<p>Meh, never cared about IQs…</p>
<p>What a typical CC thread, lol. Trying to passively boost your ego… ugh</p>
<p>@ThisIsMichigan At least you can feel better about the fact that several others agree with you, haha.</p>
<p>IQ= Idiot’s Questionnaire lol </p>
<p>This type of thread is a bit ridiculous 
I had never taken an IQ test before but after reading this, I took one IQ test online for fun and I got a 129, supposedly above average</p>
<p>I find the results a bit questionable because I know I can be a total dumbass sometimes and I have struggled with most of my Engineering classes. </p>
<p>“I took one IQ test online for fun”</p>
<p>One of the problems with this kind of thread is that very few people have taken a genuine IQ test, which is not just a multiple-choice quiz put together by people seeking advertising dollars. An online IQ test only accurately measures your ability to find an online IQ test.</p>
<p>“I find the results a bit questionable because I know I can be a total dumbass sometimes”</p>
<p>The other problem with this kind of thread is that even genuine IQ tests only measure certain things. There are a lot of things that IQ tests don’t measure, including things that are far more correlated with success and even innovation. IQ tests measure very specific things, and should not be generalized to indicate anything else.</p>
<p>Good lord, and here i was just trying to start a light hearted conversation. If there’s a mod, can you please lock the thread?</p>
<p>“Good lord, and here i was just trying to start a light hearted conversation. If there’s a mod, can you please lock the thread?”</p>
<p>Haha, a lot of people here have no sense of humor. Even something like this turns into a very serious, analytical discussion lol. I thought your thread was fun and different from the ordinary :)</p>
<p>It’s not that IQs aren’t interesting. In psychology class, the intelligence unit was thoroughly entertaining, but asking for someone’s IQ is like a dead end to me. It’s similar to asking, “What does your kneecap look like?” Then they tell you and you go, “Oh, cool.” And that’s it. </p>
<p>@bschoolwiz Yeah, sometimes i forget engis are very literal and sometimes quite serious ppl. I envisioned this more like a bar conversation with beers rather than an analysis. But ur right, some fun replies ^_^</p>
<p>My son, who developed a mental illness at 18, recently had a complete neuropsych evaluation that included a detailed IQ examination. I never knew there were different components to it! Part of it was processing speed, which he scored very low on. But other parts, he scored very high on. His overall score came out at about 100, or average. But he is now a college junior and has over a 3.9 GPA in applied math. The psychologist said that shows you can’t just look at someone’s IQ to determine how they will do in school or life.</p>
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Yep. All of my siblings had IQ test administered at one point or another (mostly because we moved to a school district that required it), 3 scored in what was at the time called the genius range and the other in the “sub-genius” range. Two never went to college, one flunked out, another quit.</p>
<p>I think one of the big problems with us is that we were always told how smart we were but never told to work hard… so we didn’t. A high IQ is meaningless if you don’t still remember to push hard.</p>
<p>Eh, I was told when I was 3 the doctors gave me a test I guess it was to test my intelligence. They asked me what a knife was, and they thought I was idiot for not knowing but did well on everything else. Go figure. I took one in middle school once, don’t remember the score.</p>