Statistics of Isis Test

© October 2008 Paul Cooijmans

Norms

Scores

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Correlation with other tests

Test#cor
Numbers80.65
Titan Test30.61
The Nemesis Test70.55
Cartoons of Shock60.37
The Test To End All Tests70.34
The Final Test80.32
Scholastic Aptitude Test (old)30.03
Strict Logic Sequences Exam I40.00
The Sargasso Test5-0.01

Weighted average of correlations: 0.354

Conservatively estimated minimum g loading: 0.60

Ranking in above table is based on the unrounded correlations. All available data is present in this table, no tests are left out except for those with less than 3 score pairs. All known pairs are used to obtain the true, honest statistics; Correlations are not artificially inflated by leaving out ceiling scores, outliers or other anomalies.

National medians

Country# ScoresMedian score
Finland20.0
Greece20.0
United_Kingdom30.0
United_States80.0

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
Observed behaviour is good60.63
PSIA Cold120.45
PSIA Rational120.28
PSIA True120.26
PSIA Cruel120.22
PSIA Aspergoid120.19
Mother's educational level220.18
PSIA Just120.18
PSIA Ethics factor150.13
Father's educational level220.12
PSIA Introverted120.11
PSIA Neurotic120.10
Year of birth290.08
Is male300.07
PSIA Deviance factor150.06
Disorders (parents and siblings)220.06
PSIA Rare120.03
Educational level230.02
Number of characters in candidate's name as registered30-0.06
PSIA Orderly12-0.17
PSIA Antisocial12-0.18
Disorders (own)22-0.19
Is resident of the European Union9-0.32
PSIA Extreme12-0.45

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
70 to 7410.0
55 to 5920.0
50 to 5420.0
45 to 4930.0
40 to 4410.0
35 to 3930.0
30 to 3420.0
25 to 2980.0
22 to 2420.0
18 or 1930.0
1720.5

Scores by year taken

Year taken# CandidatesMedian score
200120.0
200250.0
200470.0
200540.0
200650.0
200720.0
200850.0

Robustness and overall test quality

Item analysis

Item statistics are not published as that would help future candidates. To detect bad items, answers and comments from candidates are studied, as well as, for each problem, the correlation with total score (validity of the item in this test) and the proportion of candidates getting it wrong (hardness of the item). Possible bad items are removed or revised, resulting in a revised version of the test.