Do you even know what your IQ is? You dumb Bastard!

Pherekydes

44leto wrote: »

If everyone who posts are above average, then our average is higher then the general population. I assume boards is a good representation of the general population.

I wouldn't. Why would you assume that? Boards' users are, in the main, young, computer literate and about 80% male.

charlietheminxx

Tests I've taken have varied from 125 - 150(!)

Would like if the 150 was true, but reckon I am more of a 130 :P

44leto

Pherekydes wrote: »

I wouldn't. Why would you assume that? Boards' users are, in the main, young, computer literate and about 80% male.

Yeah I suppose that's true, OK a general sample of the male pop so that means most of us should still be average.

OK a mistake in my assumption drags my untested IQ even lower then average:(

sophieblake

Pherekydes wrote: »

I wouldn't. Why would you assume that? Boards' users are, in the main, young, computer literate and about 80% male.

Gets suddenly interested. Even I might pull here

Wibbs

Pherekydes wrote: »

I wouldn't. Why would you assume that? Boards' users are, in the main, young, computer literate and about 80% male.

and prone to iExaggeration I'm sure a penis size survey would reveal a host of porn stars and a "what are you paid" survey would reveal a host of rich people. From these various AH surveys I've read over the years, the average Boardsie is male, handsome, a genius, 6ft 4, hung like a horse and earning a fortune*, but haz a sad cos he can't get a girlfriend. Does not quite compute.





*obviously that's a very good description of me. I swear. No really.

Pherekydes

sophieblake wrote: »

Gets suddenly interested. Even I might pull here

After your previous post, it's a formality.

pickarooney

Mine's a pretty obscure number. You wouldn't have heard of it.

chin_grin

I can count to potato.

foxyboxer

27!

foxyboxer

Paying to become a member of a high IQ society is pretty thick if you ask me!

pickarooney

dammitjanet wrote: »

I'm 151, got accepted to mensa a few years ago, cancelled my membership after a year. Pointless club, you have to pay for it and all you get is bragging rights :rolleyes:
High IQ isn't as impressive as it should be. I still don't have super powers. However if you need a logic puzzle/sudoku solved freakishly fast- Boom

It reads to me like you're bragging and then using the rolleyes to ridicule the idea of bragging?

biko

I'm so smart Stephen Fry rang me from "Who wants to be a millionaire".

hondasam

Wibbs wrote: »

I've read over the years, the average Boardsie is male, handsome, a genius, 6ft 4, hung like a horse and earning a fortune*, but haz a sad cos he can't get a girlfriend. Does not quite compute.





*obviously that's a very good description of me. I swear. No really.

This is what matters wibbs, the rest can be overlooked.

IrishZeus

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Anita M.

Its not about your iq it is what you know that counts.

sophieblake

Anita M. wrote: »

Its not about your iq it is what who you know that counts.

getting more cynical by the day

Blikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0Q30-OIEE

djk1000

orourkeda wrote: »

I was called for a mensa test and scored 136.

I was called for a mensa test and scored 174 :cool:



I'm still unemployed though and haven't quite figured out what I'm supposed to be a genius at, so far I think my superpower is the ability to take stuff apart then put stuff back together to see how it works, I'm good at the Sudoku though.

miss no stars

As a delightfully strange misfit of a child and teen I had my IQ tested several times over, sometimes with EQ also tested. EQ is average to marginally above average (meaning hopefully I won't alienate every single person I meet) although I highly suspect that the score was wrong. I'm emotionally and interpersonally RETARDED. I run screaming from having to deal with emotionally charged anything.

IQ generally came out quite high in a socially debilitating way. It counts for jack shit all tho. All it means is I'm good at doing IQ tests, good at learning in certain areas and really a bit detached from my peers (and just to help matters I tic like a clock).

I find differential aptitude tests far more enlightening... 99th percentile in some areas, 14th and 26th percentile in other areas iirc... awww yeaa!!! It really shows the flaws in IQ testing - the areas they test (verbal, mathematical, abstract, spatial and mechanical reasoning) I do well in... But ask me to do anything requiring clerical speed, accuracy or spelling and I just can't basically. I walk into doors and randomly drop things, can't use a knife or fork with the required accuracy (food shoots across/off plate), speak words in mixed up order and I read numbers upsidedown and back to front. IQ isn't much help to me there!

I was going to finish by saying that IQ's a load of crap, but it is a useful comparitive tool. If a kid gets 5/10 on averge in tests in class but then scores 160 on an IQ test it kinda highlights a problem - the test scores might be okay, nothing remarkable or any cause for concern initially, but something is amiss!

