Test Your IQ

_I bought this little book of IQ tests as a retest. Now that I am nearing 50 hard-won years I wanted to know if I had "slowed down" to a measurable degree. I had always done well on standardised tests in school (PSAT, ACT, GRE), plus I had qualified for both MENSA and INTERTEL when much younger. So I took all four tests. The results were in the range that the more formal tests always yielded (except that the first was a little low- 119, 142, 163, 140.) On the basis of this I have to assume that, 1) these tests compare favorably with the formal, professionally administered versions, and 2) no, I don't really seem to have lost much of my old ability. On that basis I recommend them. _As for the tests themselves they include "odd one out" problems, language tests, calculation, and pattern logic. They test your powers of deduction, reasoning, and innovation. All the tests are timed- and that is an important factor in their accuracy. _There is a section describing the MENSA Society (founded at Oxford in 1946) and giving contact addresses for chapters in the UK, Australia, Canada, the USA (obsolete), and International. One word of caution- if you qualify, don't let it go to your head. Nothing is more irritating than an intelligent person that thinks that their uninformed opinion is consistently infallible. You can be quite conventionally intelligent, yet extremely ignorant in an almost infinite number of areas. Remember Socrate's words: "I know that I don't know." Now that is intelligent AND wise...