skypuddle, *HONEST* DU Thread: Do you know your IQ? If so, what is it, and how d

[tuolumnejim]

A thread of DUmmies overestimating their IQ's, and the key word apparently is overestimating because all they're doing is guessing and saying how smart they are. 

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skypuddle (998 posts)      Tue Sep-23-08 07:10 AM
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*HONEST* DU Thread: Do you know your IQ? If so, what is it, and how do you know?
 To reiterate:

"*HONEST* DU Thread: Do you know your IQ? If so, what is it, and how do you know?"

Since I know that sombody is bound to ask, mine is a measured Stanford-Binet at 4 standard deviations above normal, give or take, as measured at seven years old.

I firmly believe that this is the smartest community on the series of tubes known as the Interwebs.

I even use The Google, if you can believe it.

So, DU, if you know your irrelevant numerical values, post 'em up, and let's have an e-dick contest.

P.S. Whoever wins the e-dick challenge owes me a game of chess.

P.P.S. Let the games begin!
 

[jukin]

DUmmies lie, DUmmies lie all the time.....particularly about how smart, gifted, or talented they are.

[Splashdown]

I'm not going over there to see, but I bet the average will be, let's say.............. 140? 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually I never knew mine.  My parents had me heavily tested when I was a tyke, sometime about age 5 maybe, but never would tell me the result.  The number has never really mattered to me, though, since knowing it wouldn't make me smarter or stupider, it's just an "It is what it is" situation.

I know from other standardized tests that it's pretty high, and roughly balanced between verbal/analytical (or left brain/right brain) strengths, which is probably about all I have any practical need to know about it anyway.     

[thundley4]

Since I know that sombody is bound to ask, mine is a measured Stanford-Binet at 4 standard deviations above normal, give or take, as measured at seven years old.

But that of course was before he was repeatedly dropped on his head.  Da brain damage has significantly lowered it since then.

[NHSparky]

Yes, I know mine.  But that was high school.  While it's said it doesn't change much over the course of a lifetime, it's immaterial now.

No, I don't like discussing it online.  1--people won't belive me, 2--people think I'd just be showing off, 3--they'd be pretty much right about part 2, 4--those who know me have a pretty good idea of my IQ anyway.

[Chris_]

I only found mine out when they tested me for placement in the "gifted"/AP classes in High School.  

I won't go over to the DUmp and embarrass them.  The Geek Code doesn't permit us to make the lesser mortals aware of how much of their little world we're in control of.  It makes them uncomfortable...

[NHSparky]

Since I know that sombody is bound to ask, mine is a measured Stanford-Binet at 4 standard deviations above normal, give or take, as measured at seven years old.

But that of course was before he was repeatedly dropped on his head.  Da brain damage has significantly lowered it since then.

I find it HIGHLY unlikely he was ever that high. Ever.

Given that 1 SD on a standardized IQ test is about 16 points, that would give our primitive a tested IQ of 164?  Hardly likely.  2 standard deviations (132 IQ) would put him above about 95.4 percent of the population.  3 SD 148 IQ) would put him above 99.73 percent.  4 standard deviations?  Try 99.99367 percent, or quite literally 1 in 15,797.  

Zero bongs.

[NHSparky]

I only found mine out when they tested me for placement in the "gifted"/AP classes in High School.  

I won't go over to the DUmp and embarrass them.  The Geek Code doesn't permit us to make the lesser mortals aware of how much of their little world we're in control of.

Same here.  I was "average" in that group, and of the folks I graduated with, one works for Microsoft, one is a surgeon, another a biochemist, one more a veternarian, and another a Congressional advisor.

Ah, the joys of underachieving.

[Carl]

I'm not going over there to see, but I bet the average will be, let's say.............. 140? 

And you would be correct although a little on the low side.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

I'm not going over there to see, but I bet the average will be, let's say.............. 140? 

And you would be correct although a little on the low side.

Yeah! it's amazing how many genious's are over there! One dummie bragged of a 167 others are supposedly in Mensa!

[jinxmchue]

Blue_In_AK  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Sep-23-08 03:17 AM
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1. I took a Mensa test quite a long time ago
   
and scored 152. I don't believe it.

Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhmmmm.  I didn't think Mensa actually did testing and only took results from others' tests.

[jinxmchue]

lol!  A rare "Best Of" gem buried deep in that pile of droppings:

Uben  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Sep-23-08 06:47 AM
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43. What's a dang IQ ?
   
I was at DQ (that's Dairy Queen fer you dummies)last night. I bought a Dilly bar fer $1.65, so I guess I,m around a 165 or thereabouts.

I aint the brightest candle in the church, but I did retire at age 45, eight years ago, with enough to last me the rest of my life. It aint how much you got, it's how you use what you have!

Seriously, I know what my IQ is, I'm just not one to brag about it. I know people with higher IQs that are virtually penniless and lack common sense, so it is not a true measure of what it takes to succeed, only how good you are at taking tests.

