IQ to salary coefficient

[denny]

Interesting thing on the Guardian website... it asks you what your salary is, then does a quick and dirty IQ test, then it tells you whether you're over or under-paid...

Link: http://money.guardian.co.uk/work/iqtest

My results:

You got 22 questions right out of a possible 25. This gives you a cash/cleverness coefficient of...
13
Wow. Your IQ is as far above the average for your salary level as the scale permits. What are you doing with your life?

Good fucking question. If there are no more good questions, class is dismissed for the day. ;)

I told it my salary details from my last job by the way, which was £30k pa. D'ya think I should email the results link to the guy at the Guardian who just turned me down for a £25k job? :)

Actually, to be honest, I'd be surprised if any of my friends scored under-paid or even close to it on this thing... isn't 120 a fairly low IQ for a geek?

Comments

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

This gives you a cash/cleverness coefficient of...
400
Wow. Your IQ is as far above the average for your salary level as the scale permits. What are you doing with your life?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

What salary did you put in? I was tempted to do it again with my current salary, i.e. whatever my benefits add up to.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

Exactly that. What my benefits added up to!

Obviously the government needs to pay me more. Some sort of braininess benefit, I suggest.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's all bloody numbers! Pah!

2, 9, 14, 12, 62, what comes next? I dunno, a DUCK? Neil Kinnock's mum singing Deutchland Uber Alles? Could be anything!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Only the first page is numerical sequences - the second page is spacial orientation (using some fairly craply drawn pictures) and the third is pattern sequences, again using pictures.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Well, numbers make my brain ache (I guess in the same way that looking at disjointed strings of words/letters would do to a dyslexic), and my spatial awareness isn't too great either, so I suspect I'd score very low on that test, despite having a (tested) high IQ. Also, none of those skills have a lot to do with what I do for a living.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I scored 20 out of 25, so worse than you, although I would claim a five pint deficit...

It's probably based on London wages though, which probably skews it a bit.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

5 pints?? Bloody hell, I'd be lucky to find the keyboard, let alone use it. I think we can safely say that you'd probably do better than me normally then... still, you are a Cambridge graduate, it'd look pretty rough if you scored less than a Milton Keynes Polyversity graduate, wouldn't it? ;)

Incidentally, is it just me that always reads Polyversity as an institution for learning how to do polyamoury and perversity?

Oh yes, what did you choose for the toblerone shape question? I went for 'no', because the shapes were different lengths along the same edges, but my friend went for 'could be', assuming that they were just badly drawn and it was the dotted face orientation that counted.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I knew there was something else - what the hell is the answer to the first question? I managed to get the rest, although the last one on the front page took me bloody ages, but that one I gave up on and ticked something at random.

[jikatal.livejournal.com]

2,5,6,4,18,3,?

It's 54 I think, theres two groups of numbers, alternating:

2, 6, 18, ?,
5, 4, 3,

So ? is 18*3=54

But I still only got 23 like evildonut where I saw this linked :) The spatial ones pissed me off as they were so badly drawn - prolly dropped some there.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Yeah the spatial ones pissed me off no end, I reckon that's where I got my 2 wrong answers :/

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Indeed. What did you go for on the toblerone shaped things - no, they're entirely different sizes on all the edges, or 'could be', they're incredibly badly drawn but it's the dot orientation that counts?

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

I actually went for "'could be', they're incredibly badly drawn but it's the dot orientation that counts", though in retrospect, that may have been misguided...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I went for 'no'. I'm quite tempted to re-take it and choose differently on a couple of those things, they've got to be where all my lost points were. Oh, those and the first number sequence, which I can't remember my guess for... it's probably in the results URL though.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

I thought about re-taking it, but decided it wasn't worth it, as getting the other 2 wouldn't actually put me any further up on the IQ scale they have.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Sod. I pulled out the 5,4,3 at one point, but I couldn't see anything pattern-like about what was left. Saw it as soon as you put them separately here though...

Cheers :)

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Your results

You got 22 questions right out of a possible 25. This gives you a cash/cleverness coefficient of...

13

Wow. Your IQ is as far above the average for your salary level as the scale permits. What are you doing with your life?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

OK, I fought my way through the test (give me a verbal logic test any day), and got:

You got 19 questions right out of a possible 25. This gives you a cash/cleverness coefficient of...

16
Wow. Your IQ is as far above the average for your salary level as the scale permits. What are you doing with your life?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It depends on the geek and the environment I think. I've done it twice and got 95 on a happy day and 135 on a miserable day, because on the happy day I was looking for different things (mostly where something more interesting than an IQ test was going to come from). Mind you I'm not really sure whether I'm a geek or not.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

*having done the questions*
Wow, those really sucked. Some of the mathematical ones had more than one answer and depended on you having a calculator sitting right next to you, and the spatial awareness ones were entitled "Are these different or are they the same?" with answers "Could be/no". I think there's just a bit of a minor editing flaw in there.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yes, it took me two reads of the instructions for the spatial awareness bit to work out that they meant 'could they be the same, or not?'

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I only noticed one solution for any of the maths ones, and I didn't use a calculator. I did give up on the first one though :)

The images were incredibly badly drawn, and the text of the accompanying question(s) was absymally worded, yes.

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Initially got 23, but with a bit of fiddling with the spacial awareness ones finally managed to get it up to 25. As people have said, terrible drawings. Well, that's my excuse nayway.