An uncommonly difficult iq test
This uncommonly difficult iq puzzle was originally published in Omni magazine, April 1990. It is so difficult that it goes way over my head. Truly, only a superior intellect can figure this one out. Lets say, someone like this guy:
In 1990, Ronald K. Hoeflin created the Titan Test. Believing that people at the highest IQ levels would be able easily to communicate with each other and have much in common, Hoeflin founded several societies for those with the highest scores.
For over sixty years psychologists such as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, author of the book Children Above 180 IQ, have suggested that people with extremely high IQs are radically different from the general population. Identifying such people would require IQ tests with reliability not currently available for extreme ranges of IQ.
Hoeflin attempted, along with Kevin Langdon, to develop an IQ test that could measure adult IQs greater than three standard deviations from the norm, or IQ 145 (sd 15). Hoeflin’s Mega Test was an untimed and unsupervised IQ test consisting of 48 questions, half verbal and half mathematical. It was published in Omni magazine in April 1985 and the results were used to norm the test. Hoeflin renormed the test six times, using equipercentile equating with SAT and other scores, and some extrapolation at the highest level. The highest scorers on the Mega Test had their names printed in the Guinness Book of World Records and were also profiled (along with Hoeflin) by Esquire under the title The Smartest Man in America.
Sincerely,
Juggenheimer
