If somebody has an IQ of 150
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HuGoL1101 — 11 years ago(April 16, 2014 06:59 PM)
In some ways, yes I do. That and a lot of shame. And a little bit of frustration to not be able to talk on the same plane. And I can't do anything that would affect my Karma, I don't want to come back here anymore.
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elhelali1 — 11 years ago(May 31, 2014 04:10 AM)
However its obvious that you are trying to prove something. If you really were that smart you wouldnt take by a stupid IQ test. Why do I think its stupid? Well my IQ is around 140 I know a 150 something who look up to me for advise and it is implied that on a day to day basis between the two of us I'm the one who knows what I'm talking about. But dont take my word for it.. Stephen Hawking is a 160 who thinks IQ is for "losers"
To answer your question.. Neither I, nor the 150 I know are that far ahead of average peoplewe do feel a sense of superiority complex, but i felt that long before taking an IQ testI'm not that far ahead. On a bad day Id totally lose an argument to a 100-110 person.. I'd say the 150 is even less sharp in social situations but scores higher in exams etc
Bro, quit your mental masturbation -
DomIsAMoron — 11 years ago(June 01, 2014 11:17 PM)
Your IQ is not around 140. Your moronic writing style is the first clue. 140 is the "genius" threshold. Every beep on the internet claims to have an astronomical IQ, obviously not realizing what the numbers actually represent.
You either:
A. Made it up (most likely scenario). It's like 40-yard-dash times in football. Idiots love making up 40-yard-dash times for various players. "X player ran a 4.1 40-yard-dash!!!" No, he didn't, you lying moron.
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B. Took an "internet IQ test" and thought that was a real IQ test. -
Talidan — 11 years ago(July 23, 2014 11:35 PM)
My mother is probably one of the best writers I know, and I grew up around Pulitzer winners, yet she is no where near one of the smartest people in my life.
Her intelligence and possible correlation with her writing ability brings up a humorous anecdote. She's one of those types of people that always tries to assert her intellect and cultural experience, and, as it so happens, my father was accepted into Mensa. She was not. It drove her crazy, figuratively of course.
My father is a very laid-back type of guy. He's a very blue-collar man; grew up impoverished and in a large, Italian family. If you met him, you wouldn't be able to tell right off how intelligent he is, whether in speech or type, but he was indeed a card-carrying Mensa member.
My own IQ could be average or well below that, or I could qualify for Mensa, Prometheus, or even Mega, and you would never know it through the internet. It doesn't matter how I write or what I claim my IQ to be. Hell, I culd nurmaly type lik dis on teh utubes and would it really prove anything either way?
Let people make their claims. Odds are incredibly slim that the claim is true, but you would never know for certain anyway. It changes nothing in the end. -
cvsandstuff — 11 years ago(November 27, 2014 08:41 AM)
Not incredibly slim.
"140
99.6169574875%
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http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx -
jagfantc — 11 years ago(April 03, 2015 07:46 AM)
Yes, incredibly slim. Less than a 1% chance that the troglodytes you are arguing with on the internet are in the 140+ IQ category as they claim to be. You have to read the chart correctly. What the chart is saying is that according to the 15 SD (e.g. Wechsler) and 16 SD (e.g. Stanford-Binet) scale this is the following information:
15 SD Scale
At an IQ of "140" 99.6169574875% of the population is accounted for (that means that roughly only 0.3% of the population has an IQ of 140+) and the odds are 1/261 that a person would have this IQ.
16 SD Scale
At an IQ of "140" 99.3790320141% of the population is accounted for (that means that roughly only 0.6% of the population has an IQ of 140+) and the odds are 1/161 that a person would have this IQ.
To put the odds in perspective
1/7 to develop prostate cancer (men)
1/8 to develop breast cancer (female)
1/33 to be born with some sort of birth defect
1/68 to be born autistic
1/167 to be born with two different color eyes
1/3000 to be struck by lightning -
FredPenner — 10 years ago(July 02, 2015 07:23 PM)
If you truly have an IQ of 140 and don't see a difference from the average Joe, then you do NOT have an IQ of 140.
I would suggest your math skills are too low to figure out your IQ especially if your friend with similar math skills figured his to be 150.
You truly do not understand the Intelligence Quotient if you think that a 140 IQ person would lose an argument to someone with an IQ of 100. A high IQ is often matched with social ineptitude for a number of reasons, however being able to articulate an argument would not be one of them. I'd put you about 40 points off on the estimation of your IQ. -
catjoescreed — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 10:32 AM)
I think it depends on your evaluation of "losing an argument."
My IQ is above 150 and I went to a special school for students with genius-level IQs. The minimum IQ for entry to the school was 135 just above two deviations above the norm and those were the "slow" kids.
I dropped out of the school; I was miserably unhappy there. I am a polymath, and in my high school days gifted-and-talented educators were trained to push science, and did not understand the unique needs and problems of multi-talented kids.
I have "lost" many an argument with a person of lesser intelligence. Sometimes it's due to my not having sufficient information at my fingertips (when was Stan Lee born?); other times it's not having sufficient interest in pursuing the argument (which is better: X-Men or The Fantastic Four?) Sometimes it's that more than one conclusion is possible (Was Jane Austen a proto-feminist author?)
My roommate in college tested in the 120 range, and she was one of the smartest people I've ever known. She was a tenacious arguer, aggressive and fierce, and though she knew nothing of Derrida or Lacan, she knew political history cold and never backed down from a fight. -
vulpix — 11 years ago(June 11, 2014 10:28 AM)
On the Internet, I've noticed that virtually everyone who claims an IQ for themselves tend to assert that it is an absurdly high number (usually in the 150-300 range). The quality of their writing usually suggests otherwise.
I don't know where they're getting these numbers from, but my hunch is that they either stem from dubious Internet tests or are just plain guesses. The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that people of average-to-low intelligence can't tell that Internet tests are dubious, and even without tests, they'll vastly overestimate their own intelligence.