What's your IQ?

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ReggieNator said:
I am skeptical of these these IQ things because

1) its self reported

2) the validity of the online test is in question.

There's no way that videogame players are 1) among the smartest people in the world, and 2) all happen to post on the same videogame forums.

If we were indeed the smartest people in the world, we would be involving ourselves in other things like finding a cure for cancer and not saying things like "WII IZ FOR MARIO KIDDIES LOLZ!!11ONEONE!!"

Considering this is a sales site, and a lot of intelligent people tend to have interest in economics, it's not impossible, that the average IQ of this sites users would be high (i'm not saying it is, except maybe higher than the GS average). Besides, IQ doesn't correlate with what you want to do. I for example like to do things with my hands (other than just touch myself) and the IQ doesn't excactly measure your menthal abilities, tests doesn't measure your artistic understanding, how well you understand peoples feelings etc. You still can act and be like a retard, even with 200 IQ. Curing cancer doesn't necessarily mean it would be of any interest for any people with high IQ, since people with high IQ usually focus in their own benefit (not a rule, more like generalisation). If i'd need to pick some people from this site, who i think might have high IQ, by looking at their forum behavior, i'd say Diomedes, Dmeister and ssj. Why? Because they act like that type of people. There also different scales in IQ tests, which i can't remember right now, which all do have 100 as average, but the all the other numbers aren't 1:1. Basically meaning that 148 on the 24 scale would equal 132 on 16... @Mistershine: Minors are tested usually with different tests, which aren't comparable to grown-ups tests. For example, some time ago, there was this 3 yo british girl, with IQ over 300, which basically just meant that she could stack building blocks like a 9yo kid. So theoretically, if her mental abilities would remain stagnant, in the age of ten, her IQ would be around 80. Taking into consideration how brains develope, at age of 25 (or a little earlier), when your brains are at it's high, you could score the best score you can, since after 25, it's only downhill for brains. @Mark2008: So you IQ is 22,5? And i have taken few internet tests, which show high enough IQ for me to say that i'd take the result of 20 years brain from Brain Training over 140 IQ any day.