What's your IQ?

[Pred]

That was Groucho, not Carl

what happened to Karl?

 

[retired_member4]

See, that just shows you how stupid I am

I don't even think my quote was made by groucho, it just sounded good. I'm sure a famous writer said this

 

[liam]

you would be suprised how many people dont even know what IQ stands for
do you? and dont google it.

anyway Mensa is for dummy's, triplenine society is were its at , personally think it should be renamed doubleeight after me..

 

[crabfoot]

Yeh, right - heres's the answers.

I Q means "I live in Russia". Nothing to do with brainpower ...

Karl Marx died of a bad dose of London. Zoffo Marx was the one who said the Marx Brothers wouldn't take off as an idea, and decided to become a book keeper - like John Major, who ran away from the circus to become an accountant. Wish he had been Trotsky, he deserved the icepick ...

Skinner - you have yet to be mugged by the "handbag minders" - when it gets to the end of the night, they say "mind my handbag" and go off to the toilet. About 20 mins later you examine the handbag and find it was bought in a charity shop, and contains nothing more valuable than screwed up newspaper. The "owners" got into a cab in Albert Square 10 minutes before you looked, and went home without you. My uncle had a pub in Oxford Road, he knew the score ... and he didn't get rich, either.

Methinks I am getting old enough to be cynical ...

 

[StudioVision]

I took, and passed, the MENSA supervised IQ test in 1995 at the age of ten years old, but haven't paid the membership fee since the second year (or rather my parents didn't) so I take it i'm no longer a member? Not that it bothers me

 

[aZooZa]

I took, and passed, the MENSA supervised IQ test in 1995 at the age of ten years old, but haven't paid the membership fee since the second year (or rather my parents didn't) so I take it i'm no longer a member? Not that it bothers me

You're lucky. You won't have the magazine clogging up your dustbin

 

[James]

I've taken three IQ tests, and scored 51, 43, and 61. My memory isn't too good, but I think this gives me an average IQ of about 41.

Inopportunely, each time I measure my clean IQ it is only 48. I wish this could be higher, since I would like to behave more intelligently at all if possible, but the attitude of the person for level 48 is stuck.

This affects my ability to concentrate and perform even the simplest of tasks such as delivering oxygen to where it is needed in the body and the act of travelling by foot.

 

[aZooZa]

I've taken three IQ tests, and scored 51, 43, and 61. My memory isn't too good, but I think this gives me an average IQ of about 41.

Inopportunely, each time I measure my clean IQ it is only 48. I wish this could be higher, since I would like to behave more intelligently at all if possible, but the attitude of the person for level 48 is stuck.

This affects my ability to concentrate and perform even the simplest of tasks such as delivering oxygen to where it is needed in the body and the act of travelling by foot.

If you can say 'inopportunely' then you're in

 

[crabfoot]

Intelligence is no measure of diligence, work ethic, and effort - which might explain why "John the eeh bah gum mouth breather farmer's son" that used to sit next to me on the school bus every day got a scholarship to Oxford, and I went to a polytechnic.

Well, I learned something from the Open University psychology courses - and one thing I learned is that obviously bright people who score low in IQ tests are guessing because they lack patience. So they need a more appropriate test to measure their ability (usually one with lots and lots of very easy questions, that only Superman could answer in the alloted time).

Those tests for high IQ people do not give accurate results for people of ordinary ability - and they are so skewed against artistic ability that most of the world's great painters and songwriters would have trouble scoring above average.
I don't believe James is a thicko - I think he was guessing - but I'm guessing

 

[disruptive]

I've often found that lazy people can be v intelligent. Not all the time, but sometimes a good solution does not require brute force! Better sometimes in some situations to find the most elegant solution....but not all.

 

[Skinner]

I heard about a guy with aspergers, I think it was from his care giver.

He was saying

Write down 3359 x 354340 / 24942 X 2942904 sq ^ 5 - 1492 = ? and he could work it out to 10 decimal places quicker than he could try with a calculator, he could also work it in mathematical precedence or as wrote.

However ask him to add up a shopping list for sweets where they are all under 10p and he took ages to work them out.

Ask him to spell words and spells Cat like Kaaht, but he can beat the computer at chess all day long.

the list of things like this went on and on, so where does his IQ of 900 get him ?

 

[aZooZa]

I heard about a guy with aspergers, I think it was from his care giver.

He was saying

Write down 3359 x 354340 / 24942 X 2942904 sq ^ 5 - 1492 = ? and he could work it out to 10 decimal places quicker than he could try with a calculator, he could also work it in mathematical precedence or as wrote.

However ask him to add up a shopping list for sweets where they are all under 10p and he took ages to work them out.

Ask him to spell words and spells Cat like Kaaht, but he can beat the computer at chess all day long.

the list of things like this went on and on, so where does his IQ of 900 get him ?

That's 'savant' stuff. Way over the scale.

 

[James]

Whenever people ask my IQ I always say it's about 48. One of my favourite and oft-used phrases is "I don't know much of anything", which is especially useful for those tricky dinner party conversations.

 

[purg]

From the i-q site scored an outstanding average
90 - 109

 

[rob]

Whenever people ask my IQ I always say it's about 48. One of my favourite and oft-used phrases is "I don't know much of anything", which is especially useful for those tricky dinner party conversations.

That strategy is badger.