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I seem to have the lowest IQ of everyone on the forum, except for the ones who were joking.
The AAMD- American Association on Mental Deficiency- set the IQ threshold for mental retardation at <85 in 1959. In 1973, the AAMD- which had by then renamed itself the AAMR (American Association on Mental Retardation)- changed the IQ threshold for retardation from <85 to <70. This was partly in response to various sociopolitical pressures.
I'm not denying there may be a couple of people on this forum with <80 IQs (although not any of the very regular posters, I don't believe).
But they aren't the ones who voted in this poll.
Out of the people who cast legitimate votes, my IQ is the lowest of everyone here.
That in itself points to the inefficacy of standard IQ tests in quantifying intellectual capacity, to me and to any other rational human being.
Either that, or else it points to the general dishonesty of nearly everyone, as has already been suggested in this thread.
I still think, as a third possibility, that some here may have taken something they thought was an IQ test, but which wasn't really.
The AAMD- American Association on Mental Deficiency- set the IQ threshold for mental retardation at <85 in 1959. In 1973, the AAMD- which had by then renamed itself the AAMR (American Association on Mental Retardation)- changed the IQ threshold for retardation from <85 to <70. This was partly in response to various sociopolitical pressures.
I'm not denying there may be a couple of people on this forum with <80 IQs (although not any of the very regular posters, I don't believe).
But they aren't the ones who voted in this poll.
Out of the people who cast legitimate votes, my IQ is the lowest of everyone here.
That in itself points to the inefficacy of standard IQ tests in quantifying intellectual capacity, to me and to any other rational human being.
Either that, or else it points to the general dishonesty of nearly everyone, as has already been suggested in this thread.
I still think, as a third possibility, that some here may have taken something they thought was an IQ test, but which wasn't really.
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