How smart are we at Subsim?

[silentrunner]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

That IQ test you linked is nonsense, just like all the other ones you find on the net (some more so then others)

Yeah I know. It's still fun though.

[Torplexed]

Do they have negative IQ numbers?

[antikristuseke]

Just did the linked test out of boredom, 152. Not bad for 5:30am when i woke up 20 hours ago.

[Ducimus]

I think that website is a phish.

The email was enough of an alarm bell, let alone the rest of the info it wants.

[Syxx_Killer]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I think that website is a phish.

The email was enough of an alarm bell, let alone the rest of the info it wants.

Exactly. That's why I used my Hotmai address. I don't think you need to fill in the rest it wants. I got fed up with that only to find I got e-mailed my results anyway. My score was 135. I don't trust that site, though.

[silentrunner]

Yeah I only filled in email nothing else.

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by silentrunner

Yeah I only filled in email nothing else.

Submitting your email drops you 20 IQ points!

[GlobalExplorer]

These tests are a joke if someone can do a 152. Normal tests max at 130 and then you have to take additional ones to find out the exact result above 130. Lets not forget while an IQ of 130 is actually extremely good, 150 is nothing short of genius.

I guess the point of these tests is to make people happy with the result so they can boast with it.

[Graf Paper]

Well, considering there's no standard for IQ tests, it's really a moot point anyways.

I once took one of the "big three" of IQ tests, the California one, if I recall correctly, but I can remember its exact name..Stanford-something...I think. This was 20 years ago, after all.

After three days and four tests, I was judged to have an IQ of 175.

Okay, so I understand a lot of what I read and can keep up with some pretty esoteric cosmological and metaphysical philosophies...

...but it ain't never put a dime in my pocket or made my life any easier, except for taking tests, and I absolutely abhor any math more complex than long division.

I'd argue that the true measure of high intelligence are the people who are smart enough to be happy with their lives, no matter how great or small.

[Platapus]

I still don't know how anyone can measure "intelligence"?

You can measure ability (problem solving, pattern recognition, associations) but that has little to do with intelligence.

Culture and various academic experiences still seem to play a large part in these "tests".

What you do with your intelligence is much more important than how "much" intelligence you have IMHO

[HunterICX]

*Read title*

you're kidding right

HunterICX

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

That IQ test you linked is nonsense, just like all the other ones you find on the net (some more so then others)

Exactly. And of the "official" IQ tests scientist would conduct, or psychologists, it is not much different. As long as there are so many different understandings of what intelligence is, and IQ tests get constructed with this diversity of understanding, and different weighing of theoretical sub-constructs, IQ scores make little sense.

Or as Asimov put it: intelligence is what an IQ-test is measuring.

Better understand intelligence as a meta-label only that does not describe one quality in itself, but under which a whole range of qualities of varying complexity get summarized. and to the degree the mixture is varying, so does your understanding of intelligence, and so does what your test is measuring.

Which might essentialy mean there are different kinds of intelligence in theory as well.

[longam]

The best IQ test out there http://www.orlandosentinel.com/featu...dp-classifieds

[TDK1044]

I'm smart enough not to take the posted test. I took one about 15 years ago and scored 128.

[Subnuts]

My IQ was 148.

Then I read the "is Hillary mentally ill?" thread, and it went down to 146. Then I read the "women on nuclear submarines" thread, and it was down to 142.

Coincidence?