How to Think Like a Genius 48-Homemade
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, I want to back up a bit and look down on these three categories. Online ones that have a range of highly questionable validity and some that are done with rigor for professional societies and even some of the one’s that are done for professional societies are questionable. Other ones that come from those with some statistical training or with relevant qualifications and using them for entrance into respectable high IQ societies rather than most that aren’t and come from questionable people, with questionable or illegitimate associations or credentials or qualifications that in essence amount to paper weight or some empty bits and bytes on the computer to make an image, or societies with zero to little validity, partial or total inactivity, or predatory aspects of megalomania or taking gullible people’s money. The gold standard with individual followed by group administered mainstream IQ tests given by professional psychologists with reliable and valid credentials from professional universities…
Rick Rosner: Why would people make a homemade IQ test?
Jacobsen: Good question.
Rosner: These tests started showing up in the mid- to late-70s getting published in Games magazine and Omni magazine, which was a science fiction magazine which came from the publisher of Penthouse. People want — group administered IQ tests and one-on-one IQ tests don’t reliably measure above 150. And people were interested in turning this into finding people who scored even higher than that up to 200 and more if they possibly could.
So, they started writing superhard IQ tests. The Mega, the Lite, the Titan; tests that were at least purported to go up into the 190s.
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