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Ask HN: What's your IQ?
Many here assume inhabitantans of this particular little part of cyberspace have extremely high IQ.
How about some help ballparking it?
- bane 13y agoProbably better as an anonymous poll. Lots of people with high-IQs are rather shy about it.
- hkmurakami 13y agoMine's not even that high and I'd rather not blurt it out in public, so I completely agree.
- eru 13y agoThat question is not very helpful without specifying which test you took, and in which country. (And whether you practiced..)
- dsirijus 13y agoKind of a reason why I didn't ran with a poll. This way you get to provide additional information.
- arethuza 13y ago"And whether you practiced" My oldest sister (17 years older than me) did psychology at University and specialized in child psychology and education at post-grad level. Guess who was experimental subject #1 for her? By my teens I had seen every possible "intelligence" test you could imagine and could do them in my sleep. Fortunately nobody (other than members of Mensa) seems to take IQ tests very seriously in the UK....
- eru 13y agoAnd UK's mensa is kind-of a joke, if I remember right. The German mensa is somewhat more worth joining.
- lowglow 13y agoI'd say high 800s. I'm sure someone could back me up on this.
- arethuza 13y agoDo you want that in metric or Imperial intelligence units?
- devonbarrett 13y ago136 - Cattell III B - UK - No practice, at age 15.
- philipb 13y agosomewhere around 850g.
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- njpatel 13y agoI can urinate much higher than you can.
- CatsoCatsoCatso 13y agoMy dad is bigger than your dad.
- forktheif 13y agoThe highest I ever got on an IQ test is 134, and the lowest is 86. I got a couple of others around 120. So, take your pick.
- rys 13y agoHelicopter.
- Joeboy 13y ago163 using whatever test Mensa used in the UK in the early '90s. I have always assumed they were incentivized to ensure as many people as possible got high scores. I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time.
- NovaS1X 13y ago>I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time. How did you deal with this? I've been very insecure about my intelligence over the last year or so, even though everyone tells me I'm very smart and I do happen to pick things up quite quickly. I just can't see myself as the person they say I am in relation to where I am in my life, I feel like I should be doing something important if I am truly intelligent. It's starting to affect my relations with people and my relationship with myself as I overcompensate more and more and have become far more competitive.
- eru 13y agoAs always, talk to your Doctor (or psychatrist). Some general hints for almost all mood and mind problems: are you getting the right amount of sleep? Are you exercising? How about your diet? (Are you getting laid enough?) Getting those things right doesn't help directly, but they make it so much easier to cope with whatever life throws at you. Also, forget about intelligence, and start creating.
- dsirijus 13y agoI took it out of insecurity too, early 00s, whatever type Mensa was using then. I still tend to overcompensate too. That's probably not a big of an issue (it's also usually a male thing). >172 (that 172 was the limit because of the not-so-big a sample) There was no verbal questions, though. Only symbolic.
- Joeboy 13y ago> How did you deal with this? Not necessarily very well. I am reasonably happy with myself in terms of what people might characterize as "intellect", but I still feel intractably talented in the field of day-to-day idiocy. I am often quite hard on myself in entirely unproductive ways.
- Morphling 13y agoNever taken actual IQ test, did one on the Mensa's website once and all it said was that I should consider taking the actual test, but I'm pretty sure that's just marketing thing. The truth is that I'm too lazy and cheap to take part in actual IQ test. Plus I'm kind a afraid that I'd find out that I'm just an average Joe or maybe below the average intelligence as that's the only positive trait I (appear to) have. Maybe if I started to take care of my body and got fit I could muster the courage to find out just how dumb I am when I at least was healthy otherwise... Just my random thoughts.
- eru 13y agoCheckout http://reddit.com/r/fitness http://reddit.com/r/fitness
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- DanBC 13y agoI'd really like to see interviews with people who've been grouped by IQ. The interviews would all use the same questions.
- mcv 13y agoLike many others here, I don't put much stock in IQ values. It's a trainable skill, and it depends a lot on what kind of test you do. IQ tests have also been proven to be strongly culture-related. But for what it's worth, when I was young, I scored 136 in a test from some booklet that I didn't finish, and much later I scored 139 on the test from "The National IQ Test" on Dutch TV (which had 140 or 142 as a maximum score). I've never really done a "proper" IQ test, or if I have, my parents didn't share the results. I guess it's safe to say I'm fairly smart, but I don't think I'm noticeably smarter than my friends or family. Maybe they also score in the 130-140 range.
- yread 13y ago25cm
- talles 13y agoIdk/idc. I always thought that IQ tests are silly.
- john_sp92 13y agoI've never taken a standard test like that of Mensa, but the ones I've taken over the last 5-6 years have scores in the range 138 to 145, but I don't think it's a good indicator of overall brain capacity. Maybe just a level of your Logical ability.
- iterationx 13y agoWe just fake it by being negative about everything.
- joeldidit 13y ago135, Stanford Binet, USA, 12 years old.
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