IQ

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The correct answer is good won because evil never wins, it's all too metaphysical...and I just hate those all frigs are frogs, and all frogs are dunces, then it must stand that all frigs are cowpats...they just make no sense to me...who cares should be the correct answer...

You can probably tell, I'm not happy with my score! :(

No wonder you've got a low IQ.

I got 171.

It's all a waste of time. It's like MENSA, the most pathetic, needy 'I'm better than you because I can solve pointless wordgames quite quickly' bunch of losers ever. Wasn't MENSA set up with the half-arsed (yet admittedly quite noble) aim of getting the best minds in the land together to solve the problems facing society, only it took them years to come up with the name and then it went through a sinister eugenics phase where dodgy old men tried to cop off with young women to create some super race.

Oh my god. You've just reminded of possibly the most terrifying thing I've ever seen on TV. It was about the people obsessed with trying to get their children to be the youngest member of MENSA ever. Like two year olds. Being forced by their physics professor parents to complete smug logic puzzles at high speed. Do Social Services know about this?

(Actually that's not the scariest thing. Time for a new thread)

A great bit of dialogue from The Weakest Link: Host: "Do you belong to any organizations?" Contestant: "I belong to MENSA". Host: "Are there any dues involved?" Contestant: "I think it's 400 dollars a year..." Host: "So you pay 400 dollars a year to show how smart you are..."

I like the way Spinal Tap methods have clearly crept into IQ testing - "This test goes all the way up to 180" etc.

The one and only time I took a 'legitimate' IQ test i.e. administered by some behavioural specialist or other was a moment of unbelievable childhood ego boosting. Went in, did test, came back out for results. I was 6 I think. The kind lady told me and my horrified parents that I had a reading age of 21 and that she couldn't tell them what my IQ was because her scales didn't go that high. I quickly became totally insufferable and have remained so ever since.

I did an IQ test for a secretarial job once (why? why?) and it came back genius level or some such nonsense. I thought the bloke interviewing me was going to offer me the job of CEO instead but it was not to be.

Anyway, best thing ever said to me about Mensa: "Hey, isn't that like, Latin for 'table'?"

I wish more people on buses were like Steve's friend Elena. It would make the world a better place.

Only joking, Stevie.

Maybe a story about her plastic frog would show her in a better light?

I disagree. I think it makes her sound hilariously uninhibited and tons of fun to hang around.

Maybe a story about her plastic frog would show her in a better light?

Plastic frogs only make it better!

I don't advise Paul to take this test, as he'll probably jump out of the window.

Like I said... don't believe in IQ or IQ tests.

18 correct out of 25

IQ band 120+

IE I'm a smarta$$

However, my cash/cleverness coefficient is 17.292546513

Whis=ch is crap, sez the guardian. The moral = don't repair bicycles for a living, unless U want to live on dogfood :)

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I got 21 out of 25 questions right, which gives me an IQ of 120+, and means that with a cleverness quotient of 11.0400200728, I was hideously underpaid, and I was RITE to leave that job. Hooray.

(All silliness aside - is there a UK equivalent to the SATs? Not so much in the testing & the results, but in the unending hype & stress that surrounds such a goddamn stupid thing. Yeah, pay $300 to learn how to study for the SATs, you stupid $300-dropping idiots.)

SAT's are nonsense, I never took mine, cause I dropped out too early. I got something ridiculous like 1500 on the PSAT, tho. It was the highest score my high school had ever had. Every fucking college in the WORLD started sending me crap about how much they wanted me at their schools. In my mohawk and anarchy t-shirt, with a GPA of 1.3 or something, they wouldn't have let me in the door. Hysterical.

This test made me SWEAT. I only got 19 right, which seems totally wrong to me. (My quotient was something like 8.xxxxxxx, which is silly because I'm ridiculously overpaid as it is.)

I don't trust any Internet IQ test, especially when they're trying to sell you an analysis or something. "Everyone's gifted, please give us $15 now!"

