YOUR IQ compared to" World Chess Champion" Garry Kasparov ..

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I'll bet u didn't notice that the first question salmon was capitalized and the others weren't.

I'll bet you didn't notice you were necromancering a 4 month old thread ;).

The original test is really poor test design...if you are really testing for pattern recognition, you don't create questions that require memorization/ learned knowledge like capitals, planets, etc. you pick things that eliminate those factors for a more accurate result.

Testing is a very poor approximation via sampling that is used to stick people into labeled categories.  Test taking is a skill that can be built up to get you into categories that you may not fit into.  I have a 138 IQ and a 1400 SAT score (2100 by today's standard) and I'll be the first one to say that they do not prove much.

Multiple choice is the bane of good education ;).  In college I used to go to my friend's midterms and finals and take the tests for their classes...and most teachers are terrible at test writing, let me tell you.  I could have passed many classes that I never took.  Many teachers telegraph the right answers in the wording of their questions/answer selections. 

Sorry to be mean but this test is shit. lol

Interesting little quiz...The odd one out on number one should have been Salmon because it was capitalized and

the other choices were not. I chose Hermes on one of the selections because it was a large department store and the others were not. I agree with a previous poster that this test was one of general knowledge with a bit of pattern recognition tossed in. Further...Isn't Washington a proper name or a State? Design issues...

WoW  have a higher iQ than Kasparov of 142 Yipppeeeeee 

haha i am genius ... 

Something that cheer up my day, after burying myself in equations since this morning..Thanks

I don't get it. Nice general knowledge test, it was only 60 points out on my IQ, not too bad. The horrendousness of this test aside, I seriously don't understand this explanation to question 10 at all.

I care enough to bump this but not enough to read through more than 200 posts to find my answer. Anybody sympathetic?

This is not even a real IQ test, this is just general knowledge.
I have done an actual, official IQ test that lasted for over 2 hours or so, where you even had to draw, tell stories you had to make up on your own, read out loud, explain unknown (even not really existing or ancient) words, etc.
No offense, this is just pure bull.
There I scored 127, if I remember correctly, but I still don't believe there is a big connection between IQ and chess.
According to the IQ test, I have a fairly good score, 'superior' by definiton (6-7% of all population), especially in abstract thinking, use of logic, and non-verbal understanding.
Yet, I'm terrible at chess.

This can't possibly count towards your IQ. This is general knowledge, which is not what the IQ is based on. 

i got 8 correct 

my iq is 142

my iq is 142

That's "14 too" for those not familiar with sms shorthand.

I don't think chess cures Down's Syndrome, so I have the better IQ.

Kasparov's IQ is 190, which is literally one in a million probablility. For perspective, 100 is average, 120 is about 1 in 30, 130 is 1 in 50, 140 is 1 in 216, and the bell curve continues.

Depends on the test.

I'm sure this secret test that no one knows about scores Kasparov very highly.

My IQ is 175. Working my way up to 200. I started at 140.