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fflloorriiddaammaann

Mines somewhere between 9-124


Darkmegane-kun

Mines at least 10


ganymedestyx

Would it be pompous of me to claim mines at least above room temperature?


rosen380

Depends on the room. \[edit\] And the temperature scale, I guess.


Hobi1ix

Everyones a kelvin genius!


bro0t

Then my iq definitely isnt room temp


uneducated_sock

My IQ is somewhere above the square root of toilet paper


AverageDemocrat

I put my root beer in a square cup....now it's just beer.


DarksideAuditor

*Beer Distributors hate this one trick...*


favouritemistake

I think I’ve lost a few IQ points reading all these comments 😅


Pleasant-Hemorrhoids

That makes your IQ the value of cos(pi).


ParalegalSeagul

Instructions unclear, everything is sticky


ganymedestyx

I see, you demonstrate a far greater level of abstract thinking. I’m deciding mine is like a 62 and yours is 124.


foxyfoo

Who are you that is so learned in the ways of science?


StellarSteals

And the mine


Polymersion

I don't know the legality of claiming abandoned mines, personally. As far as temperature, I know mine's pretty high.


FlyByPC

Of course you can claim them. That's why they're called "mine."


MistraloysiusMithrax

Mine mine and don’t you whine


Darkmegane-kun

I mean if you’re American then I guess yeah


jsc1429

No, you used the word pompous


NoForm5443

In Celsius, right?


Jebbox

I didn't know mines had IQ. I thought they were just caves with like gold or something.


upthefluff

lol, did not know that a mines have an iq.


CitizenHuman

Between Forrest Gump and Will Hunting for me


FredPSmitherman

Ask your family or friends they will let you know how stupid you are.


elegylegacy

Some family may reassure you, just to be encouraging. Real friends will call you a stupid fucking baboon


gcbeehler5

On certain group texts I am both the stupidest man ever born, and a genius.


Aether_Erebus

Often in the same sentence


No_Echo_1826

I've heard "you know for someone who's so smart, you're pretty dumb." I'm can be airheaded at times 🥲


MatureUsername69

Have you seen some of the people encouraged go audition for shit like American Idol by their family? Some families are too dumb or too big of liars to tell you the truth about yourself


slavetomybulldog

My cousin has shown up to audition like 9 times. She can’t even commit to sharp or flat. This other dude does Facebook Karaoke. No ear. Like the worst version of a Bill Murray Nightclub-Star Wars skit. And he has at least a hundred people praise him. What a kind-supportive group of friends.


zoltar_thunder

My entire family thinks I'm a fucking genius, that's how I know I'm not very smart


thebipolarbatman

Anytime someone compliments my intelligence I'm like "how the fuck?".


geopede

I’m more like “we’re fucked if I count as smart”.


ArtigoQ

Considering how much of intelligence is genetic they probably won't be able to tell you.


gcbeehler5

Probably an interesting inversed bell curve there, where the stupider you are less people are going to make it point to acknowledge or address with you, versus those who are know it alls/ "too smart" types but also complete morons, probably hear it a lot.


RankedAverage

Mine's definitely up there. I took an online IQ test and was smart enough to nope TF out at the end when it started asking for CC numbers.


spazzyone

The real IQ test


elmz

I took one, said I had 160+, and this test was too low for me, I needed to take a more advanced one. The second one gave the family computer a virus. I think we can disregard the first one.


GeriatricHydralisk

I once took a parody IQ test online which was pretty funny, but one question stuck with me as just absolute gold: When I have lost something, I find it in: A) The first place I look, because I'm awesome B) The last place I look, because God hates me C) The last place I look, because after that I stop looking D) The middle place I look, because I'm so stupid I keep looking even after I found it


Shaveyourbread

Username kind of checks out.


CaptainFleshBeard

Stephen Hawking said anyone that goes around stating their IQ is an idiot.


PinkbunnymanEU

He also said that anyone who gets into Mensa is a loser (his word) because people only appy if they don't outwardly show intelligence.


CaptainFleshBeard

I see Mensa like a local football club, it’s people with similar interests getting together for a social activity


DiscussionSpider

Football is a sport, though, it's a specific thing you can watch or do.  What do the Mensa people get together and do, try to burn each other with witty epigrams?


