The IQ tests I've seen are idiotic pattern recognition, where the pattern can be something as dumb as counting the number of lines in an image and calling that a "pattern" to predict the next one.
Something like that has little real world applications. Then again, I've never taken the "real" IQ tests you pay for, just free ones that claim to be authentic.
The 'free' online ones are garbage and are highly inaccurate. The real tests contains graduated ranges of questions / puzzles to solve, and various categories of mental abiities to evaluate. They are developed and calibrated against known levels of intelligences.
The IQ tests I've seen are idiotic pattern recognition, where the pattern can be something as dumb as counting the number of lines in an image and calling that a "pattern" to predict the next one.
Something like that has little real world applications. Then again, I've never taken the "real" IQ tests you pay for, just free ones that claim to be authentic.
The 'free' online ones are garbage and are highly inaccurate. The real tests contains graduated ranges of questions / puzzles to solve, and various categories of mental abiities to evaluate. They are developed and calibrated against known levels of intelligences.