Me Insightful Linguist
Me Think…
I found a link to an IQ test here. Sure, I bet it’s way too short to be a reliable test of anyone’s IQ, but I couldn’t resist, so I filled it in. The results:
See? SEE? I’m not just bright, I’m an insightful linguist! Whatever the heck THAT means!
And for anyone that notices that this IQ test seems to be part of a dating website – no, I didn’t notice that till after I had done the test. Honest honey, I wasn’t looking for a date, I swear! THWACK! Ow! 
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| I made this light-hearted post a while ago, and somehow it became the top-ranked Google result for searches on the term “insightful linguist” (it’s not anymore). Many people posted comments to this article, which is great (it’s calmed down a bit now). I’d just like to point out that I am in no way affiliated with the IQ test, I’m just someone that did the test and wrote a small post about it on my blog. Also, I don’t think “insightful linguist” is a term with any scientific meaning, nor do I believe that online IQ tests are very reliable – so don’t take it very seriously, ok? |
I scored 136, but i think the test is a lot of bullshit. Just somebody tryin to make a quick buck off of anybody gullible enough to pay for that stupis report. Of course they are gonna come up with a broad term like “insightful Linguist” that sounds really good and makes people feel much smarter than they really are, its called marketing. would you pay for the report if the result of the test was that you were a “brain dead jackass”? I think not. They are just using a broad term that is meant to generally apply to apply to a broad range of people. I think that anybody who takes this test and puts any real stock in it is definitely no genius.
Okay, I scored 135 as “insightful Linguist” and my wife scored 135 as “Visionary Philosopher”. We did it together filling out all wrong answers and got a 77 “Inventive Inquisitor”. I would say this is crap w/o a doubt! But still something to take up a bit of time… Congrats on the google rank, btw.
Here’s a copy of one person’s real test…
http://www.mauraandterry.com/moggie/tests/iq/iq.htm
BTW, what’s up with Q. 35?
i scored 131 and I’m a golden retriever. is that good? i’d rather have been eating steak bones and sniffing other dog’s butts, but i heard there was food involved in the test… but apricots? get real..ruff, ruff…
I also must have done The Test. I don’t remember,(so I think I was drunk, then I’m very linguistic), but They send me a mail to ask if I wanted the result (of about a year ago) to be stored. (No, please!)
And the result was, as for all of you : insightful linguist. So I googled the definition (as all of you) because I couldn’t image the meaning of it. It was fun to find these comments!
Well, it’s a neat toy with almost no validity as far as IQ goes. I have taken several (5 or so over the years) professionally administered tests, and even those vary somewhat. I’ve noticed for example my general mood will vary my scores +/- 10 points or so. There also have been reports on some of these online test of simply selecting random answers giving a good result. Here’s a hint, part of the test is timing: Take it once and record your answers and time, take it again and input the exact same answers rapidly. Most of these online tests will go up score wise. I also have a strong belief that IQ and Education have nothing to do with each other, and IQ is merely problem solving ability, or more properly the ability to process information (Highly distilled version of my views, but I believe it suffices here.) For instance, I loathed school with a passion and was a mediocre student, but the IQ scores have averaged 144 or so over the years. I think this is largely because I perfer hands on technical problems. True, education can help you utilize your abilities to a greater extent, but the flipside is it can also dull your ability to think creativly when you are coached to believe there is a right and wrong way to problem solving. At any rate, Insightful Linguist is expounded on here: http://uk.tickle.com/test/iq/result/linguist.html with links to their other goofy assesments.
I got a 165 and was labeled Insightful Genius. Rock on!!
Got a score of 131. Chose Apricot because I have never seen one and don’t even know what it looks like. They never taught me about apricots at law school and I’ve never had to write about them in my work as a Technical Author/Insightful Linguist.
Enjoy & Relax
hello there!
I just scored a 106 I’m “Insightful Linguist” so doesn’t anyone believe this IQ test. I do; I enjoy writting alot and I do have really good language skills speaking three languages english,frensh,spanish I’m working right now on written spanish SO I THINK THE IQ TEST WAS RIGHT but I didn’t buy the report why buy it if I don’t need it
see ya
I took this and purposely missed most of the questions, and here’s what I got:
Congratulations, Pete!
Your IQ score is 82
This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Word Warrior. This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you’re able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas. And that’s just a small part of what we know about you from your test results.
…and then in this one I purposely tried to get every single question wrong — maybe got a couple right by accident, but I doubt it:
Congratulations, Pete!
