That's All I Have To Say About That

A while back I posted about an online IQ test that a lot of people were taking and that after it gives you your score, it encourages you to spend $20 to get a more detailed report of your intelligence. I wondered at the time if it actually gave a score or if everyone received the same IQ score unless they forked over the twenty bucks.

I finally decided that maybe I should go back and take the test again, intentionally answering questions wrong to see if I could get a different score. I went through all 40 questions doing my best to get them wrong and found out that it does change my score. It told me that I had a very different IQ this time. According to these results, I should be playing a lot of ping pong and have a friend named Bubba. So, it is good to know that it doesn't automatically assign the same score to everyone. It made me feel a little better about the company running the site. Until this week, that is.

After my gumpesque score, I got an email that read: CK, As a top-scorer on our IQ test, the in-depth analysis of your IQ score is FREE. Click for your FREE IQ report.

Naturally, I did click to see just what I would need to do to obtain this report. I had to click through 4 pages of "special offers" that I could accept as part of the package before I could reach the page that had the actual report. If you incorrectly click the wrong box, you could be signing up for a Columbia House membership, a credit card, loan consolidation, the fruit of the month club and the communist party all at once. Maybe I'm just being a cynic (again), but it seems strange that when I get a score lower than the one that was supposed to keep little Forrest out of public school, I suddenly get a free report that also gives me a chance to sign up for a million other offers. I never saw anything like that when I got a normal score. It just makes me wonder.

Until later...