“She” = Asia Carrera
Dudes, used to be to get into mensa you just needed a 1250 SAT or something. Decent, but not really that big of a deal.
In short, I think IQ tests should be taken with a grain of salt. To a certain extent, they are a partial indication of a certain type of intelligence, but this is assuming a couple of different things. I have a bias against tests because I for one call tell you I scored at a much lower percentile when I didn’t have the resources, yet when I acquired the resources, I scored at top percentiles. The differential can be partially due to the fact that English wasn’t my first language, among other nuisances associated with not having access to good quality education. Some of the things I am interested in are questions that relate to - Is intelligence stagnant or can you become more intelligent? Is it more nurture or nature? I think intelligence is both nature and nurture, some obviously born with a higher propensity to learn but it’s useless unless you have access to the educational resources and exercise them. I also don’t think intelligence is stagnant. I believe you can get smarter (not in the knowledge acquiring sense, I mean in the material science sense) - the more you learn, or the more you memorize, I believe the more adept your brain gets. Sure, your brain functions slow down while you age, but I don’t think age is a legit excuse to stop learning or to explain why you shouldn’t continue to learn. I honestly think if people tried hard, they can get into mensa. I used to think you had to be a child prodigy to be a part of mensa, until my friend told me all you have to do is “prove” you are top 2% of the population by scoring well on tests. Throw enough money at it and you’ll get it - as with most things in life.
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I too believe that intelligence is like muscle, more you train it, better it becomes.
brain_wash_your_face Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I scored really high when I took it last time (150 > something), although much stronger in some areas > than others. That’s all just potential though. > > You know what potential is? Nothing. Just wishful > thinking. A possibility that doesn’t exist > unless it’s fulfilled. The truth about the acorn > is the tree. Most people remain acorns and never > become the tree. +100.
Where do we sign up for it?
i believe a study was done where they compared the IQ test score of a sample of people who took it once when they were younger and once many years later. the result was that, whatever it is that these tests measured (many would argue whether it is “IQ”), they provided consistent results through time (i.e. the IQ score of an individual didn’t fluctuate significantly over the years)
Mobius Striptease Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i believe a study was done where they compared the > IQ test score of a sample of people who took it > once when they were younger and once many years > later. the result was that, whatever it is that > these tests measured (many would argue whether it > is “IQ”), they provided consistent results through > time (i.e. the IQ score of an individual didn’t > fluctuate significantly over the years) Good to know. Maybe I haven’t become dumber after all.
wait… anyone still cares about IQ tests? It is soo 90s…
I take pride in being extremely average in all aspects of life including intelligence. It’s funny to see people’s response to these sorts of questions. If you ask a group to rate their ability in anything, you will undoubtedly get most of the people responding they are above average.
Agree this is definitely a better system defining the brain: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinosonic/2532876723/in/set-72157607301347505/
HOWL!
I work at a firm where the founders are legendary super-brains. One worked with Stephen Hawking on quantum bla bla or whatever. It has been a pretty fun experience. IQ is just a way of measuring problem solving and a person’s understanding of relations and things that happen at an intuitive level. You can’t learn it. At the highest level a person is able to comprehend an answer instantly that you couldn’t solve if given all eternity and all the tools available to mankind. If you’ve seen the highest level of IQ test you know what I’m talking about. You take any legendary painter, or film maker, or musician or mathematics dood, and these guys all have high IQs. So you see relationships between numbers or musical notes, or whatever, it is all the same stuff. Anyhow, back to the firm. The thing you notice about these guys is that they are super curious and thus become masters of many different things…cooking, patent law, quantum mech pondering, whatever. Their interest in everything leads them to explore all sorts of things and they just get smarter. The OTHER thing you notice is they have no attention span, and a whole company of these super-brain becomes somewhat humorous to work in…
purealpha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I work at a firm where the founders are legendary > super-brains. One worked with Stephen Hawking on > quantum bla bla or whatever. It has been a pretty > fun experience. Who is Nathan Myhrvold at Intellectual Ventures. Am I right?
^ I couldn’t say dood.
purealpha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ^ I couldn’t say dood. OHHHH, he shoots, he scores! There are maybe half a dozen people in the world that fit that description, and probably only one firm. How do you like the PNW? I’m from Seattle originally.
^ Maybe Nathan invented cloning, and his clone went and did those things at a different firm…errr well I guess that would still be him. Anyhow…
^Haha. Scary. bromion just found you out.
Bromion demonstrated IQ in action.