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Old 02-05-2019, 12:23 AM   #61
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I know that this is for fun, but remember that IQ is normally distributed. Think bell curve. So average is between 85-115 (~70% of the population), and about 95% of people fall between 70 and 130. Personally I think IQ is skewed to the left but that's just me.
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Old 02-05-2019, 06:51 AM   #62
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Let's have some fun! Everyone take the same test for a true comparison. Be brave, and post your IQ.



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125. Lol.

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Old 02-05-2019, 07:26 AM   #63
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I whiffed on three; 137.

Is that running clock in the corner significant? I didn't notice it until I came back from a coffee re-fill halfway through. I wonder if people who shoot through it quickly get extra credit.

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Old 02-05-2019, 07:42 AM   #64
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Let's have some fun! Everyone take the same test for a true comparison. Be brave, and post your IQ.



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Owe you an apology Margie....right in front of my eyes....duh....will give you props for posting...again...sorry....
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Old 02-05-2019, 02:30 PM   #65
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I whiffed on three; 137.

Is that running clock in the corner significant? I didn't notice it until I came back from a coffee re-fill halfway through. I wonder if people who shoot through it quickly get extra credit.

I suspect it is since I missed four and got a 139. Which indicates that had you been aware of the time factor, you may have been in the 140's. We will just assume that is the case.

I missed on the only true/false question, two of those involving number sequences and one about "shapes"
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Old 02-05-2019, 03:01 PM   #66
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I didn't notice the timer until the 19th question.
It took me 9:38 to finish, I missed 3 and got 130.
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Old 02-05-2019, 03:05 PM   #67
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I didn't notice the timer until the 19th question.
It took me 9:38 to finish, I missed 3 and got 130.
Seeing the clock in the corner is part of the IQ score.
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Old 02-05-2019, 06:08 PM   #68
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I once read an article postulating that "EQ" (emotional quotient), the ability to keep your worst instincts in check and productively interact with others, is much more reliable than IQ as a predictor of success.

And I fervently believe there are numerous types of intelligence-and lack thereof. Nor do I place much faith in intelligence tests.

To support that, I was tested in high school and soon called in to have several guidance counselors , the principal, AND vice principal, straight up call me a slacker for not getting straight A's.

If they divulged my exact score, I don't recall it, but I do remember them saying it was just a hair beneath genius level. And they scoffed when I protested that I simply could NOT grasp Algebra 2.

But I couldn't. I just couldn't. So much for IQ scores.
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Old 02-05-2019, 06:50 PM   #69
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138...

These things are more effective at younger ages. I wonder what would happen if someone got maybe 20% but finished in a minute or two. It should be a sliding scale.

Also given the analytics of handicapping the higher scores should hardly surprising.
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142 officially tested at a young age in school...my mother never let me forget it as I underachieved through life...lmao
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Old 02-05-2019, 09:00 PM   #72
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When the term "high IQ" is used, it has to be put in perspective.

As an example, an IQ of 140 occurs 1-in-261. Loosely, that means in a "typical" elementary school with about 500 children, there would be 2 such children.

Every single point tick upward makes it exponentially more rare.
142 = 1-in-391
150 = 1-in-2,330
160 = 1-in 31,560
165 = 1-in-136,074
170 = 1-in-652,598


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Mike, I feel your pain. I know it first hand.

I'm writing this because there is a lot of misunderstanding about what comes with a high IQ. There is a lot of baggage.

When people talk about how important emotional IQ, they couldn't be more right. Without that, there is a lot missing.

People also do not understand that there is no free lunch. Not for anything, and IQ is no different.

High IQ people - especially very high IQs - always face challenges, many are social. Often (usually?) the higher the IQ, the larger the social challenges.

There is a wonderful book that changed my viewpoint on a lot of things. Especially on adult underachievement, of which I was always a card-carrying member.

Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement

The guys who wrote this book, were originally famous for being expert about highly-gifted-but-underachieving children.

There is a story in the beginning of the book about how they were doing a radio show from Chicago one day about under-achieving children. When they began to take calls, they realized that the callers were not talking about their children, but themselves!

They were talking to the high-IQ children who were now grown up!

It caused them to change their direction.

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There is a wonderful book that changed my viewpoint on a lot of things. Especially on adult underachievement, of which I was always a card-carrying member.

Adult underachievement usually means you are not meeting the standards that someone else is using to judge you.
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IMO...underachievement is vastly underrated.
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Old 02-05-2019, 09:14 PM   #75
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What's my IQ?
No clue (that's actually the score I got)
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