• Question: what is your iQ?

    Asked by abdullah to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 10 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by milliemc, adam94133.
    • Photo: Robert Thompson

      Robert Thompson answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I have no idea, I don’t even know how I’d check it …. does that mean its quite low ?

    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      It’s lower than I’d like, or I’d tell everyone about it when I went for job interviews.

      Seriously: it really doesn’t matter. Or I’d be out of a job.

    • Photo: Suzanne McEndoo

      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I’ve never been tested so I don’t know. Scientists aren’t all super brainboxes though, we’re just trained to think about problems in certain ways.

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      James Boone answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I’ve done a few IQ tests on my iPhone app, but the trouble is that I found if I practiced the tests, I could get better and better and ended up getting an unrealistic score. So the reality is that it’s very difficult to put a number on someones intelligence.

    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 10 Mar 2012:

      I’m not to sure and it’s been a while since I took an IQ test. I wouldn’t worry about it too much anyway. They aren’t particularly reliable measures of intelligence since the variation between tests is fairly high. The problem is that intelligence is not really something you can put a number on, there are too many ways to be clever :).

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