I can pinpoint someone's IQ +/- 5 after reading a few paragraphs of their writing

I took the Mensa test and didn't receive an IQ score. In the letter from Mensa I was only told that I had passed (at or above 98th percentile). I became a member to meet new people as I had just moved, but the members I met were a bit too odd (and not that interesting, strangely) so later I witched to runner friends instead :)

lease wrote:

Had two psychologist-administered IQ tests (audition for Mensa, back in the day): 148 and 150.

But you really weren't *that* far off, so credit where it's due.

I was a long time contributor to another message board and someone claimed something similar to this. He estimated my IQ to be north of 140. I've never taken an IQ test, but my GRE scores convert to somewhere between 142 and 145. Thought it was kind of interesting.

What's your IQ, Hardloper? Jamin's?

Forgotten handle wrote:

I was a long time contributor to another message board and someone claimed something similar to this. He estimated my IQ to be north of 140. I've never taken an IQ test, but my GRE scores convert to somewhere between 142 and 145. Thought it was kind of interesting.

What's your IQ, Hardloper? Jamin's?

Interesting. I haven't taken the test myself and I would not be able to rate my own posts in an unbiased way. Maybe I'll take one just to see.

In the past I've received substantial praise for my writing. I can write by adopting any variety of tones: lofty or down to earth, emotional or removed and critical, snarky or respectful. Although I've noticed the more critical and preachy my stance the better the writing is received.

Thing is, I'm probably stupid. I just happen to be extremely curious, and that cancels out what I assume is a low IQ. Over the years I've become a voracious reader. I have a quote or study handy that perfectly touches on most topics that might come up, and I've focused on becoming a rational and emotionless voice above all else.

The general public typically confuses being well-read with intelligent, and I'm okay letting that slide. They don't need to know I'm a high school dropout who has never passed a math class!

I've never taken test but I was in the top 2% in Med School entrance exam so I'm guessing my IQ is reasonable high. I don't write well though. I know people who can write much better than me but I'm much better than them at Maths, Physics etc.

donaldduckie wrote:

In the past I've received substantial praise for my writing. I can write by adopting any variety of tones: lofty or down to earth, emotional or removed and critical, snarky or respectful. Although I've noticed the more critical and preachy my stance the better the writing is received.

Thing is, I'm probably stupid. I just happen to be extremely curious, and that cancels out what I assume is a low IQ. Over the years I've become a voracious reader. I have a quote or study handy that perfectly touches on most topics that might come up, and I've focused on becoming a rational and emotionless voice above all else.

The general public typically confuses being well-read with intelligent, and I'm okay letting that slide. They don't need to know I'm a high school dropout who has never passed a math class!

You're like the anti-me. Although I'd guess you're smarter than you give yourself credit for.

Dude skipped like 10 obvious commas...

Also used ambiguous or confusing words when somebody smarter would have automatically substituted clearer language.

But overall flow was solid. Writing followed a logical progression.

So I think your guess is good. I'm sure he is going to report back that he is genuis level, but he isnt. A lot of people think their IQ is artificially high because they've done Mensa tests. I scored over 160 on their test. But I have multiple friends who are clearly smarter than me, so unless I'm in a "statistically impossible" group of friends, I have to be lower than that. Mensa makes their money on membership dues, so their tests are inflated to bring in more money.

"When during the campaign I would say, 'Mexico's going to pay for it,' obviously I never said this and I never meant they're going to write out a check."

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I took the Mensa test and didn't receive an IQ score. In the letter from Mensa I was only told that I had passed (at or above 98th percentile). I became a member to meet new people as I had just moved, but the members I met were a bit too odd (and not that interesting, strangely) so later I witched to runner friends instead :)

The have multiple tests that you can take, and their test methods have changed over the years.

Not surprising you found the membership strange. Imagine wanting to join a club strictly based on IQ, with no regards to any other criteria or commonalities. It tends to self select for some poor traits, although of course some interesting and positive people join as well, its just high graded towards the peculiar.

Only a vacuous dullard would believe they possess this attribute.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=iq+by+writing+sample

Hardloper wrote:

Can anyone else do this? Discuss

That's easy. No one here is above average. Including you.

Interesting game!

Do me. This is a more recent post, talking about lovely Edinburgh to a guy coming on holiday:

When precisely are you planning on arriving? If you're arriving between August 3rd - 28th, there is an absolutely ENORMOUS arts festival called the "Fringe". I mean so vast that it entirely takes over the center of the city with a carnival-like atmosphere, and there are literally thousands of music gigs, theatre productions, stand-up comedy shows, "alternative" events, etc. Almost all are cheaper than £15 (not sure what that is in dollars), and many are free (although it's considered very bad courtesy not to give something at the end, I'd say worse than not tipping a waiter in the US).

Now, whether this is a good thing or not depends entirely on your appetite for that type of stuff. Personally, I love it, and performing in, and experiencing, the Fringe is actually a huge reason I came here. However, if it's not your scene, or if you aren't a fan of crowds, it's best avoiding the center altogether throughout this time. With regard to running, the Meadows is basically impossible to run on during the Fringe, it would be like trying to run through a mosh pit.

