premise: You cannot be very intelligent if you do not know how smart you are until you have been told your IQ rate. It is probably unwise to take an IQ test because if you do then you risk feeling either superior or disappointed when you get the result, and neither of these sentiments is beneficial. What difference would it make to your life anyway, if you were to find out that you have the IQ of a genius or well below average? These considerations did not stop almost half a million Europeans from taking part in an internet IQ test. In the test, men scored 110 while women scored 105; left- handed people scored much higher than right-handed people; and people with brown eyes scored best while people with red hair scored the least.
hypothesis: The passage is written in a satirical style.