I'm borderline retarded with an 82 IQ. What's yours?

I guess, marriage suits you :2thumbsup:

 

Only thing about a genuine IQ test, is that its much longer than 20 questions

 

The title of this thread is funny

 

Better than I thought.

 

Anyone here belong to Mensa?

 

:I got 101... I thought I was smarter than that :toetap05:

 

I did not have to join to buy a mensa heating unit for the patio.

Did they make others join?

 

I was trying for a zero.

 

http://www.free-iqtest.net/score.asp
IQ of 120

 

On the real I took a real iq test given by a professional once and got a score of 106. There was another score of 117 to account for my somewhat impaired short term memory...apparently from drug abuse. I was on a small amount of hydrocodone when I took it.

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

It's actually from the roof of the next building, I got on my roof and walked across there's no gap at all...I was drunk once and was debating whether I could make it to the next one after that but there is a small gaprobly about 10 feet and it would be risky...I think I could make it with a running start tho but if for whatever reason I didn't the results wouldn't be pretty

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

158, member of Mensa for many years

 

It's Washington Heights...uptown...the 180s actually (street #s) I feel someone will be looking for me now...no need to be paranoid I guess, lots of people live in the 180s

 

IQ tests test only one aspect of intelligence, and are cuturally biased. The way you write indicates a higher score since writing takes the most intelligence, even over math or science.
There are IQ brain scanners that bypass dyslexia and autism issues.

I scored 140 on an IQ brain scan when I was 15, but the paper test was slightly lower on the shape-matching section because of dyslexia.
My son scored 160 IQ on a paper test but he's highly dyslexic and barely functional in other areas.

A high IQ is only one aspect of intelligence. Most people lose the ability to relate to others as they cross the 140 mark
and practicality often has an inverse relationship to it.
I'm a great example of both of these things.
Any given day I'm in a swamp photographing birds or getting up in the middle of the night to build a new invention prototype.
Naturally, nobody wants to hear about all my fanatical interests in physics, astronomy, etc., so I tend to hang out on twitter where I can specialize my contacts to match my interests.

Albert Einstein couldn't tell one human face from another, couldn't make change, never remembered to pay bills, got lost two blocks from his house,
his wife had to catch him and zip up his pants and put shoes on him before he wandered out of the house.

The higher the IQ and stronger the person's creativity the stronger the link to DNA glitches such as dyslexia, and mental illness, to the point that one researcher remarked
that "high IQ is a type of mental illness."
Plus, highly intelligent people seldom care about money or family obligations as much as their fanatical pursuits,
and it's a wonder most of them successfully reproduce at all.

 

the test we had to take for the gifted class was purely multiple choice. no option for creativity on that one.

high school tests were fun though, since it was still before the scantron revolution for me so there was a lot of room for comedy whenever the correct answers weren't obvious.

 

When I was substitute teaching in Kentucky in the 1990s, I loved teaching special education classes because the kids did everything I told them, then sat and waited
until I told them what to do next..all sincerity, no mischief, trying to avoid work, etc.

But best of all were the advanced gifted classes because when I arrived, kids were typically working on personal projects at high speed.
If one of them asked permission to run to the lab for something I signed the permission slip since they never tried to smoke in the bathroom or pull a fast one.
In fact they barely noticed I was there at all.

I was able to pull out Anna Karenina and have a nice read during class.
If a kid starting talking to me, it was usually about something COOL and often afterward the kid would get his friends and
find me at lunch to excitedly continue the conversation.
They would often express surprise that an adult was showing curiosity about something.

Both my parents had extremely high IQs..my dad was a radio engineer and into sci-fi, fluent in five languages, curious as a kitten.
My mom was a 4.0 valedictorian, double major in math and science, captain of the college women's basketball team, blah, blah, ran a radio station program department,
but never seemed curious about anything.
Very focused only on her work.

 

i don't think mine ever holds steady. if verries all over the place in accordance with my mood when testing. every time i've ever taken one, its come up different. wildly different each time from every other time. i know i'm almost retarded in some contexts and almost brilliant in others too. of course testing tries to average that out, but in doing so, it makes me wonder what, if anything, the numbers really mean.

i don't mean interpretations, but what if anything is being 'measured'.

intelligence to me, is never an absolute limit on capacity, but the rate at which new and useful data and abilities, can be accumulated.

like i said, i've come away with both very low scores and very high ones, and if that's supposed to be impossible, none the less i have anyway.

 

Haha, well, as far as my whole "creativity" thing went, it was mostly like the GT teacher showing me pictures of groups of things and asking me what didn't belong. I just had off-the-wall ("creative") reasoning back then, so I didn't fall under their "gifted" category. That was alright with me, they missed out on some fun field trips and had to do extra projects and stuff.