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What Is Your IQ?

Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
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ChristineES said:
The fact remains that some people with high IQ points don't even use them. And yes, there are times when the lower IQs have to work harder at certain things (as was already pointed out, the IQ only points out a certain kind of intelligence. Working harder is good at building character and people tend to appreciate more what they had to work harder to achieve. If a genius gets an A on a test, people say "no big deal, you always get As" if a lower IQ gets an A, people will be more impressed: That's not actually fair but that's the way it is.
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On a serious note, our brains generally have about the same amount of electrical energy and overall capability (with a few caveats). If you have a high IQ it means you will probably have lower mental abilities in other areas. HR reps put knowledge like that to good use. So a high IQ is not necessarily good or bad, but it means your brain is more specialized in a particular area and equally that it is less capable in some other areas.
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
The 2 people I have known with High IQs were both seemed to have a great need to put everything in a spread sheet
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Brickjectivity said:
On a serious note, our brains generally have about the same amount of electrical energy and overall capability (with a few caveats). If you have a high IQ it means you will probably have lower mental abilities in other areas. HR reps put knowledge like that to good use. So a high IQ is not necessarily good or bad, but it means your brain is more specialized in a particular area and equally that it is less capable in some other areas.
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That's what people with average IQs tell themselves.
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
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Revoltingest said:
That's what people with average IQs tell themselves.
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Ouroboros

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
Brickjectivity said:
On a serious note, our brains generally have about the same amount of electrical energy and overall capability (with a few caveats). If you have a high IQ it means you will probably have lower mental abilities in other areas. HR reps put knowledge like that to good use. So a high IQ is not necessarily good or bad, but it means your brain is more specialized in a particular area and equally that it is less capable in some other areas.
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That's what I think too. IQ test is about a few particular areas of deduction, reasoning, logic, etc, and some for spatial thinking and such, but a person who can imagine a whole painting in their head and then do it, or a whole symphony playing in their head and write it down, they're just having their "smartness" in some other area. In a form that's not so easy to test. Or a low functioning autistic kid who can't answer normal question but is a savant in some area.

I read something about some guy who suddenly became a math genius a while back.

... Searching... found it.

He was mugged. Then IQ increased. College Dropout Jason Padgett Becomes Accidental Mathematical Genius After Brutal Mugging
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
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Ouroboros said:
That's what I think too. IQ test is about a few particular areas of deduction, reasoning, logic, etc, and some for spatial thinking and such, but a person who can imagine a whole painting in their head and then do it, or a whole symphony playing in their head and write it down, they're just having their "smartness" in some other area. In a form that's not so easy to test. Or a low functioning autistic kid who can't answer normal question but is a savant in some area.

I read something about some guy who suddenly became a math genius a while back.

... Searching... found it.

He was mugged. Then IQ increased. College Dropout Jason Padgett Becomes Accidental Mathematical Genius After Brutal Mugging
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Cool! I myself once fell on my head.
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Revoltingest said:
No, I deduced the correct answer.....or rather, one of them.

(I'd considered looking into coinage because I know you have the half pence.
But that would'a required work. Plus, my answer was more interesting.)
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Indeed....
My answer, given to an outraged father whose son had failed the exam, who challenged me to answer this, was 24, which does have some logic to it as well.

Ergo..... what a bloody stupid question to put in a kid's exam, having cherry picked an oblique choice of 'correct'.
This exam was no doubt written by somebody with a high IQ! :D
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Ouroboros said:
That's when an IQ test is stupid. :)
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Yes. Good. Correct.
A stupidly concocted test, intended to separate children into fast and slow education paths.
So much for the IQs of education chiefs in the UK in 1965.

In fact, most of the amazingly stupid situations and decisions taken in my country come from the minds of our top IQs.
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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

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oldbadger said:
Indeed....
My answer, given to an outraged father whose son had failed the exam, who challenged me to answer this, was 24, which does have some logic to it as well.

Ergo..... what a bloody stupid question to put in a kid's exam, having cherry picked an oblique choice of 'correct'.
This exam was no doubt written by somebody with a high IQ! :D
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.....or someone who pretended to have a high IQ.
Leading a sheltered life, ya wouldn't ken that many people aren't as cannie or schooled as they'd have you believe.
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Brickjectivity said:
On a serious note, our brains generally have about the same amount of electrical energy and overall capability (with a few caveats). If you have a high IQ it means you will probably have lower mental abilities in other areas. HR reps put knowledge like that to good use. So a high IQ is not necessarily good or bad, but it means your brain is more specialized in a particular area and equally that it is less capable in some other areas.
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Yep......

The absent minded professor..... :)
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Revoltingest said:
.....or someone who pretended to have a high IQ.
Leading a sheltered life, ya wouldn't ken that many people aren't as cannie or schooled as they'd have you believe.
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I think that people who have been tested and rated at very high IQs can sometimes have very little common sense.
I don't think that the IQ rating, on it's own, is worth very much.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
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oldbadger said:
I think that people who have been tested and rated at very high IQs can sometimes have very little common sense.
I don't think that the IQ rating, on it's own, is worth very much.
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Whatever its usage or 'meaning', IQ is certainly not the only measure of a man....er, person.
(That's how I console meself....compensating qualities must be there somewhere.)
 
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