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What is your IQ? (Be honest)

40 - 60 4 1.74%
 
60 - 80 3 1.30%
 
80 - 100 2 0.87%
 
100 - 120 24 10.43%
 
120 - 140 84 36.52%
 
140 - 160 40 17.39%
 
160 - 180 9 3.91%
 
180 - 200 2 0.87%
 
200 + 18 7.83%
 
Don't Know / See Results 44 19.13%
 
Total:230
GrumpyM00SE on 10 July 2011

143!



End of 2010 Predictions

Microsoft-45.4M

Nintendo-75.6M

Sony-40.2M

(Made on 6-10-2010)

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jester2358 on 10 July 2011

you have to pay around 100$ and do a test at your nearest university to get an actual ballpark score. average iq is about 100. I did a paid test at my university and scored 140 a few months back, I was told above 130 is the top 25% of the population and above 140 being the top 10% which makes sense considering i have generally been among the top students in my classes. anything higher than 150 and we start reaching elite levels, if you are scoring 150 on that test then its not accurate, simple as that-assuming you aren't truly gifted and among the greatest minds of our time of course



Jay520 on 10 July 2011
chapset said:
156 by doing it normally
102 by putting the first answer in all question
93 by putting the last answer in all question


hehe



Jay520 on 10 July 2011
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?



Kasz216 on 10 July 2011
Jay520 said:
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?

I wouldn't think so.

I'd say it's the potential to be smart.

There are a lot of people with high IQs who are actually pretty dumb. 

For a similar example I'd point to Michael Jordan.  Most consider him the greatest Basketball Player in the world.  Genetically he wasn't.  Genetically there were tons of people who learned basketball easier and quicker.  Jordan was cut from the basketball team in highschool.

Yet Michael is considered better then them all.

 

Statistics and studies actually tend to show that intellegence like athletic ability is gradiant.  You only need to have a "high enough Iq" to do something, then you've got as good a chance to do it as anybody else.


For example the "normal" requried IQ for a college degree and successful career is 110.

If your going for a Bachelors level job, having a 150 Iq doesn't really help you much more then havng a 112 IQ.  Just how the NBA is filled with people of a certain height however the most gifted aren't always equal to the most talented.

And there are always the EXTRA hard working exceptions who break the requirements.  Like say... JJ Barea.

 

Training overcomes Talent.



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Barozi on 10 July 2011

151 but yeah not representative at all.
Unless VGChartz is filled with geniuses that is.

I took a better and longer test a few years ago and I can't really recall the exact result but I think it was 115 or slightly above that. Still that wasn't a professional one either, so I take that with a grain of salt.



HappySqurriel on 10 July 2011
Kasz216 said:
Jay520 said:
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?

I wouldn't think so.

I'd say it's the potential to be smart.

There are a lot of people with high IQs who are actually pretty dumb. 

For a similar example I'd point to Michael Jordan.  Most consider him the greatest Basketball Player in the world.  Genetically he wasn't.  Genetically there were tons of people who learned basketball easier and quicker.  Jordan was cut from the basketball team in highschool.

Yet Michael is considered better then them all.

 

Statistics and studies actually tend to show that intellegence like athletic ability is gradiant.  You only need to have a "high enough Iq" to do something, then you've got as good a chance to do it as anybody else.


For example the "normal" requried IQ for a college degree and successful career is 110.

If your going for a Bachelors level job, having a 150 Iq doesn't really help you much more then havng a 112 IQ.  Just how the NBA is filled with people of a certain height however the most gifted aren't always equal to the most talented.

And there are always the EXTRA hard working exceptions who break the requirements.  Like say... JJ Barea.

 

Training overcomes Talent.

For decades there was a commonly held belief that people who were more successful in certain fields would be those that had the highest IQs but when studies were done they found that there was almost no relationship to IQ and success. This drove researchers to try to determine which qualities were actually linked to success, and a large portion of this research led to the development of what is now called Emotional Intelligence.

While IQ tends to measure mathematical and language abilities, EQ focuses more on factors like self-discipline and empathy and it is not difficult to see why it would be so closely correlated to an individual's success.



Jay520 on 10 July 2011
Kasz216 said:
Jay520 said:
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?

I wouldn't think so.

I'd say it's the potential to be smart.

There are a lot of people with high IQs who are actually pretty dumb. 

For a similar example I'd point to Michael Jordan.  Most consider him the greatest Basketball Player in the world.  Genetically he wasn't.  Genetically there were tons of people who learned basketball easier and quicker.  Jordan was cut from the basketball team in highschool.

Yet Michael is considered better then them all.

 

Statistics and studies actually tend to show that intellegence like athletic ability is gradiant.  You only need to have a "high enough Iq" to do something, then you've got as good a chance to do it as anybody else.


For example the "normal" requried IQ for a college degree and successful career is 110.

If your going for a Bachelors level job, having a 150 Iq doesn't really help you much more then havng a 112 IQ.  Just how the NBA is filled with people of a certain height however the most gifted aren't always equal to the most talented.

And there are always the EXTRA hard working exceptions who break the requirements.  Like say... JJ Barea.

 

Training overcomes Talent.

I see



sapphi_snake on 10 July 2011
HappySqurriel said:

For decades there was a commonly held belief that people who were more successful in certain fields would be those that had the highest IQs but when studies were done they found that there was almost no relationship to IQ and success. This drove researchers to try to determine which qualities were actually linked to success, and a large portion of this research led to the development of what is now called Emotional Intelligence.

While IQ tends to measure mathematical and language abilities, EQ focuses more on factors like self-discipline and empathy and it is not difficult to see why it would be so closely correlated to an individual's success.

This worries me, 'cause a test I once took said that I'm emotionally retarded...



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Kasz216 on 11 July 2011
HappySqurriel said:
Kasz216 said:
Jay520 said:
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?

I wouldn't think so.

I'd say it's the potential to be smart.

There are a lot of people with high IQs who are actually pretty dumb. 

For a similar example I'd point to Michael Jordan.  Most consider him the greatest Basketball Player in the world.  Genetically he wasn't.  Genetically there were tons of people who learned basketball easier and quicker.  Jordan was cut from the basketball team in highschool.

Yet Michael is considered better then them all.

 

Statistics and studies actually tend to show that intellegence like athletic ability is gradiant.  You only need to have a "high enough Iq" to do something, then you've got as good a chance to do it as anybody else.


For example the "normal" requried IQ for a college degree and successful career is 110.

If your going for a Bachelors level job, having a 150 Iq doesn't really help you much more then havng a 112 IQ.  Just how the NBA is filled with people of a certain height however the most gifted aren't always equal to the most talented.

And there are always the EXTRA hard working exceptions who break the requirements.  Like say... JJ Barea.

 

Training overcomes Talent.

For decades there was a commonly held belief that people who were more successful in certain fields would be those that had the highest IQs but when studies were done they found that there was almost no relationship to IQ and success. This drove researchers to try to determine which qualities were actually linked to success, and a large portion of this research led to the development of what is now called Emotional Intelligence.

While IQ tends to measure mathematical and language abilities, EQ focuses more on factors like self-discipline and empathy and it is not difficult to see why it would be so closely correlated to an individual's success.

Another good point.