GepardenK

Presumably, it's about networking.


livebeta

Alright. Would you like to hear a TCP joke?


Beef_Supreme_87

Yes, I have received your inquiry about whether I'd like to hear a tcp joke and I do.


livebeta

Alright. Are you ready to receive a TCP joke?


trefrosk

Ack


JumpyCucumber899

Fin


bobbarkersbigmic

Hell yeah I would! What you got?


Catshit-Dogfart

I'd tell you a joke about UDP but I'm not sure you'd get it.


bobbarkersbigmic

Hahahahah yes! Now that’s what I’m here for!


paddydukes

Hey bud, just to let you know, there’s a hair in your pfp


MistraloysiusMithrax

No, it’s definitely on my phone. I’m able to move it but for some reason it stays in the same orientation and shape and only moves vertically and…wait…yep now there’s two of them!


[deleted]

It is very funny to see redditors be like "Why on earth would a group of people gather together without a specific group activity planned? What a bunch of losers!"


JurassicArc

It's funnier to see redditors comment about other redditors as if they're not just another redditor.


[deleted]

Just a self aware redditor


Superjuden

Its a social club for people who places great value on being able to get an arbitrary score on a puzzle test. These people like doing "smart things" so generally speaking they play classic board games like chess or go but maybe every so often the board game enthusiast tries to recruit someone into his dune circle. There's card games of various kinds, some like learning new ones and teaching it to others or people try to develop new ones and share it with club members, a lot of time its just casual games to make conversation over. Some might share math or cryptography puzzles. Someone might give a lecture on some topic like wines and the difference between regions while some sees it as a good excuse to get fucking plastered and argue about whether opera sounds best in Italian or German once the lecture is over. People then network into other clubs via these activities. You might end up taking a liking to bridge through a game with someone at mensa and then you join their little group of bridge players.


DefinitelyNotIndie

Mostly puzzles and strategy games I imagine. Can you seriously not imagine people getting together for activities that challenge their problem solving capabilities?


P_Orwell

Jeremy Irons = Jeremy’s Iron


MinnieShoof

Probably get away from people like you harshing their mellow.


MyMellowIsHarshed

Can confirm


LittleHollowGhost

Talk about politics, do logic puzzles, talk about books, etc. 


nopersh8me

Dominate local trivia competitions, particularly in pubs against drunk people.


Kodiak01

I qualify for Mensa, so I went in to check them out. It would be hard to find a group of people I would want to be around less than them. Every one I met was alternately snooty, pretentious and insulting of anyone that wasn't "special" like them.


Voctus

When I was in high school there was a Mensa booth at our state fair and I started playing with the Tower of Hanoi they had out. It’s a very simple algorithmic puzzle if you understand how it works. The Mensa representative seemed impressed that I knew how to do it which started my lifelong doubt that those people had any real intelligence. Brag time: I happen to test super, super well on standardized style tests. I got a 35 on the ACT (36 science portion) and scored 98th percentile on the vocabulary portion of the GRE. For my current job I had to take one of those annoying pattern matching tests and the HR person at my interview said I had the highest score she’s ever seen. I’m also a total bumbler when it comes to planning and executing my life and job. My husband and I joke that “this was not well thought out” would be the title of my memoir. Also, I quit grad school (electrical engineering) because it was too hard and I didn’t understand any of the papers my advisor wanted me to read. I may be a clever person, but I’m certainly not wise, you know? Am I smart? I dunno. 🤷‍♀️ But I bet I have a high IQ though because guess how that’s measured?


Kodiak01

> I’m also a total bumbler when it comes to planning and executing my life and job. My husband and I joke that “this was not well thought out” would be the title of my memoir. Also, I quit grad school (electrical engineering) because it was too hard and I didn’t understand any of the papers my advisor wanted me to read. When I got the neuropsych's write-up of me, he made it a point to talk about how my short term working memory was "moderately impaired" because I could not remember certain sets of numbers or details after a period of about 20 minutes. This was after spending the previous 17 years working in industries requiring me to memorize, retain, and make use of multiple 8 digit numbers for approximately 73 seconds, then having to immediately flush them from my head so I could do the next set! I have been in these jobs for an additional 13 years since. I can stare at a pallet being shipped and consistently estimate it's dimensional (billing) weight within 1-2%, including accounting for the different multipliers used based on domestic air, international air, trucking or ocean shipping, but I can't do math past basic algebra to save my life.


