Statistics of Daedalus Test

© November 2008 Paul Cooijmans

Preliminary norms

Raw Protonorm
222 609 or higher
221 567
220 540
219 520
218 507
217 500
216 493
215 487
214 480
213 473
212 467
211 460
210 453
209 447
208 440
207 433
206 427
205 420
204-184 419
183-162 418
161-141 417
140-119 416
118-98 415
97-76 414
75-55 413
54-33 412
32-12 411
11-0 410 or lower

Scores

0 ********
206 **
211 *
221 *
222 **

Correlation with other tests

No significant correlation can be computed yet in the regular, objective way (per test). If each candidate with known other scores is assigned an aggregate "I.Q." based on one's scores on other tests (which is an unsatisfactory procedure as it requires interpretation and can not be done objectively and deterministically), the correlation with Daedalus scores is 0.22 over 10 pairs. The fact that most scores are 0 depresses the correlation.

National medians

Country# ScoresMedian score
Sweden2111.0
United_States30.0

For reasons of privacy, only countries with 2 or more candidates are included in this table. Ranking is based on the medians, and then alphabetic.

Correlation with personal details

Personalia#cor
Year of birth11-0.07
Number of characters in candidate's name as registered14-0.23

Correlation with national I.Q.s

Correlation of this test with national average I.Q.s published by Lynn and Vanhanen:

Scores by age

Age group# ScoresMedian score
40 to 4410.0
30 to 341222.0
25 to 292111.0
22 to 2410.0
18 or 192103.0
172105.5

Scores by year taken

Year taken# CandidatesMedian score
20015206.0
20025206.0
200430.0
200810.0

Correlation year taken versus median score = -0.84
n = 14

Robustness