<p>i came across an interesting article on intelligence in wikipedia.
engineers supposedly have an average iq of about 125
i kind of doubt that</p>
<p>nebody here ever taken an iq test?</p>
<p>I took one of those online iq tests, don't really know how trustworthy those are. Keep in mind that I'll be a entering freshmen at U of M this coming fall so technically I'm not an engineer but I will be studying engineering. This is what the website said:
Congratulations, Nelson!
Your IQ score is 138 </p>
<p>This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. </p>
<p>Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results. </p>
<p>I could have received a more detailed explanation but they wanted me to fork up $15, screw that.</p>
<p>I think 125 could possibly be a reasonable average IQ for engineers.</p>
<p>So I just took the GRE, and was interested in seeing the average scores for each major field (<a href="http://ftp.ets.org/pub/gre/verbquantscores.pdf)%5B/url%5D">http://ftp.ets.org/pub/gre/verbquantscores.pdf)</a>. The average V+Q score for people intending to go to grad school in engineering is 1189 (don't know how up-to-date these numbers are). There is a calculator elsewhere on the web (<a href="http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/GREIQ.html%5B/url%5D">http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/GREIQ.html</a>) which purports to correlate one's GRE score to one's IQ. As you can see, 1190 GRE = 126 IQ.</p>
<p>(Lots of problems with this "simple" equation... first, I don't believe the GRE or IQ tests tend to measure anything other than the test-taker's test-taking ability. IQ and GRE probably cannot be perfectly correlated, but both are based on normed tests which give percentiles. Kinda sketchy, I know, and you won't catch me saying I think it's ironclad, or even necessarily true. But interesting food for thought.)</p>