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

[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.