I laughed.  I cried.  It moved me.

[jinxmchue]

I'm not going over there to see, but I bet the average will be, let's say.............. 140? 

That looks to be an accurate prediction.  There's a few lower ones, but a lot of ridiculously high ones.

[NHSparky]

I'm not going over there to see, but I bet the average will be, let's say.............. 140? 

And you would be correct although a little on the low side.

Yeah! it's amazing how many genious's are over there! One dummie bragged of a 167 others are supposedly in Mensa!

Actually, there might be a token member or two of MENSA in the DUmp.  From the members I've seen, they're pretentious asshats who are completely full of themselves and convinced a high IQ entitles them to rule the world, despite their never having gotten their lazy asses off the couch.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

Uben  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Sep-23-08 06:47 AM
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43. What's a dang IQ ?
   
I was at DQ (that's Dairy Queen fer you dummies)last night. I bought a Dilly bar fer $1.65, so I guess I,m around a 165 or thereabouts.

I aint the brightest candle in the church, but I did retire at age 45, eight years ago, with enough to last me the rest of my life. It aint how much you got, it's how you use what you have!

Seriously, I know what my IQ is, I'm just not one to brag about it. I know people with higher IQs that are virtually penniless and lack common sense, so it is not a true measure of what it takes to succeed, only how good you are at taking tests.

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Who let the repuke in?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Blue_In_AK  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Sep-23-08 03:17 AM
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1. I took a Mensa test quite a long time ago
   
and scored 152. I don't believe it.

Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhmmmm.  I didn't think Mensa actually did testing and only took results from others' tests.

They take all kinds of other standardized tests, but they also have one of their own just in case any prospecitve member managed to have avoided ever taking one of them.  Or at least they used to.

[JohnnyReb]

IQ to me don't mean squat. It's what you do with what you got.

...and as far as standardized test go, I used to ace'em. Stayed in trouble in high school because I just didn't care about grades. All the juniors and seniors took a state wide algebra test once. They scored the test 1 to 10 as a percentage of all students in the state. 10 being the top 2%. Me and another flunky that was about to fail trigonometry and advanced algebra scored 10 and the 2 school brainiacs scored 8. I had finished the test in about half the allotted time and was reading comicbooks when my math teacher scolded me. Then when the test results came back it was on...... Me and my fellow DUmmie spent 2 days in the guidance counsilors office for that one.

Military test, test for job placement, etc. , I used to speed thru those and ace'em. Not because I had a high IQ but because I was raised on a farm by a jack of all trades dad that thought I should have been born knowing as much as he did and able to do most of it from the get go. I look at my son (13), smart boy, makes good grades but he's dumb as dirt compared to what I could do or knew at that age (practical things, not education wise). I should have defied the doctors and stayed in business if for his benefit only.

Now English, or what they call Language Arts these days, I'm boarderline retarded..  

[Splashdown]

IQ to me don't mean squat. It's what you do with what you got.

...

Now English, or what they call Language Arts these days, I'm boarderline retarded..  

Nah. That first line is rhyming iambic tetrameter! You're a poet! 

[Miss Mia]

IQ doesn't really mean much in the practical sense.  I know mine, and yes it's pretty darn high.  Both my brothers and I are very smart.  One brother is a genius, and seriously the smartest person I'll ever know.  But then again, he can't hold down a job and shuttles around jobs and can't hold on to his money worth a damn. 

And in high school, I had a very good friend that scored a 1600 on the SAT.  Very smart book wise, but oh honey she was lacking in the common sense department.  LOL!  I remember joking with her when she would say just the silliest things "And you made a 1600???"


People that talk about IQ scores aren't people that I'd typically want to be around.  They're usually idiots or so self-absorbed that I cannot stand them.

[ScubaGuy]

Amazing how that many people with IQ's above 160 managed to gather at one site.

I've only known two people who made a point of stating their IQ whenever they had the opportunity.

Both were flaming liberals without an ounce of common sense.  They both possessed zero ability to interact in social settings and were unable to grasp the simplest concepts. 

On the ScubaGuy scale they were socially retarded idiots.

[BlueStateSaint]

I've noticed that, while incredibly intelligent, PhD.s are rather lacking in the common sense department.  I shared a lab with a guy who, while not a PhD, had been accepted into Cornell Medical School (many years ago, but accepted there nonetheless).  One day, he was rinsing glass wool in 99.99% pure hexanes, which are more flammable than gasoline, and it wasn't drying fast enough for him.  He wanted to go to Saratoga Race Course and lose some money (lots of money), and he couldn't wait for the glass wool to dry . . . so he put the whole mess (a soaking-wet with hexanes piece of glass wool the size of a softball) into an oven that was set at 140 degrees Celsius.  He just did get the door shut when it cooked off.  He didn't get hurt in the fire (no one did, because it was minor), and I walked into the lab right as it went out.  When I heard the start of the chemist's explanation, I had to leave, and I very nearly choked from laughter.  I went back into where Jim was, and said to him, "You may be a ****-up, but you are our ****-up, and I will defend you until I die."

