What is your IQ score?

[Oaky]

Let's make this clear: it's impossible to jump from 143 to 160+. You'll only "train" your test taking ability.

You clearly didn't read my post afterwards.

 

[Silly_Siren]

You clearly didn't read my post afterwards.

Yeah, jeez what an idiot

 

[Snuggletron]

I determine the new average for IQ is 130.

 

[iamathousandapples]

Just retook it. The monitor blew up once it got my result, but just before it died I saw, "You result: ∞ "

It didn't blow up, I saw the results before you did and crushed the monitor as a result.

 

[Synarch]

It didn't blow up, I saw the results before you did and crushed the monitor as a result.

WITH YOUR MIND?

Impressive.

 

[iamathousandapples]

WITH YOUR MIND?

Impressive.

My mind has any number of psychic limbs which I can summon anytime and anywhere with my mind to anywhere I want

 

[Ginkgo]

I have an average IQ of 140-145.

My visual spacial IQ is 145-150.

However, if you ask me, IQ doesn't mean a damn if you're as lazy as I am.

A lazy "genius" is about as useful as a pen with no ink, or a Nickelback's Best album.

 

[nanook]

La Isla Bonita

i am unbelievable
smart people cant believe how stupid i am
and stupid people cant believe how smart i am

 

[Southern Kross]

I've never taken a properly administered test. I have taken some of the more respectible online tests and I usually get between 132 and 138.

That said I just took that High IQ Society test and got 126. I do much better on the visual and spatial stuff and there wasn't as much in this one.

 

[Litvyak]

You clearly didn't read my post afterwards.

No, I didn't. Now I did, and everything you're doing is toying around with definitions. Intelligence is mostly genetically coded, and you can't really work on the "developable part" after your teens.

Whatever, I'm pretty sure it must be fun nevertheless

 

[TickTock]

Intelligence is dumb.

 

[Oaky]

No, I didn't. Now I did, and everything you're doing is toying around with definitions. Intelligence is mostly genetically coded, and you can't really work on the "developable part" after your teens.

Whatever, I'm pretty sure it must be fun nevertheless

Intelligence is mostly genetically coded. It still indicates that there is a part of intelligence that isn't genetically coded. I will improve it.

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

okay, seriously, my IQ is 167 which is about half of what I got on my SATs. So.....does IQ really matter?


I think I satisfied all of the rules for posting in this thread, since A) I mentioned that my IQ was higher than average, B) Stated that I have no faith in Intelligence Quotient and even offering a bit of anecdotal evidence suggesting its insignificance.

Furthermore, I hate cats.

 

[Oaky]

Furthermore, I hate cats.

Oh... I'm sorry... I just... I just have to disagree with you.

 

[NewEra]

However, if you ask me, IQ doesn't mean a damn if you're as lazy as I am.

A lazy "genius" is about as useful as a pen with no ink, or a Nickelback's Best album.

Agreed. Intelligence is nothing if you don't use it.

 

[Litvyak]

and you can't really work on the "developable part" after your teens.

Missed this part?

 

[Oaky]

Missed this part?

I'd like a reason why not. You are saying that one who is 40 years old would have the same intelligence since he was 18. I believe one can continue to increase his intelligence.

 

[Litvyak]

I'd like a reason why not.

Ask a psychologist. Any psychologist, actually. The one at our national Mensa could give you some hints, but I'm afraid a meeting with him is hardly possible.

You are saying that one who is 40 years old would have the same intelligence since he was 18.

Intelligence increases for some time, then decreases after some time. With hard practice, you can slow down the setback, but that's pretty much everything you can do.

Age is incorporated in IQ tests (they are standardized considering the test takers age), and for them to be accurate, they are balanced according to age. For example if you reach a 75/100 score on a test and you're 18, your IQ might be around 125. If you score 75/100 with the age of 40, your IQ is around 140.

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[Oaky]

Ask a psychologist. Any psychologist, actually. The one at our national Mensa could give you some hints, but I'm afraid a meeting with him is hardly possible.

Intelligence increases for some time, then decreases after some time. With hard practice, you can slow down the setback, but that's pretty much everything you can do.

Age is incorporated in IQ tests (they are standardized considering the test takers age), and for them to be accurate, they are balanced according to age. For example if you reach a 75/100 score on a test and you're 18, your IQ might be around 125. If you score 75/100 with the age of 40, your IQ is around 100.

I believe knowledge breeds intelligence. The more knowledge you have of things the more logical one can make his decisions. Or am I wrong?

I know how IQ tests work. But if that were the case then at 40 you are more intelligent than when you are 18 if you get a higher score yet get the same IQ. You are on the IQ of the age. So what I want is to speed up that process instead of waiting all those years. To put it in simpler terms:

Age 18 = IQ 125 = 75/100
Age 40 = IQ 125 = 85/100

You got higher results. This would mean that you are still more intelligent at 40 than at 18. So there is progress. Then wouldn't it be possible to speed up that progress?

 

[Jaguar]

I have an average IQ of 140-145.

My visual spacial IQ is 145-150.

However, if you ask me, IQ doesn't mean a damn if you're as lazy as I am.

A lazy "genius" is about as useful as a pen with no ink, or a Nickelback's Best album.

What's wrong with Nickelback? Lol.