Your IQ score is 73
This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Inventive Inquisitor. You have the unusual distinction of being equally good at math and verbal skills. This means you are a creative thinker and are uniquely good at teaching others through experiences. You are also a great improviser and very good at handling change.
My score was 133, seems pretty normal, but my intellectual type is “visual mathematician”. This is correct as I am studing a science carreer at university and it is really my strong point. I’m spanish and my english is quite bad. I hope I could find anyone with the same pattern but seems I am the only one. Curious. My opinion is that this test is not very accurate (I was given good overall knowledge of English by the test which is absolutely incorrect) but at least I am not another “insightful Linguist”, the tests was right at it.
good but not accurate, marks are quite high.
I scored a 127. I cant begin to express how good it is after all these years of thinking im not as “capable” as everyone else because im not as pretty although people tell me the opposite everything i have pumped into my head from magazines tells me there has to be something to it if all these people believe it. I guess what it all comes down to is do you want to be safe your whole life and hold yourself back and wake up one day and hate what you missed out on and think back all those years and wonder. I dont know, im too honest sometimes but im glad that your little comment on this website has generated so many responses. Must feel good. Good company. Anyways thanks for just existing here Insightful.
Another 127 Thoughtul Linguist to add to the list.
Hi,
I took this IQ Test and scored a 136. I’m thinking that I might want to change my major now, because I wouldn’t mind working with words as opposed to working with dead people and their DNA. Does anyone have any suggestions?
i find it amazing that this amount of people spanning three years are all this bored that not only have we all participated in these crazy iq tests for our own vanity etc.. but wait… that clearly wasnt enough time wasting.. like the cat curiousity got the better of us and we all ended up googling the box that we were all placed in.. i wreckon our abilities should be put together and turn this result into a book based on how we all ended up on this blog… any publication based on this idea or expression of opinion is mine, mine only and any reproduction of said shall be forever etched as a lyrical fices of my own mind… therefore dont attempt to copy and paste or develope my idea (above) without my consent.. dave – in ireland
Heh! You’re quite the popular linguist indeed! LOL I took the test too, posted it in my blog, and now I’m getting hits from the same google search. I’m #1 so maybe your “forum” will die down?
I’m just amazed how many people have ended here. I did the IQ test and scored 130 which said that I was an Insightful Linguist. I wondered what this was and thinking it was a scientific term, obviously it’s not. Whatever it means it seems to describe us poor souls who landed here.
SCored 133, Left Handed, Tested in Sept, 2003 so I have no recollection of what I answered on the great question of grape vs. apricot
Like Horace, I was just going through some old stuff and came across the results and got to wondering what the heck an Insightful Linguist is. I thought, there must be people out there who can tell me. Instead, I found you people.
This site was just hilarious, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can find myself described in many of the posts here and I am definitely know for constantly joking with semantics. Constantly. Drives people up a wall. Always fixing their sentence construction too.
My best friend described me at my wedding as having the flair and regard of an artist and the pragmatism of a computer analyst.
Needless to say, I was bery much into art during the early years, good in English, poor in Maths, went on to become one of the “brighter” ones during my degree years but never felt it.
Lost most of my artistic talent in the process, worked my way up to IT Manager of a multinational, quit and opened my own business in the computer field…and then…..
Handed that over the my family and opened a sign and graphics shop…back to design and art again….go figure.
Apricots, Peaches, Cherries, Grapes…None of these grow in my country out here in the tropics. I’m sure what the USA calls a plum we call differently too. Still, Sesame Street has been a saviour of sanity from time immemorial.
Always planned to write a book though. Just get bored too easily and have too many ideas flowing to actually write. And then when you sit to type….writer’s block. What the heck.
Been fun linking up with everyone else trying to find out just how special they are.
In the end, us Insightful Linguists are all the same – Either too cheap to buy the results or too smart to be fully taken in by the smell of a scam.
Either way, this site was just too funny.
And too lazy to chekc my spelign too
Congratulations, BARBARA!
Your IQ score is 122
This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that’s just some of what we know about you from your test results.
Find out more in your personalized 15-page IQ Report. It’s ready right now!
dear liz
the gold medalist and lawyer
don’t feel bad about your results- this test seems to be slanted toward visio-spatial skills, which for lawyer types, these skills are often low. you can still be brilliant in other intelligences!
perhaps insightful linguists are more gullible than other types! maybe the test is geared towards this type because you are more likely to buy the complete test.
