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Atheist and IQ's
#81
RE: Atheist and IQ's
When I was a psych undergrad, I took a variety of IQ tests (we got credit for participating in experiments), and I took that MENSA one, too, though I didn't join. The spread was about 30 points. Not all IQ tests are created equal and people aren't always at their mental best when they take them.
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#82
RE: Atheist and IQ's
(January 2, 2015 at 11:43 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: When I was a psych undergrad, I took a variety of IQ tests (we got credit for participating in experiments), and I took that MENSA one, too, though I didn't join. The spread was about 30 points. Not all IQ tests are created equal and people aren't always at their mental best when they take them.

Of course, I mean I can notice it on myself doing calculations or other complex tasks, how vastly my performance can vary depending on a million factors. If I'm worried about something, it goes down, if I'm sick doubly so, if I had too much coffee in the afternoon, it goes down, if I had the right amount of coffee or tea, it goes up. I wouldn't be surprised if I varied by 30 points in these tests.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#83
RE: Atheist and IQ's
I took one on the internet many years ago and it said my IQ was 138, so I just tell everyone it's 138. That makes it easy to find people just like me-- anyone with an IQ in that range is just as much of a bullshitter as I am, and I know we're going to get along just fine.
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#84
RE: Atheist and IQ's
(January 1, 2015 at 11:18 am)Alex K Wrote: That sounds indeed crazy, in Gaussian distributions with mean 100 and deviation 15, as is assumed for the IQ scores I'm used to, there are only one in five million people with 176 or higher.
Is there a competition among testers who can give parents the smartest kids?

Yes, I am well aware of how rare an IQ of 176 is. Depending on the test, it can be anywhere from just over 3 to 5 standard deviations above the norm, and knowing the Cattel test (with the SD of 24) is currently rare, I'm leaning far more towards 5. Of course, that said, Childhood IQ tests are tabulated like this:

(Mental Age of the tested child/Actual age of the tested child)*100=IQ.

Also, when I was taking it, Stanford-Binet's Standard Deviation was still 16 and not 15, so, there's a very good chance it's not as much of an outlier than you might think.

And just FYI, I was something of a prodigy when I was a kid; I learned to read when I was 18 months old, reading aloud from the Tribune. That said, it's balanced out by the fact that it took longer for me to learn to speak extemporaneously than it took for me to learn to read. It's called Hyperlexia and it's fucking weird.

Needless to say, I take my results with a grain of salt.
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#85
RE: Atheist and IQ's
Just did an IQ internet test and it says mine is 129. It must really be some big BS ROFLOL
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#86
RE: Atheist and IQ's
A couple of years ago I took an online IQ test that was pretty extensive, 130 questions or so I think. Now, it took me about three hours of hardworking to complete the test. And finally after the last question, anticipation having built up over three hours, you know what showed up.

Credit card required to receive final score.

That was a waste of a Saturday.
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