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Originally Posted by Tripper

Sounds about right - I wasn't intending to bash IQ tests, I was just told by my Psych professor that IQ tests aren't fullproof mainly because of the culture differences, and that it's very hard to apply the same measurement system onto various differing cultures. So therefore, I figured there was no world average, standard, etc.
Then of course, she went over Gould, and his study on IQ tests, etc.

I guess I came out thinking IQ tests were entirely a joke.

Just curiously - How accurate is Mensa's IQ test...? Also, could j00 direct me to an ACCURATE online IQ test? I wanna see where I stand.

Psychometricians like Xavier Jouve are moving away from traditional ways of
testing "intelligence" and are now concentrating on designing a pictoral-type
examination free of any cultural bias, similar to the Raven's.

Mensa's test ISN'T accurate in the sense that much verbal and mathematical
knowledge is required to successfully "pass" it. Funny story: they gave me a
Ravens matrices as preliminary and then the abovementioned as real tests.
If you want good online tests, go take the following:

http://www.iqtest.dk (Similar to the RAPM II)
http://www.highiqsociety.org (The culture-free)
http://www.cerebrals.com/testing.htm (Test of Inductive Reasoning)

I would suggest the European IQ test but it's strongly biased towards the
mathematically-inclined, so the above should be enough. I get the same
sigma range (2.5 to 2.7 sigma) on all of them so they were well normed.