IQ Tests
 

A little while back, I took one of those IQ tests floating around on the Net. Actually the results were about the same as when I was in high school, about 140. Now, they used to say that 100 was either the average or the mean, I don't remember. But what about today? Surely there aren't many people with below 100 scores, so how could that be near the average? (At least I don't remember ever meeting people with, say, like a 90 score.) And today, I don't think 140 is all that stellar. Has there been a shift or what's the word?

there are about 4 different scales used in IQ tests. In most, 100 is an average score, but the "genius" level seems to vary from 130 to 180 or so, depending on the scale used in the test.

Irregardless, i always end up with a "near-genius" score :) . My official IQ, as tested by MENSA (yes, I tested to get into MENSA) was 152, with 105 being average and 161 being genius.

I got 138 at this one:

http://www.highiqsociety.org/flash/nonmembers/iqtests.htm

It is always a good feeling to be above average. And I was spared the pain of being a genus too :)

Aurel

If U guys test above average...then I must be GAWD..

U know Tabs, it is OK if you score only 95...Look at GW Bush: that did not prevent him to become president :)

Aurel

Character has nothing to do with IQ....Further there are a lot of educated idiots out there that don't have one iota of common sense. So IQ is not mutualy inclusive to having good taste, common sense or character....look you could be Bill Clinton all over again... just a goof ball Red Necked chicken eating Hillbilly from Arkansas...

Plus, the president has to represent the average people anyways...

Aurel

Go ahead just try an fk wt me....

Well, this one degenerated fast..............

Hehe

Yeah U have me around...ole 95 his self.... Stupid and Proud of it...

I have no problem with 95s, as long as they don`t bite :D

Aurel

I don't mind if they bite as long as they've had their shots

CJ, part of being a genius is not using words like "irregardless", which is actually more of a non-word. It is a double negative, (a big no-no for geniuses), and actually an illiterate conjuntion of most likely irrespective/regardless. Actually this is not something that would keep you out of Mensa, since I hear that they are a bunch of idiots. :D

I break my own rule of not correcting grammar on IQ threads. :cool:

You beat me to it Denis -- Good catch; and Too Funny . . . http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/roflmao.gif

. . .I will say, CJ, that your stretching the use of the word "near" there, is pure genius . http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1060467831.gif

Peggy Hill. . .now ther's a true internet tested genius. One wonders how she can stand to be in the same room as Hank. :cool:

Re: *irregardless*

Since it is great sport to trounce on one another everywhere on the site and pass it off as "having a little fun," which pisses me off no end and will eventually drive me off when I've had enough, I thought I would leave that alone.

BUT, in CJ's defense, the word is listed in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary as both an adverb and adjective meaning regardless. The rest of the definition states, "a substandard or humorous redundancy."

So maybe CJ beat you guys at your own game. I'm not that clever, but I remember "warm 'em up and suck 'em in."

cheerios man......cheerios.............

Interesting thread

My mother never would tell me my IQ score from the batteries of tests we endured in grade school. She felt it wasnt something I really needed know.

I tried the IQ test from the above link, I did quite well. If I spent more time on the "unfold-fold" part I could have done better..

Regardless of the outcome of my taking a web based IQ test

I offer the following:

For all to debate flame etc...

So, Tim, how much did you score ?
Just curious...

Aurel

scored 128 on the ultimate IQ test 135 on the Verbal IQ test...

Its interesting since I havent taken a "test" in about 20 yrs.... I wonder how I would have done while immersed in my studies?

Neat stuff

That is pretty good. I will retry it. I guess by trainning one can improve it a little bit, but not that much. Otherwise, it would not mean anything.

Aurel

It's no use. I'm at the super nova stage as it is. When I reach the white dwarf phase, I'll go out in a blaze of gamma glory. One man in his solitude, driving towrads the sun in a 911 S at full song, the MFI singing an answer to the cosmic hum.

Forrest Gump I'm not a smart man

Gee, Zeke, I for one hope you stick around. I've gotten good info and interesting perspective from you in your posts.

Maybe an amusing anecdote regarding intelligence and success would help?

A general contractor finds his business growing and a need for more help. He decides to promote from within, taking one of his five or six best carpenters and advancing him to foreman. But which one? The contractor arranges a 6 X 6 on a pair of saw horses and summons the men. "I want each of you to take a 16d nail from your aprons, and drive it, head first, into this piece of lumber." Now, a couple fellows gave their boss a puzzled look, and a few others stepped away from the horses and began to protest and question the contractor's instruction. But the contractor looked past them, and fixed his eye on his new foreman, who was diligently doing exactly what was asked of him; driving a nail, head first, into the wood.

Ed

ACK ZO....Jawhol mein Kommandant Ich turnen up ze gaz...how high did Sie wavant it...?

I did both standard battery of tests when young (my mother is psychologist) and standard Mensa test. (both went pretty well :) )

Mensa-test was/is a joke...I can't see how they can measure intelligence with one one test (Raven's matrix), that has been around for ages.

I see Mesna as club for people who are really good at solving ubiquous Raven's matrix.

*sigh*

You 911 guys can be pretty brutal.

Thanks for making the start of my day that much gloomier.

Glad to be of a help CJ.....

couldn't agree more. sad thing is, it made it into the dictionary :(

I took an IQ test once...they said they had never seen anything like me before....I was unique....I don't think they fully appreciated my imaginative approach to problem solving...I whittled the square pegs into round ones so that they would fit in the holes on the board. Also the coin flipping didn't seem to go over real well with them either....

Didn't Captain Kirk take the same approach to solving that un-solvable computer simulation? (he reprogrammed the computer, if I remember correctly... it's been about 10 years since I watched any of those movies)

U mean Captain Kirk cheated?

yes, but he passed because of the innovation

i know a kid that has to be at like a 6

well that was fun, NOT! drumroll please.......118 which still makes me smarter then my dog........

did ya need a test score to know that? ;)

My dog told me yesterday that I was an imbecile....ever since she got into that stash of Magic Mushrooms she's been staring at herself in the mirror and quoting Nietzsche....always yapping about the Superdog...she's really becoming insufferable. I even had to cut up her credit cards...it seems that she bought a diamond studded dog collar from Tiffany's...the only way I found out about it was that the cat started complaing that she wanted one too.

ROTFLMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!

May average on these test is 108 to 117

You've never met my dog. Pure bred Jack Russel Terrier, I'm not sure but I think as puppy she trained me instead of the other way 'round.