<p>I have to agree with nspeds on this one. </p>
<p>My D is a rising junior, came home took a full LSAT practice test under test conditions for the first time last week, scored 169. She said her best section overall was the logic games. </p>
<p>So maybe all of those classes and the accompanying reading from her first 2 years, classics, government, religion (she's a religion major) are paying off.</p>
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Snap. :\ Oh well. There are ways, and there are ways. If I can't do it through my major, I'll do logic games on the side, and things like that. (:!</p>
<p>Did you know that doing logic games/riddles as a habit gradually increases your IQ?</p>
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Did you know that doing logic games/riddles as a habit gradually increases your IQ?
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<p>I do not know what increases one's IQ, though I am a sucker for IQ tests.</p>
<p>Hahhaah me too!! I really want to take one again [I took one as a kid]...but yeah, that's what I've heard; logic games help to increase your IQ, because it's not so much how SMART you are, but rather your capacity for learning [which is why tests when you are younger are more useful/accurate].</p>
<p>It depends. If you have a really high IQ, tests taken at a young age do not help, because their ceilings are set too low. I know someone who had a 144 when he was young, but later tested to a functional IQ of 250. Turns out he hit the ceiling on the former test.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh yeah, and prior to taking the second test, he dropped out of high school, became a stripper, returned to high school, dropped out again, and returned to stripping.</p>
<p>Wow. I'm torn between a) extreme jealousy at your friend's brain capacity, b) giving him major props for having the balls to drop out of HS for stripping, of all things, and c) a strange sense of regret for the loss of a potentially brilliant mind from non-stripper-land.</p>
<p>Nahh, he is doing well now.</p>
<p>"It depends. If you have a really high IQ, tests taken at a young age do not help, because their ceilings are set too low. I know someone who had a 144 when he was young, but later tested to a functional IQ of 250. Turns out he hit the ceiling on the former test."</p>
<p>Functional IQ of 250? Please. That's just idiotic. Your friend is Newton, Pascal, Descartes, Fermat, Hardy, Ramanujan?</p>
<p>There is <em>no</em> IQ test in existence that scales that high. So to even say that someone scored that high is ridiculous.</p>
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There is <em>no</em> IQ test in existence that scales that high. So to even say that someone scored that high is ridiculous.
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<p>Really?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.megasociety.net/noesis/57.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.megasociety.net/noesis/57.htm</a></p>
<p>Scroll down to "WHEN GOOD IQ'S HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE."</p>
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By day, I attended class; by night, I made a living delivering stripping telegrams and bouncing. I got good grades in most of my courses--due to my advanced age relative to my classmates, I had a functional IQ of about 250.
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<p>Do you even know what the mega-test is?</p>
<p>You don't get it. The percentile of an IQ of 250 corresponds to someone who is the smartest in several hundred <em>billion</em> people. That would mean he is the smartest person who has ever existed. Please don't bring idiocy like this into the thread.</p>
<p>And yes I know what the Mega/Titan/Power tests are. Power is the only one worth a damn.</p>
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That would mean he is the smartest person who has ever existed.
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<p>Low and behold:</p>
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Ron Hoeflin contacted me at the Chi Omega sorority house, where I was summer caretaker, informing me that I'd tied for second among Omni's Mega Testtakers. Already manic, I went wild trying to generate publicity. I wrote various magazines, newspapers, and TV shows, claiming to be *America's most deranged genius. * (I wrote The Weekly World News, telling them that abduction by aliens raised my IQ.
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Please don't bring idiocy like this into the thread.
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<p>It is hardly "idiocy." I would like to see you perform well on such tests.</p>
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And yes I know what the Mega/Titan/Power tests are. Power is the only one worth a damn.
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<p>I beg to disagree.</p>
<p>They all have the same author, and they are all pretty good for the "ordinary person."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.triviahalloffame.com/rosner.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.triviahalloffame.com/rosner.htm</a> </p>
<p>Rosner is no joke.</p>
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The percentile of an IQ of 250 corresponds to someone who is the smartest in several hundred <em>billion</em> people. That would mean he is the smartest person who has ever existed. Please don't bring idiocy like this into the thread.
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<p>So... he is lying? I strongly doubt that.</p>
<p>I am hardly an expert on this. Perhaps the 250 Rosner earned is not comparable to the other IQs (ie. perhaps it needs to be converted or something of the sort). Needless to say, he is an intelligent person. I have nothing to gain or lose by attempting to prove that he actually scored a 250.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter what he said, it simply matters what the mathematics of the issue are. A 250 IQ equates to a 99.9999999+ percentile. Do you think he is the smartest human being that has ever existed? (I'm hoping you thought "no" to this question.)</p>
<p>BTW, this brings up a good reason IQ tests of younger people are highly ineffective. It gives bogus numbers.</p>
<p>First off, there is a hint of fallacy in your argument, though I will not care to respond to it in that manner. Regardless, my point still stands: "Perhaps the 250 Rosner earned is not comparable to the other IQs (ie. perhaps it needs to be converted or something of the sort)."</p>
<p>If I am not mistaken, the mega test gives a raw score up to 47. What matters then, is how such raw scores correlate to scores in other IQ tests. Perhaps the 250 is not the same 250 to which you refer, the 250 that puts one in the "99.9999999+ percentile."</p>
<p>There is also a hint of ambiguity:</p>
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<p>"about"-> God knows Rosner could have been rounding up.</p>
<p>The Mega Test doesn't scale to a 250 IQ, at all. It scales to a 180/190 IQ (I'm going on memory).</p>
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The Mega Test doesn't scale to a 250 IQ, at all. It scales to a 180/190 IQ (I'm going on memory).
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<p>I am not even sure that Rosner is referring to the mega test for his 250 in that article. I apologize for implying that.</p>
<p>I know why he scored a 250 IQ. It just doesn't make any sense on why someone of his intelligence would write it down. It's obviously just an error in the test.</p>
<p>It's never too early to study for the LSAT.</p>