"Congratulations!
Your general IQ score is 118.
A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 111-128 is considered to be "above average intelligence"."

I like the episode when Hank goes fishing with drugs a lot more than that one though. Funny. Hank's stupid too at times.

the person who suggested we should spend saturday night watching tv and answering logic questions got 85...

but, yeah, i'm with martin - a good iq score only means you're good at iq tests.

andy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Da6C7OLVMAAAKIZ.jpg:large
more like Speer's big armament fluke, it was a miracle the fucker could tie his shoelaces, amirite? Nazi IQs at the Nuremberg trials show they were clearly sub ILX. I'm probably just as thick as Hans Frank fwiw.

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the esteemed academic who posted this was very surprised that the oafish buffoon Ribbentrop scored higher than Speer.

it's almost like iq is a totally useless measure of 'intelligence'

He's previously wrote in great detail about Speer's Production Miracle in one of his books, so being a professor type, he's probably thinking they deliberately fudged the test or something.

with the caveat that iq is indeed a useless measure of anything other than the ability to do well in iq tests, aren't those mostly quite high? google is telling me that anything 85 - 115 is considered the average.

oh right, some right braggarts or liars at the start of this thread!

lol I hand't read any of the thread before this revive. I think anything above 150 is top 1% of the population

it's been a while since i've delved into it, but there are some good studies that have correlated iq to certain educational models. the gradual rise in average iq over the last few decades makes me ponder whether we're seeing a feedback loop where we're structuring teaching materials, or even society as a whole, in a way that privileges the type of intelligence that's rated via iq score

one of the best iq test-related experiences i had was at a summer camp for "gifted" kids in my school district that i ended up attending for several years. a bunch of "smart" kids doing activities and screwing around in cabins at a ymca camp the school district rented for a week every summer.

the first night we were at camp, we all took a standard iq test after dinner. the next day, the camp counselors announced we wouldn't get results, but we were sorted into groups "according to the results of the test" and did a lot of brain teaser activities and scavenger hunts over the next couple days. so we were left guessing whether we were grouped with people across the spectrum of results, or if we were placed with people who tested similarly

of course, half of us guessed that it was a ploy and they never even graded the tests before randomly assigning us, which was correct. can't pull that one over on the smart kids.

Those scores at the top of this thread are ridiculous, Goethe level

bookrags.com really pumping up some egos

thought this was going to be about the sam harris/ezra klein debate

my iq is 'cant tidy a house, knows words'

I have a 473 IQ. I wish there was a way for me spread the wealth, because that's an awful lot of I for one man to wield.

'a way for me spread'

google is telling me that anything 85 - 115 is considered the average.

100 is the average. it's calibrated and adjusted every year so that 100 is the average and 15 is the standard deviation. a score of 70 is better than 2.2% of the population, a score of 85 is better than 15.8%, a score of 100 is better than 50%, a score of 115 is better than 84.1% of the population, a score of 130 is better than 97.8%. those nazis were pretty "smart". iq tests are reliable, internally consistent, and predictive. they're also a complete bologna sandwich and statistically significant test of unintelligence is how much one cares about the IQ test (see the president of the united states)

predictive of what??

it's been a while since i've delved into it, but there are some good studies that have correlated iq to certain educational models. the gradual rise in average iq over the last few decades makes me ponder whether we're seeing a feedback loop where we're structuring teaching materials, or even society as a whole, in a way that privileges the type of intelligence that's rated via iq score

the average IQ always ends up at 100 every year, purposefully, but yeah, i think they've had to adjust the test to make it more "difficult" for a very long time, more than a few decades. it's been a while since i looked as well, but the last time i did, i remember coming away with the tidbit that the average, 100-scoring IQ test taker in the 1910s would score beneath 70 today?

predictive of what??

eh, i totally misused that term, sorry. really i just meant internally consistent - that a person can take the test as a young person and then take it again many years later, and the end score will still be in the same ballpark.