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

foxyboxer

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.

27!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF037gX5asU

Fbjm

I don't know why, but the first time I saw that on the tv I couldn't keep a straight face for a day and a half

Ellis Dee

orourkeda wrote: »

I was called for a mensa test and scored 136.

I scored 149 - but I cheated.;););)

wiger toods

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.

12?:P

connundrum

58008

Mike 1972

Brendog wrote: »

You've to pay to join? People actually pay money just to say they are a member of a high IQ society?

Evidently this IQ thing is not all its cracked up to be

retalivity

done the mensa one when i was 12, got 138.

got kicked out of mensa a few years ago cos i didnt pay my subscriptions. being a member never done anything for me.

done another IQ test a few months ago as part of a job application, scored 148. Think that swung it for me...

blatantrereg

160 in a couple of tests I did. However I think once it's over 140 or so you are off the scale for normal tests. Need to do ones designed for high IQs to find out anything more than "over 140". Had a glance at one of these and didnt know how to answer most of the questions offhand. Found this offputting

Eric Cartman

bnt wrote: »

Who needs an IQ when you have Emotional Intelligence... right, my dearies?

Emotional intelligence was invented to make oversensetive people feel better about bein dumb

Deus Ex Machina

Christ, these IQ threads are so interminably cringy. Genius IQs left right and centre, followed by the concession of "social retardation" and a lack of faith in the value of a high IQ to soften the blow of the enormous etiquette breech that publicly claiming to be a genius obviously is.

Sure I might be wrong, but I would be utterly stupefied if even 5% of the scores of 120+ were anything close to accurate. And I'll go on the record as being a self confessed thick who in all likelihood would score below the national average on an IQ test, just to avoid looking like a big ol' begrudging prick!

Take_Her_Handy

I've had 5 IQ tests and they average out at 123! I'm quite happy with this because my clever little IQ can count as well

The Snipe

-1

Mike 1972

Take_Her_Handy wrote: »

I've had 5 IQ tests and they average out at 123

Are you smarter on some days than others ?

parker kent

Wibbs wrote: »

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

I'm liking this idea...the Intellectual Decathlon. I shall start my training immediately!

*Cue montage of sudoku, crosswords and creative writing*

Edit: Yes there are 7 more intellectual disciplines in this Decathlon. But they are currently being kept on the Q.T

parker kent

parker kent wrote: »

I'm liking this idea...the Intellectual Decathlon. I shall start my training immediately!

*Cue montage of sudoku, crosswords and creative writing*

I hate sudoku
it's the same bloody thing over and over and over
you can mix around the numbers but it's still the same
don't get the buzz about it at all

parker kent

bluewolf wrote: »

I hate sudoku
it's the same bloody thing over and over and over
you can mix around the numbers but it's still the same
don't get the buzz about it at all

Don't be a Buzz Killington on my witty post :pac:

But yes...sudoku is fun the first three times you do it. Then it gets boring. A bit like Solitaire. It loses appeal once you have finished it once.

Crosswords are the best puzzle for keeping mentally sharp.

parker kent

parker kent wrote: »

Don't be a Buzz Killington on my witty post :pac:

But yes...sudoku is fun the first three times you do it. Then it gets boring. A bit like Solitaire. It loses appeal once you have finished it once.

Crosswords are the best puzzle for keeping mentally sharp.

sorry
that's true, though i don't do them often
too much else going on!

EKClarke

Tbf most people who score high in I.Q. tests are those with aspergers and if your good at maths you'll score higher. Like I can hardly count, still have issues with knowing my left side from my right. When I was 5 I learned to tie my shoe laces for a week and then forgot until I was 7 and I regularly once a year lose my vocabulary yet I'm brilliant at algebra yet can't do long division and I add and subtract at a 1st class level. I could quote a lot of major works of literature and I'm in the small percent of people who can remember what they read yet at times I actually could be classed as borderline retarded because I have suffered from brain damage as a child.

take everything

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Emotional intelligence was invented to make oversensetive people feel better about bein dumb

High EQers should be able to handle it if they've a low IQ anyway. :pac:

moco

Dean09 wrote: »

For the craic I took the test on this website http://www.intelligencetest.com/report/index.htm
and I got 107. I'd say that's wildly inaccurate. It's a test with 30 questions. Well I'm really tired so that's my excuse anyway :pac:

I just did it and got 121 but I skipped through the first few til i got into it.

