I’m a firm believer that IQ scores show nothing but a person’s ability to see which colored square is out of place or what word the letters BIBRAT spell when they’re unscrambled. Nevertheless, I wanted to see the discrepancies between many of the scores of online IQ tests.

So what did I do, me being bored and me being me?
I took 10 random online IQ tests in the span of two hours or so (some were freaking long!). Needless to say, the results were less than consistent.

I shall present the results here:
N=10

Individual scores:
146
145
141
136
116
141
169
152
174
156

Lowest: 116
Highest: 174

Average: 147.6

Standard deviation: 16.6

Conclusion: according to these results, there is a 58-point range in which my IQ lies. That’s a pretty big range. However, there is a nice little range around the mid-140s where several scores seem to coagulate.

Actual conclusion: ah, who knows? It just proves that it depends on which online IQ test you take whether or not you get a higher or lower score. Plus, you have to actually trust online IQ tests, which I don’t. Ha!

Here was my selection (not in order, you cheaters!) by the way:
http://www.intelligencetest.com/
http://www.uv.es/~buso/iq/index_en.html
http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf
http://web.tickle.com/tests/superiq/?test=superiqogt
http://simple-iq.com/
http://health.ivillage.com/mindbody/mbmemory/0,,bx64,00.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1641/iqown2.html
http://www.testcafe.com/iqtest/
http://www.testriffic.com/iq/
http://www.iqtest.com/prep.html?test=final&PHPSESSID=10dfb3d9658ba4b42c2f41c59aeb9337

(P.S. What’s up with my titles?!)