How to scam a retard: Joe's IQ test.

169  2019-08-12 by StentFeznor

Joe announced he has an IQ of 122 and this puts him, and I quote, "in the top 5 percentile". He prefaced this in his usual manner, boasting while trying to convince others he's actually humble, by saying it was "almost embarrassing". What he didn't say, despite it already being obvious, is that he is a moron.

https://i.imgur.com/zOv9qIo.jpg

Please note that he posted this at 11:49pm on a Thursday. It was a late evening and he needed his ego padded.

Right off the bat, this online certificate is poorly kerned and aligned.

https://i.imgur.com/fxZgCmQ.jpg

Perhaps I'm being picky but they just didn't give a fuck and Joe didn't notice. I enjoy how this is clearly designed to impress gullible people, because decorative calligraphy makes things official looking to high school dropouts.

 

Next up, let's look at the company. It is called IQTest and you can see their logo on the bottom left of the certificate. Keep in mind that Joe didn't even think to go this far before paying. He just handed over his credit card information like it was a knock-off Chinese guitar dealer.

Here's their webpage:

https://i.imgur.com/XLIbSKA.jpg

Look at the numbers down the bottom.

Almost 9 million tests taken. Impressive numbers. I'm sure they're real.

Tests taken today is zero. Must be a really slow day I guess. One of those days where you don't have one of your millions of customers turn up.

Average score of 115. It also states under their heading that average people score 120. Make of these numbers what you will but an average IQ score is actually supposed to be 100 and they have a sample size of 9 million. Maybe only above average people use this site, or, maybe they make dumb people feel smarter through inflated scores so they're likely to encourage their dumb friends to spend money too.

Today's high score is 118. Although nobody has taken a test today there is a high score. You know what, I bet when people get their official test result higher than the high score they feel smug enough to share it with everyone. And I bet no matter what everyone gets a result better than the daily high.

Under the button to start the test is the cost of only $1.95. It's so low you might as well, right?

 

Now here's their Facebook page:

https://i.imgur.com/qdJD4vy.jpg

It's all very simple and quite devoid of anything that suggests the business is making money or even trying to interact with people.

Founded in January 2018. Now think about how they've had 9 million people take tests since then. That means they have revenue of $17,550,000 over about 18 months. Righteous bucks.

 

Trustpilot isn't exactly a beacon of honesty but they do have reviews for IQTestnow.org. We can see here there are only 13:

https://i.imgur.com/Oc2hfry.jpg

Surprise! They're all bad.

In fact they are from people who claim to have been ripped off:

https://i.imgur.com/eYUyHV5.jpg

Multiple reviews detail how they were expecting a charge of $1.95 but ended up paying about twenty times that amount.

This scam works on the premise that some people will not notice a higher charge on their credit card. Keep the charge low enough to look like just another purchase and customers won't find out. They would probably obscure the charge description on a victim's bill as well so it won't say IQTest. This kind of reminds me of how Compound Media operates.

 

You know what I'd do if I got scammed? I'd get their certification revoked! Except of course that's fake too:

https://i.imgur.com/hq1p4BM.jpg

The laurel wreath makes it so damn official.

Scammers aren't super-geniuses. They find and manipulate stupid people.

 

All this took a few minutes to find out. The average person wouldn't even need to do that because the average person knows it is a scam from the outset. Looking plausible to someone below-average wasn't even necessary to hook Joe.

It is an internet cliche, but entirely accurate, to say that Joe is an example of the Dunning–Kruger effect on people of low intelligence.

https://i.imgur.com/WYkY3Mz.jpg

Not only did Joe fall for a very obvious scam, he boasted about it, and then he recommended the scam to his followers. He actively told people to fall for a blatant scam that he thinks proves how he is above average intelligence.

 

Hope you enjoyed reading this, Joe. This kind of thing is why people call you stupid. Not in a friendly folksy way either. I know you think your buffoonish antics are charming to others. They're laughing at you, not with you.

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TL;DR: Joe thinks he's smart but he's actually very stupid.

Joe needs the reading practice.

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"I've become no smarter or more ignorant than I've been."

Can't become more ignorant when you're already at the bottom.

Most People only write a review when they have something negative to say. And this is only 13 Reviews of all the People who did the test. They are probably just unhappy with their result. Hard science.

Imagine being so stupid that you think you're smart.

