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

[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 :)