What is your IQ?

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DurocShark

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Apr 18, 2001
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In Jr. High School (they outlawed 'em in California for school use...) I got a 172. I took a private test 2 months ago, got a 151
 

djheater

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Mar 19, 2001
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Originally posted by: Electric Amish
With the internet tests I've taken I'm usually between 135-150

amish

me too.

I'd also say that I believe it'd take significant time with shrink to come up with a score even marginally useful, and who trusts shrinks anyway?
 

Yax

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Once, I was told by someone on ATOT that i had the IQ of a troll. It must be pretty low since Trolls are imaginary creatures so my IQ must consist of imaginary numbers. (Somewhere in the negatives I guess, X*SQRT[-1]).
 

PeteyCPU

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I got a 154 on some online test so I think it would be safer to say in the 140's somewhere
 

IEatChildren

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Your IQ doesn't represent actual intelligence, but more like your capacity to learn. And it's affected by what you do everyday. Anything intellectually stimulating (like going to school) can raise your IQ temporarily
 

Cerb

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Originally posted by: IEatChildren
Your IQ doesn't represent actual intelligence, but more like your capacity to learn. And it's affected by what you do everyday. Anything intellectually stimulating (like going to school) can raise your IQ temporarily
...however, if you're good at test taking, you'll show having a higher IQ. Likewise just being bad at tests.
As well, it isn't as much capacity for learning as much as it is capacity for abstract problem solving.
Like SATs, it's just another test that you either don't care about, or brag about like an idiot ( a very smart idiot, maybe, but an idiot, thinking that it really matters).
 

Riprorin

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Apr 25, 2000
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I'm a competent well-paid professional. Who gives a flip.

The only thing that matters is what you produce.