Davidius

I suppose it's somewhere between 60 and 140.

nkay1985

moco wrote: »

I just did it and got 121 but I skipped through the first few til i got into it.

I got 132 in that. Realised one of the mistakes I made but didn't have time to correct it or to concentrate on the last question as I got a call in work in the middle of the test. Good fun though.

Mal-Adjusted

8 inches...wait, what was the question again?

44leto

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

8 inches...wait, what was the question again?

Yeah I think with that to.

pragmatic1

44leto wrote: »

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

Not a myth at all. Just because quantum mechanics can be exploited doesnt mean its understood.

oppenheimer1

So has anyone actually been honest here (apart from myself of course)? Given the standard of posting in AH, forgive me if I find it hard to believe that it is populated by those of above average intelligence. Or am I actually surrounded by PhDs?

Although not a perfect measure (as everyones opportunities differ) a persons achievements in academics and business would probably give a more realistic measure of intelligence. These values can be correlated to IQ ranges.


At the moment it seems people here are pulling figures out of their arse to inflate their feeling of self worth. You're fooling no one people, apart from yourselves perhaps.

44leto

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Not a myth at all. Just because quantum mechanics can be exploited doesnt mean its understood.

The mathematics is understood just not the processes. Maths can do that, for example, it can predict a singularity but we may not understand what that is.

eilo1

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

So has anyone actually been honest here (apart from myself of course)? Given the standard of posting in AH, forgive me if I find it hard to believe that it is populated by those of above average intelligence. Or am I actually surrounded by PhDs?

Although not a perfect measure (as everyones opportunities differ) a persons achievements in academics and business would probably give a more realistic measure of intelligence. These values can be correlated to IQ ranges.


At the moment it seems people here are pulling figures out of their arse to inflate their feeling of self worth. You're fooling no one people, apart from yourselves perhaps.

Iv a piece of paper to prove it :P mwahahahaha

nkay1985

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

So has anyone actually been honest here (apart from myself of course)? Given the standard of posting in AH, forgive me if I find it hard to believe that it is populated by those of above average intelligence. Or am I actually surrounded by PhDs?

Although not a perfect measure (as everyones opportunities differ) a persons achievements in academics and business would probably give a more realistic measure of intelligence. These values can be correlated to IQ ranges.


At the moment it seems people here are pulling figures out of their arse to inflate their feeling of self worth. You're fooling no one people, apart from yourselves perhaps.

Well I just posted the result I got from the test that was linked. I also, when reading about Mensa as it was being discussed in the thread, did this quiz on their site and got 28 out of 30.

Both of those things are completely honest. Why would you lie about something like this though? It's not as if someone's going to be on Boards in a few months' time and go, "Oh that's person x, I remember them saying they've got an IQ of 140, I better take their view on this mater seriously". We're on a message board. How could lying make any difference to your life?

Logical Fallacy

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

So has anyone actually been honest here (apart from myself of course)? Given the standard of posting in AH, forgive me if I find it hard to believe that it is populated by those of above average intelligence. Or am I actually surrounded by PhDs?

Although not a perfect measure (as everyones opportunities differ) a persons achievements in academics and business would probably give a more realistic measure of intelligence. These values can be correlated to IQ ranges.


At the moment it seems people here are pulling figures out of their arse to inflate their feeling of self worth. You're fooling no one people, apart from yourselves perhaps.

Sorry oppenheimer, just because i am smart doesn't mean i am not allowed to laugh at dick jokes.

I can split my time quite easily between reading "Simulacra and Simulation" and watching South Park.

