Ade

Yes. It's called a normal distribution. Uh' date=' what? The tests at the IHIQS use a SD of 16. Asking that is like asking an old aunt her age. It's usually considered crass and you have to be naive if you expect a truthful answer in most cases. Those that don't intentionally lie may also have been misled by inflated scores given in "fake" online IQ tests or they may not be aware of the SD of the tests they took. A percentile score is much less likely to be misinterpreted. Although there is a lot of kafuffle on this subject the fact is that the IHIQS tests have a very close correlation to professionally administered tests. The TFEI my be an exception in that it is very difficult to norm tests designed to measure IQs above 150 due to the lack of data. And no, I had no hand in designing them although as an IHIQS member and forum admin I know a little of them. Personally I find the process of taking IQ tests to be tedious in the extreme.

And what exactly will be gained by doing that? Do you do it to impress gullible friends of your "mammoth" IQ? Perhaps it's to gain membership into a society you're not otherwise able to, again to impress the impressionable? The only one you'll be fooling is yourself; fool being the operative word. I can assure you that very few members of the society itself would be overly impressed by any score you tout. Something you may also be unaware of; the membership certificate that's awarded when you have successfully signed up makes no mention of the score received. Now, you're quite welcome to pay up the 60 bucks for a fake membership if you wish but as has been previously pointed out, you are in breach of copyright by continuing to post society test questions here and in other threads. Oh yeah, and one more thing; test takers are logged of course and it's quite obvious from the logs who are the people that repeat tests.

As an admin on the site in question I find this thread very sad indeed and it's just as sad that the admins here have not pulled this thread and discouraged such discussions. You of course realize that discussions of this nature undermine the validity of such tests and that once the answer to a question becomes common knowledge the question may have to be removed? I don't suppose the considerable wasted effort of creating and norming these tests bothers you guys? Hm?

No, they aren't that different. 12 PhDs is utter nonsense and either the original poster has been lied to or they misunderstood.