Korvanica

Ive lost count at this stage...

44leto

IQ is rubbish, its our spirit that counts, the bard put it , well, like the bard.

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

Fbjm

44leto wrote: »

I love when people post their IQ on a thread like this. They always post above average results even way above average results. So they will be intelligent enough to realise that everyone that posts their IQ in a thread could not all be above average.

Or just maybe Irish Boards only hosts geniuses.

You do realise that people of average or below average intelligence most likely have no interest in internet forums, chatrooms, etc? So yes, obviously the average boards IQ would be different to the average global IQ. :rolleyes:

Fbjm

Brendog wrote: »

121 on the mensa IQ test. Just 3 away from being allowed join. :rolleyes:

In that sweet spot where I'm smart but still dumb enough that I can quote simpsons into any given situation in life.

Wait what? you can join at 124? I thought it was 135? since a hell of a lot of people are >124... and, 135 is genius level, which I assumed you had to be to be in mensa? "mensa, the group of geniuses and near-geniuses" doesn't really have the same ring to it... :pac:

44leto

Fbjm wrote: »

You do realise that people of average or below average intelligence most likely have no interest in internet forums, chatrooms, etc? So yes, obviously the average boards IQ would be different to the average global IQ. :rolleyes:

Say's who, I would regard myself as average and I have an interest in chat and forums. Besides the boards are littered with its fair share of average idiotic comments, so right back at you=:rolleyes:

Fbjm

44leto wrote: »

Say's who, I would regard myself as average and I have an interest in chat and forums. Besides the boards are littered with its fair share of average idiotic comments, so right back at you=:rolleyes:

Well there's no scientific basis to my theory, but even as a hypothesis it still holds true. Just from personal experience, the usual type of conversation I would have in a chatroom would be along the lines of the newly discovered neutrino, and what it could mean in the significance of disproving einstein's theory. the usual conversation I'd have in real life is always along the lines of 'did you see the match last night? wow what a try, unbelievable. going out to get hammered? may as well, it's saturday like come on man!' I have no problem with these types of conversation, but there's certainly no intellectual stimulation involved. :rolleyes:

getz

i will have you know,that i am a member of a group like MENSA not quite as clever ,its called DENSA,and my age has passed my IQ

jimi_t2

Mensa cut-off is about 144 actually, but tends to change. Average IQ is 100, anything over 120 is gifted, anything over 140 is considered genius.

You have to do the Culture Fair and some other ridiculous MCQ test under supervised conditions to be considered for acceptance. Its about two hours long and done like a relay race, with an examiner shouting after 5-6 minutes to denominate the sections. You can go back over the section you're working on if you've time (ho ho), but not over previous sections. Those web tests are a complete waste of time and not representative of anything.

Mensa membership in Ireland (which includes transfers from other countries when they move) is 1,055 as of this month. There's about 112,000 worldwide.

Mensa is like the IRA - if someone says they're involved they probably aren't. As the saying goes, a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich.

Wibbs

I do know mine, but everyone knows if you post it on the internet you automatically lose 50 points :pac:

Wibbs wrote: »

Ive taken a couple in my life. Back in the day mind you, but enough to gain Mensa admittance anyway(I'd likely not get Densa admittance today and big deal I say). Went to a couple of meetings(around Leeson St IIRC?) and good fcuk for the most part what a collection of smug beige people the like of which I'd normally avoid like the very plague. The social misfit quotient was pretty high too. A couple of people were grand mind you and ended up as mates, but the rest... The kid at school who wrote down and then photocopied* instructions to solve rubiks cubes for people who didn't care types. Whatever floats ones boat, but an imagination and some social interaction might be a nice way to flesh out a personality.

I was a mensa member before, and went to one meet up a long time ago. I didn't even get as far as talking to them, I got a bunch of sour glares and turned around and left again. Waste of time.

Dravokivich

Did an IQ test once when i was 12. only did about 2/3rds of it. didn't do the other 1 third of it because it was something i'd never seen before so couldn't understand it at the time.

Thinking back, that's a bit rough to have on an IQ test for a kid.

anyhow, no idea what the score was that I got at the time and couldn't be arsed with it now. I'd much prefer pratical knowledge to intelectual intellegence.