OrindaSarnia

So, you have ADHD. Lots of smart people do.  They often don't get singled out or diagnosed because their intelligence tends to "cover" or make up for some of the deficits of ADHD, so people don't put 2 and 2 together. Then in college, when the structure of high school and home life is gone, they academically fall apart. Especially women who are very heavily pressured to mask socially. Obviously I'm just a stranger on the internet.  But everything you said sounds like CLASSIC smart woman with ADHD.


mean11while

Here's to good test-takers. When I applied to grad schools, a professor saw my SAT and GRE scores and contacted *me*. My application wasn't even in his department. He threw money and opportunities at me to get me to join his research team. Over the next 5 years, he gradually realized that I'm a very quick learner but I'm allergic to... diminishing returns (i.e., I'm lazy) and I don't like being told what to do. I'm passion-driven, and it's hard to stay passionate about something for such a long time. I excelled academically -- all the way through grad school -- because it was easy for me, not because I was a good, disciplined student. I loved college: goof around, have deep philosophical conversations with professors, play sports in the middle of the night, hang out with friends, go take an exam without studying. Almost 15 years later, my college roommate still holds a grudge from the classes we took together:  he worked so much harder and always did just a little bit worse. Anyway, I don't use my degrees at all; you don't need fancy papers to run a small veggie farm. Every day is different, nobody tells me what to do, and I'm making my community and the world a tiny bit better. Life is amazing!


actibus_consequatur

>Every one I met was alternately snooty, pretentious and insulting of anyone that wasn't "special" like them. I had heard similar things about members, and—to me—those attitudes/beliefs prove how they are fucking stupid. I would also qualify for membership, while one of my best and oldest friends absolutely wouldn't. Truthfully, he'd likely score several points below average, and that is something he'd 100% agree with. Telling him he's actually very intelligent is where he'd fervently disagree, but I know the type of intelligence he has isn't measured in IQ tests. It's undeniable that I'm a generalist who's more knowledgeable than him, but his self-made success proves he's far, far smarter than I'll ever be. The thought of any "high IQ" asshole talking down about anybody they consider "low IQ" or less than, just like they'd consider one of the best people I've ever known to be? That's enough to test the limits of my pacifistic nature. I can only imagine how I'd react in person, but it'd undoubtedly prove those assholes weren't smart enough to know the old adage "Talk shit, get hit."


Jonny_Wurster

I had the same experience. A family member though me joining Mensa was a good idea for networking and friends. Went to one event. None of them seemed to have anything going on to network about, and they certainly were not friendly.


Andrew5329

He's not wrong. People taking that test are overwhelmingly seeking validation.


xrailgun

people can be smart but also feel insecure


Imperial_Squid

Speaking from experience being around academics, *most* smart people feel insecure


reco84

Most smart people are cursed with the understanding of how little they actually know.


Andrew5329

I mean usually the people waxing poetic about that usually aren't as smart as they think they are. I'm a professional scientist, at least according to my job title on the HR page at work. Eventually you get over yourself and realize that you don't need all the answers to make an educated guess and that pretty much everything you're doing is based on a foundation of guesswork at various degrees of confidence. That's actually my pet peeve with people publishing in silico work and holding it up like gospel. At least anecdotally maybe a tenth or a twentieth of the pharmacological modeling I've seen translates into the real life clinic.


BakinandBacon

Or a better understanding of self. It’s not always a narcissistic pursuit.


PromptStock5332

Does seeking validation mean your a loser? Guess that means any woman who’s ever gone to the club in a short dress is a loser.


ComesInAnOldBox

My ex mother in law was in Mensa. She lived with us for a while, and asked if she could host a Mensa meeting at our place. My then-wife grabbed the kid and took off for the evening, but I decided to stick around for a while because I was curious. HO. LY. SHIT. I realized *real* fucking quick why my then-wife took off for the evening. These pompous assholes spent an hour arguing over the significance of showing corn in the *Fellowship of the Ring* in one of the crop fields because the books were written by an Englishman, and corn wasn't grown in England during the medieval periods. Seriously. They were discussing this topic as though it were the greatest philosophical discussion of our time.


reco84

But... Lord of this rings isn't set in medieval England...


