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Title: Mensa Challenge Your IQ (Mensa Word Games for Kids) by Philip Carter, John Bremmer, Ken Russell ISBN: 1-85868-311-4 Publisher: Carlton Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Why Bother?
Comment: First of all, its rather "stupid" to buy a book that appeals by offering the reader that it'll "boost their IQ". Your IQ doesn't simply skyrocket (or go up) by doing a book full of foolish exercises, in fact doing these exercises will do either of the following to you: 1) make you feel rather confident and elite OR 2) make you feel stupid and throw away the book because you feel IQ doesn't prove anything. In either case the reader has a right to feel that way, however, one should be aware that an IQ test simply serve as a rather easy way to determine a person's abilities because there are no better way to do so. If there were better, complex and accurate ways to determine intelligence abilities we wouldn't be wasting time and money and screwy pictures. Nevertheless, buy this book to amuse yourself with screwy pictures and exercises and feel insecure about your abilities OR laugh at others and feel good about yourself. In either case if the book has made you feel superior for the day then it is certainly worth your time and money, else don't buy it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Skewed IQ Scale
Comment: This is a comment on MENSA: CHALLENGE YOUR IQ by Harold Gale and Carolyn Skitt. As a psychologist who has administered thousands of IQ tests, I was intrigued (and disappointed) by the skewed nature of the IQ distribution used in this book. The standard deviation of most commercial IQ tests is 15. Thus, an IQ of 130 is two standard deviations above the mean, which falls at the 98th percentile and qualifies the examinee for membership in Mensa. The IQ scale used in CHALLENGE YOUR IQ is grossly inflated. The standard deviation appears to be 24! Thus, a person who scores 115 on a commerical IQ test would get an equivalent IQ of 124 in this book. This is a whopping difference and is bound to make readers think they are far smarter than is actually the case.
Rating: 4
Summary: worth your while
Comment: as per previous reviews, the only fault I have with the book is that it does tend to get repetitive and, as far as challenging goes - well, some of the problems are a measure of sheer tediousness rather than smarts. But perhaps that's good in developing EQ so a benefit to be gained anyway. If you like 'puzzles' then this is not a book for you. It is a series of IQ tests.
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Title: Mensa How To Excel At Iq Tests by Robert Allen, John Bremner, Philip Carter, Dave Chatten, Ken Russell, Carolyn Skitt ISBN: 1842226851 Publisher: Carlton Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Succeed at I.Q. Tests (Foulsham Know How) by Gilles Azzopardi ISBN: 0572019483 Publisher: Foulsham Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Match Wits With Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book (Mensa Genius Quiz) by Marvin Grosswirth, Mensa, Abbie F. Salny, Alan Stillson, American Mensa Limited ISBN: 0738202509 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book by Abbie F., Dr. Salny, Members of Mensa ISBN: 0201135493 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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