OK it's the Tickle Super IQ Test and it's here.

You can get a free report at the end with all the answers explained, supposedly showing your intelligence in 8 different areas.

I got one question wrong which apparently means my IQ is 152 (yeah, as if). I don't agree that I got the question wrong though - I think they got their own question wrong. I'd be interested to see if anyone else agrees with me.

clop

Well, maybe if you posted the question, your answer, and the answer they suggested, we might be able to help you figure out which?

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"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

For all the objections, concerns, or outright gripes I see on this board about the validity and/or value of IQ tests; they sure seem to be popular here.

Maybe it's the gaming aspect. Lots of people want to "beat" the test, but they don't think the scores mean anything?

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

If all Laps are Lops, all Lops are Loops, and all Loops are Lups, then which of the following is not true?
All Laps are Loops
All Loops are Laps
All Laps are Lups
All Lops are Lups

Can someone please explain this to me....????

Is that the way it's worded on the actual test?

"All Laps are Loops" is true, "All Laps are Lups" is true, and "All Lops are Lups" is true.

"All Loops are Laps" may be true, but it may not.

None of the choices can be said with certainty to be not true.

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It could have been phrased better.

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In Fallout 3, 'happiness' is a warm junkyard dog and a loaded gun. It's mostly the loaded gun.
- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

Yes I agree with you there SeanF. There may be some loops that are not laps.

You could say that all cats are feline, and all felines are animals, but you couldn't say with certainty that all animals are cats is not true.

I supposedly got that one right though. This is the one I got wrong:

35. Which of the following character strings is the closest match to 8,392,211,109?

8,382,311,119
8,3925211,129
8,39,2211,208
8,329,211,108

I took the term "character strings" literally.

clop

That's my guess, but I've never been very good at this sort of verbal trap-or-no-trap question. Numerically, this one's closest. It's closest in terms of any string matching algorithm I've ever encountered as well.

Am I to assume the testers disagree?

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In Fallout 3, 'happiness' is a warm junkyard dog and a loaded gun. It's mostly the loaded gun.
- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

I copied and pasted this directly from the test. I thought that if a = b = c = d, then they are all equal, but after looking back, I see that this doesn't apply.

I didn't understand what they meant by "closest match." Was it supposed to be closest to the value of the number, or closest as in the least differences in the pattern, or what? I wish I would know which ones I got right and wrong...

Which is why most of these intelligence tests measure how much you think like the test writer.

For example, there seems to be an implicit need to know what the phrase 'character string' means. If you are not familiar with computer terminology, you are out of luck. Then there is the question of weighting what is more important, the positions of the commas, number of commas, is an inversion 'closer' than outright substitution? That's why I hate and have always hated these things.

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8,3925211,129 - most matches in string (11 out of 13)
(determined by one to one mapping of the 'character strings' - which implies that it is a simple string of 'characters' with no implied numerical meaning.)

8,382,311,119 is the closest in numerical value (but not asked)

So I actually took the thing, and while it didn't feel all that difficult, I'm danged if I can figure out how to find my results on the emails they sent me. Proving, I suppose, how dumb I am.

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Oh, there it is.

About as I expected: verbal perfect, math almost perfect, spacial reasoning pretty good, abstract reasoning sucks. Score 113.

Nothing has changed in 40 years.

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If you click on your results you should be able to get a page showing your answers and the correct answers and the explanations.

I took "character string" to mean character string in the literal, computer programming context, which meant that both the digits and commas were characters in the string, and I chose the string that had the fewest differences. It was the wrong answer. The "correct" answer involved ignoring the commas and only checking the differences in the digits.

Annoying.

clop

You probably have to get thru several attempts to sell you something before they show you anything for free.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

If you assume those things are to collect verified email addresses with a "prior business arrangement" defense built right in, you wouldn't be all that far from the mark.

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In Fallout 3, 'happiness' is a warm junkyard dog and a loaded gun. It's mostly the loaded gun.
- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

I answered all the questions, but it wouldn't accept my answer to
the question, "What is your email address"? I told it my email address
is "webmaster@tickle.com". The program rejected that repeatedly
and told me to try again.

In any case, I took the whole test, but didn't get the results.

It was a somewhat amateurish test. Far from the best I've seen,
but not the worst. Many questions were bonehead simple. Others
were usual, normal-range adult IQ test fare. None were difficult.

The girl looked nice, but I didn't click on her.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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point of rockets is to explore them!" -- Kai Yeves

That could mean you failed the test, could mean you passed it...

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Yeah, I was wondering if that photo of Victoria Secret on the right was part of the test, but I didn't get any questions on spherical geometry, just stuff like 'if flim is better than flam, and flam is shorter than flum, but flum takes aspirin, what is the correct solution to a sudoku puzzle with no numbers in it?'

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The correct answer is to go tobagganing.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley