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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: TrashMan on November 02, 2003, 03:15:41 pm
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Be honest! (yeah, right...like I expect you'll be...)
I don't take the tests seriously, especially since it's such a complex thing to test. And now scientist are saying that there are several types of inteligence...
I don't belive one can test an IQ of an animal... the idea itself is crazy...Alltough I do belive that they are far smarter than any of us would like to belive..
Really, we think we (humans) are so great.... If we said that animals were really smart, that would make US look bad, now would it?
I took 2 tests..... One showed 132, the other 150...
I guesss it should be somewhere in between then...around 141..
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I think I got 128 the last time I tried. But IQ doesn't measure your actual knowedge, so it seems a bit of a pointless indicator anyway.
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154, though I don't believe the test.
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200 last time measured....that measure is bull****...so is the test.
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I've never taken an IQ test, and I don't intend to.
I can't see the point.
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I've not been tested... Want SAT scores?
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Hey, not to brag or anything, but why do you think Graham thought up this big number (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/graham.htm) he's famous for? :p
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Don't forget KT's number, 4^^4.
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Or Kalfireths number, 5^^5.... :p
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Hey, not to brag or anything, but why do you think Graham thought up this big number (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/graham.htm) he's famous for? :p
Uh.... why is this relevant or worth caring about?
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It's a joke - he's trying to say that the number was thought up to encompass his massive IQ :)
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Ah.
Note to self. When attempting a joke, ensure it's funny.
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138.
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It's been a damn long time since I've been professionally tested. I was a 120 in 5th grade, and now im in 11th so that figures out to be about 150ish. I have felt a slowdown in the recient years.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Don't forget KT's number, 4^^4.
i thought that KT's number would have been 69...
my iq is probably around 150
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No, I`m serious.
I had better things to do....
*does pre-flight inspection of Herc...
:)
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funny how everyone is always over 120. if 100 is average, then there must be a small number of people with IQs of 10.
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*cough*.....err......nm.
It should be noted that 140 for a 14-19 year old is considered to be a Genius (I got 138 at 15), and that online IQ tests are bull**** designed to flatter you into buying ****.
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Average IQ - 100-110...
Either we have some fargin' genuises here with the IQ of Einstein or you just took an unnofficial random google test.
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187, in 'normal' [not internet one] test. But, to be honest, that was a looooong time ago: it was a child test, so it probably [sp?] do not count. And I do not have any more recent number.
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You're either a complete ****ing liar, a total genius or a flukey bastard.
187 is "We're sending you to Physics Camp" smart.
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Originally posted by an0n
You're either a complete ****ing liar, a total genius or a flukey bastard.
187 is "We're sending you to Physics Camp" smart.
As I said, it was a child test. I do not know what I would get from a more recent test.
That, and I AM quite smart. Not a genius, but still.:D Don't worry, I'm working on it.:D
It is especially funny when you consider that I should be retarded, based on medical predictions.
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they couldn't score mine - i was well beyond the top end of the bell curve both times i took the test
bloody newbies need to write a better test so they can tell me
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the "compare to einstein's IQ" doesn't work - intelligence tests then and now are fundamentally different.
While the term IQ is still used the scores off of today's tests are anything but a quotient. IQ is actually Intelligence Quotient = Mental Age/Physical Age - It was never meant to be used as an intelligence test but as simple a placement test for the french school system. The mental age was determined by what they know in comparision to what they should know had them been going to school the entire time they should.
Modern intelligence tests are based off cognitive ability and not knowledge, their scoring is based off a standard deviation with the Z=0 being mapped to "100 points" - Z+1 = 120, Z+2 = 140 and likewise Z-1 = 80, Z-2 = 60 -- It is possible to have extremely high scores blasting well beyond the defined limit of Z+5 but not be "send him to physics camp" -- this is due to the nature of the tests -- they measure cognitive ability, not knowledge.
Cognitive ability tells us what we can learn, and how fast we can learn it. A good modern intelligence test will be accompanied by a more specialized CAT (Cognitive Abilities Test - as opposed to general intelligence test) and a Multiple Intelligences test to determine areas the individual has the most ability it
it should be noted: internet IQ tests mean exactly bull****
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IF you're asking how I know this ****? History of the IQ test comes from college pysch class, straight out of our 2003 printed Pyschology textbook - and the knowledge of modern intelligence testing comes from first hand expirience
btw i was subjected to the testing battery TWICE - once in 4th grade and once in 7th grade - the first was the juvenile (middle school aged) test then the second one was the adult (Read: post 4 year college) test
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Originally posted by Shrike
Ah.
