Anyone Do IQ Tests or a Part of an IQ Society?

[Johann]

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I have taken a few of the online IQ tests though I forget my scores. It seems you could get trained on how to do the tests to score higher.

Oh, indeed you can. You can buy books with many such tests, maybe 100 or so and instructions for practice to improve your score. With some people, it's a kind of hobby - like sudoku puzzles, only a bit more varied. My experience is that SOME of these "societies" - NOT including Mensa, are purely money-oriented and pretty much con-games, based on flattery. According to a couple I tried online, I am a gold-plated genius. That news was usually followed with a request for $75 to $200 for membership in the "society" and for a bit more, I could be inducted into the society's bogus "prestigious Think Tank." I never even considered giving 'em a single dollar. When I recognized the repeating pattern, I quit.

The con-man's best friend is an intelligent mark. The mark will "fill in the blanks" to make the scheme seem valid to them, if they like it. The scheme-operators play up to vanity - which is the easiest thing to appeal to. Works on almost everybody. I'm as vain as heck - and I can't really tell you why it never worked on me. Maybe I'm NOT SMART enough to "fill in the blanks" for the con-artist. Who knows?

Doesn't appeal to me. Too much like collecting phony degrees. I KNOW what my real IQ is through valid testing in a clinical setting and I also know how little the number really means, through a bit more than half-a-dozen psych courses in college and uni. I'm happy with that number. Don't need some money-hungry hack to pump up my ego.