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What is Your IQ?

What is Your IQ?

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ronpaulvoter said:
If anybody can get him to answer this one question, we can look at his response and find out:

What will you do to make government smaller, reduce taxes, and balance the budget?

Then we will see if he can provide a rational solution.
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Easy! Disband the military
 
1069 said:
Come on.
"She was TUAGHT it by sombody." is very funny.
The caps, the misspelling, the sentence structure, the second misspelling, the sheer irony. It all comes together.
Maybe I just have a perverse sense of humor.
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Don't worry. You are totally right. That sentence was funny as hell.

I've gotta proofread this crap I spew once in a while. ;)



Although it's only fair to point out that it would only be "sheer irony" if I wasn't the guy saying he has an IQ < 80. ;)

You would totally EXPECT the guy with this low of an IQ to make these errors.

The OPPOSITE of what you would expect is that he would not be prone to these errors.
 
Probably too late in the thread to introduce new information...but here's a website listing the average IQ scores of various groups.

IQ Scores - AssessmentPsychology.com

125 Mean of persons receiving Ph.D. and M.D. degrees
115 Mean of college graduates
105 Mean of high school graduates
100 Average for total population
75 About 50-50 chance of reaching ninth grade
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I'd be surprised if the average person at debatepolitics wasn't as smart as a college graduate.
 
Befuddled_Stoner said:
Probably too late in the thread to introduce new information...but here's a website listing the average IQ scores of various groups.

IQ Scores - AssessmentPsychology.com



I'd be surprised if the average person at debatepolitics wasn't as smart as a college graduate.
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Interesting... good info.

I know that many people here have Masters Degrees and other higher level degrees and credentials. Many here teach or counsel as well, and a few seem like they are very good in their fields. I would say that a site like this attracts a higher amount of intelligent people than you would simply randomly find at Church, for example.
 
Befuddled_Stoner said:
Probably too late in the thread to introduce new information...but here's a website listing the average IQ scores of various groups.

IQ Scores - AssessmentPsychology.com



I'd be surprised if the average person at debatepolitics wasn't as smart as a college graduate.
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I'm astounded at the fact that the average MD has an IQ just 10 pts higher than the average college grad. I'd like to think I've done much better for myself than the average college grad, but my MD girl is far smarter than me.
 
reaganburch said:
I've taken the Mensa test, as well as 3 different online tests and I've consistently scored in the mid to upper 150's....
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What was your MENSA score? That should be the most accurate? Were the online scores much different?

danarhea said:
Depends on which IQ test I took at which time. The first one was 155, the second was 128 (was drunk during that one - LOL), and the third 142.

I think that IQ is only one part of someone's intelligence. Being able to act within a social context is also another measure. Some who have high IQ's have the social skills of a 3 year old.
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Drop the drunk score (although that is a pretty good score for a drunk). Was the first one after you were 18? If so, average it in with the last one.

independent_thinker2002 said:
135. It looks like everyone is a friggin' genius. :mrgreen:
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I expected the average to be well above 100, perhaps as high as the mid 130's. I am really suspicious of the very large numbers that are over 140.

DarkWizard12 said:
I've taken a buncha nd I'm going by the best I have ever done.

161, just barely passed the mark! :D
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Tell us all of your scores so we can see how they compare. Do they deviate a great deal?

rivrrat said:
I was tested by Mensa at the age of 8 or 9 or somewhere around there. 142 "or so" if my mother's memory is correct. They didn't tell ME the results, and urged my mother not to tell me either until I was much older. /shrug

I've not ever taken one since, online or otherwise.
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Test yourself again and see if your score holds up.

Kandahar said:
If those online tests gave people their REAL scores, people wouldn't want to take the test. They'd rather take a test that inflates their ego.
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I think a lot of people want to see their real scores. I am sure there are at least a few online tests that do not give inflated scores.

