Lol, that’d suck to lose in both contests.
Good for him, too bad it doesn’t really do him much good. You can have a crazy intelligence quota and still be virtually useless in the workforce: It doesn’t say a think about useful intelligence. No one makes a living from seeing patterns and thinking 3D from 2D.
And to put things into perspective, I usually rank above 130. Am I blazingly intelligent? No, not really.
I think i heard on some documentery about some members of MENSA, that quite a lot of them are rather poor. personally, I don’t give a spoon about the intellectual differences between me and anybody else. If they are smart, good for them, I don’t care.
I scored a 122…not that it really matters anyway, to attempt to measure the human intellect is like trying to measure the width of the universe…it just ain’t happenin.
well I went to the psychologist on my weekly appointment and he mad me take an IQ test and the next week when I came back, it turned out that I was fuggin brilliant with a 173 but they wondered why I failed 5 out of 8 classes my first semester. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, but how you apply yourself.
Why do you need to see a psychologist? Weekly even?
to repress my suicidal/homicidal tendacies
That’s a good reason. Hope it helps. 
Heh, that’s true. The smartest person I’ve ever known (Booksmart… at least) has already fucked his life up so badly that I don’t understand. Oh well, I’m sure having to take several medicines for depression/whatever the hell else isn’t helping. I hope he shapes up soon. It’ll be weird having a 2.0GPA next to a fucking 35 ACT score.
It’s funny that even after people said that IQ doesn’t really measure anything, others are still saying how high (and supposedly smart) they are.
And how many of these ‘IQ tests’ were the ones offered by pop-ups and such?
My dad was in Mensa. I never even knew til he died.
Odds are, no one here has taken a REAL IQ test given out by a real psychologist or professional in the appropriate setting. They’re supposed to be long tests and they’re age specific. So please people, stop spitting out your "IQ"s. You’ll just look like Setz when he joined the boards. And Vorpy and Infonick are both right about how IQ tests have been used. If you’ll learn anything from any science its that a test only tests what it is testing and that the actual meaning and implications of a test may or may not reflect on what this was testing. Example: when you have a high SAT score, people think you’re smart. That may or may not be true. That is an assumption they make from your getting a high number of answers right. However, all the test shows is that you answered a lot of them right. This has no real bearing on who you are as a person and what you’re capable of beyond potentially getting a lot of questions right on another SAT test as long as the test is valid and reliable.
Actually, I have had my IQ tested properly by professionals on three occasions (I’ve specifically not posted the numbers though).
I’m gonna agree with Sin, when he says that the test is long and age specific (at least I assume it was age specific. It certainly seemed apropriate for me at all ages when I took the test). But as for the reliability and validity of the test I have some thoughts there:
Reliability- as stated earlier, my scores varied GREATLY from one testing to another. This is only counting my officially administered tests, and I still had a range of over two standard deviations in the results. Now, admittedly, all three tests were given by different professionals, but doesn’t that still give some bearing to the value of the tests overall reliability?
Validity- the test did not seem entirely valid to me. Valid by the PSYCH-102 definition that is. For a test that is supposed to measure intelligence, it seemed to focus at times on subtle aspects of perception, just as often as volume capacity of short term perception. Though I certainly can’t deny that these elements play a major role in intelligence, it seems to gloss over that aspect of intelligence which is the synthesis of new ideas, or the critical analysis and hypothesis about extant ideas. Those, I feel are vital aspects of intelligence missing from the test.
My Mom says I have an IQ of like, a billion
I think she was wrong.
My dad can also beat up your dad
My MOM can beat up ALL your daddys.
Top 2% of the world population my ass. I’ve been tested for 172, and I consider myself a dumbass near a lot of people with whom I convive.
Serious, IQ tests are all about counting squares in a screen and thinking fast. They’re not scanning for intelligence, they’re scanning for math skills.
IQ tests have never been very reliable. Especially since they are age biased, and culture biased, which is what they were originally desgined to be. Which is why whenever I take an IQ test it is just for fun, and a bit of a challenge.
Well, I always get things when I apply myself like when I’m in class. It’s just that my philosophy is that we spend 7 hours of our time not getting high so why spend the rest on homework. If I tried, I could be valedictorian.