CBC's "Test the Nation"...

mr. poopyhead · Post by **mr. poopyhead** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:08 pm

CBC is conducting a countywide IQ test for some TV show...
let's use our SPCR awesomeness to pull up the national average!

http://www.cbc.ca/testthenation/takethetest

derekchinese · Post by **derekchinese** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:11 pm

Very cool! But do we have to post our results? hahaha

Iateronmly · Post by **Iateronmly** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:10 pm

109 vs. Canadians.

Sadly I didn't help you though because I selected Outside Canada. Kinda sad, I normally do better. But they use more photo recall than most I've taken and that's always my worst area.

Beyonder · Post by **Beyonder** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:28 am

mr. poopyhead wrote:CBC is conducting a countywide IQ test for some TV show...
let's use our SPCR awesomeness to pull up the national average!

http://www.cbc.ca/testthenation/takethetest

Doesn't the average stay at 100, regardless of who takes the test?

I took the test. It was entertaining. The memory tests were ridiculously hard for me, though.

Cerberus · Post by **Cerberus** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:29 pm

W00t, 123!

Memory and Mathematics were tied as my worst category, at 66% correct.

spookmineer · Post by **spookmineer** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:14 pm

Harder then other IQ tests I've seen on internet, especially because of the time pressure.
118, outside Canada.

Devonavar · Post by **Devonavar** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:14 pm

Beyonder wrote:Doesn't the average stay at 100, regardless of who takes the test?

Yep. It should also be calibrated so that men and women have identical average scores.

130, in Canada. Should have done better, but missed the answer button by a fraction of a second a couple of times.

The key to the memory tests is to forget that they're memory tests and look at the scene as an interested observer. I actually found that I predicted what would be asked on several of them because I just followed the photos the way I would normally look for information. Instead of panicking and trying to memorize everything, I focussed on the obvious features and sources of information (i.e. written information / numbers) and obvious things like colours.

floffe · Post by **floffe** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:23 am

124, outside Canada. Damn those visual ones, I didn't read Devon's advice before taking it.

nici · Post by **nici** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:01 am

I got 70% on the Mnetal Gym "warm-up" thing. wAy too tired to take the actual test.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:09 am

127 inside Canada,

....but....

0nly 56 outside Canada?!?!??!

And I answered all the questions exactly the same way on the second go-round.

Hmmmm.

nici · Post by **nici** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:44 am

What exactly does age have to do with my IQ? "Your IQ score is calculated based on your age" it says. If i enter all the same answers when im 78 am i smarter then?

mrzed · Post by **mrzed** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:18 am

nici wrote:What exactly does age have to do with my IQ? "Your IQ score is calculated based on your age" it says. If i enter all the same answers when im 78 am i smarter then?

Other way around usually. The tests take into account acquired knowledge. The younger you are, the less you are likely to have.

Post by **Rusty075** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:42 am

119.

It suffers from some of the same issues that most other online "IQ tests" suffer from, namely that a good portion of it is testing your education and not your intelligence. The language section in particular is skewed towards those with an advanced education, as opposed to those with high intelligence but less education. If you were a genius who was never given access to education beyond elementary school you would score much worse on that section than someone of less-than-average intelligence whose parents bought them the best education money could buy. On a perfect IQ test your level of education wouldn't make a difference.

mfeingol · Post by **mfeingol** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:32 pm

138.

Those visual and memory tests seemed to have little to do with IQ... At least, I'd like to think so, because that's where I dropped most of my points.

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