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Marty McFly 
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 13:52 |
I've just had my IQ tested by this Mensa company. Because I asked few question, I know that when you have IQ 150, 30 years ago it meant for example 170. It's quite funny, they're trying to normalize it all the time, even nothing is perfect. And one more thing - according to this woman who gave us tests, different countries uses different scales. And according to wikipedia:
 wikipedia wrote:
Mensa's only requirement for membership is that one score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardized IQ or other approved intelligence tests, such as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. Because different tests are scaled differently, it is not meaningful to compare raw scores between tests, only percentiles. For example, the minimum accepted score on the Stanford-Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148. |
So my is this Stanford.
Required IQ is 130, however mine was only 120. It's not so bad, but I thought I have higher. I'm 21 years now. What about you guys ? Do you have any experience with these things, have any of you did some tests ?
Edited by Marty McFly - April 26 2010 at 15:08
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 14:18 |
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I had a test a dozen years ago, but I don't believe in IQ (even if my IQ is estimated to a score of 135).
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 14:45 |
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I've never had one. The whole idea that the test measure anything besides your ability to take the IQ test is quite silly.
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:03 |
I don't find "quocient" in the dictionary. You're voted off the Mensa island.
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:07 |
Indeed, it's not almighty. I for example have more developed skills in for example linguistics (After all I study English language as major which would be suicide if I wouldn't both like it and know something about it - I don't study Math, or any other "technical" field as for example my brother). But it is standardized, it is used and it is (I dare to say) well known and respected by many. After all, it's very difficult, if not impossible to measure intellectual capacity.
But OK, I can say that this IQ test is about: "How well you can handle pattern geometrical pictures picture-picture-picture
picture-picture-picture
picture-picture-XXXXXX (choose from 8 choices) multiply by 36 (questions) and divide by 40 (minutes) and you have this IQ test in nutshell.
I think it's far from being perfect, it has its flaws and can even discriminate, but it's the best we have.
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:08 |
My brian hurts.  
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:10 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
I don't find "quocient" in the dictionary. You're voted off the Mensa island. |
You got me, one of these cultural errors where we (in my case) "Czenglish words - in my language the word is very similar (kvocient), so I thought that there is quocient word. Updated.
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A Person
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:11 |
I've never taken any of the tests that would qualify me for Mensa, I don't really care if I qualify or not. Also, I'm not going to pay for it. 
Edited by A Person - April 26 2010 at 15:12
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:12 |
He always reminds me John Lennon.
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:24 |
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I already know my IQ is kinda low so I don't really want to know how low it is. My strong points are my perceptive and emotional acuity rather than the "pure" intelligence.
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:39 |
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I think I'm a little above average, but I don't care much. I would be offended if I ever encountered anything in life that treats the IQ test as anything more than a trivial game.
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:40 |
Does the fact that people waste time taking IQ tests lower their score? 
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 15:47 |
Epignosis wrote:
Does the fact that people waste time taking IQ tests lower their score?
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What was the middle part?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:19 |
Curiosity is strong. I always wanted to know more and more. I have quite big common knowledge, average knowledge on many subjects, however I'm expert on just some of them. Not much, but only those I like a lot.
Hair dressing isn't one of them nor biology. Nor Math.
Some of you said that there are (basically) more important things in life and they should be the important thing. Correct, I agree. But curiosity, think about it :-D it cost $10, it's not even one Prog album
Edited by Marty McFly - April 26 2010 at 16:20
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:43 |
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Hairdressing never ceases to amaze me. The things they can do with a
pair of scissors and a comb . . . Incredible, simply incredible!
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 17:03 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
I've never had one. The whole idea that the test measure anything besides your ability to take the IQ test is quite silly. |
Agreed. I've never taken a Mensa test, but I have taken IQ tests in the past and it's hard to understand how any genuinely intelligent person could take them seriously.
If anybody really thinks that these tests have any more objective validity than a horoscope, read The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould. If you still think they're worth a tinker's curse after that, it's time to join your local eugenics society.
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Epignosis
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 17:05 |
Vompatti wrote:
Hairdressing never ceases to amaze me. The things they can do with a
pair of scissors and a comb . . . Incredible, simply incredible!
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They haven't done sh*t with my nap.
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 17:43 |
OK, thanks for sober opinions. Actually they're helpful. As I said, I'll not be able to party with self-elected smarties. I have to admit that it was my dream since long time ago. Don't know why, after all, there are more important things in life.
Good night.
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Posted: April 26 2010 at 18:38 |
Had mine tested years ago as a test subject (my parents are both psychologists  ) and the result was a performance IQ of 135 and a verbal IQ of 145.
Edited by Zebedee - April 26 2010 at 18:39
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Posted: April 27 2010 at 00:00 |
I've never had an IQ test, but I got an 800 on the verbal section of the SAT and a 690 on the math, so I would probably do pretty well (sorry, if other people are going to claim upper 2 percentile IQs I have to brag a little bit too), although I'm rubbish at the visual math puzzles and patterns that make up so much of them, so maybe not. And I'm sort of retarded in real life. All the people at Mensa seem to do is make and solve puzzle books, which I have no interest in. I think Saint Augustine thanked God for preventing him from becoming interested in wasting his time on logic puzzles, and I have to agree. I think anybody who is actually smart doesn't put much stock in IQ tests.
Edited by Henry Plainview - April 27 2010 at 03:27
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