Anyone here with an extremely high IQ?

DragonPetter

I've never been IQ tested as an adult, but I guess I am probably close to average.

I put about as much merit in IQ testing as I do in horoscopes. I actually think it is the same psychological phenomenon for people to latch on to IQ scores as for people to believe they are a leo or scorpio. They want to put meaning into arbitrary signs or patterns about something they know nothing about in order to explain something about themselves. Now that I think about it, a lot of the same websites with "IQ tests" also offer horoscope quizzes and other meaningless questions that are supposed to identify what you are.

I care much more about what a person has done with themselves than I do about their IQ. People put little merit into the theories of the smartest man in America, and the only reason he's given attention is because of his IQ, not because of his theory.

I have a guess that I have come across a few geniuses through various encounters, and they truly amazed me with their quick and firm grasp of a broad range of advanced concepts, and their ease of using these concepts. I really doubt high IQ is the full story with these people's brains.

Pythagorean

Forgot to say in this thread: emotional intelligence is way more important that intellectual intelligence. Whiny, petty, know-it-all brats are worthless. So nananana boo boo.

skeptic2

Back when usenet was active, I used to monitor the alt.mensa.org usergroup. For a long time I was impressed by how much knowledge they had on nearly any subject that came up. That is until they discussed my specialty and I discovered much of what they said was false. Even more than a high IQ society they seemed to be a high ego society.

Ironically menso/mensa in Spanish means stupid. I wonder what the organization is called in Spanish speaking countries.

turbo

I started Elementary School in the post-Sputnik scare, and my classmates and I got the living hell tested out of us. Not long ago, my father brought a lot of personal papers here to store in my safe, and I was surprised that he and my mother had saved all of my school records from 'way back. I have never been tested outside of a classroom, and have no desire to update.

Chi Meson

nu-'uh!

Danger

Just when I started to like you...
I honestly have never heard the term "significant figures" and don't know what it means. Perhaps it's the same as "significant digits"? (The only "significant figure" that immediately comes to mind is Marilyn Monroe.)




I'll remember that for the rest of my life, and will point it out every time that I meet someone who brags about belonging to the club. It's embarrassing to me that despite having Spanish blood I don't know the language. (On the same wavelength, I can't help wondering whether or not Zed Zed Topp ever considered how stupid their name sounds in Canada.)

Pythagorean

Yes, it's the same. Except "sig figs" rhymes, which makes it awesomer.

Danger

I can dig on that.

skeptic2

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johnqwertyful

I have no clue what my IQ is, and think the test is BS anyway. My dad told me when he was a teenager, he tested at like 160+ or something. He joined Mensa with his friend basically just to screw with them. He told me that the whole thing was a joke and that the people were some of the stupidest he's ever seen. They couldn't even tell that he was screwing with them.

He dropped out of high school, and now works as an informal EE (never went to school, just knew someone/right place right time). He's a smart dude, but I wouldn't consider him a "genius" or anything.

skeptic2

In another discussion here on PF, someone (I don't remember who) mentioned that IQ tests were designed to find those who were not smart enough for the army. (I know, that's a pretty low standard.) The IQ tests are very good at that. But they are not very good at detecting the super intelligent. Does mentally folding a pattern to match an oddly shaped box a few seconds faster really mean you're smarter? True intelligence is a lot more complex than can be tested with a multiple choice test.

Kutt

I took an IQ test in high school and scored within the "average" mean. I thought that the test was kind of dumb and relatively simple. I would have scored much higher if I tried harder.

But like you said, it is probably very inefficient at measuring true intelligence.

And you have to be pretty dim to not qualify for the army.

turbo

My father quit HS so he could join the Army Airborne during WWII. He isn't dim, by any measure. He is over 85 and is attending funerals regularly as WWII veterans are passing away.

When I was a kid, he started studying geometry so that he could lay out sheet-metal ducting without the trial-and-error method that he had been taught. He was actively recruited by mills and contractors though he didn't even have a HS diploma (until about the time I was in HS, and the diploma was awarded after the fact). IQ is subservient to "smarts", IMO.

dydxforsn

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Good post! I often make the case to people that intelligence is the most important quality in making a well liked individual (assuming they have behavioral axioms like "the golden rule"). I often worry I'm not a good enough human personality-wise because I'm not as intelligent as I could be :( Nobody understands what I mean, nobody seems to see the link between intelligence and being a good human with amazing traits. Intelligence means so much. I usually suspect people who commit misdeeds of stupidity before I assume bad intent. I feel this is a suspicion more people should carry.

Pythagorean

I think the statistics support that. If you take "stupidity" to mean a lack of education and "misdeeds" to be crime, there's definitely a correlation between the two.

operationsres

I would like to know what these categories are supposed to mean.

operationsres

What do you mean?

How do you know "they" know nothing about it? There's an abundance of studies on IQ tests. Clearly your statement doesn't apply to the non-trivial proper subset of all those that have taken IQ tests who have also read these studies.