How’s that for being an insightful linguist!!
If only I had been told this when I was a struggling student in the 60’s. Perhaps I could have changed the world in an insightful and linguistic way!!! Now I just wish I could find out what questions I answered wrong..
Ooops, I just found out how to get the answers. Guess I spoke too soon.
hey ya all… i’m french, and not a native english speaker… found it hard to answer those linguistic questions, although i have a fairly good level of english… shirley, how do you get those answers??
by the way, 127 for me too, and i do love languages… spanish, french, english, and malagasy… and i do read well other people… see ya all
Hey, hey … In the words (linguistically speaking) of Microsoft a few years ago (let’s get insightful here), “Where do you want to go today?” Well, dig it, well, dig it, well, dig it. Dollars dictate direction in marketing. And a dating site that preys on the horney intellect of the skeptical American male (primarily) will use every trick in the book to get his credit card out and onto the desktop. Not to say that good old curious gals can’t be led to the fodder as well. But with more time than money on our hands these days, caveat emptor. Or something like that. I wouldn’t know – I do know that I take myself too seriously and don’t have enough real fun. Seek the ha-ha, my friends.
My 131 score was not as surprising as the term “Insightful Linguist”. That’s how I ended up here in search of what the hell that was supposed to mean. It’s good to know that so many others, like myself, are not gullible enough to pay the fee for the 15 page report. The test appears to go on the theory that flattery pays, and maybe it does. Who knows? The owners of the test might be millionaires by now with all the fee’s sent in to them for a pre-written 15 page report. If so, good for them. I’d rather spend $13 bucks on a nice lunch, it leaves me more satisfied. Good luck to all Insightful Linguist’s.
looks like most people are getting a score of 131, including myself.
I wonder how many people bought the report. If any of you bought it, can you please give me an idea of what is in there.
I retook the IQ test and purposely chose the wrong answers for most of the questions and got an IQ score of 73 and an intellectual type of Inventive Inquisitor.
” Your Intellectual Type is Inventive Inquisitor. You have the unusual distinction of being equally good at math and verbal skills. This means you are a creative thinker and are uniquely good at teaching others through experiences. You are also a great improviser and very good at handling change.”
I wonder what the lowest score that you can get is.
What is this? You have no idea how much im laughing right now…im 22 yo im from Costa Rica so my english is not at all good, but i am trying to leave a message here since im a insighful linguist too… and now i feel like in a community….hehe. Its kind of courious that all of us try to find out more about the IQ type,and of course in a free way…. im really not sure about the test result but now that im found out this web, im wondering about the kind of people we actually are… come on think about this….all of us consider ourselves as a smart people …that is what the test make us think… and most of us take a few minutes more besides those spend completing the test to write a few words here… so i think we may have something in common…. i have friends that 4 any reason in the world will write here not even a word cuz they dont actually care… i think im thinking to much now…. its better to leave this thing here….it is been pleasure to read u people….Have a good life!!! wherever u are!
Hey Skevos, now u have enought people to make a club… think about it !!!
Hey guys! I took the test and scored a 127. I am a left handed 35 year old soldier. I”ve been in the Army for 15 years, serving as mainly a mechanic. Right now I’m using my “linguist” skills as a recruiter. I guess that is the ultimate test for a linguist to be able to get someone to join the Army. Thanks for the forum it was fun.
You guessed it – I scored 131 and am one of you. “Insightful Linguists” rule!
After doing the test for fun and scoring 129, I was somewhat surprised to be described as a “Insigthful Linguist”, but not surprised to be asked to pay for the full report.
As to the assessment, well it seems that us Aussies can turn our hands to just about anything down here in the land of Oz. If the truth be known, there are probably 20,000,000 “Insightful Linguists” in this country alone!
I can’t believe that this site exists and that 2 years on it is still getting posts. Let the ILs of the world unite!
Hmm–??What the ???????????is a Insightful Linguist?? I scored 131, am a nurse educator with obviously too much time on my hands–won’t be taking this further no–too many invitations to spend 12.98 for one more test!
Hey all I.Ls first time 132, second time 127.
So this is our brass ring. Hmm, kinda sad in a way. Well here goes, left home at 15 did lots of belittling jobs to make rent. Dropped out high school at 17. Fell into drywall finishing at 18. Now a machinist apprentice at 32. thirty two years old and Im taking time to do this. Again, kinda sad huh?
Any way, I think (Insightful Linguist) means BULL SHIT ARTIST. Smart enough to look the part, dumb enough to go no further than that. That has always been my mistake in life.