Kandahar said:
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.
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So do I.

jallman said:
I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. I mean, look at what they do in their spare time...these people aren't exactly playing texas hold 'em on yahoo...they're discussing ideas.

As for mine, the three times it was measured, I came in at 135, 132, and 141.

I also don't think raw IQ scores are an accurate measure of total intelligence.
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Your scores are within the ballpark. But the huge numbers above 140 are suspect

Frolicking Dinosaurs said:
Excellent point. I took three online test to get my result and used the average. The results varied by nearly 40 points.
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The lowest score is probably the most accurate.

bub said:
Just look at the results of the poll. The average IQ is 100, and nearly everybody here would be above 120 or 130.
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Korimyr the Rat said:
The average person is a slack-jawed meatbag whose only productive use is industrial labor, and eventually, fertilizer. It is hardly surprising to me that the average poster on this board scores considerably higher than the average meatbag-- even our densest posters are literate at beyond the eighth grade level, and capable of forming and expressing their own opinions.

As for my scores, when I was tested at 10-- ironically, to test for learning disabilities-- I scored off the scale the test was calibrated for, and all they could tell me was that it was higher than 163.

Professionally-administered tests as an adult place me consistently in the mid-140s, with an occasional fluke score in the high 130s or low 150s. The scores would probably be much higher if I'd spent more time in an intellectually stimulating environment and less time in a drug-induced stupor as an adolescent.
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Korimyr, your IQ is more than ample to comprehend the principles of free market economics and the dangers of big government, regulation, "public" (government-run) education, excessive taxation and social-welfare programs. Please read LewRockwell.com and Strike The Root - a journal of liberty on a regular basis and finish your education.

1069 said:
The average IQ for middle class white people in the United States is not 100. It's significantly higher than that. I would be surprised if it's much below 115. Maybe higher than that, if you're an Ashkenazi Jew.
100 is the median IQ for everyone, and first-generation immigrants and underprivileged minorities routinely score below 100, bringing the median down.
Yet many researchers have made a compelling case that the discrepencies are cultural in origin, not biological; to wit, the test is biased in favor of middle-class whites (and possibly males).
And this is what I believe.
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I remember reading in a magazine some years ago that the avearge Hispanic and the average black scored about 10 points below the average white. However, it said that the average Asian (Chinese and Japanese) scored about 5 points ABOVE the average white.
 
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I remember reading in a magazine some years ago that the avearge Hispanic and the average black scored about 10 points below the average white. However, it said that the average Asian (Chinese and Japanese) scored about 5 points ABOVE the average white.
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True. Chinese and Japanese score on par with Ashkenazi Jews.
Other east asian subgroups- Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Hmong- do less well.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
Korimyr, your IQ is more than ample to comprehend the principles of free market economics and the dangers of big government, regulation, "public" (government-run) education, excessive taxation and social-welfare programs. Please read LewRockwell.com and Strike The Root - a journal of liberty on a regular basis and finish your education.
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I am already well-versed in your Libertarian propaganda and pop-economic nonsense, having myself been an active member of the Libertarian Party for some time. My education in these matters is quite complete-- and it is on the basis of that education that I have rejected your naive ideology.

The market economy and the government alike both exist for the benefit of society, and not vice versa. When this relationship becomes confused, as it does under Authoritarian and Corporatist governments, it slowly erodes the cohesion and identity of the society.

Sensible market regulations, progressive taxation, social welfare programs, and yes, public education, are all necessary to prevent democratic societies from regressing into Authoritiarian or Corporatist regimes.
 
EgoffTib said:
Last time I took one it was 152. Not bad.
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Actually, that's pretty lame for this forum, where the median IQ is allegedly something like 174.

/ smirk.
 
1069 said:
Actually, that's pretty lame for this forum, where the median IQ is allegedly something like 174.

/ smirk.
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Yeah I went to school with a kid who was a 192. He graduated at 16. I just talked to him the other day and he just got his bachelor degree in engineering from UC Berkeley at 19. I like to think I'm rather intelligent... until I meet people like him :)
 
What is YOUR IQ that you ask a so silly question?

