What is your IQ?

I didn't have the heart to bring it up.

 

it was a cut n' paste... but thanks for pointing it out Casey

Oz
in a pedantic mood

 

Ooooooooh is this one of those QI moments? Heeeee...

 

No actually, I never really thought of it like that.
That was no typo lol.
It's just that my IQ is quite low comparing to most people on this thread. :'(

 

You're Canadian. We're used to it.:cheers2I'm only kidding)

 

What is Donald and Lodo taking talking about then?

Does the an not a rule only apply to nouns or something?

Do I need to ask Stephen Fry about this?

 

I thought it depended on the word beginning with the letter 'h' and I also thought it was only on words with a silent 'h' to start?

 

Silent h's are an since they'll have a vowel sound.

An honor. (silent)

A house. (pronounced)

 

That's what I figured.

 

Is that right? I was taught at school it was all 'h's'!

It wasn't a very good school I went to though, hence the fact I got the maths and science prize in my final year, and not english

When I was in primary 7 we had a spelling test in our class, and the prize for anyone who spelled every word correctly was a free bag of crisps and a choccie bar at playtime. I was the only person, I mean child, who got all ten words correct, but my fucking asshole teacher marked me 9 out of 10! The ****.

I'm fucking serious, I was right and he got the spelling wrong, that was a 10 year old kid intellectually challenging a 40 year old man who was 6ft 3 and looked like Frank Zappa!

Oh I could have done so much better ...

 

My new IQ is 117 which means "bright normal"

I'm better with that.

Still you guys with your 130+ you realize you're abnormally bright, right? You're gifted! Maybe not geniuses, cause that's 150+.. but.. wow..

 

genius is 130+


most people either lie, or base it on the highest they've scored on an internet test. by those standards, my IQ is 150 something or 160 something (that being the highest i recall scoring on an internet test). although if we're just lying, i'll call it 134 to be somewhat believable

 

If you want to increase your IQ then I guess you could look into the topics that the test talks about that way you gain more knowledge.

 

I used to be really into IQ tests.

I did one and it said mine was 600.
So I bought a white cat , a wall of plasma screens and some books on Atomic physics.Oh and 1/4 page PR article in the local County Gazette.
I had to decided my true vocation in life was to become a real life Deviant Genius - like James Bond's Blofeld , blackmailing the world against thermonuclear destructuon.

Unfortunately I decided to abort my plans when someone pointed out that my head was upside down when I read the IQ score on screen.
Instead of 600 , it was actually 009 : (
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Seriously , tho I am into IQ tests and shit.
I think high IQ people should network together like freemasons and the like do.
The difference between a genuis and a clver person is the same as between a clever person and an idiot - or a chimp even , u could argue.
But society tends to restrain really talented people- or even shun them.
I only know a couple of 170 plus IQ people and theyre nowhere near as successful as some normal IQ'ers I know.
I think thats a shame.Still , less thermonuclear catastrophies , I suppose...

 

Looks like lessons have been learnt.

 

i always figured that the the reason why the MENSA member didn't run the world... is 'cos they smart enough to realise that it's a thankless boring job.... or they too busy inventing a better can opener or somesuch

Oz
giggling like Q at a robotwars convention

 

Hhhm , some of em see politics as just "bickering" children.So they go more into
"think tanks" and academia or technology.

Boffins tend to favour novelty/neweness , whereas power-with-money tends to favour stability- ie can be anti anything the dont understand.
Boffins tend to be abit like "idiot-savants" - good at party tricks ( at shit like inventing can opneners)- but poor on application , and find it frustrating having to get alliances with less intelligent , more practically minded / powerful people.

I'm told by one boffin , that "powers that be" have kept a lid on certain technologies deemed " potentially destablilising"

Really , we're similar to Ancient Greece- it existed 2000 years with hardly any scientific advancement- because it threateneed the Establishment's position.

Still a freemasons for clever-bxxxxers would be good-provided they answered only to me , and a white cat...