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iq | by thethinman | 2007-03-05 10:25:46 |
| Mine was tested in grade school... |
by jdelphiki |
2007-03-05 11:13:42 |
...but they didn't tell me what it was. Worried about the self-esteem of the students, from what I heard. Much later, as an adult, someone gave me a test geared toward high school students and I pegged out at 135, but it was kind of an incomplete number, since I ran out of questions before I missed the appropriate number to end the test.
Overall, I've never been all that big on IQ tests. Most are quite reputable and reasonably accurate, but I've always had problems with the types of questions asked and how they're evaluated to arrive at the final score.
"Finish the sequence" questions or word problems are tops on the list. Both are designed to have the test-taker arrive at a specific preconceived solution to the problem, when there might actually be a large number of other possibilities. Standard IQ tests are geared toward those people who can decide what they feel is the "best" solution (given a multiple choice set of answers), but not toward folks who can see lots of alternatives.
At what point does the test reward those who think like the test givers and "penalize" those who think differently or see a much bigger picture? The scene from Phenomenon where Travolta nitpicks Brent Spiner's "age" story problem completely defines why I suck at tests...too many possible answers to think about. Not that I see myself as smart as Travolta (snerk) or anywhere near his Phenomenon character (as if!). But that scene was a perfect example of what goes on in my mind when I see a story problem or sequence question on a test. Even when I can see the obvious answer they want me to arrive at, I don't trust that it's the right one because I see other possible solutions as well. ;) |
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