IQ Test Flaws

I've been thinking about IQ tests and I've discovered how flawed they are. First, it is a test and there are people who are naturally better test takers due to their guessing skills do add 20 to 30 points just because they can guess and get it right 75% versus 25%. Second, it takes your ethnicity into account. Hello, this is America I doubt any one is pure anything, so why do you not have multi-racial? Third, it takes in account your education. That one seems reasonable, but what if a family issue caused you to drop out or you had a bad grade year which messed up your ranking in high school? It doesn't take that into account. Fourth, it takes into account of your age. Excuse me, but what does age have to do with anything. A five year old could be smart and so could a 50 year old. I know they put you against your age group's average, but again one bad grade or one random high messes everything up, so why make us compete? I know some places rule those out to get a better average, but what if everyone for whatever reason scores higher? They would have to have to re-rank. A.k.a. your score is 150? Too bad your score is now 78. That is because they don’t have an actual scale to rate you on. Fifth, it asked about your employment. How the hell does losing a job or having a low paid job even though you're smart have anything to do with intelligence? Getting a job deals with brown nosing, connections, and how good your resume looks. Not usually brains. Then it asks you to rate how happy you are with it and how well you work. Did it ever occur to the test makers you can lie your ass off and they would never know? Wonder how that affects their score/survey.

Sixth, they ask about other IQ tests scores you did in past. If how smart or how dumb I was in the past matters so much why not give all the five year olds in the world the test and give them a job for life based on that score be it janitor or scientist. Seven, there are different times limits on different websites funded by different organizations. I'm sure someone will do better with 30 min vs. 15min. Also, with all those organizations something will get lost in translation. Eight, should we really be judged by IQ test? There is the smartest man in the world says Einstein has nothing on him, but Einstein discovered amazing theories whereas this guy works at a liquor store with no ambition to do anything and can't understand why he's not rich and important. Hmm... does that make any sense? Nine, they say don’t cheat on some of them. Does that mean the answers to some of their questions can be found online? Ten, they log your IP address so you can only take the test once. However, don’t they know there are programs that can change your IP address? Also, wouldn’t their system get over loaded with all the data it would have to keep? Your IP address would eventually be deleted defeating the purpose of storing it in the first place. Not only that but if you use a friend’s computer or library’s it defeats the purpose and you screw over someone else.

If you’re going to judge us on data that shouldn’t matter why not add what do you eat? Are Raw food people smarter than others because they eat less preservatives and are healthier? See the test is flawed and there are probably more flaws (cough) like the fact you can easily miss calculate by one without calculator because 2 answers are .1 apart, or it can be a word problem about height but they don't give you info you need so there's two answers and no answer that says not enough info so you state at it and work it for another few min still coming to same conclusion. (Cough) Not even counting the fact there are different types of knowledge that can’t even be tested for. All in all IQ is not a good measure of intelligence even if you get an above average score.