For each question a time limit of 45 seconds is available. If the person taking the test does not answer the question in time the test will automatically move on to the next question and the question will be left unanswered. The test has 35 questions altogether and the whole test will usually take between 15 and 25 minutes. Speed is not considered when calculating the results but it is naturally needed in order to answer the questions correctly in due time."; $tx[1007] = "A correct answer to a difficult question is more valuable than it is to an easy one. In accordance, an incorrect answer to a difficult question causes less harm to the result than it would if the question was an easy one."; $tx[1008] = "The questions"; $tx[1009] = "The questions are different kinds of pattern recognition problems. In all of the questions you will be asked to choose between the choices A to I or A to G and find a picture suitable to replace the square that has a question mark on it. The suitable answer is chosen by left-clicking the appropriate picture of choice."; $tx[1010] = "The start of the test"; $tx[1011] = "The test can be correctly viewed with screen resolutions of 1024x768 and up. If you are required to scroll the window in order to view the whole problem your screen resolution is too low. Unfortunately there is no proper solution for this relatively rare problem."; $tx[1012] = "When you wish to start the test click the Begin the test button."; $tx[1013] = "We are interested in you home land in a statistical sense. Therefore we hope that you answer the next question. You can leave the question unanswered if you wish."; $tx[1014] = "Start the test"; $tx[1015] = "Choose a country if you wish"; /* index.php */ $tx[2000] = "An experimental IQ test"; $tx[2001] = "Welcome"; $tx[2002] = "We welcome you to take our experimental IQ test. It is completely free. The test is a pure pattern recognition test aimed to measure a person's mathematical, logical and spatial intelligence and the ability to recognise similar structures."; $tx[2003] = "How the test works"; $tx[2004] = "The test is quite different than previous tests. A whole new approach has been applied for example to the concepts of problem formulation, course of the test and the calculation of the final result."; $tx[2005] = "Read more about how the test works"; $tx[2006] = "The benefits of the test"; $tx[2007] = "The test is aimed to have the following special qualities:"; $tx[2008] = "That the effect of the ability to learn is minimal."; $tx[2009] = "That the test works well also near the ends of the distribution."; $tx[2010] = "That test comes up with an IQ result at the same time both quickly and accurately by asking the kinds of questions that give the most accurate comprehension of the intelligence of the person taking the test."; $tx[2011] = "Read more about the qualities of the test"; $tx[2012] = "Start the test"; $tx[2013] = "If you wish to start with the test immediately, you can move on to read the last instructions on how to take the test."; $tx[2014] = "Start the test"; $tx[2015] = "That the choice of tactics does not affect the result."; /* about-the-test.php */ $tx[3000] = "The operating principle of the test"; $tx[3001] = "Operation of the test"; $tx[3002] = "Here we explain the operation of the test."; $tx[3003] = "The course of the test"; $tx[3004] = "The test begins with some relatively easy questions that will gradually turn into more difficult ones as long as the person taking the test is able to answer most of them correctly. The test will soon be able to define the level of the person taking the test, and will thereafter present questions that the person will most likely answer correctly approximately 50 per cent of the time."; $tx[3005] = "During the test 35 different pattern recognition problems are presented. The time limit for each of the questions is 45 seconds. If the person taking the test does not answer a question in time the test will automatically move on to the next question and the previous one will be left unanswered."; $tx[3006] = "Calculating the result"; $tx[3007] = "Since other people get asked more difficult questions than others, it would naturally be unfair to calculate the final result directly based on the amount of correct answers. The result is therefore calculated by taking advantage of an extensive amount of statistical material that deals with how individuals that have different intelligence quotients have performed in different questions. The person taking the test is then compared to individuals representing the statistical prototypes of people with different intelligence quotients."; $tx[3008] = "Question formulation"; $tx[3009] = "The questions of the test have automatically been formulated with a computer software developed especially for this purpose. By changing certain variables the program is able to generate a large variety of questions from very easy to extremely challenging."; $tx[3010] = "Average value and standard deviation"; $tx[3011] = "An agreement has been made that the average value of the IQ of all the people is 100. People's intelligence quotients divide around this average value according to standard deviation. However, if we