Check Your Own I.Q.

by Hans Jürgen Eysenck

Know Your Own I.Q was a best-seller. It also provoked a mass of critical comment and correspondence. Some readers claimed that their answers were as goof as the accepted solution, while others complained that the book was a test of knowledge as much as intelligence. A few protested that it was all too easy.

In this sequel Check Your Own I.Q.,Prof. Eysenick answers these criticisms fully and provides five new tests of the standard (Omnibus) as a check.

--from the back cover

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 30, 1962

About the author

= Hans J. Eysenck = H.J. Eysenck
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (/ˈaɪzɛŋk/; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a psychologist born in Germany, who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals

Reviews

[Nandakishore Mridula · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[O · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Tim Josling · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

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