Lahar Appaiah [25/04/12 10:25 +0530]:
Some of the IQ Tests floating about on the Net and Readers Digest rely heavily on vocabulary, skill with English, etc. The Mensa test is slightly more egalitarian, and uses pattern recognition type questions. I don't know whether such questions can transcend cultures, or whether they require some level of proficiency in geometry.
The ones I saw had a heavy mathematical bias so there might be those too. Me, I hate maths and wouldnt touch it with a bargepole (and so my cat, mock cat etc scores would be extremely high for verbal and rc, abysmal for DI and quant) Not that i'm losing sleep over it - the last IQ test I took for a lark was about 2 decades back
