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    If he was rational, he would understand that companies like this have a huge incentive to inflate the score of anyone participating.

    If he had got an 87, do you think that he would have posted his score?

    Absolutely not, then the company would not get free advertising, costing them business.

    I don’t believe it is fully fake, but I would not be surprised to see them rounding up any edge cases, this goes for the entire industry

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      The first time I took an online IQ test was when I was about 12 years old, around 2001. Even then, when I got back high results, I thought, “They probably make everyone’s score high, to encourage them to share the test. I’m going to take this result with a grain of salt.”

      I never shared it, because I didn’t trust it. I soon learned that IQ tests are culturally biased anyway, and later on learned about the more up-to-date multiple-intelligence tests.

      Seeing a grown adult taking and sharing an online IQ test in this day and age, my inner 12-year-old is rolling her eyes. It seems like someone is desperate for validation.

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        IQ tests are only useful for comparing population groups with the same shared culture. Think two Midwest towns, but the one that has a chemical plant is 20 points lower. You can’t use it to compare different groups that have different skill sets for survival. You can not use it for individuals at all.

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        Similar experience in junior high, took an in-person IQ test and scored highly but instead I thought “this will make people feel envious, I’ll keep it to myself.” When I found out how stupid being proud of IQ results was, I was so glad junior high me lucked his way through cringe-inducing-memory-free.

        Also I watched an hour long documentary about “the man with the highest IQ in the world” with my mom and thought “this guy is insufferable, must be related to high intelligence.” But no, it was trash reality TV disguised as a documentary. I think the guy believed he was an unparalleled genius, though.

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        I’m pretty sure being of average intelligence (as far a test with its own flaws and limitations can tell) is nothing to be ashamed of, just like being of average height is nothing to be ashamed of.

        I took one when I was a kid and got a 136, and I feel like an idiot fairly regularly. I don’t think these tests a definitive measures of intellectual “superiority”

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        I have taken free tests when I have been bored, I have got results within the range of 80 to 120, safe to say, I don’t have a lot of trust in them…

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        For all the posturing some people you meet in daily life do about “being smart”, I think most of us are pretty damn average. Most people still have the capacity to accomplish anything they want (within reason) if they’re willing to put in enough time and effort on a consistent basis.

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      If he got 87 he can still feel “superior” to about 15% of people, though good luck figuring out who those are.