Gaming News According to this “study,” FIFA/EA Sports FC players have below-average IQs
League of Legends players can be proud to be part of their community; they have, on average, a higher IQ than many other players!
Tell me what you play, I’ll tell you what your IQ is
A study compared the intelligence quotients of 1,002 gamers to find out which game had the highest IQ in the community. The affected titles are software such as League of Legends, GTA 5, Black Myth: Wukong, Baldur’s Gate 3, FC24, Rocket League and many others (20 in total). The IQ tests were conducted online by psychologists. Four cognitive skills were tested: “verbal expression, mathematics, logic and visual reasoning” (source: WhichBingothe company that initiated the investigation).
Games “focused on strategy and Role play » Have “higher IQ values”. We find the players from League of Legends in the top 1 (120.4 IQ points), followed by those from Black Myth: Wukong (119.8 IQ points) and then the players from Baldur’s Gate 3 in the top 3 with an average IQ of 117.9 points. At the other end of this ranking is the FIFA 23 and FC24 community, the latter with an average of 89.8 IQ points. As a guide: the average IQ score in France is 100 points, 50% of the population would have an IQ score between 90 and 100 points. The survey goes further than that as it also focuses on the intersection between gaming support and IQ, and between women and men. Here are the results below!
The results are to be taken lightly
Be careful not to be too proud of being in the top 3 smartest players because This “study” should be viewed with caution. If only because the company that originated has nothing to do with the world of scientific research, although psychologists intervened to carry out the tests for the participants. WhichBingo is a website that lists casinos and other online gambling games. Also because we don’t know more than the participants’ profiles: their age, their geographical area, their playing frequency are all unknown data. Finally, Measuring intelligence using IQ tests is quite controversial today as they are unable to measure all forms of intelligence, such as creativity.
