Thursday, May 03, 2007

Hey Brohawk!

Your wish is granted.
Everybody click here and prove how smart you are. Or not. Because I will warn you of what I did not know. After I feverishly plowed through the test, you are given the chance to see your score...for 9.95 payable by credit card. [cue the fog horn sound effect and green goop poored from the ceiling onto my head] Of course, I was not about to let that effort go to waste so I risked identity theft and personal humiliation and forked out the cash. You get a little profile telling you what percentage of the population scored lower than you as well as a certificate to print out and inspire disgust and nausea in all who see it. So, if you've got 10 bucks burning a hole in your pocket, and a desire to relive the SAT, do it! Please forward your certificates to me so that I may proudly display them.

FYI:

How well did I do? What does my score mean?
Intelligence Interval Cognitive Designation
40 - 54 Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers)
55 - 69 Challenged (2.3% of test takers)
70 - 84 Below average
85 - 114 Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 129 Above average
130 - 144 Gifted (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 159 Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)
160 - 175 Extraordinary genius

Of note: Less than 70 is the medical definition of mental retardation. <50 is severe mental retardation, and < 30 is classified as ZOMGWTF.

They claim that 5.42 million people have taken this test and that the average score is 108.447 with a standard deviation of 14.889. Remember that the average IQ should be 100, but they state that a possible confounding variable causing their average to be too high is that "The lowest IQ holders will not be capable of using the internet to measure their own intelligence." Awesome.


***UPDATE***
Apparently one does not have to pay to get their IQ score from the aforementioned test. They will email you just your general IQ score. But they won't make this obvious to you and you will feel like you need to pay the 10 dollars to get any info and thus feel somewhat cheated when you discover your "free" IQ score in your email inbox a few hours after paying for the "complete IQ profile." Wow, I'm a sap.

1 comment:

brook said...

You should get docked 10 points for not realizing it was free, sucker.