If you are drunk and you take an I.Q. test, will your I.Q. score be lower?

Question

Or higher? Or the same?

Answer 1

I'd say lower, as you only have a certain amount of time to answer each question, and alcohol slows down your reactions.

Answer 2

I don't know, but I think it sounds like a great challenge. I know my test result on tickle.com last night when someone asked, "What is your I.Q.?" was 133. So, I'll go take it now that I'm 8 steel reserves into it, I'll be right back with my results. Best wishes


P.S. 12 minutes later.... still 133, so if 9 beers isn't drunk enough to affect it then being drunk must not change a thing. Best wishes http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/paidresult.jsp?c=42520&where=paidresult&a_code=gJcZGRgyGJm3eBcYGJe6GRqyGBq3gRaqNlKQNTsY&test=uiqogt

Answer 3

Alcohol affects your judgment and reasoning. Therefore, I would have to say it would certainly affect your score - most tests are based on logic, with questions surrounding patterns matching/recognition and logical deduction. Also, your inhibitions are lowered as well. For that reason, you may not rethink an answer you should evaluate because you feel over confident in your response. I would think all of these things would lead to a lower overall score.

Answer 4

Lower

Answer 5

Your score would be lower because alcohol reduces the cognition in the brain---cognition is the core factor in taking your actual mental abilitiies from the thought process to the accomplishment of that thought through actions-- an I Q test has an awful lot to do with taking a thought process to paper

Answer 6

I don't know that there's a necessary causal connection. For some, the slowed response time (as someone mentioned above) might be the material factor, while for others who experience a great deal of test anxiety, the disinhibition alcohol can cuase might help more than hurt. I'd say it's circumstantial.

Answer 7

I'd be surprised if I would read what was on the IQ test to begin with. Taking a test isn't something you do while drunk. ;)

Answer 8

if the test is timed it would be lower. some people are actually smarter when they are drunk.

Answer 9

Presumably lower.

Answer 10

i think it will be lower
but depends on the person, how drunk he/she is and how the alcohol affects the person.
for example it lowers the concentration capacity