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Post by Qwerty on Jan 21, 2012 23:48:34 GMT
Nonsense, a lot of intelligent people are very happy. It's just harder to make it so.
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 22, 2012 3:07:19 GMT
There is no direct correlation between intelligence and happiness, though I assume that people closest to 100 are usually happier because society is messed up and if you aren't normal you suffer, and there is statistical evidence for this.
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 22, 2012 3:16:28 GMT
I never took an IQ test. The only possible uses for it that I see are showing it to other people and joining MENSA. I won't change my way of viewing someone because of such number. A high IQ does not necessarily mean a high intelligence, of course, it can be relationed to that quality, but some people I know didn't get a high number, say, more than 120, and are some of the most knowledgeable people I know. IQ is mainly not knowledge, knowledge is only a small part of it.
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 23, 2012 23:35:09 GMT
Here it is, as I promised.
130
Yeah, so apparently I'm like mentally retarded compared to you guys. However, as stated before the actual IQ does not mean much. I'm not allowed to see all of the numbers, at least not yet, but apparently my raw score was much higher than that, but I got cut down due to low processing speed or something, and I swear if I wasn't so bad at recalling numbers spoken verbally at a rapid pace, backwards, then it would be at least 10 points higher. If my PIQ is below average, does that mean my VIQ is at least 160?
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Post by Qwerty on Jan 23, 2012 23:47:57 GMT
Incorrect: You're only mentally retarded compared to what the rest of the people SAY they got.
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Post by Anonymousperson5 on Jan 24, 2012 1:28:58 GMT
Nothing can be trusted on the internet... B)
Idk what my IQ is, and honestly don't care too much. It's only academic, not what true intelligence is about. Of course, it's difficult to define true intelligence in every aspect, and positively impossible to test it.
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Post by Elmach on Jan 24, 2012 1:34:15 GMT
Let's see...
It's been a long time since I took an IQ test.
When I was... 13? 11? 8? Don't remember exact age. I was... 183, or something.
That seems about right.
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Post by Qwerty on Jan 24, 2012 2:33:14 GMT
183 is absolute mensa complete genius almost inhuman level. I rather doubt it.
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Post by Elmach on Jan 24, 2012 3:06:12 GMT
Yeah, it was 173, not 183.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jan 24, 2012 5:02:32 GMT
I was actually very good at reciting an alphabetic string, at reciting a numeric string, at reciting a numeric string backwards, at reciting an alphanumeric string, and at sorting before reciting an alphanumeric string. I forget if I also had to recite an alphabetic string backwards. My memory did well enough until I got to 8 character strings (and nearly double for the alphanumeric strings), at which point I either struggled or explicitly indicated that the string exceeded the capacity of my retention.
I'm proud to know that, of all the math problems I did do, I never got any wrong. I can't remember if this also applied to the mental arithmetic I had to do, but I think so. I either completed the problem correctly, or I didn't reach the problem / took too long on a mental problem.
I was oddly challenged with the picture completion. Although I could see what was missing from a few of the pictures, I couldn't tell what was missing from many of the others. I was told that I probably thought too hard and overlooked the obvious details, and I was also told that I'm not allowed to ever know what I missed from the pictures, lest I need to take the WAIS-IV in the future.
I think this was also part of the WAIS-IV, and not from any of the other tests I also completed, but the reading/writing portion seemed fit for a first or second grade student. The tasks were very simple things that had me pretend I was shadowing at the production of a movie about time travelers that got lost in the Cretaceous or Jurassic periods. Needless to say, spelling and grammar were through the roof. Yes, I refrained from using ellipses; I only use them here.
Also worth noting is that my Verbal Comprehension score, my Full Scale Intelligence Quotient, and my CPI (whatever that is) are not interpretable.
Consider this: the average IQ is defined to be 100 and one standard deviation is defined to be 15 in the WAIS-IV. To qualify for Mensa membership, one must be in the 98th percentile of whatever IQ test you take (about 130 for WAIS-IV). To qualify for Intertel membership, one must be in the 99th percentile of whatever IQ test you take (about 139 for WAIS-IV). To qualify for the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, one must be in the 99.9th percentile of whatever IQ test you take (about 146 for WAIS-IV).
My Full Scale IQ is such that I just barely failed Mensa membership (despite that my score in uninterpretable), my General Ability Intelligence is such that I qualify for Mensa membership, and my Verbal Comprehension score is such that I am over qualified for Mensa membership (despite that my score is uninterpretable). My General Ability Intelligence is such that I just qualified for Intertel membership, and my Verbal Comprehension score is such that I am more than slightly (but less than significantly) qualified for Intertel membership. My Verbal Comprehension score is such that I just barely failed membership for the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry.
Now you know how dumb you can be to qualify for membership to any of these societies...
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 24, 2012 13:35:47 GMT
So you just need to send in the proper test scores, and not the ones you suck at?
I am absolutely horrible at alphanumeric strings, that was the only thing I think I was actually bad at. I got all the Progressive Matrices correct except the hardest one, I got at least one calculation problem wrong because I temporarily forgot what the absolute value of a matrix was, and I think I got exactly one "story problem" math thing wrong because I was lazy and forgot how many weeks there was in a year. I got only one wrong or every right for a lot of things, my math skills are supposedly that of a graduate student.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jan 24, 2012 14:05:08 GMT
I didn't check, but I have a strong feeling that it has to be the Full Scale IQ; ergo, since I didn't even qualify for Mensa with the Full Scale IQ, I highly doubt I can actually get into any of those societies I mentioned.
I also had a problem with the last progressive matrix, and I spent a good deal of time on it (no less than five minutes), pondering out many ways to solve it. Alas, none worked - not even a clever last-minute epiphany I had worked for it, at which point we just stopped with the progressive matrices. Some of the algebraic manipulation scale balance problems also took me a while to do, but since they were limited in time, that meant skipping some.
In short, my math is wonderful, but my math fluidity is terrible...
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 24, 2012 16:59:29 GMT
My math fluidy is above average (college entry level), but not nearly as good as my math abilities.
So, does 130 qualify?
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jan 24, 2012 18:01:06 GMT
Yes, you do, according to the official American Mensa site. They accept WISC-IV from private psychologists. It has to be the Full Scale IQ, and you must show Mensa all of your subtest scores, not just your Full Scale IQ, to be reviewed and accepted. Even if your Full Scale IQ qualifies, you must submit your subtest scores - ALL of them. You must have taken the WISC-IV in its entirety for any of the scores from the WISC-IV to be accepted. The same goes for the WAIS-IV...
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 24, 2012 21:04:33 GMT
Does all of them include PSI? If so, meh.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jan 25, 2012 0:54:52 GMT
I think sending in the report with all the subtests included is just to ensure that you took the complete test and didn't just make up a number. If you were to join, I don't think the low processing speed (which is higher than mine, anyways) would really matter, so long as your FSIQ was in the 98th percentile, which it apparently is. They would not deny you admission just because of a single above-average score...
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 25, 2012 3:11:47 GMT
I don't know my processing speed, the only score I know is the full scale, I think.
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