only examine the IQ it can only be told whether the person is more intelligent than the average. Therefore it would always be important to also announce the standard deviation of the distribution."; $tx[3012] = "Two different standard deviations (SD) are widely used. In Europe an SD according to the Cattell distribution is generally used, the numerical value of which is 24. In the United States a Stanford-Binet distribution is common, the SD of which is 16. Intelligence quotients that settle at most one SD away from the average value are considered normal. This means 76-124 at the Cattell distribution and 84-116 at the Stanford-Binet distribution."; $tx[3013] = "The results obtained from this test are scaled in a way that the average value of all of the tests will be 100 and the SD 24. In other words we assume that the people taking the test represent the normal human beings from an intelligence point-of-view. We feel that this assumption is justified since most part of the people taking the test live in countries where practically everyone has an access to the Internet. Thus it cannot be claimed that the ability to reach these pages requires exceptional intelligence. However, we cannot argue with the fact that it is possible that these kinds of tests can be more frequently taken by people who assume they are more intelligent than the others."; /* why-this-test.php */ $tx[4000] = "The benefits of the test"; $tx[4001] = "The special qualities of the test"; $tx[4002] = "Compared to the other tests the IQ test we have developed has some special qualities that are discussed in this document."; //$tx[4002] = "In this document, we discuss the special qualities that we attempted to of this test ."; $tx[4003] = "The large amount of the questions"; $tx[4004] = "The following benefits are obtained by the large amount the questions"; $tx[4005] = "The effect of learning reduces. The test can be taken several times without having learning have a significant effect on the result, provided that there is a sufficient break between the tests."; $tx[4007] = "The large amount of the questions is made possible by"; $tx[4008] = "The technique we have developed which allows the questions to be generated automatically."; $tx[4009] = "The extensive statistical material telling how different intelligence quotients have succeeded in different questions. This material can be obtained by the masses of the Internet"; $tx[4010] = "The personification of the test"; $tx[4011] = "During the test the series of questions is personified according to the level of the person taking the test. The person is asked questions that best describe their level. The following benefits are obtained by this method"; $tx[4012] = "The test works well also near the ends of the distribution."; $tx[4013] = "The test doesn't have to be as long as the usual IQ tests in which the person's patience sometimes can affect the result."; $tx[4014] = "Taking the test feels sensible since the questions are suitably hard."; $tx[4015] = "The personification of the test is made possible by"; $tx[4016] = "The large amount of the questions."; $tx[4017] = "The new innovative method which we have developed for calculating the result of the test."; $tx[4018] = "Other good qualities of the test"; $tx[4019] = "In the following are some good qualities of the test that also many other tests have "; $tx[4020] = "Culture-free: As a pure pattern recognition test the results of the test are as independent as possible from the cultural background of the person taking the test."; $tx[4021] = "Transparency: There is a large amount of information available on how the test works. This makes it possible for everyone to critically evaluate the test. If you are more interested in the subject and want more specific information of the test it may be possible if you are able to state your case well."; $tx[4022] = "It's free: This test is completely free. Some of the free IQ tests on the Internet offer the actual test for free but getting the (full) result is chargeable. This is not the case with this test: we are not about cheating people. That the test is free is also the only possible way to assure the liability of the statistical material being collected."; $tx[4023] = "The large amount of the questions is an essential condition for the personification of the test. This is made possible by"; /* media.php */ $tx[5000] = "Media information"; $tx[5001] = "This site is property of"; $tx[5002] = "VAT number"; $tx[5003] = "Contact person"; $tx[5004] = "Email"; $tx[5005] = "Phone:"; /* testi.php */ $tx[6000] = "The test"; $tx[6001] = "Choose from the alternatives"; $tx[6002] = "the one that is suitable to replace the square with the question mark."; $tx[6003] = "Time left for answering the question"; $tx[6004] = "minutes"; $tx[6005] = "and"; $tx[6006] = "seconds."; $tx[6007] = "Refresh the clock"; $tx[6008] = "Answer the question by left-clicking the correct image"; $tx[6009] = "This is the"; $tx[6010] = "question, the test has 35 questions altogether"; $tx[6011] = "Recommended time usage per question is in maximum"; $tx[6012] = "You didn't answer the previous question in time"; /* tulos.php */ $tx[7000] = "The result of the