The Dunning–Kruger effect

I really enjoy how much this comes up now. He really is leaving embodiment of this phenomenon

Please don't plagiarize Beige.

The Dunning-Kumia effect

Imagine being so stupid you can't beat the fake average a website made up.

vurrry good

Not only did Joe fall for a very obvious scam, he boasted about it, and then he recommended the scam to his followers. He actively told people to fall for a blatant scam that he thinks proves how he is above average intelligence.

This made me fawkin howl brothaman, I'd never thought about this particular Joe event with such intense Autism, but that is such a spot-on analysis.

iirc Joe also once try to give his followers investment advice by telling them to buy shares in one of Nike's rivals because he personally had decided to stop buying them. According to Joe and his titan intellect, millions of people would feel the same way as him so now was the right time to invest and make easy $$$.

It was when they did some Colin Kaepernick commercial and Joe guaranteed their stock would take a shit after that because he and all the MAGA TRUMP 2020 faggots weren't gonna stand for it. Of course the exact opposite happened and their stock rose right after.

He also couldn’t even express his thesis correctly. He exposed lack of knowledge in the market and conflated several different trading strategies and products that as usual it came out in a jumbled word salad of nothingness.

You don't take all your investment and technical trading advice from Joe "Ben Affleck is the millennial scumbag Boiler Room" Cumia? When all his investments are held in Chibsons, 50 Cal rifles he holds like a homosex, merch from a fake motorcycle gang run by a LIBRTARD, etc.

Re-reading that comment, it really tickles me that he absolutely thinks we're all wannabe failed entertainers/musican/YT stars. Dude, I played in a band for fun and did some improv and standup for fun..as a kid. I've paid ZERO mind to a 'career' in entertainment because I'm a grownup who refused family subsidies to produce below-market goods and services, enable my obsessions with playing pretend and dress up, and prop up my only "skill" in a dying industry.

Joe is anti-capitalism: why adapt, react, or learn new skills to compete and succeed in a dog-eat-dog society? A true patriot, my fucking flank steak.

Joe's mantra:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I embraced my childish ways you wannabe neverwere libtard mainstream media soy cuck snowflake 9/11 LHC CalTech JPL mind control serum Trump 2022

Clearly because MAGA boomers are the biggest consumers of Nike products far ahead of basketball-americans

Or when he made that helpful post on FB about bravely thwarting an online scam by some scum Arabs by actually calling the fucking 1-800 number. Or when he showed off his Trump holographic playing cards collection that would make him millions in the upcoming years. He is such a fucking shithead.

u/DOXXER100, comment?

Haha

I ❤ pirate joe

You could have just said what anyone who's ever taken an IQ test knows. If it's not administered and marked by a qualified psychologist, it's not an IQ test.

Joe is a fucking cretin.

It's like that King of the Hill episode, where Peggy gets scammed into buying a Master's Degree.

There was one thing you didn’t count on, Tarzan Boy. Doctor Joesph Cumia.

Exactly, and the way she learns it’s a scam is they have LuAnne take the same online test and she does just as well.

Maybe if Bobo took the test he’d realize the same, but probably not.

Picking on Joe is like picking on Bobo at this point. He's walking around with half a brain.

So, worse. As we all know, Bobo is only a quarter retard.

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the pirate shit is gay af but nice job otherwise

Well Joe is a faggot so it’s fitting

It was funnier than anything Ant has done in 5 years.

So is an anal fissure

I'd bet his actual IQ is in the 85-90 range.

The average African IQ is 60

Even if the score is real (and it isn’t) IQ is only one component of what makes up personality. It's an assessment of your ability to solve sets of random problems and then adjusts for age. It has nothing to do with wisdom or education. You can have a high IQ and still be profoundly ignorant and backward. Moo.

I guarantee you could guess all the answers on that test or actually try and get them wrong and your score would still be 120 IQ.

He also pronounces his last name wrong too. Fucking schmuck

Uh, isn't the official IQ test on the Mensa website?

He's almost as pathetic as Owen Benjamin.

It's okay. They've got a money back guarantee

My god what a fucking retard

That website is an intelligence test of sorts. If you fall for their transparent scam you fail.

Didn't he fall for the Chinese guitar scam multiple times?

They advertised on Facebook they had to be legit. He then complained to Facebook about being scammed.

Joe thinks that deals that are too good to be true is actually the result of him being smart enough to find the deal.

