Have you had your IQ tested?

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Yeah 3 times

144

137

145

Not bad.

BS. Where did you take these tests? Who administered them?

I’m an idiot but my adult son tested 153.

okay, in terms we can all relate to, an IQ test is like a VO2 max test.

Sure, but what do you do with it?

PRs, baby,. Deliver or shut the hell up.

Lost you?

Well, consider that many educators point out that those with exceptional intellectual capabilities have significant challenges to overcome. One that comes to mind is that they often have trouble communicating their advanced reasoning and thought processes to others, and therefore, may actually be somewhat alienated by the nature of their unique gift.

Interesting problem to have to deal with, but not a lottery ticket in the wrong hands.

Not me. 139 in college. I thought I was headed for professional greatness but personal traits and life events have me living a pretty average existence.

I took the official UK mensa test twice, once when I was 18 and then again when I was about 30. I scored 153 the first time, and 157 the second time. The maximum score is apparently something like 160, so I probably got one or two questions 'wrong' on the second test, which were likely open to interpretation (i.e. I had a better answer than the 'right' answer set by the test creator).

That puts me well inside the top 1% of the population, which matches my (self-made) income level, and getting to an elite university from a school in which only 1 or 2 boys each year would even get to university from. It also fits in with my surprisingly rare ability to see that having an endurance drug that improves 5K times by 40 seconds available in a particular region of Africa with no testing and where every athletic child goes into distance running, explains entirely the 'domination' by that region.

eye roll wrote:

seattle prattle wrote:

open book question are you want me to wing it?

If winging it, I'd say 100% percentile, like world record,

The reason I asked is because there was a thread a few weeks ago where some posters were saying a sub 5 mile at 60 is World Class. This is the same level of silliness as people claiming they have Mensa Genius level IQ.

A sub 5 minute mile at 60 would be indicative of world class talent. I doubt if El Gl could do that at 60 even if he kept in shape and kept taking the EPO. Of course it would be relatively meaningless outside hardcore athletics fans who follow masters running and appreciate such a performance. Just as a high IQ is meaningless unless it's paired with other traits such as drive and work ethic.

I've never seen the point of getting an IQ test. It's not a mainstream thing. I've never looked into what the scale is, so I'm not even sure what is considered a high score.

As for smarts, I was 8th in a class of about 400 back in high school, while not trying to compete for being top in class, just putting in what I considered a normal effort. It was a good school too, in a neighborhood full of smart IBM employees when IBM had the reputation like Google or Apple today.

aadfasdf wrote:

Go figure almost everyone who responds claims an IQ > 140.

Self-selection FTW! And as long as we're whipping them out:

Like quite a number of other guys, I was prompted to take the Mensa test(s) by the "Women of Mensa" feature in Playboy magazine in the mid-'80s. Those were legit tests, not online stuff, administered by a psychologist.

Topped out at a nice round 150. I later learned that I had qualified twice for the Prometheus Society--but clearly not on the basis of such a low IQ!

I've had the pleasure of knowing several folks with IQs higher than mine. Good friends and good people.

I'm a Proud Boy! Because I scored a 110 I think so that means I also got the bonus questions right too!

The average IQ of college graduates is (or was--there's been considerable dumbing down) somewhere around 115. But I've met college grads with two-digit tested IQs. And one of my daughters, who tested at 140+, DNFed college after one trimester.

Nope. I don't see any upside.

If I test highly, it might make me arrogant.

If I test lowly, it might make me despondent.

The score doesn't confer any valuable infomation. In reality, intelligence is more complicated than a number.

It shouldn’t be shocking that the most socially awkward, low emotional intelligence posters with zero ability to have empathy claim high IQ scores. Throw in the stunning amount of Dunning-Kruger cognitive bias and outright made up numbers and you have LR in a nutshell.