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I believe a similar research study was done on HN where they asked HN people what their IQ was and actually measured it. I vaguely recall the average guessed I

I believe a similar research study was done on HN where they asked HN people what their IQ was and actually measured it. I vaguely recall the average guessed IQ was 120 or 130 while the actual IQ was around 100 which is similar to this study. In a nutshell the conclusion was that people on HN like to think they're smarter than average and like to up vote articles on IQ when in reality HNers are just average. I can't find the study anymore. But I remember seeing it somewhere.

jncfhnb 3y ago
I’d be curious. I feel like one should be able to estimate this based on life experience. But maybe not. E.g. if you’re effortlessly in the top 10% of any academic or mental performance setting, does it follow that you’re likely in the top 10% IQ (120+?). If it does not follow, what does that suggest about the measurement? At the risk of hubris, I’d be so dumbfounded by something saying I had median intelligence that I would be inclined to say the test is simply wrong. I would not expect the test to be calibrated well enough to differentiate above 90% well. So I’m in that bucket of 120+ estimators. I’m probably not that different from the rest. Kind of makes me want to take a test tbh.