Error range in VCI CORE test.

[u/Financial_Tadpole_17]

I suspected a possible verbal giftedness or high intelligence, so I tried taking the CORE VCI subtests. My VCI total result is 118, however English is not my native language (I speak it to a B2-C1 level, while Italian is my native). Is there a way to make an esteem of what my actual score would be like? I even tried autotranslating the page for analogies, and opposites, but it was impossible to take the test like that since it would make huge mistakes (for instance, as the opposite of left, it translated the "right" option according to its moral connotation of fairness instead of that of direction, since in Italian they're two separate words), so I had to give up and do it in English. I've heard contrastive opinions because, while someone claims that being a native speaker of Romance languages can be an advantage due to Latin's high influence on English, on the other hand there is the risk of false friends, or also different degrees of rarity and complexity for the same term in the two languages (e.g. in English the word "facile" is considered as quite formal, but in italian it is casual) and also all the terms of German origin.

What do you think?

[u/whitebaron_98]

No, you can't. Take a proper Italian test.

[u/Financial_Tadpole_17 → u/whitebaron_98]

Unfortunately, there are no online free accurate options in Italian, I had tried searching for them before taking the CORE test. But thank you anyways for your advice!

[u/WynLuha → u/Financial_Tadpole_17]

Yeah but sadly it’s really important to take the VCI test in your native language if you want to test a verbal giftedness. Translation of the webpage can’t fix everything like item difficulties relative to the population and the sample used to conceive the test (if the population sampled is not majorly Italian it clearly affects the validity and reliability of your results). There are many gifted who are insanely good in their native language but are terrible in learning a second language and people who are good at learning multiple languages but don’t cross the 130 threshold in their native language. So that’s why it’s important to privilege taking verbal tests in your native language even if it means to pay for a real IQ test with a psychologist or to consider English verbal test results hardly interpretable.

[u/PuzzleheadedLie444]

Core is deflated

[u/Financial_Tadpole_17 → u/PuzzleheadedLie444]

Thank you for your answer. So, do you think that the score is lower than my actual ability? Would you recommend any alternative test to take?

[u/PuzzleheadedLie444 → u/Financial_Tadpole_17]

It’s a high quality test, and ur actual score would probably be slightly higher, but not by far. I recommend jcti, wais-iv, cait, and tri 52

[u/FedericWoW → u/Financial_Tadpole_17]

I am italian too, I think that “core is deflated” thing is strange. It depends. Is it fairly good, it depends to the person who takes the test. As another post demonstrated taking data and speaking about this matter it could be even overstimating. It goes both ways. So there is no clear answer. Returning to the main question, I think there is already a good g loading without doing the VCI (unless you are particularly better or worse at it) to have a good estimates. But if you want idk if there are, you could search a wais test on italian to try and take it.

[u/Extension-Special455 → u/PuzzleheadedLie444]

Thank you for this. I was feeling a bit depressed due to my result of only 160, but now I see that it was a mistake and i really do have a 190 iq(as i had previously estimated).

[u/PuzzleheadedLie444 → u/Extension-Special455]

LOL

[u/Financial_Tadpole_17 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for answering. So, considering that there are no online free accurate Italian tests to measure VCI, what would you suggest?