How reliable would you suppose facebook's IQ test application is?

Question

I've never taken an IQ test, but I took this one and got a surprisingly high number.

Answer 1

well that's kinda asking if buying a car made by dogs will run.
IQ tests are standardized tests and take large amounts of time to develop and scale. A facebook application...i don't think so...

Answer 2

alright, the previous reply is worthless simply because "facebook" didn't make this test. This guy talk about facebook as if its a guy sitting somewhere in an office. Some sponsor website made this test and, as such, its not worst than the test you would find on their homesite besides the fact that its a 15minute speedtest.

That being said, here's my input. I've taken a lot of IQ test, some online, some from other organisations (schoolboard, mensa.. etc). I've actually scored a bit lower on the facebook test than on the other online test. This doens't mean much because of 2 reasons. 1) i didn'T realize that speed was taken into account. 2) online test usually have trouble rating higher IQs. The difficulty of the questions is limited and, as such, it has a maximal cap. I think we can all remember the emote test that capped at 139, or osmething like that. I dunno what the cap is on tis test because it has modifers that come into play after. Theses are age and time. I'm assuming that the cam is set for people who get 30/30 in 15minutes. Then it rises for every second un 15, and there's some sort of algorythm that plays with the age.

IQ calculation aside, you can prize yourself on your score. I got 29/30 (or is it 39/40?) and my result on various test ranges from 140-160 on test with medium-high caps (180-200), 145 being most likely most acurate. If you have all of them right, cutos to you...

As a side note, i dunno which one i have wrong, but in asking which of the 4 shapes was the odd one out, i awsered the triagle because in wasn't vertically simitrical... is that what you answered?