile, I doubted the validity of the results. Especially since almost everyone else on Jow Forums gets on average 120 to 130 on this test. I thought people were just avoiding posting their results if they scored low, or the test was made to make people feel good about themselves. I spend a lot of time on Jow Forums or at my University biology department and I usually feel very stupid.
After spending some time on Facebook, I am starting to realise how dumb most people in the general population truly are. Im not sure if I feel good knowing that I am at least less stupid than the average person, or if I should feel terrified knowing how stupid the average person is.
Here is the test if anyone wants to try it out. test.mensa.no
The average person is nothing more than a subhuman groid.
Ryder Parker
I do think the test does bolster your score as you have to pay to sit the entrance exam.The more people who get a higher score the greater the chance they sit the exam.
Brayden Bell
Too bad even high IQs rarely get utilized for anyone's tangible benefit
William Flores
Being stupid and breeding a lot is still ultimately higher fitness than being smart being smug, looking down on others and not breeding enough.
Brayden Long
I don't believe these IQ tests because everyone seems to score at minimum 110, which is unbelievable if the average is supposed to be 100 and, worse, there are non whites online taking the test too.
No way these results are legit. The sites most likely do it on purpose, because Norman McNormal won't share his results on fecesbook if he scores low and, thus, won't make the site popular. He'd then find another site that scores him high so he can show off and make this second site popular in turn.
Juan Howard
I've just done it totally random and I've scored 120 so i don't think its really valid
Henry Jones
No one is talking about genetic fitness lol. Just think of all the high IQs that didnt leave mark outside of their social circles
This happens when people who have already done the test do it again, or cheat and use an online answer sheet to get most of the, correct in an extremely short amount of time.
Cooper Rodriguez
The test assumes people wont rush through quickly randomly selecting answers. It assumes people who take the test genuinely want to learn where they stand. It probably got 91 (higher than normal if you got most of them wrong) because time is included in the final calculation.
Dominic Mitchell
I see that it is hard for you to accep that I my intellect is too grand to be measured by your modern science. I spit on your science and I spit on your progress. Inside my mind, my world, is a vast thoughtscape that surpasses your collective imaginings.
What do you mean "everyone"? You probably just don't interact with below-average people like trailer trash and nogs.
Nathaniel Walker
This is probably the correct answer. Surprisingly, behind the shit flinging, Jow Forums users are on average fairly bright. At least compared to trash and thug blacks.
Asher King
I just got the same results I always get on these tests, 125 IQ. It's been the exact same result everytime, even on different sites.
The Facebook-tier iq tests where there are 10 math questions or high quality ones like the Mensa one?
Aiden Young
The test is fake - the results don't make sense statistically unless they adjusted the mean to be a lot higher (and who knows what the equation looks like). Even I scored 140 and I have the mental capacity of a rock
Benjamin Bailey
>doubts himself >scores 140
People who doubt their abilities are typically in the higher range. Even if the test isn't accurate, you would still score above average at the very least.
Julian Hill
I'm not sure if I would call the Mensa one high quality (it's literally just pattern recognition), but yes, the Mensa one is the one I took.
It is quality compared to the Facebook ones. Or the ones that literally just test memory of things people were taught in school. Pattern recognition is universal.
Brayden Smith
Only now I am sentient. I am aware of my own condition.
I got tired of bending my mind to see patterns and finished at 83% and got 109 IQ. I got 120 a long time ago in the one people used to post threads about.
Jordan Myers
>Using IQ to measure cognitive capacity instead of watching Rick and Morty
Noah Roberts
The score cpuld have also been too low to accurately measure your IQ, it didn't specify.
Dunning-krueger effect in full swing
Hudson Powell
>After spending some time on Facebook, I am starting to realise how dumb most people in the general population truly are. Oldfag here. I had the same experience with MySpace. I realized to my horror that most of my friends and acquaintances were fucking morons based on the stuff they'd post to their wall. Actually, back then, there was like a bulletin system that people used but it was basically a wall where people would repost chain letters and so forth.
>I should feel terrified knowing how stupid the average person is. The real terror comes from realizing how many of those people are both idiotic and incredibly power hungry while not being terribly particular about rules or even ethics. A lot of very dumb, very dangerous people make their way into positions of authority. Another depressing thing is realizing how fucking stupid the average celebrity is. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for celebrity; in fact, there appears to be a negative correlation. This wouldn't bother me if impressionable young kids didn't look up to these idiotic pop singers, athletes and, God forbid, reality TV stars.
Lucas White
Yep. Most of the stupidest people at my university (eg gender studies majors) are extremely power hungry. They want control. They go to many lengths in order to try and attain that power or at least voice that they want that power. They march on the streets yelling and screaming, they put up hundreds of posters to spread their agenda, and they are in charge of the local media. They make a lot of demands, telling people what they can and cannot do or say. Sadly. They often get what they want. Feels are truly more important than reals in this society.
Andrew Allen
I got 106 originally
Aiden Fisher
I thought that test had nothing to do with MENSA, you have to pay for the test and also there's a fee to be in the society. Additionally, traditional IQ test questions are much too easy and designed to weed out retards (recently it had to be revamped to recenter IQ at 100 since people were scoring too high), try and do national mathematics competition questions and Putnam Math contest questions, which are far more challenging from a logical perspective.
That being said, IQ is only a subset of intelligence and not an absolute metric; taking online tests like this and MBTI is the peak of pretentious identity building out of what little you have.
That online test is a free Mensa test that is made by Mensa. Fairly accurate and very close results one would get with the actual paid test. Read the description on the website.
Math test just mesures ones knowledge in math. Not universal problem solving/pattern recognition.
Person x and person y may be equally good problm solvers, but only x has been taught in school what math symbols mean, and how to solve math equations. One is trained, the other isn't. Inherent intelligence is not to do with training.
