Poll of the Day > Took my first IQ test today

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Score came back as 136.

I was fearing they'd say it was 50 and I'd feel bad the rest of my life haha.

Huzzah!
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If you took it online, it's almost certainly meaningless and probably bullshit.

If you actually took it in person, administered by a proctor and were officially timed, then congrats.

Also, for reference, if your IQ was 50 you'd barely be able to form coherent sentences, let alone be typing out full words on the Internet. 80 is the threshold below which you're effectively clinically disabled.


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50 is far below the point of (I was going to use the proper scientific term, but GameFAQs is the language police) sub-Saharan level idiocy.

Use of the term "" or anything similar is almost always going to be unacceptable, even when you are not intending to be offensive. Please re-word your message text.

That would be about the level where you couldn't understand the concept of a mirror. Also, don't believe online IQ tests. They exist to inflate your ego. In fact, the whole IQ testing concept has been corrupted for decades. The best personal tests for IQ that I can think of at the moment are exercises like trying to visualize complex, or even impossible shapes, drawing mental parallels between things like programming languages and chemical formulae, and other things that require some mental dexterity.
In fact, the more basic knowledge you have (math, science, chemistry, engineering, language, art), the easier it is to connect things. For instance, if you're very knowledgeable about cooking, then chemistry may make much more sense, and be easier to learn, because cooking is applied chemistry, in the form of gastronomy. STEM fields are like low-level studies, that form a strong foundation for higher level things.Math is lower level than physics. Physics is lower level than engineering. Now I'm rambling.

tl;dr - Online IQ tests are typically a scam. Your intelligence is most simply, the ease at which you learn new concepts and utilize what you already know.
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MisterXiado posted...

50 is far below the point of (I was going to use the proper scientific term, but GameFAQs is the language police) sub-Saharan level idiocy.

That's why I had to say "clinically disabled".


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Only idiots boast about their IQ.

TheWorstPoster posted...

Only idiots boast about their IQ.

You boast about your possessions when youve never had a job or even been educated, whats that make you?

MisterXiado posted...

Online IQ tests are typically a scam.

This. Online IQ tests are not accurate at all. I have scored above 130 on these online tests too. It's incredibly rare for someone to actually be above 130. Only 2% of the population is above 130.

Here is the percentage breakage of real IQ scores across the population.

IQ..............Percentage of population...........Interpretation of the score
>130.......................2% ......................................very gifted
121-130..................6% ......................................gifted
111-120...................15% ....................................above average intelligence
90-110.....................54% ....................................average intelligence
80-89.......................15% ....................................below average intelligence
70-79..... .................6% .....................................cognitively impaired
<70..........................2% .....................................severely cognitively impaired

I aced mine, got a perfect 100!
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Mead posted...

I aced mine, got a perfect 100!

lol

I do wonder how many people have actually thought that for real though.

Then there are probably some people who get an 80 and think, "Whoohoo! I got a B!"

I scored 420 on mine.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

I scored 420 on mine.

420 sun rays?
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CacciatoPart3 posted...

TheWorstPoster posted...

Only idiots boast about their IQ.

You boast about your possessions when youve never had a job or even been educated, whats that make you?

Most people who have been educated by your standards don't even remember the skills they've learned, and education is not necessary to being successful in life. In fact, I think for many people it's more cost-effective to forego college.
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