| Kasz216 said: Fun note. Internet IQ tests ALWAYS overtest you. Why? It's easier to get money from someone calling you call a genius then it is to get money from someone you are calling a dumb ass. |
Well, I think it is (at least in part) due to the limitations of the format ...
No matter how smart someone is or how much they know they're likely going to get questions they should be able to answer correctly wrong a certain percentage of the time; at the same time, regardless of how "dumb" someone is, simply due to random chance they should be able to answer a certain percentage of questions correctly. If you're trying to accurately test someone you're going to have multiple questions that test the same abilities at a similar level so you can determine whether they're answers reflect understanding or chance. If you're testing multiple abilities, each with multiple levels of difficulty, and then each with multiple variations to ensure accurate testing, you would need far more than a couple dozen questions.
