Mensa Challenge Your Intelligence [Paperback]

Ken Russell (Author), John Bremmer (Author), Philip Carter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 2005

You use a fraction of your brain's potential - do you want to use more? Challenge Your IQ offers you the chance to find out what you're really like, and to fully realise your mental potential. Test yourself and discover what your mental strengths are: maybe you prefer numbers to words or can visualise shapes better than you can spell. The tests will help you discover what type of thinker you are, and encourage you to learn new cognitive skills.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

John Bremner, Ken Russell and Philip Carter are all Mensa members and highly experienced creators of puzzles and word games for dozens of books that have been published around the world. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Gramercy; First Printing edition (October 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517226677
• ISBN-13: 978-0517226674
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,238,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Skewed IQ Scale, June 7, 2002

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Kenneth D Huff (Beaumont, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mensa Challenge Your IQ (Mensa Word Games for Kids) (Paperback)

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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars two words-Buy it, August 18, 2000

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Chou Yu Hsing - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mensa Challenge Your IQ (Mensa Word Games for Kids) (Paperback)

The problem with most IQ like books is that they either are too easy{to sort of boost your ego] or teach irrelevent suff.This book is one of the best of these kinds of books.made by Mensa, and is keeping to every thing you need to boost your IQ

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worth your while, January 2, 2002

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Mike Bowman (Sydney) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mensa Challenge Your IQ (Mensa Word Games for Kids) (Paperback)

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.