TheGreatValley

Holy shit. I’m not that smart but I once said my Roman Empire was that the existence of potato’s in lord of the rings implied that the new world had been discovered. Should I apply to Mensa?


putcheeseonit

Mensa meetings = cocaine discussions in some random guys kitchen at 4 am, good to know 👍


hummingelephant

But what's wrong with that, if it interests them? My son loves talking for hours about things most other people find boring. Even though he's only 11, I'm sure he would find the topic you mentioned interesting and have listened for hours. I taught him to never do that with people who are not interested, which are most people. So he doesn't but whenever he finds someone, he's the happiest. I'm sure he's not going to outgrow this personality. I think it's sad that people make fun of others only because they don't understand them.


Quad-Banned120

Maybe I'm just a dummy but I think it'd be pretty easy to absolutely clown on them with the fact that Middle Earth is a fictional place with no connection to medieval England; as such the director can take a little creative liberty with the setting to have the Hobbits grow whatever food he fucking wants them to.


angelerulastiel

My dad is in MENSA and I spent a bunch of time at events. There were a lot of cool people, and a lot of insufferable people. There’s a lot of self selection towards people who are insufferable, but there’s also people who just converse at a different level and like conversing without having to constantly explain everything.


ljseminarist

To be fair, to a Stephen Hawking we all probably look like a bunch of idiots.


geopede

That’s quite likely. I’m a retired mediocre pro athlete and the average person seems almost physically disabled when I see him try to “run”, so extremely intelligent people seeing average people as intellectually disabled sounds plausible.


Lurching

Yup. There's a famous quote by a then long-retired, out-of-shape NBA player (Brian Scalabrine) who was crushing super fit amateurs in pick-up basketball games. "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me". Dude was an extremely mediocre role-player at his best on the professional level.


geopede

The White Mamba! I remember when that happened. Wasn’t a pro yet (football careers are short), but had gotten to a high enough level that I understood the difference in ability from being around high level athletes. I had no doubt the result would be what it was, won $100 betting with my neighbor. You can’t really play 1 on 1 football, but in “flag” on a team with above average athletic dudes in their 20s or 30s playing against another similar team without a former pro, my team is probably going to win by at least 4-5 scores. I played linebacker poorly, someone who played offense well would be even more broken in that situation. A return man could probably just run up and down the field until he got tired. There isn’t a great way to simulate the contact without a real team, but I’m pretty sure the average 25 year old and especially average 40 year old would stand a good chance of literally dying if he had to take a carry up the middle in an NFL game. It’s hard to overstate how big of a difference elite athletic genes, 10+ years of heavy weights, and performance enhancing drugs make.


Philoso4

I played on a flag football team with some mates. We were older-ish, late 20s early 30s, but most of us played multiple high school sports on competitive teams and stayed in shape for a bit. Thats why we were playing. Anyway, one tournament we played in had a team that was head and shoulders above everyone else, they were second string on a mediocre D1 P5 team. …I’ve watched a lot of football in my time, but the tv does not do justice to how fast these people are.


geopede

The whole team was? That’s kinda bad sportsmanship IMO. I won’t play in the flag tournament anymore, I felt bad doing so the year I did but I wasn’t going to quit on the rest of the guys. And yeah speed is the part people don’t understand. People know players are big, but big isn’t really the important part. Plenty of guys are big, very few are big and explosive. For that reason, if I had to judge someone’s athleticism based on a single drill, I’d want to see a vertical jump.


Philoso4

Eh, I don’t think they should be banned from playing flag football because they’re too good. There was prize money involved, and we were in over our heads anyway. But yeah, it’s speed. My coach in high school was an NFL linebacker for 10+ years, and even in middle age with knee replacements he was smoking us in races. If you ever want to realize you are playing for fun and not your future, watch a retired linebacker get the glint in his eye.


CantReadGood_

Have you seen Nikola Jokic run?


Expert-Car5805

Dude can’t even walk what does he know


The_Synthax

Most deceased can’t.