Note to self. When attempting a joke, ensure it's funny.
Hi Scrooge. :rolleyes: :p
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Originally posted by PhReAk
i thought that KT's number would have been 69...
my iq is probably around 150
That's Tight's.
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I do belive Einstein's IQ was a bout 186...
so everyone who states he has 180-200 is a darn LIAR!!!
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I was tested by Mensa when I was 9, and scored 165. Haven't checked again since.
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never really checked anyhitng, though i usually get 120 or over on net tests.
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Mine was 178 when I was 27, but then my brother is smarter than me, but dyslexic, so he only scored 89...
IQ tests only test your knowledge to a particular 'Stencil' of what defines Intelligence. My brother can build a computer from base components in a day, can divide 7 by 2.6 almost as fast as a calculator, a skill long since fused out of my brain, and yet cannot spell the word 'animal' for example.
Flipside :D
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165 last time i tested 9 years ago
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130.
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Originally posted by Carl
funny how everyone is always over 120. if 100 is average, then there must be a small number of people with IQs of 10.
Ever met someone with extreme autism? They usually can't read, write, or talk, and if they have any language capability it is limited to parroting words and phrases that they heard earlier without any understanding of what they're saying, and they behave in very strange ways (rocking back and forth, hitting their heads against whatever's in front of them, and even weirder things you'd have too see to believe).
They're a really sad lot, and there's nothing anyone can do for them.
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Originally posted by TrashMan
I do belive Einstein's IQ was a bout 186...
so everyone who states he has 180-200 is a darn LIAR!!!
Marilyn vos Savant has an IQ of 227.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
big number (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/graham.htm)
Jesus Christ!:eek:
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Originally posted by Kazan
IQ is actually Intelligence Quotient = Mental Age/Physical Age
That's the basic idea but there's some kind of adjustment put in... the difference in 1 year between 7 and 8 is a lot more than the difference in 1 year between 44 and 45, so they adjust accordingly.
Aside: I took an IQ test for 14-year olds when I was 12 and scored 150... using Kazan's zeta adjustment with 20 points for each of the intervening 2 years, maybe it should have been around 190. :D
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Jesus Christ!:eek:
[color=66ff00]We're not sure what his IQ was, the bible is a bit sketchy in that area, we do know he was a wine buff though. :nod:
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ROFL Yep, everyone talks about the Passover, yet no-one mentions the Hangover ;) LOL
Sorry :D
Flipside :D
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I have no idea what my IQ is. All I remember is that it was sufficient for a Mensa membership. Since 1 in 50 humans are eligible, this probably isn't terribly impressive. Plus I've had a lot to drink since then.
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Originally posted by Flipside
My brother can build a computer from base components in a day, can divide 7 by 2.6 almost as fast as a calculator
cool
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Goober you didn't quite catch my post - they no longer use IQ -- it has merely become a colloquial term for intelligent test scores
-- there is no "mental age/physical age" because 'mental age' is a measure of what you have learned - not to mention the entire thing doesn't tell us anything about _intelligence_ just _learning_
the tests are completely different now - but yes they use the bell curve mapped onto 0 to 200 from z-5 to z+5
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]We're not sure what his IQ was, the bible is a bit sketchy in that area, we do know he was a wine buff though. :nod:
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:p :lol:
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Originally posted by Kazan
Goober you didn't quite catch my post - they no longer use IQ -- it has merely become a colloquial term for intelligent test scores
-- there is no "mental age/physical age" because 'mental age' is a measure of what you have learned - not to mention the entire thing doesn't tell us anything about _intelligence_ just _learning_
AFAIK "mental age / physical age" was the way it was originally done, but since they realized that 1 year of difference means lots of different things depending on your current age, they revised the thing.
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There's a pretty good culture-neutral intelligence test here--
http://www.iqtest.dk/testEnglish.swf
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lol im stooopid, 123, did it here : www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation we dont really do iq much in england. besides the average for my age gender and location was 114.