Welcome to notnotawebsite!
I began this website as a place to put information about my academic research when I was still completing my PhD in philosophy. I also added some "fun" pages, which included material related to logic, philosophy, cinema, sports, and general weirdness.
These original pages still exist, but my main purpose with this website now is to host "IQ tests" of my own design.
I have long had interests in psychometrics, intelligence testing, and standardized testing in general. In particular, I am interested in the actual design of items for psychometric tests, particularly those that aim to measure intelligence.
In researching these interests, I would often come across papers about experiments conducted in intelligence testing that mentioned the tests they used or devised for experiments, but included almost no specific information about the items on these tests themselves. Certainly, it is exceedingly rare to find such a paper that includes the entire test itself.
This disappointed me, because I wanted, first, to try the questions myself, and, second, learn principles of item design (or criticized the items designed) by studying the items that researchers were using.
So, I decided to construct and maintain my own completely free, completely open, and interactive library of realistic IQ tests, that is, tests that I design based on the descriptions of actual IQ tests and whatever actual test items I can find.
In this context, "completely free" means visitors will never have to pay to access any of the material on this website. Furthermore, while I hope to have ads eventually, visitors will never be required to allow ads in order to access any content.
"Completely open" means that the answers and explanations of the answers are available for all items (where answer explanations make sense) and information is provided to prospective test-takers about the format of the tests and how these tests relate to actual intelligence tests.
The name of the website is supposed to intrigue or amuse and be fairly easy to remember.
It's also a reference to the law of double negation in logic.