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by David Haskins While we've all known about the IQ test for a long time, they haven't really gone crazy with popularity like in the last several years. But -- how important is that famous test? Are its results reliable? We searched high and low, comparing results from all the internet's biggest sites, to come up with this list of 5 great things you can learn from taking a test. #5: Thanks to the internet, the te [...] While we've all known about the IQ test for a long time, they haven't really gone crazy with popularity like in the last several years. But -- how important is that famous test? Are its results reliable? We searched high and low, comparing results from all the internet's biggest sites, to come up with this list of 5 great things you can learn from taking a test. #5: Thanks to the internet, the tests are way better. The number of actual persons going online to take the test is quite high, and so the standards being used to measure the tests have also been risen. Instead of pumping out tests from the academy, suitable only for a very small amount of people, the test-creators are now using the entire world (thanks to the internet) for their subjects. Because of this, the tests have really become great. Now there are contemporary tests that actually hold your interest -- they'll give you a true sense of how you did on the test, something that just didn't happen in the pre-internet era. #4: You can get a ton of comparative feedback. The internet has really improved this part too: just like all those test-makers who have fixed up their tests, the results generated are no longer old-fashioned either. The results you can get online today are truly phenomenal -- we can compare ourselves with our friends like we never could before. Check what your results are like when it comes to your age group, or maybe by where you live, and see a great amount of other cool detail, too. #3: It's cheaper and more scientific than those brain-training games. Don't be fooled by those brain-trainers all over the place -- they only track a tiny part of your actual brain and don't give you any results that you can truly compare. An IQ test is an actual test, designed to measure the exertion of your intelligence on a series of interesting, challenging questions. It then harnesses the power of the internet to give you results in real-time, against thousands of others who have come before you. Brain-training for kids, this is not. #2: The results make your brain work even better. One of the most enjoyable things about actually taking an intelligence test is that you can see how well you did on a proper graph afterwards. Strangely enough, seeing these results actually lets our brains do even better -- it's what scientists call the power of positive self-reinforcement, and it happens when you do well on an IQ test, that's for sure. #1: Nationalism can be fun again when it's just a harmless IQ test. This is the most fun part of doing your IQ test you can compare results by country! Get an actual sense of how people from your own nation are scoring, and then compare your results against theirs. Sure, bragging about the grandiose, amazing results of your own nation against others is fun (much easier and less bloody than going to war, say), but also, next time you're at the pub, you can boast about how high your results are compared to your fellow country-men (or country-suckers, depending on how much you've crushed them). Use statistics to win your next argument, without boring anybody!