FOX - "The Ultimate IQ Test

Last Friday, I caught that "IQ test" show over on FOX. Did any of you actually sit down and try to tackle the questions? Personally, I found the whole thing a bit too simplistic—almost trivial, if I'm being honest. For those who missed the broadcast, you can give it a shot yourself at www.rtl.hr/iqtest.
I’d be interested to hear from anyone here who has experience sitting for a Mensa-style exam. What’s your take on the difficulty level?

Morgan Martin38 said:On Friday, FOX aired that "IQ test" show. Did any of you actually sit down and try to solve them? Personally, I thought it was way too basic. For anyone who missed it, you can take their version online at www.fox.com/iqtest.
I'm curious to hear what people think about those Mensa-style assessments.

It’s definitely simplistic. Besides, I fail to see why general trivia should have anything to do with actual intelligence. Someone who spends all day reading might breeze through certain questions, while someone genuinely brilliant could get stuck just because they haven't bothered to look up where the next Olympics are being held. It's pretty pointless.👎

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Morgan Martin38 said:There was an "IQ test" show on FOX this past Friday. I wonder if any of you actually sat down to try it? It seemed a bit too easy to my mind. For those who missed it, you can find the questions at www.fox.com/iqtest.
I'm curious to hear what people who have taken a Mensa test think about it.

They aren't even close. The Mensa test is unbalanced, whereas, in my opinion, the FOX version just tests general knowledge.

That wasn't an IQ test at all. It felt like it was designed by someone who isn't particularly gifted in mathematical or logical reasoning—the kind usually targeted by standard assessments. They gave people a mere 60 seconds for those incredibly basic sequences with repetitive patterns. I wouldn't be surprised if the highest scores came from people who just breeze through simple logic, even if their actual cognitive depth is lacking.
Furthermore, what kind of assessment is this that relies on general knowledge? Even in the first section, you needed prior knowledge just to figure out which word was the outlier. As far as I'm concerned, intelligence is the ability to adapt to entirely new situations. By what logic does general trivia fall under that umbrella? Or mastery of the American language?
The test itself wasn't terrible, but calling it a "big IQ test" is a massive stretch...

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Intelligence isn't the same thing as just being knowledgeable. Tests really ought to be designed so that anyone who's literate can actually pass them...

What kind of made-up gibberish are they even using over there?
Maybe they aren't totally made up, but man, they are definitely unconventional... I'm really not a fan, especially after scoring a 90-105 on my IQ test, haha. Honestly, that just left me feeling completely out of sorts...

Ethan Sullivan2 said:What kind of made-up words are they using over there?
Maybe they aren't even fake, just... really unusual. I wasn't a fan, especially after scoring a 90-105 on my IQ test, haha. Honestly, I was pretty bummed out then...

Yeah, those words are definitely...🙄

What does solving puzzles actually have to do with an IQ test? It feels more like a measure of perception...

So, Zare was the one putting that together. 🙄

In my book, crystallized intelligence is basically just general knowledge. I totally agree that the stuff most standard IQ tests focus on—like math, logic, and spatial reasoning—was way too easy this time around. They gave us way too much time to think about it.

On a different note --> why is knowing where the next Olympics will be held considered "general knowledge"? It feels like it’s only on those lists because trivia buffs love it. I’ve never once heard anyone in a normal conversation debating which city is hosting the next Olympics. Honestly, I think what used to be the big global event 20 or 50 years ago is now just the World Cup.

Gregory Smith8 said:What does solving puzzles have to do with IQ? It feels more like a perception thing...

The idea is that you have to mentally rotate that piece to see if it actually fits into the empty slot. Or, you develop some specific strategy to recognize the shape.

That’s called mental rotation, and it pops up on IQ tests all the time.

Anyone who’s actually sat through a real IQ test knows that what they were airing on FOX didn't really have much to do with it. Everything was just way too easy, and I guess those general knowledge questions were honestly kind of laughable.

Harold King54 said:The whole thing comes down to whether you can mentally rotate that puzzle piece in your head to see if it actually fits into the empty space provided, or if you can just develop some sort of pattern recognition strategy to crack the logic.

That’s what they call mental rotation, and it’s a staple in most standard IQ tests.

Look, when you're dealing with mental rotation, you can usually toss out at least two, if not three, of the four options just by counting the number of tabs and blanks.

This test is absolute nonsense.

101 - 109 - Honestly, the test itself is a joke. It works if you're good with numbers, but most of it is just too easy. Solving puzzles doesn't actually measure intelligence. As for the final questions, all you really need is to be well-read, yet even those feel trivial. I don't mind taking the test, but sitting through a show hosted by that irritating Boris and an even worse Regina Hall, surrounded by a gallery of celebrities who do nothing but grin at the camera... the whole production is garbage.

Yeah, and honestly, those questions were just way too easy...

110-120 😎 , and even those pop songs use stupid lyrics from who knows where, and I doubt they're even spelled right 👎 . I mean, why aren't apricots and peaches considered the same thing? And then there are those analogies: you have a source, but instead of an outlet, it's something else entirely. I guess I'd say it's a sinkhole, though that doesn't really fit either. Maybe it's more like a stream, if anyone actually understands how a FOX brain works. 😬
There were plenty of other inconsistencies too, but I'm not sure I can even wrap my head around them.

Someone please enlighten me... since when did cantaloupe become a vegetable? 😕

Yeah. And watermelon... it's technically a squash
an olive is a fruit

Technically, tomatoes are fruit too. And melons are vegetables—I honestly thought apricots fell into that category... 😕