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Check Your Own IQ
In this sequel to "Know Your Own IQ", Eysenck responds to criticisms, providing five new tests of the standard type as a check. He also provides three specific tests which are designed to determine whether the reader shows more ability in verbal, numerical or visual-spatial terms.
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First published November 30, 1962
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March 11, 2015
Enjoyed it at the time of reading, because I always score high, and it feeds my ego to think that I'm a genius.
Actually, I am highly sceptical of IQ tests nowadays.
Actually, I am highly sceptical of IQ tests nowadays.
August 10, 2019
It is what it says it is and barely that.
5 general tests and a few narrower instruments. The author notes that it is most accurate between 100 and 130, a whopping 34 percent of the American (and ostensibly world) population and mostly not those for whom an IQ test is most often needed. (Not never - recovery from brain trauma and some diseases and disorders call for them, as well.)
For most of the folks likely to read this review, the introduction and the two sets of problems before answers are likely to be the most valuable: Limbering Up for Intellectual Giants. Not that all of them are even remotely requiring that level of either understanding or deduction, but some of them are likely to be entertaining.
I wouldn't buy the book (and I didn't), but it might amuse you if you happened across it.
5 general tests and a few narrower instruments. The author notes that it is most accurate between 100 and 130, a whopping 34 percent of the American (and ostensibly world) population and mostly not those for whom an IQ test is most often needed. (Not never - recovery from brain trauma and some diseases and disorders call for them, as well.)
For most of the folks likely to read this review, the introduction and the two sets of problems before answers are likely to be the most valuable: Limbering Up for Intellectual Giants. Not that all of them are even remotely requiring that level of either understanding or deduction, but some of them are likely to be entertaining.
I wouldn't buy the book (and I didn't), but it might amuse you if you happened across it.
March 11, 2017
[wersja PL]
January 16, 2016
A set of basic IQ tests that will give you an idea where you sit.
This is not a substitute for a professional IQ test but it is a lot cheaper. Also valuable he include tests for verbal, numerical and spatial IQ so you can get some idea where your strengths and weaknesses are, and he also includes a more advanced test for those above 130, for whom the standard test becomes inaccurate.
Do you take the result too much to heart though as it will only be accurate to ~10-20 points, and IQ standards have changed over the years as people became more test savvy and more ample nutritional and medical care improved people's health.
This is not a substitute for a professional IQ test but it is a lot cheaper. Also valuable he include tests for verbal, numerical and spatial IQ so you can get some idea where your strengths and weaknesses are, and he also includes a more advanced test for those above 130, for whom the standard test becomes inaccurate.
Do you take the result too much to heart though as it will only be accurate to ~10-20 points, and IQ standards have changed over the years as people became more test savvy and more ample nutritional and medical care improved people's health.
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