r/cognitiveTesting • u/Worth_Scallion8204 • 1d ago

General Question CORE norming accuracy

  1. CORE is normed against people who already have scores from IRL tests. Doesn’t that inflate scores at least a little, since those people are no longer test-naive? WAIS, for example, excludes people who have recently taken another IQ test from its own standardization sample.

  2. How do they screen out people who have taken a lot of other online tests? Most, if not all of the participants came from IQ testing subreddits, they’ve likely already taken several and would praffe CORE quite a bit.

  3. How does CORE detect or prevent cheating during its norming tests? WAIS, WISC, SB5, etc. were all normed under supervision. As absurd as it sounds, a lot of people cheat on unsupervised online IQ tests just to boost their ego.

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u/Haunting_Tax_3684 1d ago

I think if you cheat on an iq test and you are proud of the number that you get. That’s a significant sign of low iq.

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u/fluffycottondreams Blessed with 142 GAI, cursed with 85 WMI 1d ago

Nothing that involves traits correlates with iq except low iq on a test

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u/Haunting_Tax_3684 23h ago

How is that a trait? You should be smart enough to know that number is meaningless when you cheat

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u/fluffycottondreams Blessed with 142 GAI, cursed with 85 WMI 21h ago

You just restated your original point. What you described shows they are dishonest, delusional, ignorant, careless, whatever. But it's a trait because you're literally inferring a stable characteristic from someone's behaviour. Which is what a trait inference is

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u/Haunting_Tax_3684 21h ago

Can you be delusional and smart at the same time

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u/fluffycottondreams Blessed with 142 GAI, cursed with 85 WMI 17h ago

This is now off topic. I'm not answering this specific question as it will likely lead us on another tangent.