Pattern Recognition Aptitude Test (IQ Test)
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Innovacious
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satman83 wrote:hmmmm just wondering...where can we find the official (if there is one) IQ
test then
there are lots of "official" ones. Proper ones need to be done under supervision though. If you go to the mensa website you can sign up to go and do a supervised IQ test with them (and maybe join them if you do good enough)
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So many whiners, and none of them actually took it. Are they scared? They should be able to cap it easily right? 
As long as you can load the SWF, the test will work. There should be no problems when you click the Send button because the test calculates the results itself.
The test is based off of Raven's Progressive Matrices, which was developed in 1938. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Questions of the validity of Wikipedia entries aside, this test avoids lingual questions completely so that it won't bias your scores based on your proficiency with the language the test was in.
As long as you can load the SWF, the test will work. There should be no problems when you click the Send button because the test calculates the results itself.
The test is based off of Raven's Progressive Matrices, which was developed in 1938. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Wikipedia wrote:According to their author, Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary tests measure the two main components of general intelligence (originally identified by Spearman): the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root "educere", meaning "to draw out") and the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.
Adequate standardization, ease of use (without written or complex instructions), and minimal cost per person tested are the main reasons for its widespread international use in most countries of the world. It appears to measure a type of reasoning ability which is fundamental to making sense out of the "booming buzzing confusion" in all walks of life. It has among the highest predictive validities of any test in most occupational groups and, even more importantly, in predicting social mobility, the level of job a person will attain and retain. As a test of individuals it can be quite expensive . However, the per person cost can be much lower, because the test booklets are re-usable and that can be used up to 50 times each.
The authors of the manual recommend that, when used in selection, RPM scores are set in the context of information relating to Raven's framework for the assessment of competence.
Some of the most fundamental research in cognitive psychology has been carried out with the RPM. The tests have been shown to work - scale - measure the same thing - in a vast variety of cultural groups. Two remarkable, and relatively recent, findings are that, on the one hand, the actual scores obtained by people living in most countries with a tradition of literacy - from China, Russia, and India through Europe to Kuwait - are very similar at any point in time. On the other hand, in all countries, the scores have increased dramatically over time ... such that 50% of our grandparents would be assigned to special education classes if they were judged against today's norms (see Flynn effect). Yet none of the common explanations - access to television, changes in education, changes in family size etc. - hold up. The explanation seems to have more in common with those put forward to explain the parallel increase in life expectancy ... which has doubled over the same period of time.
Questions of the validity of Wikipedia entries aside, this test avoids lingual questions completely so that it won't bias your scores based on your proficiency with the language the test was in.
