One of the aspirations for my doing the IQ Training is to test the results shown by Jaeggi et al (2008). Her results showed that similar training was able to increase a persons’ IQ significantly. To match these results in my own experience requires a pre-test and a post-test. Fortunately me for me I did a pre-test in early August 2008, and then purchased the IQ Training program in late August 2008.
A professional, registered psychologist administered the WAIS-III to me in early August 2008. He reported that I scored a Full Scale IQ of 139, and that this is in the top 0.5% of the general population. Since doing the WAIS-III with that psychologist I have completed several other tests. Some of these have been of the free, on-line variety, and one of which has been the Mensa Canada tests. What follows are my scores to date.
Fri 21 Nov 2008, IQ Test Labs, “Your age adjusted IQ score is 126 and the average score is 100.”
Sat 13 Dec 2008, Mensa Canada test, the results will be available in early January.
Fri 19 Dec 2008, IQ Test Labs, “Your age adjusted IQ score is 135 and the average score is 100.”
These results deserve some comment. On Fri 21 I had just begun the IQ Training that is sold on this blog. My average n-back was at about 2.30. That is when I did the IQ Test Labs free online test and scored 129. Approximately one month later, on Fri 19 Dec 2008, I took that same test a second time and scored 135. This increase of six points is probably due to two reasons.
One reason for this increase, of course, is that the test is the same, and so I would have remembered some of the answers to the questions, and that would have made the test easier. There is some learning that occurs when repeating a test, and this surely would have increased my score. Notwithstanding this test, re-test learning, there is probably some effect of having done the IQ Training as well. While it’s certainly true that the entire six point increase could be due to repeating the same test, this is still a promising result. At the very least it shows that my IQ score is moving in the right direction.
In the next few days or hours I intend to take an online version of the Raven Matrix Test. It is my aspiration to take this test again in a month to see how my pre/post scores compare. Further, once I complete a grand total of 50 IQ Training sessions I intend to study for and take the GMAT or the LSAT.
Best regards,
Shaun.
Hello, Shaun.
Sorry that I only just released this post. I had somehow overlooked it, along with the next post of yours about the Raven test.
One thing to note for people looking scores from different tests is that not all scores are equal. A score of 130 on one kind of test may be equivalent to a score of 150 on another. This is due to the fact that the test scores are standardized for each particular test.
Martin