TOP 2 IQ Percentile Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour?

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 22, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>
> Someone did a small study of online IQ tests, including tickle:
> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program/search/ 
> viewProgram.cfm?Abstract_ID=7004
>
>     This double-blind study utilized 60 participants placed
>     into one of three equally distributed categories according
>     to their composite ACT/SAT scores. Comparisons of the
>     Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) with internet
>     IQ tests from tickle.com, queendom.com, and iqtest.com
>     showed low to modest correlations, questioning the overall
>     validity of web IQ tests.
>

For a really tough online test (although you have to pay to get it  
officially graded) try some of the Hoeflin tests like http:// 
www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/power.html.  These are the type you chew  
your way through over weeks.

- samantha