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MedeaLysistrata posted...

I havent been officially tested but I went to a high ranked school and did alright once I learned the basics. So I'm probably at least 105.

But I don't just mean IQ anyway, other stuff goes into intelligence metrics

I think you're conflating general knowledge with intelligence. General knowledge correlates positively with IQ, but different people with similar levels of intelligence can vary widely with how much they know, partially due to education and unequal opportunities and incentives for self-education and fostering intellectual curiosity. I would say the fact that you're posting in a coherent manner on an obscure message board instead of posting barely readable gibberish on Facebook (like many people) bodes well for your level of intelligence.

IQ is basically something that measures performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks that are correlated to varying degrees with something known as the g-factor. The psychologist Charles Spearman, who was a pioneer in the development of the statistical methods used in psychology, noticed that on the tests he developed that people typically did not have wildly varying scores across different domains; scores on his tests seemed to be pointing to a single phenomenon, what he coined the g-factor.

As you can imagine, there's no single part of the brain that we can look at with a CAT scan to measure how intelligent someone is with precision. Therefore, we are still reliant on measuring an abstract construct, the g-factor, using the imperfect (yet powerful) IQ test.

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