IQ

[The Man]

IQ measures how well you do on an IQ test. That's pretty much it. It certainly isn't an indicator of how well you'll do in life.

[Mirage]

Please watch The Soup with week. There's a kid with an IQ of 176 and they tell him that Albert Einstein's was only 160. He says "who's that?"

That's fine. Intelligence isn't the same as knowledge. Knowing who Einstein was and what he did has little to do with how good you are at solving problems and seeing patterns, etc.

I took a somewhat proper test once, and I landed at 117, though I think it relied a bit too much on knowledge.

@ Pureghetto:
They're supposed to give a representation of how well you solve real life logical problems and stuff, but you're right in the sense that if you do lots of IQ tests, and do many exercises that are similar to the ones you get a IQ tests, you'll do better at them, but then I don't think it really reflects your real life performance .

I guess it can be compared to a test of your physique. On a normal person, you don't have to do a zillion tests for every single muscle in your body to get a pretty good estimate of how fit you are, but if you specifically train the muscle groups that you know will matter most next time you get yourself tested, it's no longer going to reflect your actual fitness level.

[Gwawr]

*sigh* This is where I lose respectability.

When I was at school, I was lucky enough to be able to apply for Cambridge University, as I was a straight A student. Also, at the same time as that, my school were in the middle of some IQ research which meant that I was immediately flagged up by my teachers. I took a genuine IQ test and scored 152. A lot of it was highly unrelated to intelligence, and more related to the way in which your brain works things out. As it happens, I have incredibly limited common sense.

Naturally, I turned down my Cambridge offer for the one at Royal College.

[Lawr]

I read this quote once that went " IQ will never replace I am or I will. " I took a test once, and it didn't seem like it was an actual intelligence test, more of what Gwawr said.

[Laddy]

137.

[rubah]

*patpats Gwawr*

My friends always made fun of me for not having 'common sense' but I ask, what is common sense? The laws and modes of our societies change frequently, and what may seem common in one era not at all in the next, or in the same era but another society.

[Shlup]

My IQ is 142. I am notably good at useless things. I also have like no friends.