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Har har, very funny. Everyone knows about that mob mentality thing. By group test, I mean those sorts of tests that are done in school - everyone sits down, takes the exam, the answers are fed into a machine which spits out the results.

 

Ohh we have those things at my school execpt it's to check how much we learned. I always get near perfect in English and Science however my Tagalog is just a little above average.

 

A genius can act as a stupid guy. The test require full co-orperation of the person in test.

And I think those IQ tests can not distinguish between Intellegence and Wisdom, while a simple D&D game can. I don't know about how psychologist work to test IQ. But for "question and answer" type test I believe all question have a stanard answer in anyone's mind. Even a psychologist will have some expected answers on the tesing person. Knowing them and you rules the test. By how? Mind-reading the psychologist, I mean, to know what kind of person is he or she while you are tested, and guess the expected answers. This is kind of wisdom, not IQ.

IQ tests must be done in a more deep inside way, not just Q&A. Reading a record of the person's living would be better than sitting down, face to face.

Or...... am I just too stupid, low IQ to understand how IQ tests work?

 

I.Q. tests are much more subjective than questions like: what is the capital of Russia?? What is the product of 8 and 27?? I.Q. test questions deal a lot more with thought association and the rapidity of the testee's answers. An example might be: there are a triangle, a square, a circle, and a pentagon; which shape is most unlike the others?? Or the tester may show you a sequence of changing numbers or letters and you are supposed to figure out what is the next in the sequence based on the numbers and letters you have been shown. Or you may have to associate objects, like: a steering wheel is to a car as a joystick is to a ______. The tester's answer card has an entire range of possible answers and their meaning and the test generally takes a long time to perform, as was mentioned earlier. By the end of the test the tester will have a pretty good idea of your cognitive and problem solving skills as well as how quickly you are able to use them (after having done the relevant calculations). The actual Intelligence Quotient is used to calculate one's mental age. An I.Q. of 100 means that your mind will mature at a rate that is considered average in relation to the rest of the population. An I.Q. of 150 means that your mental age will be half again as much as your real age at any given point in your life.

Unless the I.Q. test is administered at a fairly early age -- when your mind is still fresh -- then it usually gives an inaccurate reading. Still, one's I.Q. changes very little throughout the course of one's lifetime and usually has a tendency to fall as time goes on. I feel that I.Q. tests are an inaccurate gauge of one's intellect as they rely too much on cultural identification and a perfect understanding of the language involved. The test is based in subjective judgment and that sort of thing can be viewed very differently from culture to culture. If you pull a kid out of the jungles of South America and compare his I.Q. to a kid that is raised "normally" in the city, the jungle kid will have a different sense of shape recognition and his set of problem solving skills will likely deal with basic survival as opposed to which shape of peg goes in which shape of hole.