just curious, what's your IQ.

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What is your IQ, i'd assume the average on this site would be higher than the national average, if you aren't sure, what do you think it is.

Average nationally(Canada-America)=99

Genius=130

Me=114
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Now I suppose lots of people are going to... Supposing you could arrange everybody so that they all have certain characteristics. What would you want them to have? So...we want everyone should be geniuses. Well, I've got some personal knowledge of geniuses, and let me tell you one in a long while is all you can stand.

I mean, I personally don't want anyone around me who's a genius; I can just barely stand myself.

Or we want everyone who's sort of a deep thinker, everyone who's sort of sensitive, and kind, and humane...naah! Any race, any set of human beings that are all alike are not only dull, but useless, really.

I was asked a few days ago...really was, I'm not making this up...whether I didn't think an intellectual elite ought to run the world. And I said, by an intellectual elite, you mean people like me? Because I didn't know what he meant by an intellectual elite. I thought maybe it might mean people like him, in which case no!

And he said: "Yes, people like you". And I said no, that would be no good because I'm only smart in certain ways, and very stupid in other ways. And if everybody was like me, and we were running the world, we'd all be smart in the same way, and all be stupid in the same way, and it's the stupidness that's going to kill us. I said, what we need are people of all kinds running the world! Some of whom are smart in one way, and some of whom are smart in the other way, and with everyone's smartness in different directions, so that they can sort of cancel out; so that everybody's stupidity can be caught by someone else's smartness in the same direction.

In the same way, that's what we want. The greatest...the greatest gift that mankind has is it's vast gene pool. All the different genes it has. All the different characteristics; the smart and the stupid, the strong and the weak. Because it's the variety that makes it possible for us to meet different emergencies, and what is weak under one set of conditions might be strong under another, what is stupid at one time is smart at another, and so on. We can't throw out anything for fear that that's exactly what we'll need someday."

from a lecture by Issac Asimov

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I don’t know for sure.

However, I will say that I am either a smart dumb person, or a dumb smart person.
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From what I've seen, no one appears to be especially dumb on the website. From looking at your vocabulary and your understanding of complex concepts, I'd say your probably above average.
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Lower than you? 

The mighty second in command shall be not be besmirched by the unworthy.

Apologize or I will curse you to the depths of darkness that is the DA ban logs.


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Well tbh I'd assume Rash has a higher IQ than me. But wait there is a ban log? 
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Well tbh I'd assume Rash has a higher IQ than me. But wait there is a ban log? 
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According to online IQ tests I took, anywhere from 70-165.

To me, IQ testing is worthless.
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that is hilarious, either you're smarter than Einstein or mentally challenged
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Also yes, there is a ban log.

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Yup. I'm mentally challenged Einstein XD

For me, IQ testing basically depends on how much I give a shit on that particular day.
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Cool.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

-Thomas Edison


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Genius is the ability to store and utilise data more effectively.

Whereas perspiration is a means of thermoregulation.

Thomas Edison wasn't thinking effectively when he came up with that one liner.
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Anything other than a professionally administered intelligence test has credibility problems. Problem is they're expensive.
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I assume an online test is extremely stupid...
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No not at all, but you generally have to pay for it, I took a free one once and got an IQ of 232.

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Around 40.
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Did it for free on freeiqtest.com
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Free ones aren't ever really accurate sadly.
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I just took one experimentally & got a 77.  The website actually suggested I look into a career as a janitor. 

I'm pretty skeptical about the whole notion of IQ frankly.  People have such trouble defining intelligence but then they don't balk at assigning it a number (as long as it confirms certain biases).  For example, all IQ tests are time based but we know that most real intelligence is not time based:  intelligence is  inhibited by pressure and we know that really good answers seldom come quickly.  Intelligence is a process of collating data, evaluation, creativity, memory- the best ideas almost always involve good sleep and good collaboration.  How does an IQ test reflect any of this?  The answer is that it does not.  Mostly IQ tests are only designed to reveal mental nimbleness- wit.

If an IQ test does what it says it does, then training and repetition should not avail testees- but all these sites allow retests and advertise for IQ training.  The sites themselves invalidate their own initial claim- that intelligence is quantifiable, that intelligence is inherent and can't be learned.
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Highly doubt your IQ is that low, a mentally challenged person has an IQ of 75. Iq isn't perfect but I'd presume the test you took was faulty.
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15 quater-trigintillion
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15 quater-trigintillion
Do you mean quattuortrigintillion- fifteen times ten to the one-hundred and fifth power ? Or one trigintillion divided by four and multiplied by fifteen?

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How do you know that?

Nevermind I meant

15 novemoctogintillion

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How do you know that?
My IQ test has assured me that I do not.


Nevermind I meant

15 novemoctogintillion
So either your first estimate or your second estimate were off by at least one hundred and sixty-five orders of magnitude.  To put that in perspective, the diameter of the universe is expressed in gigalightyears- tens to the twenty-sixth power of meters.  Your over/underestimate was more than six times larger than mistaking the universe's breadth for a golf putt.
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My record is 156.
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My record is 156.

"a 150 score would mean that for every person who scored as high as you, about 10,000 people scored worse than you."

Sounds about right.