Still I have always felt I’m surounded by idiots. So I’ll go along with this little test. Seems I’m in good company.
P.S. I think we can take the idiots down.
By the it’s a GRAPE!
By the way it’s a GRAPE!
Sorry, I’m done now.
Food 4 thought, look here. http://www.eve-it.com/iq/
done this time for sure, maybe.
& here. http://www.psychologicaltesting.com/iqpct.htm
i did the IQ test to and got 124 and Insightful Linguist and i am 15 so i don’t know if thats good considering my age. Some of you people have really interesting jobs and things to say
well gotta go
meggzy
http://www.iqtestclub.com/
http://www.intelligencetest.com/
http://www.allthetests.com
http://213.131.236.10/iqtestclub/startiqtest.php3?email=
these are also good IQ test the scores only sligtly vary i got 124 in the one u did and 134 in 2 other then another 124
oh an in one of em it dosen’t give you a number but says stuff mine said
“You’re a Genius. You probably do exceedingly well in school (if you’re still
in school). People look up to you and inquire to you regarding matters.:) ”
yeah there fun to do if ur bored and lookin 4 somfin to do
cya
meg
i chose grape because all the other friuts grow on trees where as grapes grow on vines
Hey fellow IL’s. I did the test last year and got 120 and tried it again tonight and got 124. I was told once that I had the gift of “intuitiveness” and yeah I have always been able to read people. See through their BS but dont use the gift in my job. I work in a school as a support worker but have studied phsycology, sociology and criminology. I enjoyed taking the test, mostly because I love doing puzzles. I’m also the greatest procrastonater and not the best speller. I’ve enjoyed reading the postings and kept hoping that I would get the real answer to an Insightful Linguist for free. Good luck to all.
I just scored 147 on the IQ test. However, I strongly question it’s validity.
Seems that everyone else that wound up here left a message so I will to.
Unfortunately, i can not leave a long one. I am to busy trying to conquer the world. My score was 133. Compares with all other tests I have taken in the past . I think ” outside the box ” and have problems with math. If I were better at math I probably would have allready conquered the world.
Hi everyone. I have enjoyed my visit to this…whatever this is! Looks like Skevos has dropped off though, must’ve been fed up with the topic.
After reading way too many of your comments, I think some of you would be interested in finding out your Enneagram number. I found the Enneagram test to be the best personality-type test. I am a #9 –which includes traits such as “procrastination” or maybe “distractibility” -actually the problem of always finding something else to do besides what you SHOULD be doing because everything is important! Nines are also known to be good mediators because they find it hard to choose sides or make decisions. Google the word “Enneagram” and look for a free test.
There is also a link to an Enneagram site on my blog: silentlight.blogspot.com
BTW, some of you sound like fascinating people, too bad we can’t communicate:(
So I drank the IQ test kool-aid just as most of us here. If this is more than a coincidence, I wouldn’t be surprised. Boredom on the net, or something more powerful, led us here so I’ll tell everyone my score was 124. For amusement, I shall add the oldest written joke, by default, cause I feel it bears repeating…INSISGHTFUL LINGUISTS OF THE WORLD, UNTIE!!! There, I said it, now lets go back to living our lives. Many blessings and happiness to all of my insightful linguistic brothers and sisters from all over the world.
133 and single on xmas eve. So I killed some time taking this test. It was fun. Time for some sleep. Night.
Yo! I scored 133 and if your guess is that I was also listed as an insightful linguist, I guess you’re pretty dam insightful. lol Nah, unfortunately I was a sucker and I bought the full-report. It basically said what percentlie I scored in for the popluation..meaning the population of people who’ve taken the test, then gave me some ideas for jobs: translator, teacher, politician, lawyer, and maybe two more but i can’t remember. I’m 22 now but I have to confess that at some point in my life I’ve considered every single job that was listed and am now teaching english in china. when i finish i plan to persue a higher degree in political science..this was all before i took the test. I am a native speaker of english, fluent in spanish, speak french pretty well considering that i’ve only taken one class in college, picked up sign language with very little effort and am now learning mandarin..seem to be impressing the people here, though not myself. Unfortunately, the test said nothing about beign a writer, i was kinda disappointed by that bc through everything i’ve always considered this, i’ve been writing poetry since i was 9 and have received quite a few honors for my writing but i guess i can only do it part-time now cuz of this test. j/k who know’s what i’ll do next.