anyone else find IQ test-score threads funny?

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I proudly flaunt my 91 IQ. I think it is hilarious. I think I got 100 once too. I find the test really tedious, why would I want a high score in something that bores me?

Personally, I don't think that intelligence is something that can be measured by a simple number, and I see people who brag about their high IQ scores to be very elitist.

I don't know my own IQ, nor do I ever want to know.

I agree that high IQ is not all that interesting and in fact it seems to be the people with a lower IQ are far more interesting to talkw with. AS to prion, well thats up to the brain eaters to address.

IQ tests predict how well a person would do in a French school in 1890.

That brings up a much broader and recent study done across a mass of people, who were beyond the original classifications of , under 80, stays on the farm and feeds pigs, 90-100, picks grapes, and 100 110 may learn to read.

We call it World War Two. The broad classes now include, marches with pack, can operate machines, and may learn to read. The results of this study showed that almost all grouped around a functional level of "Half way through the Eighth Grade with a C-." Later studies, Viet Nam, show the scores are consistant over time.

So by this, an IQ of 150=Twelth Grade, with a C-.

Most people did not persue higher education, in fact, most fled it, they quickly learned that other places will pay you to keep showing up and doing useless things.

Some who were not capable of making this mental leap had to attend a remedial University, and besides show up, pay for the training. Most were still unable to enter the workforce without accomidation.

In four years they learned advanced playground, the mathematics of sports, but mostly started a lifelong drinking problem.

Their income potential was about 20% of a UAW blue collar worker who could run an air powered screw driver. $32,000 vs $165,000. And they had Student Loans. They accepted it because they were told they had a high IQ. When laidoff, University types are evicted within a month and go live with their parents, UAW keeps getting the same paycheck for three years.

IQ testing has also shown a creep over time, moving up 1% per decade. These 12 points are attributed to mental inflation, needed to keep the mean at 100. This is done by dropping the hard questions.

^ are you sure your stepdad hasn't been cloned and then sent to populate WP?

Actually, from the looks of it, it seems the people who think IQ is extremely important are in the minority here.

I read somewhere that the higher your IQ was, the less likely you thought you should tell people. Maybe that's because the higher your IQ, the better equipped you are to understand that IQ is a lot less than people make it out to be; and it's no wonder you don't want people measuring you by a number and making assumptions about you just because you are supposed to be smart. I don't care how high the number is; you're still an individual; but popular culture has a stereotype of "smart" that just goes one way. People want to be taken at face value, not seen as some standardized set of traits. (I didn't see that applied to unusually low IQs though. Just average and high ones.)

There'll always be narcissists, of course, and some of them will score high on IQ tests and naturally brag about it; and there'll be people who just want a reason to tell themselves they're worth something, and don't realize they don't actually need a reason at all; but all in all I don't think most "intelligent" people brag all that much. It's just the most visible ones who do. I'm enrolled in the engineering department at my college now, and I bet some of my classmates can blow the top off most IQ tests; but I've yet to encounter a conversation about IQs, and only one about ACT scores. Maybe that's just an effect of being with people who are all pretty good at the math/science geekery... still, they don't seem to talk much about it. I hear them talking about grades all the time, though.

I have no idea what my IQ is. That's how important it is to me
I'm more conscious of my emotional and social intelligence (which are both low)