O/T: How smart are you?

[ewallace]

This is good clean thinking man's fun:

http://www.changework.com/downloads/iqtest.exe

[anton]

A butcher is 5' 10" tall, what does he weigh?

[halfling]

meat

[anton]

baaah... damit... you just had to ruin my fun didnt you? :D

[gazza99]

Got a 125, So technically I am well above average intoxicated! Does that mean my legal drinking limit should be raised?


Gary

[halfling]

:rolleyes:

[ewallace]

Considering you took an IQ test drunk I would think it should be lowered! I mean, the last thing I want to do when intoxicated is actually have to think about something. Sheesh.

[DelicateSound]

I was 166 about a year ago, with maths letting me down completely.

However, I was sober. Which makes me 1000 times less hard than Gary.

[PHILBERT]

I was 133 last time I took a test

[Mister Hansome]

I got 143 (i didn't do the math questions btw so i don't know what i would have gotten, because i didn't have a calculator with me, could have answered them, but a big waste of time to do it with paper and pencil) on that IQ test by queendom.com, i got like 182 or something by that one by ah i don't remember. But they all show different results, and sometimes they have questions related to a specific region, so i don't trust them much. Like i am Canadian, how am i supposed to know what buildings on the american penny, which i seldom see it; i see it like once or twice in my life but i don't follow them with detail. Or those math problems (talking about the harder ones, not the adding questions. How am i supposed to know the decimal place for the square root of 0.35 right off the top of my head? oh wait that's the purpose... hehehe) when you have no calculator (hey, technology, use it)...

They're not accurate sometimes, the usual ones, but i like the one on this thread for sure. No history questions related to a specific nation or anything. Just pretty pictures and numbers. hehehe, i got most of them right, and then that super genius last level came in where i got one question right and the rest wrong... HARD STUFF!

[KungFuGuy!]

Funny, the average IQ is 100, but gary's is the only one I've heard of below 130.
The thing is, these internet tests tend to be a lot easier than a real test.
Let's look at it this way, Einstein's IQ was something around 165, so if any one of you got over that (or within 20 below for that matter), your IQ test was wrong :D

Edit: Mister, you do, in fact, have a calculator on you. Go to your start icon, go up to programs, accessories, calculator :D

[Mr Punch]

Couldn't get the download to work!

[guohuen]

Mat. Did you save the download rather than open it. You'll need to.
Apparently when I'm exausted from a twelve and a half hour shift I'm not very smart at all. I answered the first two questions correctly and the third incorrect on the second and third test. My ego wouldn't let me continue or try the first test.

[DelicateSound]

KFG: If you consider that Einstein's knowledge was pretty specialised it's a very bad level of judgement.

The problem with IQ tests is that they don't always consider the separation of intellegence/level of knowledge.

Just a thought.

[Braden]

Just FYI, the formal IQ distribution is like this:

40-55: 0.13%
55-70: 2.15%
70-85: 13.59%
85-100: 34.13%
100-115: 34.13%
115-130: 13.59%
130-145: 2.15%
145-160: 0.13%

[Sho]

136 when I last took the test.

[KungFuGuy!]

I see, so what you're saying is you believe you are smarter than Einstein in every aspect except math? Are you sure it wasn't the ego test you scored so well on? :D

[Nexus]

If you can pour a beer without the foam overflowing the cup, it doesn't matter how high your IQ is.

[guohuen]

I must be brilliant then!

[Nexus]

You are my friend. May we all follow your example.

[Richie]

Most of you are probably between 90 and 115. It is nothing to be ashamed about.

[Kaitain(UK)]

a lot depends on the type of IQ test - some people just plain suck at spacial awareness stuff (show you a flag on a pole and then you have to work out what picture is correct if you walk 270 degrees clockwise etc)

sometimes it's a more education related test requiring you to find the closest match to a word

Internet IQ tests are disproportionate anyway as they are usually multiple choice and therefore there's always the random chance factor - my IQ test for my job was 140, on net tests I've got 150+ which is ridiculous

Also - familiarity makes the tests easier - the first time I saw a question like:
"all Quaggles are Quiggles, some Quiggles are Squaggles, are all Squaggles Quaggles? - yes, no, can't tell"

I had a complete brain freeze - but whenever I've seen them since it's been easy - consequently I scored higher because I answered the questions in a shorter period.

Some of the most poorly paid, boring, no-life people I know have IQ's 155+, I think IQ is pretty much irrelevant to life

I'd much rather be good looking :)

[Braden]

Just FYI, the formal IQ distribution is like this:

40-55: 0.13%
55-70: 2.15%
70-85: 13.59%
85-100: 34.13%
100-115: 34.13%
115-130: 13.59%
130-145: 2.15%
145-160: 0.13%

Someone with an IQ of 155 is in the 99.99th percentile.

This distribution is constrained, in the sense that these numbers are chosen to mean such that they describe this distribution. Like when a teacher says he's going to bell curve your marks such that the class average will be a C+? In other words, it's impossible you all know people (let alone are people) with IQs this high.

A formal IQ measurement means something specific. It's not a term used to refer to any measurement of intellectual function. For instance, there are tests of spatial reasoning, and there are tests of IQ.

One could certainly argue that constrained distributions in general are faulty, and that IQ in particular is meaningless.

[Helicopter]

The international standard IQ test is the WAIS III.

This test can not (and does not) effectively measure an IQ over 150.

I've done this test and was at the 98 percentile of the population, which I think is an IQ of about 135.

[ewallace]

Just so everyone knows, the link I posted wasn't an actual IQ test. And FTR, mine was tested at 133. But that was many beers ago.

[KungFuGuy!]

Holy ****, it seems my 128 is one of the lowest on the board! How the hell does that work?

[ewallace]

Well, if you were a little smarter you could probably figure it out.

[KungFuGuy!]

lol :D

I have my suspicions.