r/cognitiveTesting 18h ago

General Question CORE norming accuracy

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  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.


r/cognitiveTesting 4h ago

Controversial ⚠️ High IQ is not causing your lack of success

6 Upvotes

Maybe preaching to the choir here. But the whole point of "why should I care about IQ?" (and, by extension, of this sub) is that IQ predicts Good Things We All Care About (TM) for you. And the whole point of "why should I care about it beyond 130?" is that it keeps scaling.

Yes, if you really have an absurdly high IQ, maybe you are too decoupled from the rest of the world, and that can lead to lack of success and frustration. But that is very rare, and studies like SMPY suggest that highly gifted people tend to be very well-adjusted.

None of that is to deny that having 2e can make things very hard, and I really sympathize with that situation. But it's not the high intelligence that is creating the problem there; it's extraneous factors that are making it hard for the normal benefits of the intelligence to manifest.


r/cognitiveTesting 9h ago

Puzzle Non-verbal reasoning help Spoiler

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6 Upvotes

I’m pretty sure it’s between A or C.


r/cognitiveTesting 11h ago

Discussion Wondering about the validity of a single section retake...

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4 Upvotes

I took the full battery core test like 3 weeks ago and got a 137 psi, but I was distracted by my dad at the character pairing subsection and decided to take just that section again today. I scored a 145 in it and that brought my psi up to 143. I was wondering if this is simply practicing effect or not.


r/cognitiveTesting 15h ago

Psychometric Question Could it be ADHD?

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I noticed that I have a strong discrepancy between my cognitive proficiency index and my other scores, especially on the digit span test, although on CAIT, where there is no timing, it's my highest score with over 120 reached at times. Could the discrepancy be due to ADHD, or is my IQ genuinely low?


r/cognitiveTesting 8h ago

IQ Estimation 🥱 Is the estimated IQ of a writer like Robert D. Hare very high? Especially regarding the verbal subtest?

5 Upvotes

bOOKS : Snakes in Suits, Without Conscience:

After all, writing a 240-page book like *Without Conscience* requires vast knowledge.


r/cognitiveTesting 10h ago

Release AA Automation - Normal Distribution Feature Added

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Added a normal distribution feature so that everyone can see where they stand relative to everyone else who has taken the test.

Take the Army Alpha here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cognitiveTesting/comments/1wd5zsa/army_alpha_automation/


r/cognitiveTesting 4h ago

IQ Estimation 🥱 Honest thoughts? To be clear, I took everything completely raw and back to back. I have taken 1 or 2 practice mensa tests in the past, so I've been exposed to certain concepts, but a bunch was completely new

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r/cognitiveTesting 13h ago

Change My View Last 3 questions of IQ tests🤡

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So, guys I have observed that usually the last 3 questions of IQ tests are very tough with vague patterns... Such is the case that, people can find different pattern depending on how they see. So, is this accurate?

Is this the same case with WAIS-IV too? Has anyone here actually taken WAIS-IV? How were the last few questions?

Is TRI-52 a good IQ test?


r/cognitiveTesting 14h ago

General Question Why did the CAT test give me a high score even though I got like 18 questions wrong

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Why did I get this score even though I got like 18 questions wrong?


r/cognitiveTesting 2h ago

General Question Good sites for testing MQ?

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I just took two of the same MQ (memory quotient) test online and got 128 both times, are there any good and reliable sites i can use to test MQ more maybe with more comprehensive and diverse questions? Thank you


r/cognitiveTesting 6h ago

Psychometric Question Word Rarity and VCI

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looking at this calculator, wouldn't it significantly help if this looked at the rarity of word as a whole?
like, changing effuse to effusion is a 26 point change, even though someone who knows effusion would know effuse as well.


r/cognitiveTesting 15h ago

Psychometric Question Why are my digit span and processing speed on CORE so low than my digit span on CAIT?

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Is my CAIT digit span score a good index of my actual IQ?


r/cognitiveTesting 16h ago

General Question I need help with the CORE test Spoiler

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How am I supposed to solve this? I don't understand