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Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« on: March 10, 2008, 08:49:47 AM »
No conversions, but I still think this should qualify as a bouncy. :bouncy:

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Tyler Durden  (1000+ posts)       Mon Mar-10-08 09:38 AM
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This will comfort you or scare the shit out of you, depending on your take. 
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There was a post in VIDEO regarding the average IQ of the American Public, and balancing smart people versus less intelligent. The problem was that the poster was defining the MEAN, not the average.

The AVERAGE IQ of the American Public from the basic IQ tests is always 100 because that's the way it's defined. The absolutely terrifying part of this (to me at least) is that for anyone scoring on the High Side, there are people scoring on the Low Side balancing them out. Here's how this works:

If you define x as the number of persons in a sample below the line (defined as LoIQ) needed to balance out a person of High IQ (defined as HiIQ), the formula is very simple, about 6th grade Algebra. It looks like this:

100=(HiIQ+(x*LoIQ))/(x+1)

If you want the number of persons needed to balance a given HiIQ, sub in the LoIQ and solve for x. This also works for LoIQ and x as long as you sub in a least 2 of the 3 variables.

So if Albert Einstein had a 150 IQ, using the formula you'd need 5 persons with a 90 to balance him out. This doesn't get really scary until you sub in say, Marilyn Vos Savant who is documented at IQ=200. Using the same LoIQ, you'd need 85.7 people with a 90 to balance her, or say in even numbers of 10 persons with IQ=90.

If you're curious about me, you would need 10 persons with IQ=93.3. Do the math.

I'm on the "scares the living shit out of me" side if you're curious about that.

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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 08:58:27 AM »
Why is it that you NEVER EVER EVER read a post by someone online who has less than a 130 IQ?  Seriously, there are NOT that many smart people in this world.  Maybe they just don't admit to having a 110 IQ or lower?  Tyler Durden can't even keep a job as a toilet cleaner at McDonald's with all of his incredible intelligence. :bs:
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2008, 09:03:12 AM »
Why is it that you NEVER EVER EVER read a post by someone online who has less than a 130 IQ?  Seriously, there are NOT that many smart people in this world.  Maybe they just don't admit to having a 110 IQ or lower?  Tyler Durden can't even keep a job as a toilet cleaner at McDonald's with all of his incredible intelligence. :bs:

He's "too smart" for that job...and for "too smart" read "too lazy". Just like everyone else on DU is "too smart" to hold down a job.

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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2008, 09:15:43 AM »
He is also 6' 3", weighs 195 lbs., and has a 14-inch penis.  :whatever:
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2008, 09:26:10 AM »
This post inspired me to do an online IQ test.

IQtest.com had a pretty challenging test.  Gave me a score of 126.  From what I read online, that would make me of a "Very superior intelligence".

Anyone else care to test theres?

http://www.iqtest.com/prep.html?test=final&PHPSESSID=40901ed325d9c2d823ae9c44e5af5443
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2008, 09:28:56 AM »
Huh? I'm pretty smart, but I don't get this rant at all. IQ tests have always been controversial. I also have never heard of anyone being told that their score is affected by others who have also taken the test. Your score is your score. Period. You make a "130", then you make a "130". Who cares where everyone else is ranked?

Methinks the dirtbag has been taking online IQ tests again and wants to brag and/or complain.

Or am I missing something???
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2008, 09:38:39 AM »
DUmmies lies, DUmmies lie all the time.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2008, 09:39:50 AM »
This post inspired me to do an online IQ test.

IQtest.com had a pretty challenging test.  Gave me a score of 126.  From what I read online, that would make me of a "Very superior intelligence".

Anyone else care to test theres?

http://www.iqtest.com/prep.html?test=final&PHPSESSID=40901ed325d9c2d823ae9c44e5af5443
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2008, 09:41:43 AM »
No it doesn't.  To get a full comprehensive breakdown it does, but to get the score, it's free.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2008, 09:44:09 AM »
No it doesn't.  To get a full comprehensive breakdown it does, but to get the score, it's free.
Yeah.  Sorry.  It just came in my email.  I got a 124.  Others I've taken, both on-line and paper-type, range from 124-130. 
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2008, 11:33:39 AM »
141.  Same as usually tested.  Usually been between 140-148.  Guess I'm getting old and slow.

BTW--it's painfully apparent that Tyler here hasn't heard of, let alone used, a simple bell curve.

Oh, and Einstein's IQ was estimated at over 160, but estimates vary widely.  However, it certainly wasn't over 200 as some claim.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2008, 11:45:15 AM »
Wow! you fellas is smart.I'm only scored a 26...... :-) :-)


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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2008, 12:45:54 PM »
Ill have to try to remember this test while Im not infected with the flu. At the moment, I have just enough available brainpower to keep myself alive :(

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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2008, 01:49:24 PM »
Hmmmm seems a little odd.  When I went to take the test it told me I had already taken it.  I clicked on take it again and now I can't find a score. 

If one of y'all get emailed a test score that looks like a phone number ..... it's mine!   :lmao:

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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2008, 01:59:26 PM »
Ill have to try to remember this test while Im not infected with the flu. At the moment, I have just enough available brainpower to keep myself alive :(

Meh--it's okay, but not perfect.  Kind of reminds me of a Wonderlic test.  Speed counts in the test daveman linked to, but only under certain areas of the Stanford-Binet or other adult-based IQ tests is time really a factor.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2008, 02:00:53 PM »
No it doesn't.  To get a full comprehensive breakdown it does, but to get the score, it's free.

Actually, the REAL IQ test was there.  If you paid money to be told how "smrat" you were, you failed already.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2008, 02:02:04 PM »

If one of y'all get emailed a test score that looks like a phone number ..... it's mine!   :lmao:


And yet you jump out of perfectly good airplanes?  I call bullshit.   :tongue:
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2008, 02:07:15 PM »
Ill have to try to remember this test while Im not infected with the flu. At the moment, I have just enough available brainpower to keep myself alive :(

Meh--it's okay, but not perfect.  Kind of reminds me of a Wonderlic test.  Speed counts in the test daveman linked to, but only under certain areas of the Stanford-Binet or other adult-based IQ tests is time really a factor.

Hey, don't be gettin all confused over Avatars.
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2008, 02:08:02 PM »

If one of y'all get emailed a test score that looks like a phone number ..... it's mine!   :lmao:


And yet you jump out of perfectly good airplanes?  I call bullshit.   :tongue:

LOL Well, let me ask you ..... have you ever seen a 'Perfectly Good Airplane'?   :-)

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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2008, 02:17:12 PM »
You know, the prevaricating burdened primitive is self-admittedly 55 years old.

Why is the prevaricating burdened primitive acting like he's still in junior high school?
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Re: Tyler Durden, Giant Tool
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2008, 02:18:27 PM »
^I'll take "Because he's a liberal tool?" for $100 Alex.
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