06 Apr 2011, 10:34 am
b9 wrote:
you are smart not to believe the results.
i would think that if you were truly 144, then you would not be bothered talking about yourself with relation to your IQ score, and i also think you would have stated why you do not believe it, and you would not make such an ill considered statement as "If I were so smart, I would be rich and not nearly as socially inept as I am."
so slap yourself on the back. you are too "smart" to believe you have an IQ of 144.
i would think that if you were truly 144, then you would not be bothered talking about yourself with relation to your IQ score, and i also think you would have stated why you do not believe it, and you would not make such an ill considered statement as "If I were so smart, I would be rich and not nearly as socially inept as I am."
so slap yourself on the back. you are too "smart" to believe you have an IQ of 144.
Have I inadvertedly created a Pinocchio Paradox? Will the universe survive?
06 Apr 2011, 10:58 am
Magnus_Rex wrote:
From two different tests I got 144 and 141, respectively. Although the scores were almost equal, I still don't believe it. If I were so smart, I would be rich and not nearly as socially inept as I am.
But it is a good score, I think.
But it is a good score, I think.
Same here. I think people who are truly smart rarely see themselves as so. I suspect it's because intelligence usually comes at a price. When one function of your brain is strong, inevitably something else is going to be weak. I cannot remember how to get places (I believe it's called topographic agnosia) and I couldn't tell my right from left until I was 7, which is older than normal. People often tell me I'm spacey, and some are really condescending.
I tested my IQ using this: self-scoring IQ booklet I believe these are pretty accurate, as the only person who gave it a bad review was probably just angry because his IQ was lower than expected.
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06 Apr 2011, 12:06 pm
rabidmonkey4262 wrote:
Magnus_Rex wrote:
From two different tests I got 144 and 141, respectively. Although the scores were almost equal, I still don't believe it. If I were so smart, I would be rich and not nearly as socially inept as I am.
But it is a good score, I think.
But it is a good score, I think.
Same here. I think people who are truly smart rarely see themselves as so. I suspect it's because intelligence usually comes at a price. When one function of your brain is strong, inevitably something else is going to be weak.
That's to be expected, I would think. Considering 1% of the population has an IQ above 134, 10% of the population is "rich", and 10-30% are "socially successful"(Use whatever qualifier there), you'd have to be a pretty freaking lucky duck to have a high IQ, be socially successful and to be rich.
Even given that one has a "high IQ", and you're considering that 20% of high-IQ types are "socially successful" and 30% of high IQ types are "rich", and the correlation between the two is negligible, the probability is still pretty low you'll have all three ducks lined up. (.2*.3 = 6%; assuming some positive correlation between the two, than maybe somewhere between 6-20%.)
Even if we were optimistic and assumed that half of high IQ types were rich and half were socially advantaged, you're still talking about a probability between 25% and 50%. That leaves a sizable quantity of high IQ types that don't have the social ability and being rich.
However, don't despair, there's a positive IQ-wealth of correlation of .6 during middle Adulthood in America! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligen ... ent#Income . But... that's in America. The correlation is probably less in less meritocratic countries.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:29 pm
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XFilesGeek wrote:
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XFilesGeek wrote:
I've never taken an IQ test, but I doubt it would be anything but average.
*reads tag line*
*reads username*
*reads location*
*makes a few inferences from the grammatical structure*
..... yeahhhhh......oooooooooo-kay.
Care to elaborate?
I'm generally terrible at picking up when people are trying to insult me, so, if that was your intent, you'll probably have to be more obvious.
As for my tagline, it's a quote from the movie, "The X-Files: Fight the Future." I'd be interested to know what "inferences" you'd draw from it that you feel are relevant to this discussion.
I wasn't trying to insult you, I was trying to imply your somewhat obvious intellectual sophistication belied your claim of "being average". But you might be, I don't know.
Ah. My bad. I told you I was terrible at picking up on that kind of thing.
Anyway, thank you, but I'm pretty sure I'm fairly average. I think I have way too much respect for who I consider "smart people" to count myself among them. And I couldn't tell time until I was in junior high school. Blah.
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