Intelligence and Reaction Time

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After taking what have been proven to be valid IQ tests for the high-range and scoring in the 140s to 150s without much time or effort I came across an article by Arthur Jensen dealing with IQ and reaction time. Because of Jensen's prominence as a scientist I felt inclined to take a RT test. Under the impression that I was going to perform well and parallel with the results of the IQ tests, I found an online test for RT and quickly took it. I was surprised to find that my reaction time is average. How can this be? Could someone pose an explanation that might clear up this discrepancy? Thanks

I don't see the correlation between the two. I do know that autism spectrum disorders have been proposed to have loopy connections, too much white matter, and perhaps too much noise. I would think that would have a negative effect on reaction time.

my reaction time placed me at the bottom. but i think something about my 'puter slowed things down, in the same manner as the hapless "jeopardy" contestant whose signaling device was balky.

I wish I could remember the link, but they did reaction speed tests on monkeys and university students and the monkeys won!

I have a relatively high IQ (145 on the Weschler scale), but have always had average reaction times. When I take a reaction time test, I recognize the change that's meant to trigger my response, but there seems to be some little delay that keeps me from reacting right away. I'm interested to see if any else has come across research on the subject.

william shockley [i believe] had a neat parlor game thingie, where he'd hook up party guests to his IQ tester [which was basically a neural processing speed checker], and the highest scorer was a hair stylist who spoke seven languages.

https://iq-tests-for-the-high-range.com/slobrain/



Nowhere near my best result, but a good late at night result. RTSD has more to do with intelligence level than mean reaction time does. Your reaction times get slower with age. 67 non gamer.

A better attempt. Not far off my best.

That test doesn't seem to like high latency satellite connections.
It won't give me any measurements at all
I know my reaction times are a little slower because I'm tall.

292.2 but I'll try again when I'm sober.

So I tried it on my phone with wifi off.
It still won't give me any numbers...it like the test just keeps going after 20 and never finishes.
Maybe it's Firefox I thought... Same in opera and chrome.

It's just me then...I don't know why that would be surprising.

Works in Firefox for me. Slower but works in chrome. Slower but works in edge.

253 on a PC using Chrome. Early morning when sleep deprived (got to bed late but wasn't able to sleep past my normal time to wake up).

RTSD is more important than mean reaction time. A shorter mean reaction time will tend to result in a lower RTSD. Mean reaction time increases with age thus so does RTSD.