rigged
I was growing weary of my daily Study Hall occupations (looking up sub $200 graphics cards on Amazon) and saw my friend taking an online IQ test. I didn't have anything better to do (I couldn't watch YouTube because the network sniffers are like hawks) so i decided to give it a shot...
and here are my results:
Notice the unrealistic IQ score. Keep in mind that the entire test is only 20 questions long. They aren't even hard. How do you get an IQ of 164 from answering 20 questions?
My theory is that the people who wrote this webpage made a variable (iqscore) and set it equal to zero, and made the user input an answer. The answer input would be linked to a variable, and when they input their answer, it sets this variable to a value, and this value is linked to a switch(){case} statement (Or Javascript/HTML equivalent), and depending on whether or not the user is right, will do something like iqscore = iqscore + 24, and repeats this 20 times. Once you reach the end, it will print iqscore on the screen.
I can see where they were going with this, but at the same time, I can see how this would cause some problems. It's kind of like when nVidia made the Tegra X1 and noticed that it had less power than the average sub $300 PC, so instead of doing it right and calculating the performance in FP32, they covered up their mistake by calculating it in FP16 (those sly dogs).
Now this is a theory, so don't go after the people who wrote this test. Just know that some online IQ tests can be inaccurate.
TL;DR: don't believe everything you see.
Website: free-iqtest.net
Picture: "https://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2015-02-16/Burned_laptop_secumem_11.jpg"; Perspective, PC; 8 November, 1782.
and here are my results:
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| Originally it was 142, but I didn't have the screenshot, so I had to redo it. |
Notice the unrealistic IQ score. Keep in mind that the entire test is only 20 questions long. They aren't even hard. How do you get an IQ of 164 from answering 20 questions?
My theory is that the people who wrote this webpage made a variable (iqscore) and set it equal to zero, and made the user input an answer. The answer input would be linked to a variable, and when they input their answer, it sets this variable to a value, and this value is linked to a switch(){case} statement (Or Javascript/HTML equivalent), and depending on whether or not the user is right, will do something like iqscore = iqscore + 24, and repeats this 20 times. Once you reach the end, it will print iqscore on the screen.
I can see where they were going with this, but at the same time, I can see how this would cause some problems. It's kind of like when nVidia made the Tegra X1 and noticed that it had less power than the average sub $300 PC, so instead of doing it right and calculating the performance in FP32, they covered up their mistake by calculating it in FP16 (those sly dogs).
Now this is a theory, so don't go after the people who wrote this test. Just know that some online IQ tests can be inaccurate.
TL;DR: don't believe everything you see.
Website: free-iqtest.net
Picture: "https://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2015-02-16/Burned_laptop_secumem_11.jpg"; Perspective, PC; 8 November, 1782.
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