Literally, I was like this . . .  

[Carl]

Amazing how that many people with IQ's above 160 managed to gather at one site.

I've only known two people who made a point of stating their IQ whenever they had the opportunity.

Both were flaming liberals without an ounce of common sense.  They both possessed zero ability to interact in social settings and were unable to grasp the simplest concepts. 



On the ScubaGuy scale they were socially retarded idiots.

Yet as brilliant as they claim to be they collectively moan about how bad off they are and will fall for scams that only a 5th grader couldn`t see through.

[JohnnyReb]

I've noticed that, while incredibly intelligent, PhD.s are rather lacking in the common sense department.  I shared a lab with a guy who, while not a PhD, had been accepted into Cornell Medical School (many years ago, but accepted there nonetheless).  One day, he was rinsing glass wool in 99.99% pure hexanes, which are more flammable than gasoline, and it wasn't drying fast enough for him.  He wanted to go to Saratoga Race Course and lose some money (lots of money), and he couldn't wait for the glass wool to dry . . . so he put the whole mess (a soaking-wet with hexanes piece of glass wool the size of a softball) into an oven that was set at 140 degrees Celsius.  He just did get the door shut when it cooked off.  He didn't get hurt in the fire (no one did, because it was minor), and I walked into the lab right as it went out.  When I heard the start of the chemist's explanation, I had to leave, and I very nearly choked from laughter.  I went back into where Jim was, and said to him, "You may be a ****-up, but you are our ****-up, and I will defend you until I die."

Literally, I was like this . . .  

There is a welding shop uptown where I used to buy some supplies. Walked in one day and there was a 55 gallon barrel laying in the floor. The guy running the place asked if I knew what Hexane was. I admitted I didn't remember exactly what the chemical makeup was and asked why. He was fix'n to cut the top out of the barrel with a torch. I told him, "I don't think I'd do that if I were you." Being the boastful type, he told me, "Awh, it can't blow up. It's empty." Couldn't convince him not to do it with a torch so I just asked him to wait until I got what I wanted and had left before cutting it. I had just pulled in the highway when the barrel went across the road and thru another business's front window. The next time I was in there, his son was sporting burn scars on the side of his face from that barrel.

Excuse me, it wasn't Hexane. It was Hexalene. 

 

[BlueStateSaint]

I've noticed that, while incredibly intelligent, PhD.s are rather lacking in the common sense department.  I shared a lab with a guy who, while not a PhD, had been accepted into Cornell Medical School (many years ago, but accepted there nonetheless).  One day, he was rinsing glass wool in 99.99% pure hexanes, which are more flammable than gasoline, and it wasn't drying fast enough for him.  He wanted to go to Saratoga Race Course and lose some money (lots of money), and he couldn't wait for the glass wool to dry . . . so he put the whole mess (a soaking-wet with hexanes piece of glass wool the size of a softball) into an oven that was set at 140 degrees Celsius.  He just did get the door shut when it cooked off.  He didn't get hurt in the fire (no one did, because it was minor), and I walked into the lab right as it went out.  When I heard the start of the chemist's explanation, I had to leave, and I very nearly choked from laughter.  I went back into where Jim was, and said to him, "You may be a ****-up, but you are our ****-up, and I will defend you until I die."

Literally, I was like this . . .  

There is a welding shop uptown where I used to buy some supplies. Walked in one day and there was a 55 gallon barrel laying in the floor. The guy running the place asked if I knew what Hexane was. I admitted I didn't remember exactly what the chemical makeup was and asked why. He was fix'n to cut the top out of the barrel with a torch. I told him, "I don't think I'd do that if I were you." Being the boastful type, he told me, "Awh, it can't blow up. It's empty." Couldn't convince him not to do it with a torch so I just asked him to wait until I got what I wanted and had left before cutting it. I had just pulled in the highway when the barrel went across the road and thru another business's front window. The next time I was in there, his son was sporting burn scars on the side of his face from that barrel.

Excuse me, it wasn't Hexane. It was Hexalene. 

 

I remember being across the hall from my lab when it happened.  One of the techs over there goes, "What the fuc--?" and charges across the hall into my lab through one door, and I ran across the hall through the other door into the lab.  I saw this flame about 6" above the top of the 18" deep sink and I thought, "This is gonna be good!"  The chemist who saved the day asked him, "Jim, what did you do?"  The reply was, "I wanted to evaporate the hexanes from the glass woll, so I put it in the oven."  That was all I and the other tech could take.  We made it out of the lab, across the hall into the other lab, and started laughing.  My sides hurt from laughing.  I couldn't see through my glasses from the tears from laughing.  I had an asthma attack from laughing.  I kept going for seven minutes.  Then, the walk back across the hall to where Jim was sitting at his desk, and the above oratory came to mind.

I still remember it like it was yesterday.