Feb. 5th, 2007
From numerous people. At least I choose the less rude wording of the results:
I am smarter than 96.99% of the rest of the world.
Find out how smart you are.
Since I got all 25 answers right, I presume this means that approximately 3% of all people who take the test get them all right. Note that it says "smarter" rather than that I have a higher IQ. Many of these questions depend on the ability to quickly recall the relationship between metric measurements and English, or other such factoids. A reference librarian should be expected to score at the high end of such a test.
[Edit: As of 14:05 the next day, the percentile ranking for a perfect score has risen to 99.78. I sort of wondered if discussion of the questions would raise the number of people getting higher scores, but apparently not, or at least not yet.]
I am smarter than 96.99% of the rest of the world.
Find out how smart you are.
Since I got all 25 answers right, I presume this means that approximately 3% of all people who take the test get them all right. Note that it says "smarter" rather than that I have a higher IQ. Many of these questions depend on the ability to quickly recall the relationship between metric measurements and English, or other such factoids. A reference librarian should be expected to score at the high end of such a test.
[Edit: As of 14:05 the next day, the percentile ranking for a perfect score has risen to 99.78. I sort of wondered if discussion of the questions would raise the number of people getting higher scores, but apparently not, or at least not yet.]