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IQ Test

05/28/2009 4:20 AM

One day, while I was driving back to home after works and in the middle of the traffic, I switch "ON" my car radio and listen to a song. At the end of the song, there was an announcement made as follows.

"How good is your IQ. SMS to 123456 by typing 'IQ space to 123456 and answer few of the question" then, the announcer say, Each SMS will be charge 50cent per SMS.

Now the question is, "Do you want to participate this IQ test to test your IQ"?.

There will be no right or wrong answer.

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05/28/2009 4:46 AM

Surely this is country-specific?

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05/28/2009 5:27 AM

I'd say anyone who considers paying for one has by definition failed.
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05/28/2009 5:28 AM

"Do you want to participate this IQ test to test your IQ"?

No. The smart thing to do is to leave the phone where it is, drive home and access the many IQ test websites available for free on the net.

You also don't need to be a genius to figure what words to put into the search engine to find them either.

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05/28/2009 5:30 AM

You also don't need to be a genius to figure what words to put into the search engine .
I was just going to put in 2 letters.
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05/28/2009 6:25 AM

<...participate this IQ test to test your IQ?....>

NEVER while driving!

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05/28/2009 8:57 AM

A fairly good way to measure IQ is to see how much money exchanges hands for one of these tests. Happily married men don't need to pay for IQ tests - all we need to do is leave a gearhead soaking in gasoline in the bathroom sink and we get a free evaluation from our wives.

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05/28/2009 9:08 AM

PMSL...

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05/28/2009 9:13 AM

Or engine block soaking in degreaser in tub on patio

Or the time she caught me using the dishwasher for underhood plastic bits like the washer fluid resevoir

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05/28/2009 9:56 AM

I wash my dirty ballcaps in the top rack. She rewashes the dishes that were in the lower rack when I do that. Mmm?

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05/28/2009 9:58 AM

My sons used to save them up and run a whole load of ballcaps!

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05/28/2009 10:07 AM

How do you keep them from being blown off the lower rack?

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05/28/2009 10:21 AM

Wasn't directly involved, no place to go tho?

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05/28/2009 11:02 PM

To particpate or not that is your IQ
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05/28/2009 11:51 PM

Your IQ is 150 - (0.5dollars*10) * amount of times you got suckered to pay for an undefined IQ test SMS question

Try Mensa on the net they probably link to professional IQ Tests

(i do not know i am not smart enough)

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05/29/2009 1:00 AM

Will it really make a difference to anyones current situation if they found out that it was below or above average?

If say I got a low score, do I go and tell my boss that I'm not good enough and resign?

If say i got a high score, do I approach my boss with the results and demand a pay rise? Or resign and go to Uni to study astro-physics?

Surely not...total waste of time...as is the above message and thread.
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05/29/2009 8:53 AM

If you do the first, you're absolutely right.

If you do the second, you're still in the first case.
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05/29/2009 8:46 PM

I have heard that GW Bush, his father HW Bush as well as Ronald Regan had the same IQ, of 86 and they were all elected Presidents of the United States, two of whom were elected for TWO terms. So IQ tests have nothing to do with what pay you can earn. Even with an IQ score of 86 you could be elected the next President of the US

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06/03/2009 11:53 PM

Begs the question - what then was the IQ of the people who voted for them?

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06/04/2009 12:19 AM

Muwahaha, muawahahaha!

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06/05/2009 1:17 PM

I believe it is for YOU to judge that, and perhaps History too may judge that eventually
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06/04/2009 8:01 AM

I don't know if you can be elected as a president of the united states with an IQ of 86 or less, But what I do know and you just proved it, is that with a lot less than that you can still post an opinion on the CR-4.

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05/29/2009 1:37 AM

By participating you have already defined your IQ. By thinking of sending the SMS you are around 100, by actually sending it you are definitely below. How High (good?) can your IQ be if you believe that for 50 cents and few questions you can realy come up with any serious or even close figure. It reminds of a friend of mine a real genius, that at the age of 5, he already had the brains he has today... Second thought...maybe my IQ is not that high. How come I didn't come up with this brilliant money making idea?

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05/29/2009 2:17 AM

Was it a Nigerian IQ test?

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05/29/2009 2:44 AM

Good day, I failed my QI test but my dad always said I was so bright, thats why he called me sun.

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05/29/2009 4:17 AM

I que up for most things, but I wouldn't pay 50p
to que up for a test. Do you think I should?

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05/29/2009 10:47 AM

"No"

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05/29/2009 12:28 PM

You need the IQ to realize it's a scam.

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05/29/2009 12:38 PM

Yes, but one does not need a lofty IQ, to avoid a scam, and in this case the question could be answered with a simple yes or no. I chose no!

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