It's foolish to think that the posting in AH is indicative of anyone's intelligence when the very nature of the environment that is After Hours will result in a more juvenile style of posting.

oppenheimer1

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Sorry oppenheimer, just because i am smart doesn't mean i am not allowed to laugh at dick jokes.

I can split my time quite easily between reading "Simulacra and Simulation" and watching South Park.

It's foolish to think that the posting in AH is indicative of anyone's intelligence when the very nature of the environment that is After Hours will result in a more juvenile style of posting.

I never said that posting in AH was indicative of someones intellect. What I did day was I found it hard to believe that almost everyone here has an intelligence above 115 and no one has said they have an IQ of less than 100 (except myself)as far as I can see. Given the mean is at 100 or there abouts and there are 13 pages of posts, I would have expected more than one.

Yes the style of posting is often juvenile here. Style is not a real give away of the intelligence behind the post, the construction of the argument is. In AH it is often lacking, to the point of non-existence.

Logical Fallacy

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I never said that posting in AH was indicative of someones intellect. What I did day was I found it hard to believe that almost everyone here has an intelligence above 115 and no one has said they have an IQ of less than 100 (except myself)as far as I can see. Given the mean is at 100 or there abouts and there are 13 pages of posts, I would have expected more than one.

Yes the style of posting is often juvenile here. Style is not a real give away of the intelligence behind the post, the construction of the argument is. In AH it is often lacking, to the point of non-existence.

I'll agree with that. But once again it's more of an environmental issue. AH doesn't reward well structured argument, it rewards humour and trolling to an unfortunate degree.

I'm also struggling to think of a valid reason for the average person to have an IQ test and there isn't really one. The vast majority of the people i know have never taken an IQ test.

My issue is not with what you were saying, it was with the apparent whitewashing of anyone who claimed to have a high IQ.

oppenheimer1

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I'll agree with that. But once again it's more of an environmental issue. AH doesn't reward well structured argument, it rewards humour and trolling to an unfortunate degree.

I'm also struggling to think of a valid reason for the average person to have an IQ test and there isn't really one. The vast majority of the people i know have never taken an IQ test.

My issue is not with what you were saying, it was with the apparent whitewashing of anyone who claimed to have a high IQ.

I thought most schools run the DAT Form T test, which is a kind of intelligence test. It gives the result in percentile, but that can be roughly converted to IQ.

I didn't intend to whitewash all high scorers who post here. On second reading of my post I should have said "some people" .There are some that are exaggerating their score though. They have no reason to, except to make themselves feel better. I guess thats their prerogative.

eilo1

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I thought most schools run the DAT Form T test, which is a kind of intelligence test. It gives the result in percentile, but that can be roughly converted to IQ.

I didn't intend to whitewash all high scorers who post here. On second reading of my post I should have said "some people" .There are some that are exaggerating their score though. They have no reason to, except to make themselves feel better. I guess thats their prerogative.

the thing is though, scoring high on an iq test has nearly no overlap into real life and there for no reason to feel good about yourself!

nkay1985

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I thought most schools run the DAT Form T test, which is a kind of intelligence test. It gives the result in percentile, but that can be roughly converted to IQ.

I didn't intend to whitewash all high scorers who post here. On second reading of my post I should have said "some people" .There are some that are exaggerating their score though. They have no reason to, except to make themselves feel better. I guess thats their prerogative.

Yeah I just don't understand how lying to a bunch of strangers would make you feel good about yourself!

Take_Her_Handy

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Are you smarter on some days than others ?

Don't know! TBH, The two days I took the tests after I've had a few scoops were my best results.... Hmmmm, explain that one

ToddyDoody

114 but that was 7 yrs ago, and i went over the time limit by five mins. In the 93rd percentile for reading ability tho

saa

IQ tests don't reflect your intelligence if you have dyslexia but through my screening I scored abnormally high in vocab, general knowledge and visual intelligence.
I don't feel like I have a high vocabulary but convoluted words just appear out of nowhere.