Now, tourist stuff! I work as a tour guide, so this is my jam. There's the Edinburgh ghost tours, which can genuinely be an interesting way to see a bit of the city, and could be a huge amount of fun (or totally terrifying) for the children. However, get a walking tour rather than one from a bus. You can also do straight history tours or walking tours. On a similar note, there's the Edinburgh Dungeons, which can be fun for an immersive Middle Ages Scottish horror themed hour. Both the Dungeons and the tours are typically led by very good guides, as opposed to a tourist rip-off (mainly because Edinburgh has a wonderful acting scene, and a lot of the participants moonlight as guides). However, if you're here during the Fringe, avoid doing a walking tour during the day. It ends up as an elongated fight against people-traffic.

And this is from years ago, when I was 15:

I want to go sub 2:20 in the 800m and sub 4:50 in the 1500m in the year 2013. I have devised a training plan which I will do after 2012 finishes. I will use this thread for advice and (hopefully constructive!) critisism in order to help me achieve these goals. (btw i am currently 15)

Current PB's 800m: 2:28

1500m:5:11

These times aren't a good indicator tbh, the 800m was on my own into a wind and the 1500m was the worst race tactically I've ever done.

LE PLAN

Sunday: A Club run - we alternate 4*1 mile intervals and a hill workout each week.

p.m: Weights

Monday: 7k easy, with the middle 1600m being fast strides of 40 secs on, 60 secs off.

Tuesday: Club - longer intervals, typically 600 - 1200m each time with maybe 7 or 8 reps, or a grass whistle workout.

Wednesday: 3 mile tempo at 6:20 - 6:30 pace

Thursday: Club - horter intervals of 300-500m and about 6 reps

pm: Weights

Friday: 9.5k easy with the middle 1600m the same as monday

Saturday: A hill workout, finishing with 4*150m on the track.

Total milege: 40mpw, or 64 kpw

Thanks for any replies.

If you didn't know they were from the same poster, what would you have estimated the IQ to be in each?

Hardloper wrote:

Can anyone else do this? Discuss

Wait please do this with Pynchon. From "the good book":

A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY. It has happened before,

but there is nothing to compare it to now.

It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. There

are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders

old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above that would let the

light of day through. But it's night. He's afraid of the way the glass will

falla€”soona€”it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace. But

coming down in total blackout, without one glint of light, only great

invisible crashing.

Inside the carriage, which is built on several levels, he sits in

velveteen darkness, with nothing to smoke, feeling metal nearer and

farther rub and connect, steam escaping in puffs, a vibration in the

carriage's frame, a poising, an uneasiness, all the others pressed in

around, feeble ones, second sheep, all out of luck and time: drunks, old

veterans still in shock from ordnance 20 years obsolete, hustlers in city

clothes, derelicts, exhausted women with more children than it seems

could belong to anyone, stacked about among the rest of the things to be

carried out to salvation. Only the nearer faces are visible at all, and at

that only as half-silvered images in a view finder, green-stained VIP

faces remembered behind bulletproof windows speeding through the

city....

They have begun to move. They pass in line, out of the main station,

out of downtown, and begin pushing into older and more desolate parts

of the city. Is this the way out? Faces turn to the windows, but no one

dares ask, not out loud. Rain comes down. No, this is not a disentanglement

from, but a progressive knotting intoa€”they go in

under archways, secret entrances of rotted concrete that only looked like

loops of an underpass ... certain trestles of blackened wood have moved

slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the

past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came

through, of the coral-like and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind

curves and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of

maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and

deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to

bring events to Absolute Zero ... and it is poorer the deeper they go ...

ruinous secret cities of poor, places whose names he has never heard...

the walls break down, the roofs get fewer and so do the chances for light.

The road, which ought to be opening out into a broader highway, instead

has been getting narrower, more broken, cornering tighter and tighter

until all at once, much too soon, they are under the final arch: brakes

grab and spring terribly. It is a judgment from which there is no appeal.

What about people for whom English is a second language? Many of them still have high IQs, but they lack mastery of some basic conventions of writing.

No you can't tell a persons IQ just from writing.

Lexical ability is only one of the seven major CHC factors used when calculating a person's intellectual global capacity.

Anybody on this board claiming that to have a IQ of 150 IQ is full of s***.

The Mensa test is some in house nonsense test.

Actual legit IQ test for adults are the stanford-binet 5. The Wechsler adult intelligence scale 4. The Woodcock-Johnson 4.

These the are three that you will see in clinical settings. There are other forms of IQ tests which are either abbreviated or nonverbal IQ test you would use on individual if English is not their first language and you don't have the other language variant.

Also overall IQ is important but not that big of a deal breaker. 68% of the world falls between 85 and 115. It's only when you start to get under 75 that we start to worry about everyday functioning in a person.

If we're getting statistical, the funny thing is that there are just as many people with an IQ < 70 as there are with one > 130. While most would poke fun at anyone under 85, there about 16% of the population of your city is beneath that, and somehow they are for the most part functioning just fine.

If you guessed people's weight to within 5 pounds, you could turn that into a career.