Posted on 11/07/2023 9:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger
Serious lesson, never equate IQ with social status, income, education or common sense. Some of the very smartest people I have known never fit the profile or expectation.
Being too proud of yourself or too smug can be your downfall. Avoid being an educated ass.
Kipling said it well:
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
IQ and school do not go hand in hand.
Probably above average.
“...we make Covid-19 testing kits, stuff like that!”..............
No, but the correlation is strong and positive. Seeing a person with a 112 IQ and a STEM Ph.D. raises suspicion for me. Basically a Jill Biden thesis.
I think your IQ, if you are over say 50 years old, is best indicated by the AVERAGE of all your bank balances that are reflected in your past 10 years of bank statements.
The one caveat is that those “balances” must reflect “earned” money not inherited money or money you extorted from a spouse in a divorce.
One of my wealthiest buddies, retired at 55 with millions in assets. He had a 9th grade education.
I’ve never taken a real IQ test, but many of my close relatives have and scored high. For kicks I and family members have taken the quickie internet IQ tests, with a few interesting take-aways:
1) They are are not completely worthless - family members who have taken the real IQ tests received somewhat similar scores on the internet tests. In other words, if you scored average, above average or genius level on the real test, your score would fall within the same broad grouping on the internet tests.
2) You have to provide your date of birth, sex, race, and level of education. I am a white male, aged 71, with a masters degree. When I entered that information honestly, and took three tests, I got an average of around 144. When I lied, saying I was African American, female, 20 years old with a high school degree, I scored an average of 152 on the same three tests.
It seems they make the interment tests easier for certain demographics - I have heard they do that on the real IQ tests as well - at least with regard to age and education level. So if you are in 10th grade you are measured against a different standard than if you are older with an advanced degree.
I think the test should be the same for everyone.
hehehe... she will blame the test as unfair.
she was ranked 6th over all in intelligence... sweet.
I think that more a measure of emotional intelligence rather than intellectual intelligence. Those things are not always the same. You can have average intelligence and exceed the norm financially because you’re just playing the game so to speak. It doesn’t take extraordinary intelligence to succeed in the US from a financial perspective.
Love it!
That graph hits my opinion of people based on my experience right on the nail.
Trump also has the IQ.
I absolutely agree with you. IQ is just one faucet of being "intelligent." In three tests over a seven year period, I scored between 138 and 141. But I have a hard time focusing and can be distracted easily and I am prone to veer off to the side when I see something that interests me. I am intellectually curious, but don't like to dig too deep. My judgement skills were pretty poor when I was young and I had to make a real effort to stay out of trouble. I did OK, but not like a high IQ would lead someone to infer.
No actually he doesn’t and it’s quite obvious to anyone who does. But he does have a great deal of commonsense which compensates for his lack of above average intelligence.
I knew someone like that in the Air Force. He used his high IQ to find the right woman to take care of him.
Coincidentally, I was told my IQ was 131 in high school.
Was put in fast track classes, but skated through uninterested in anything but graduating and marrying my husband and having a family.
Twenty six years later, graduated university with a degree in computer science at 44 years old.
This was in spite of my computer science advisor and also the head of the department, instead of encouraging me, telling me that I was too old and female, so I would eventually wash out.
+1
I was shocked! Shocked, I tell you! To see that education majors' average IQ was 110. I would have guessed it was a negative number.
Not just HS. In 4th Grade, they thought that I had a developmental disorder. Sent me to a specialist for IQ testing, among other things.
Results came back... I was smarter, by the age adjusted scores, than the PhD administering the test. Mild dyslexia was my real issue... easily corrected.
Other assessments about a high IQ being a detriment beyond a certain point are accurate. Social ineptitude and emotional issues are common.
Thank you for your service, FRiend.
I too wish you could have made it over to the school.
I am USN, but have always had a special degree of admiration for Marines.
I have always felt that anyone who made it through Parris Island or the like is going to have an advantage over those who never have, myself included.
I figure it gets you closer to knowing what is important about yourself, and what isn’t.
So...thank you.
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