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What is YOUR IQ that you ask a so silly question?

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Well my IQ is 1XX, but sometimes I feel like I am in a sea of idiots.

I don't care what anybody else has as far as an IQ,
I only see what they say and how they make their life matter.
All that we can care about is how someone makes an impact.
Actions speak loud!!!

If you aren't speaking and acting then your mind is lost...
Like so many others, life is lost in a tantrum.
 
There is a pop up ad on this forum that says Barack Obama's IQ is 125.

That's far below the average of the voters on this poll and the posters on this thread--that is, assuming they are honest.
 
It is often age dependent. I scored very high as a child because I was sick alot and my college professor mother made me read and read and read and read and read. So I had really high scores because by 4th grade I was reading college history books. I think scores decrease over age in many cases. at age 10 when I first took one of those things I was hungry for knowledge and very curious. At close to 50 I am not as avid. I took one of those silly tests a year ago online and hit 150. So I redid it changing some of the answers and got basically the same score meaning those things are worthless.

I never took a mensa test-the whole concept of that society seemed stupid-I know some fascinating people who probably couldn't get into Mensa and I met a ton of those who could at various Ivy schools and they bored the snot out of me. However I got a Mensa invitation based solely on my SAT scores-it went promptly into the circular file.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
There is a pop up ad on this forum that says Barack Obama's IQ is 125.
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Yeah, alternately, the ad sometimes shows a picture of George W Bush and says that Bush's IQ is 125.

Isn't that simply uncanny? :roll:
 
My IQ is the same as everyone else's. That is it's an inaugurate measurement of a certain type of something that has never been defined.


Other than that, I've never had an IQ test that I know of.
 
1069 said:
The fact that more than half of all black people tested in the US before 1973 scored under 85, causing the AAMR to actually lower the threshold of mental retardation to <70 so that opponents of the civil rights movement could not use this to withhold equal rights from blacks, and that today black people score significantly higher than they did thirty years ago (although their median score is still not on par with that of whites), and that research by reputable, nationally renowned authorities in the field have proven that there is no physiological, biological, or genetic difference in intelligence between the races... the difference in test scores is caused by cultural and environmental factors.
In fact, the overall average Black-White IQ gap has been reduced by one third over the last 30 years (although the median IQ difference between black and white adults is still 17 points).
The test is racist. The end.
It's also classist and anglocentric/ nationalistic/ xenophobic, as the poor of all races and also first-generation immigrants of nearly all ethnicities score significantly lower than middle-class whites.

If the test wasn't racist, the IQ/ race gap wouldn't have begun closing since the end of Jim Crow/ the beginning of civil rights.
It's not like black people were troglodytes who just suddenly and miraculously began to evolve 30 years ago, and that this miracle just happened to coincide with our decision to make racial discrimination, segregation, and general abuse illegal.
It's only been one and a half (or possibly two) generations since the civil rights movement. Black people haven't had time to change. The reason they suddenly score so much higher on IQ tests is that society has changed, and the reason they still don't score on par with whites is that society still hasn't changed enough.
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Do you have info on the closing gap in IQs? My guts tells me there is an enviromental cause in much of the difference between African-American and White scores but I've never had the info to defend that position well enough yet. One should not be so PC though so as to completely rule out a large school of scientific thought of the subject, that believes there is large genetic component in the difference, out of hand.
 
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I've never taken a legitimate IQ test that I'm aware of, so I don't know what mine would be.

It is stunning to me the heightened level of brilliance that the internet seems to attract. Any time I've seen or discussed IQ levels on the internet the average seems to be well into the 130s, which, if my bell curve chart interpreting skills are on point, represents the 99th percentile of IQ scores.
 
It is stunning to me the heightened level of brilliance that the internet seems to attract.
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':lol:


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