test"; $tx[7001] = "The result of the test"; $tx[7002] = "By the answers you submitted your IQ is"; $tx[7003] = "The same or a better result is reached by"; $tx[7004] = "The same or a better result is only reached by"; $tx[7005] = "of the people taking the test."; $tx[7006] = "By the answers you submitted your score would be so low that it is outside the area that this test can reliably measure. Therefore we do not announce your result accurately but only state that compared to the result"; $tx[7007] = "it would be somewhere below"; $tx[7008] = "The result distribution of the test has not yet developed to be perfect since the sample size is still relatively small. For this reason you should regard the results with reservation."; $tx[7009] = "Information regarding the result"; $tx[7010] = "The result is based on previously collected statistical material of"; $tx[7011] = "tests"; $tx[7012] = "You answered"; $tx[7013] = "questions correctly"; $tx[7014] = "However, the amount of questions answered correctly doesn't as such determine the result but it is essential how difficult questions were answered correctly."; $tx[7015] = "The operation of the test is more thoroughly explained"; $tx[7016] = "in here"; $tx[7017] = "The average value of the test is"; $tx[7018] = "Your result has been standardized by the Cattell distribution that is commonly used in Europe. Its standard deviation is 24. Your result by the Stanford-Binet distribution (widely used in the United States, standard deviation is 16) would be"; $tx[7019] = "This test (Cattell)"; $tx[7020] = "Stanford"; $tx[7021] = "Proportion in the population"; $tx[7022] = "Genius"; $tx[7023] = "Highly intelligent (Mensa level)"; $tx[7024] = "Clearly above average"; $tx[7025] = "Somewhat above the average"; $tx[7026] = "Somewhat below the average"; $tx[7027] = "Clearly under the average"; $tx[7028] = "Low"; $tx[7029] = "Level"; $tx[7030] = "over"; $tx[7031] = "under"; $tx[7032] = "*Proportions in the population are values according to the standard deviation, not according to the actual result distribution of this test. The actual values of this test will be made available once the sample size for the distribution statistics will be large enough."; $tx[7033] = "Standard deviation"; $tx[7034] = "The distribution of the test"; //added 2.5.2005 $tx[7035] = 'Help us'; $tx[7036] = 'Have you ever tested yourself with an official Mensa IQ-Test? Help us to study the correlation between the test you have done and this test by reporting your result to us. We will not store any additional information from you.'; $tx[7037] = 'The name of the test'; $tx[7038] = 'Your IQ-score'; $tx[7039] = 'Send the report'; $tx[7040] = 'Your report has now been stored. Thank you.'; /* languages.php */ $tx[8000] = "Language versions"; $tx[8001] = "Language versions"; $tx[8002] = "This site has been made available in many languages by the means of voluntary work. On this page you can change the language according to your preference."; $tx[8003] = "Set the language"; $tx[8004] = 'Help us in the translation'; $tx[8005] = 'Want to see this test in your own language?'; $tx[8006] = 'Anyone can easily help us offer this site in their own mother tongue by translating the English text in this file to their own language and sending the final file by email to the address iqout at mediakum dot com.'; $tx[8007] = "All the proper translations will be added to the site's language supply regardless of the size of the country or the language region."; /* yleisiä */ $tx[9001] = "The test has been taken for"; $tx[9002] = "Today the test has been taken for"; $tx[9003] = "times"; $tx[9004] = "Main page"; $tx[9005] = "The operation of the test"; $tx[9006] = "The benefits of the test"; $tx[9007] = "Statistics"; $tx[9008] = "Start the test"; $tx[9009] = "Language versions"; $tx[9010] = "Media information"; $tx[9011] = "Your result"; /* statistics.php */ $tx[3100] = "Statistics"; $tx[3101] = "The results of the test will be fitted to follow the perfect standard deviation according to the definition of the intelligence quotient. Thus the average value of the test is 100 and the portions of different results are precisely correct. In other words, exactly 50 per cent of the test results will be left on both sides of the average value."; $tx[3102] = "The internal intelligence indicator of the test, intelligence class, does not directly follow the standard deviation, although its distribution does resemble the standard deviation very much. Therefore the results of the test are fitted to the standard deviation in a way that any single result will be reached exactly by a correct portion of the people taking the test. Thus exactly 50 per cent of the test results will fall on both sides of the result 100."; $tx[3103] = "The underlying chart demonstrates the shares of different results by both the Cattell distribution, which the test uses, and the Stanford distribution."; $tx[3104] = "Result distribution"; // added 19.04.2005 $tx[3105] = "Mean results by country"; $tx[3106] = "Country"; $tx[3107] = "Tests taken"; $tx[3108] = "Mean result"; $tx[3109] = "The mean results are displayed by the Cattell distribution. Only countries with at least 100 taken tests are displayed. "; ?>