"You IDIOTS wish you were smart enough to buy a 1972 Gibson Les Paul for $200!"

Warning: my trademark lies ahead. TL;DR gg /u/stentfeznor doing the back-end. My front-end anal lysis has determined Joe has no fewer than seven errors in his two sentences talking about how smart he is.


I appreciate the extra legwork to demonstrate the unending depths of Joe's pseudo-intelligence. You didn't have to get into how obviously fake these IQ sites are to any supra-100 normie but for us, you were there.

I would also like to add to your compelling compendium:

I've become no smarter or more ignorant than I've ever been.

  • Ignorant means "unknowledgeable" or "unlearned" while smart means "intelligent" or "showing mental capability". To conflate the two makes you look "mentally incapable of knowing stuff" while also "not knowing basic stuff like middle school words".

  • While one would expect your innate intelligence - measured mathematically, say, as an Intelligence Quotient - would remain the same, your knowledge base would continually expand. However, if you end your formal education at age 16, work 4 decades of manual labor, and resort to talk radio, social media, and television for your obvious fake news partisan propaganda, your ignorance will increase as you spend less time around informed, intelligent individuals & thoughts/opinions.

  • Correlative conjunctions are always paired with their same-case counterpart. So when asked, "Joe, who would you rather pretend to be for a living: Journey or U2," the reply is, "either/or". Similarly, "Nana is sexually attracted to neither age-appropriate nor cis women". To say "no smarter or" makes you look even more retarded.

I was born and I'll die in the top 5 percentile.

  • Whew boy. First, percentiles are reported by the percent of the population your aptitude are above. So while you attempt to purport /r/youareverysmart I would agree that an IQ in the 5th percentile actually does sound about right for you.

  • Because percentiles are based on numbers, you use the enumerative forms of "first, second, fifth".

  • Technically, the enumeratives should be spelled out instead of using the numerical form.

  • An IQ of 122 is, unsurprisingly, NOT in the 95th percentile.. 122 IQ It's the 92.9th percentile, which occurs in 1 of 14 people.

Why does he feel the need to be smart?

You got everything COMPED! just embrace your stupidity and live your degenerate life.

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For someone who's been online for as long as he has he's still unbelievably gullible. Like with the fake "virus" warning he fell for, that sort of thing is a very minor petty annoyance for anyone with a clue but it ate up Joe's whole day.

Well done. The average IQ from people on this sub is higher than any Cumia, ever.

This is the most brutal takedown of Joe yet. It's a full-blown attack on Joe's low-functioning Mad Cow brain.

Imagine declaring yourself a genius and then writing this:

I've become no smarter or more ignorant than I've been.

Only mouth breathing retards think IQ tests represent some sort of measurable intelligence factor.

A guitar playing cos-playing coverband faggot with a 122 IQ score is still just a cosplaying coverband faggot.

i think the company became corrupt only AFTER a surge of new IQ tests taken once Brother Joe posted about it.

They probably saw a huge payday with tens of thousands of people now taking the test thanks to Joe Cumia, think about it.

What a stupid nigger.

Watching joe argue the validity of this test was hilarious.

Could we have a copy of the Pirate Joe template?

This is pretty hilarious. The scam actually seems to be a legit IQ test of sorts. It's designed specifically for ensnaring very low IQ morons. Anyone who doesn't immediately exit out of that site after a single glance, certainly must have a below average IQ. The people who actually enter in their credit card info for the purpose of paying money to take this "test", have to legitimately be close to retarded.

These types of bullshit IQ tests are designed to flatter retards, so they hand out 140 and above scores to almost everyone. The fact that Old Joey only managed to score 122 is pretty hilarious. He might genuinely be retarded. A legitimate IQ of 122 is not really worth bragging about either.

The average IQ is not actually 100 anymore. The average IQ is 110. IQ scores have been steadily rising for a while now. For a time they just kept altering the scale to adjust to the increasing average so that "100" would always be the average. Eventually they realized that this was dumb and stopped doing this. What I'm trying to say is Joe is super dumb.

That certificate is terrible all over. Can someone be that stupid to post it, just to impress?

I dont think 122 is top 5. 120 is top 10

Ummm so i didn't know that 122 was that big of a deal.... Wich means i got scammed XD I passed an IQ test and got 127....it's either I have BIG BRAIN or SMALL BRAIN

Why is this on this subreddit?