44leto

Fbjm wrote: »

Well there's no scientific basis to my theory, but even as a hypothesis it still holds true. Just from personal experience, the usual type of conversation I would have in a chatroom would be along the lines of the newly discovered neutrino, and what it could mean in the significance of disproving einstein's theory. the usual conversation I'd have in real life is always along the lines of 'did you see the match last night? wow what a try, unbelievable. going out to get hammered? may as well, it's saturday like come on man!' I have no problem with these types of conversation, but there's certainly no intellectual stimulation involved. :rolleyes:

Just because you understand sometime as simple as Einsteinian physics just means you are well read or you seen it on tele. It doesn't raise your IQ level.

Fbjm

44leto wrote: »

Just because you understand sometime as simple as Einsteinian physics just means you are well read or you seen it on tele. It doesn't raise your IQ level.

I never implied it did, what I did say was that discussions of this nature are far more common online than in real life, where people seemingly feel compelled to talk about the latest song in the charts or try scored by sean o brian. Not that I don't enjoy these types of conversation as well, it just becomes a bit monotonous after a while.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

I got into Mensa on a basketball scholarship.
But I feel I pulled my weight once I got there.

Tonyandthewhale

I don't know. The only IQ test I've ever done was an internet one that said 120-something. Considering how everyone I know who's done an internet IQ test has scored at least in or around the gifted level I'm going to consider them somewhat lacking in validity.

I reckon I'm somewhere within one standard deviation of the mean.

bnt

I've found that IQ tests don't translate to the real world very well. I've taken a few and scored well on them (no, I'm not saying), but I have a truly crappy memory. So I can do Calculus if I can remember the procedures, and that's the problem. So much of Maths and related subjects is based on procedures, and having an array of options and formulas available to choose from, to help you solve a problem. I see problems where I think "I know I did this before, and I could do it now if I could remember all the bits I need". I'm studying Engineering at UCD, which is better for me than pure Maths would be - in most cases there's a physical reality behind the sums, so I can often "hang the maths on reality".

spagboll

what are all of you could/am/was in MENSA types doing for a living?

other high IQ clubs *gli-ven*

Top 2% (98th percentile; 1/50; IQ 131 sd15 / 133 sd16; +2σ):
Mensa International
Top 1% (99th percentile; 1/100; IQ 135 sd15 / 137 sd16):
Intertel
Top 0.1% (99.9th percentile; 1/1,000; IQ 146 sd15 / 149 sd16):
International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
One-in-a-Thousand Society
Triple Nine Society
Top 0.003% (99.997th percentile; 1/30,000; IQ 160 sd15 / 164 sd16):
Prometheus Society
Top 0.0001% (99.9999th percentile; 1/1,000,000; IQ 172 sd15 / 176 sd16):
Mega Society

actuary

spagboll

44leto wrote: »

Just because you understand sometime as simple as Einsteinian physics just means you are well read or you seen it on tele. It doesn't raise your IQ level.

if you took a random sample from people talking about neutrinos in their spare time and those watching a football match, I'd back the neutrino lads to have a slightly higher IQ

but you do get those types who read the first 32 pages of A Brief History of Time and go down the pub thinking they are Einstein

44leto

spagboll wrote: »

if you took a random sample from people talking about neutrinos in their spare time and those watching a football match, I'd back the neutrino lads to have a slightly higher IQ

but you do get those types who read the first 32 pages of A Brief History of Time and go down the pub thinking they are Einstein

Not necessarily I can understand it along with quantum physics and even string theory. But I would be of average intelligence. I just have an interest. My brother is doing some building work here today, I haven't a clue.

foxyboxer

44leto wrote: »

Not necessarily I can understand it along with quantum physics and even string theory. But I would be of average intelligence. I just have an interest. My brother is doing some building work here today, I haven't a clue.

No one understands quantum physics

44leto

spagboll wrote: »

what are all of you could/am/was in MENSA types doing for a living?

other high IQ clubs *gli-ven*

Top 2% (98th percentile; 1/50; IQ 131 sd15 / 133 sd16; +2σ):
Mensa International
Top 1% (99th percentile; 1/100; IQ 135 sd15 / 137 sd16):
Intertel
Top 0.1% (99.9th percentile; 1/1,000; IQ 146 sd15 / 149 sd16):
International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
One-in-a-Thousand Society
Triple Nine Society
Top 0.003% (99.997th percentile; 1/30,000; IQ 160 sd15 / 164 sd16):
Prometheus Society
Top 0.0001% (99.9999th percentile; 1/1,000,000; IQ 172 sd15 / 176 sd16):
Mega Society

2% are above 131 "be dad" we have quite a few of them here and I think we even have another poster in 00.1% bracket, but I am to thick I can't remember.

jonnyfingers

My IQ is 136. Did a few tests and consistently got that number. I'm an engineer though, and most of the tests seemed to have a lot of logical questions so I'm predisposed to answer those well.