See, I don't even mean to do it, it just happens

i57dwun4yb1pt8

Pherekydes wrote: »

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

eilo1

saa wrote: »

IQ tests don't reflect your intelligence if you have dyslexia but through my screening I scored abnormally high in vocab, general knowledge and visual intelligence.
I don't feel like I have a high vocabulary but convoluted words just appear out of nowhere.

See, I don't even mean to do it, it just happens

They assess dyslexia by measuring you IQ and then comparing that score to your reading comprehension and written abilities. The difference in predicted abilities according to your IQ and your actual performance is how they assess if you are mildly, moderately, highly or not dyslexic at all.

The problem with this assessment method is that part of the IQ test is written so a person with dyslexia may actually be more intelligent than the IQ test finds them.

Vicxas

Ive 12Iq's i does

Yahew

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

Christ, these IQ threads are so interminably cringy. Genius IQs left right and centre, followed by the concession of "social retardation" and a lack of faith in the value of a high IQ to soften the blow of the enormous etiquette breech that publicly claiming to be a genius obviously is.

Sure I might be wrong, but I would be utterly stupefied if even 5% of the scores of 120+ were anything close to accurate. And I'll go on the record as being a self confessed thick who in all likelihood would score below the national average on an IQ test, just to avoid looking like a big ol' begrudging prick!

Yet, you write better than this chap.

retalivity wrote: »

done the mensa one when i was 12, got 138.

got kicked out of mensa a few years ago cos i didnt pay my subscriptions. being a member never done anything for me.

done another IQ test a few months ago as part of a job application, scored 148. Think that swung it for me...

So what you say may well be true.

Yahew

eilo1 wrote: »

the thing is though, scoring high on an iq test has nearly no overlap into real life and there for no reason to feel good about yourself!

it does actually. Although past 120 the correlation between pay and IQ falls off.

eilo1

Yahew wrote: »

it does actually. Although past 120 the correlation between pay and IQ falls off.

Any thing to back that up with? Im supposed to be "gifted" still went to rugby without my gum shield on Wednesday didn't I.

Yahew

eilo1 wrote: »

Any thing to back that up with? Im supposed to be "gifted" still went to rugby without my gum shield on Wednesday didn't I.

The correlation between IQ and Pay?

Here

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlations-of-iq-with-income-and-wealth/

It falls down when you measure wealth, presumably because most large wealth is inherited.

eilo1

Yahew wrote: »

The correlation between IQ and Pay?

Here

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlations-of-iq-with-income-and-wealth/

It falls down when you measure wealth, presumably because most large wealth is inherited.

I was talking about real life, as in day to day living, you are only looking at income. My point is that you can have a massive IQ and still be a very average person. Still do lots of silly things, make lots of mistakes, be ditzy or incompetent at certain things.

Yahew

eilo1 wrote: »

I was talking about real life, as in day to day living, you are only looking at income. My point is that you can have a massive IQ and still be a very average person. Still do lots of silly things, make lots of mistakes, be ditzy or incompetent at certain things.

I have no idea how to answer this. You asked, originally about pay. I posted the statistical facts where are about real life, IQ and income correlate. IQ and wealth doesn't. Also there is some indication that high IQ'd people have as much debt as lower IQ'd people. while mid-IQ people have less. Having higher income does not mean you save it.

IQ and ditiziness - I personally think there is a link there, as high IQ'd people would be in their head a lot of the time, and forget the world, but I can't prove it.

Its a hard one to study :-)

eilo1

Yahew wrote: »

I have no idea how to answer this. I posted the statistical facts where are about real life, IQ and income correlate. IQ and wealth doesn't. As for IQ and debt, I am unsure. Having higher income does not mean you save it.

No I think you have totally misunderstood me. originally I said "the thing is though, scoring high on an iq test has nearly no overlap into real life and there for no reason to feel good about yourself!"

You came back and said "it does actually" and then went on about income.

Your only looking at what a person earns as to how iq affects their life.
You are excluding social factors. I was thinking about all the stupid little day to day things that I do, that my supposedly high iq doesn't shield me from doing. Obviously a high iq makes it easier to attain a profession but it doesnt stop me being stupid at times.