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A separate study instead used reaction time as a proxy for intelligence, and iirc showed that well-off Victorian English were more intelligent than what we have today. I'd have to hunt down the video I watched or article I read, or better yet find the sourced paper again.
I don't know if I agree that reaction time is a proxy for intelligence. One kind, yes, but not the whole picture.
Sports players have incredibly high reaction times, much higher than most of us. But nobody should be saying Kobe is a highly intelligent man.
You're thinking physical reaction times, not mental.
If I asked you and Kobe to solve 87 * 22 / 2, odds are pretty high you will trounce him in reaction time. And if not, well you might have to reevaluate how intelligent Kobe is.
This is normally taken into account in clinical IQ tests, as those who answer the questions quickly will score higher. It doesn't play a roll in standardised online tests.
The difference between an IQ of 160 and 190 is usually going to come down to reaction time, not individual levels of subject knowledge. It's reasonable to think it is a likely sole indicator, but it's pretty hard to measure accurately without the rest of the test.
I wouldn't even consider online tests worth the space to do them, so I didn't even consider it.
That's a fair perspective though I hadn't thought through when I responded.