I don't consider IQ to be a definitive measure of intelligence though. However, I am a genius!

44leto

foxyboxer wrote: »

No one understands quantum physics

A myth, we are posting from a machine in a system that operates on its principles, among other things.

Logical Fallacy

spagboll wrote: »

what are all of you could/am/was in MENSA types doing for a living?

Nothing at the moment due to illness but i was a Statistician for about 7 years, then i left that job to work with students with disabilities.

WobyTide

About the 140 mark. I won't qualify it by saying "i'm thick as ****e in other areas" or <insert reason why I'm not all that smart, but wink wink I really am>.

The truth is I'm just a very clever person !!!

Wibbs

miss no stars wrote: »

As a delightfully strange misfit of a child and teen I had my IQ tested several times over, sometimes with EQ also tested. EQ is average to marginally above average (meaning hopefully I won't alienate every single person I meet) although I highly suspect that the score was wrong. I'm emotionally and interpersonally RETARDED. I run screaming from having to deal with emotionally charged anything.

IQ generally came out quite high in a socially debilitating way. It counts for jack shit all tho. All it means is I'm good at doing IQ tests, good at learning in certain areas and really a bit detached from my peers (and just to help matters I tic like a clock).

I find differential aptitude tests far more enlightening... 99th percentile in some areas, 14th and 26th percentile in other areas iirc... awww yeaa!!! It really shows the flaws in IQ testing - the areas they test (verbal, mathematical, abstract, spatial and mechanical reasoning) I do well in... But ask me to do anything requiring clerical speed, accuracy or spelling and I just can't basically. I walk into doors and randomly drop things, can't use a knife or fork with the required accuracy (food shoots across/off plate), speak words in mixed up order and I read numbers upsidedown and back to front. IQ isn't much help to me there!

I was going to finish by saying that IQ's a load of crap, but it is a useful comparitive tool. If a kid gets 5/10 on averge in tests in class but then scores 160 on an IQ test it kinda highlights a problem - the test scores might be okay, nothing remarkable or any cause for concern initially, but something is amiss!

Interesting take alright. The problem with IQ tests as a way to judge future success are that the don't allow for EQ or physical skills quotient. A very talented and successful dancer might score below average in IQ, or a high IQ may score below average in EQ. The latter seems to be quite common among very high IQ people I've known. Some almost have to learn to interact by rote(and can become quite good at it, but novel social situations can throw them). To see the potential in someone a mix of tests would be required. The "best" people would have a balance across the various tests. I'd say they're the rarest of the lot though. Even at that point the ability to have novel approaches to problems might be missed(or tactical thinking). The "imagination quotient". Dunno how one would measure that though. Clearly I lack imagination

johnr1

I've been passing off an exceptional memory as intelligence for as long as I can remember.....

No idea what my IQ is but as I'm 37, a test probably wouldn't be accurate anymore.

Tom

Mine's a closely guarded secret but here's clue for all you below average types

1/2(cos(ax−bx)−cos(ax+bx))−k/2(cos(ax+bx)+cos(ax−bx))=−1

where k > 1 is constant and so are a and b, and they are all irrational.

Fbjm

spagboll wrote: »

what are all of you could/am/was in MENSA types doing for a living?

other high IQ clubs *gli-ven*

Top 2% (98th percentile; 1/50; IQ 131 sd15 / 133 sd16; +2σ):
Mensa International
Top 1% (99th percentile; 1/100; IQ 135 sd15 / 137 sd16):
Intertel
Top 0.1% (99.9th percentile; 1/1,000; IQ 146 sd15 / 149 sd16):
International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
One-in-a-Thousand Society
Triple Nine Society
Top 0.003% (99.997th percentile; 1/30,000; IQ 160 sd15 / 164 sd16):
Prometheus Society
Top 0.0001% (99.9999th percentile; 1/1,000,000; IQ 172 sd15 / 176 sd16):
Mega Society

"studying" (read, "dossing" ) to be a therapist.

johnr1

Tom wrote: »

Mine's a closely guarded secret but here's clue for all you below average types

1/2(cos(ax−bx)−cos(ax+bx))−k/2(cos(ax+bx)+cos(ax−bx))=−1

where k > 1 is constant and so are a and b, and they are all irrational.

Fcuk off with that sh1t - this is AH FFS !!!












I have no idea what that problem even means

WobyTide

1/2(cos(ax−bx)−cos(ax+bx))−k/2(cos(ax+bx)+cos(ax−bx))

Evaluates to e to the i(pi).