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tomk
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Seuss]
#4253116 - 06/03/05 05:20 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I get between 135 all the way up to 165 from the tests (internet) I've taken. I also passes the mensa test when i took the online practice one, but never really felt like taking the real one. When we had standardized tests in school, I was always in the 99% percentile for everything. However, I don't think that makes me intellegent, it just makes me good at performing for psychologists who create tests they can project their own insecurities onto.
Personally, I think it's sort of dumb to look at the IQ of famous people. Really, the thing that made Einstein so good wasn't his high IQ, it was the freedom he had by not being attached to a particular school of thought. Same with Darwin. Most of the brilliant people were brilliant because they were so free from the conditioning that ruined their contemporaries, not because of high IQs. High IQ might be a pre-requisite for being super good at some field, but it's not sufficient.
A lot of mental illnesses also correlate with IQs at the ends of the spectrums.
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: tomk]
#4254037 - 06/03/05 09:32 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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memory recall is not intelligence
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moog
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: PJDIDDLE]
#4254170 - 06/03/05 10:02 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, only 1 person with an IQ below 110. The Shroomery is full of geniuses. 
I think this poll may be more accurate if we subtract 25 points from everyone's answer.
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: moog]
#4254428 - 06/03/05 11:27 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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According to Tickle my IQ is 156
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: DieCommie]
#4255030 - 06/04/05 03:01 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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122 piss drunk... according to Tickle
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Kalix]
#4255241 - 06/04/05 08:14 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah i agree with/seuss btw Charles Darwin - 157
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: PJDIDDLE]
#4255601 - 06/04/05 11:03 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm guessing most of these results are based on crappy online IQ tests people have taken 
Either that or people are liars... or maybe the geniuses were just drawn to this thread, eh? If it was valid then it'd be in the shape of the normal distribution (bell curve) w/ 100 being the peak.
Correct?
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: mantis]
#4255799 - 06/04/05 12:13 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
mantis said:Correct?
Correct. Except for the fact that because we are into shrooms, we are smarter than the average person. (not to mention stronger, healthier, and better looking)
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: DieCommie]
#4256189 - 06/04/05 02:12 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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obviously
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: mantis]
#4258135 - 06/05/05 12:03 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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113 on tickle, and an "Analytic Detective".
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: PJDIDDLE]
#4298425 - 06/15/05 08:36 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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well, I'm going to put my 2.5 cents worth in here...
as far as IQ tests have gone, I've been tested four separate times throughout my schooling. First instance was in 2nd grade.. and evidently, the backwater redneck school was so perplexed at my score (144), they put me in the "gifted program" which was, in short... jack shit.
Once in middle school, I was tested again (I literally was the Guinea Pig for the Smith County Board of Education.. I took all sorts of tests, not just IQ) and scored 163. I was allowed to skip Pre-algebra and jump straight into Algebra. Woopety-shit.
Freshman year of High School... yet another IQ test. pulled out at 148. okay.. no biggie.. the test was a completely different format, but same overall.
Last and final test, Junior year, before I dropped out (YES, DAMNIT.. I dropped out. Out of pure and simple boredom and the need to get out of that piss-ass redneck town. Got my G.E.D. later...) took yet ANOTHER damnable test. this one was three times longer than any previous IQ test I had taken, and involved me solving actual puzzles (like those nevelty puzzles.. the horseshoes with the chain and rin, remove the ring; or the two twisted nails together, just separate them). pulled out with a 157.
so for one.. I ranged from 144-163... so I'm either an Intellectual or a Genius... quite a difference on the IQ scale. I lose faith in the actual exact accuracy. But the IQ tests reflect the same results from other tests, including ACT's and various standard competancy Tests and College entrance exams (yes, I'm in college.. my ACT scores got me in... 35 if anyone cares.)
so.. to sum up all the previous babble, I do place some weight in IQ tests.. but not much. They do reflect some of the ability of a human mind, but I believe no test ont he face of the Earth can truely reflect the intellectual capacity of a person.
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Chewbacca]
#4298709 - 06/15/05 10:02 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i was under the impression that my 124 was a good score, but it's below the median on here. i'm sure those results are not accurate.
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heh.. like someone said before.. subract about 25 from everyone's answers, and you'll have an accurate look at things... people like to make themselves look smart.
I guess I should include myself
Otherwise I'll look like an arrogant ass
Shovenistic Donkey, maybe?
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Chewbacca]
#4299979 - 06/15/05 03:17 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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My IQ has been estimated to be around 85-90.
Actually I've never taken an IQ test, and I don't plan on it.
And all the online ones are BS.
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moog
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An IQ of 124 is very good. Anything higher than 130 is pretty rare. This poll is obviously not very accurate, since most people have gotten their results from an internet test or something like that (in other words, it doesn't count).
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: faslimy]
#4302368 - 06/16/05 01:17 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
faslimy said: memory recall is not intelligence
And an IQ test is not memory recall. What's your point?
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Chewbacca]
#4303455 - 06/16/05 11:48 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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> so for one.. I ranged from 144-163...
Thats just it... an IQ score is your position relative to the rest of the population. You can stay the same, but the population can move around you, thus your IQ score can change as more people are tested.
> my ACT scores got me in... 35 if anyone cares
I got a 31 on the act. I aced every single section, except one... English. You can calculate how poorly I did on the English section rather than forcing me to admit it. 
> Anything higher than 130 is pretty rare.
Anything higher than 130 would be more than two sigma (larger than two standard deviations from the mean) which is something like 0.05% of the population... or somewhere around 1 in 200 people.
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: PJDIDDLE]
#4305295 - 06/16/05 07:46 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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the tickle iq tests and other such online scams have inflated scores so more people will think they are "genius" and get a super-inflated ego which will make them want to buy the $$$ personalatiy profile so they can read about how smart they are and feel really neat-o about it.
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: TODAY]
#4349895 - 06/29/05 08:48 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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agreed.. I took the IQ test on tickle and scored 170-something..
at least 30 points over what it really is...
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Re: What is your IQ [Re: Chewbacca]
#4354013 - 06/30/05 01:56 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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zero!
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