What is Your IQ? Share Your Experience

[GCT]

220+, wow you must be the smartest person in the world. Now why don't you get that brain of yours to get you a Nobel Prize or perhaps a Macarthur Genius Grant ;)

 

[Entropy]

Heh, of course I don't think internet IQ tests mean jack. But I did tell my mom about the Macarthur Genius Grant (not that I wanted to seriously apply) and she though I was lying. And 220 isn't close to being the highest IQ in the world. I think the highest you can get is 300 and people I believe have scored off the charts. I know Stephen Hawking has like 262, but in all fairness I heard that on the simpsons.

 

[JamesU]

i think there's one society where the p[oeple who qualify are in the top 1 percentile. giga, or something

 

[hitssquad]

High-IQ societies, at and above the 99th percentile

i think there's one society where the p[oeple who qualify are in the top 1 percentile. giga, or something

The 99th percentile is only slightly higher than Mensa's 98th percentile. It means a score of 135 instead of 131 on the Wechsler scale.
http://www.prometheussociety.org/mcreport/memb_comm_rept.html#Selectivity%20by

Intertel and TOPS (Top One Percent Society) are two of the 99th percentile societies.

The Mega society threshold is the 99.9999th percentile. The Giga society threshold is the 99.9999999th percentile.
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/history.html

 

[GCT]

The Mega society threshold is the 99.9999th percentile. The Giga society threshold is the 99.9999999th percentile.

what do these people do for a living?

 

[JamesU]

and there's like 4 people in this society?

 

[hitssquad]

Vocations of the ultra-high-g set

what do these people do for a living?

Chris Langan, who is the top scorer on the ultra-high-ceiling tests, used to work as a part-time bouncer and lived on an income of $6,000/year.
google.com/search?q=chris+langan+iq+bouncer

I believe he has retired from bar-bouncing and is now making a living with his writing. The first link in my previous message shows occupations of the committee members who produced that report, but I am not sure what their IQs are.
http://www.prometheussociety.org/mcreport/memb_comm_rept.html


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FRED BRITTON

I have played poker and engaged in other forms of gambling at which one can get an edge, such as speculative markets. I am currently engaged in several gambling-related programming projects, written in the C language. My long-term ambition is to create a poker program that is to poker what Deep Blue is to chess. I plan to call it Deep Pockets :-)

So as not to be too narrowly focused, I am also learning the winemaking business. Seems like it would be a nice retirement business.


ROBERT DICK

Worked with the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for five years, which is the "signal processing" version of factor analysis.


GUY FOGLEMAN

Manager of aerospace R&D projects for the last eleven years.


GREG GROVE

Teacher, School Principle, Professor of Music for seven years. Currently school Principle.


GINA LOSASSO

Clinical Psychologist; Currently on Internship: Major Rotation: Neuropsychology; Minor: Consultation-Liason Psychiatry. Most of my assessment experience has been with head-injured, psychiatric, or medical populations.


BILL McGAUGH

I am a Mathematics/Computer Science teacher at the moment (and have teaching credentials in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Social Sciences, and Physical Education)


DARRYL MIYAGUCHI

15 years at a large engineering firm; current assignment requires some knowledge of basic statistics; competent in C programming; know my way around Excel.


FREDRIK ULLÉN

Currently post-doctoral fellow at Karolinska Institutet (Dept of Neuroscience) and the Royal Institute for Technology (Dept for Numerical Analysis and Computer Science)
(Project: Modelling of neural mechanisms for postural control and spatial orientation)

Free-lance pianist: performs extensively as soloist & chamber musician in Europe, including participation in ca 10 different international music festivals; tour organized by Swedish National Concert Institute, 1997


FRED VAUGHAN

An aerospace engineer for over thirty years with most of that time spent in electronics research. I have studied, designed and implemented tracking filters and spent some time (and budget) looking into the duality of the track-estimation/sensor-tasking-control problem which is quite related to what we have to analyze. I have also coordinated activities for highly technical teams.


HEDLEY ST. JOHN-WILSON

Previous work in media & technology, and television documentaries. I am currently a student.
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[marlon]

I know Stephen Hawking has like 262, but in all fairness I heard that on the simpsons.

I am glad you are being honest about this.

regards
marlon

 

[Andy]

I have done many IQ tests and they have all ranged from between the mid 120's to the high 130's. Don't mean much to me though, still a grease monkey.

 

[jcsd]

My iq is so high that it mocks your pathetic human concept of numbers.

My milk is green, come drink it!

 

[Smurf]

My iq is so high that it mocks your pathetic human concept of numbers.

At least I don't respond to threads that have been dead for over a month.