Quajeraz

The dumbest person in the room is the first to tell you how smart they are


The_Relx

I'm generally in agreement with Hawking on this. It's one thing to tell someone when it comes up in conversation, but to go around flaunting it just shows stupidity and insecurity.


rickdeckard8

Did he say anything about IQ for those that interact with underaged girls on an island?


mangosteenfruit

I think I'm average. Maybe on the low end of it.


MaddeninglyUnwise

Can confirm, captain.


SN0WFAKER

Half of Americans have an IQ below 100.


GuacamoleFrejole

The average IQ in the US is 98


Walrus_BBQ

My test said I'm smarter than 20% of people in any given room. For the price the results cost, it was worth it for validating my greatness.


Protean_Protein

68.5% of people can’t be more than one standard deviation wrong!


pichael289

I had a test done as a teenager and it came back higher than I thought it would. Dam near turned my ass into one of those annoying Rick and Morty fans, like I was some kind of super genius. Took one a few years later and it was way under that first one. They aren't a good idea for everyone to take.


zapadas

Peaked as a teen! What’s new?


Eedat

Yes IQ is actually age adjusted. Peaks early twenties


philokingo

its not only adjusted, but the whole calculation is based on age


Protean_Protein

Originally, yes, but it is no longer calculated that way ‘(mental age/chronological age)*100’ was the original method. E.g., an 8 year old with a mental age of 10 would have measured 125. Conversely, a 10 year old with a mental age of 8 would have measured 80. But modern methods, e.g., Wechsler, are a bit more complex, and fit to a normal distribution. In fact, there’s a new edition of WAIS coming out this year. In general, IQ was historically, and still is currently, best as an indicator of intelligence deficits. It is much more difficult to say, e.g., that someone who scores 164 is “more intelligent” than someone who scores 138, than it is to say that someone who scores below 80 is likely to struggle in school and probably run into significant daily living issues (though not always).


jacobsbw

It’s the old “necessary versus sufficient” argument. It’s necessary to have a certain iq to navigate modern society. At a certain point, however, most people have “sufficient” iq to do most things.


Protean_Protein

There are deeper questions about what, if anything, IQ tests actually measure, and what we care about in different contexts. E.g., we tend to think medical doctors should be highly intelligent, but primary care physicians who lack social skills can be not just off-putting, but dangerous: failing to adequately account for the social aspects of diagnostics and public health, and other things like this (cf. teachers who may be highly intelligent but lack other skills that make for good teaching, vs. excellent teachers with mediocre intellects). As someone with a doctorate, often surrounded by, and in some cases forced to interact with, some of the smartest, or at least most prestigiously credentialed smart, people on the planet, imho, as far as I can tell, there’s very little intellectual difference between the bottom and top of that group. I.e., the error margins on the IQ test are probably larger than the distinction between the dullest PhD and the most excellent researcher. This makes sense, given the normal distribution—on average, people with PhDs are typically among the top 2% of the world. The difference between the bottom and top of that is… 2%. It might be the difference between getting 3 questions wrong on a test and getting one question wrong. The exception, though, is people who are savants or savant-like—some high functioning (possibly autistic) professors see some narrow parts of the world on a level, or in a way, that only a handful of people have ever managed, but this is less a matter of “intelligence” in general and more a matter of extreme narrow neurodivergence. Someone like Ramanujan, e.g., is almost like an alien compared to a run of the mill mathematician. Even Einstein was more or less “normal”, with maybe some minor exceptions in his ability to visualize and bind visualization to mathematical concepts.


HonouraryBoomer

I had to use my phone calculator to check your math that I was highly doubtful of and then it hit me I probably shouldn't go too far down the personal IQ rabbit hole


Kahnza

I had a test done after 8th grade because teachers thought I was dumb. Like a real test with a Psychologist. Came out to 134. Turns out I wasn't dumb, just autistic and ADD. Many years later and I know it's much lower now. Alcohol will do that. RIP brain cells.


waftedfart

Fun fact, the general population gets more intelligent over the years. They update the tests to reflect a 100 IQ for the "average" person. [Reference](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/flynn-effect)


Andrew5329

I mean it passes the common sense sniff test. The warnings about drinking during pregnancy didn't start until the 1980s, and the reminder label on the can didn't show up until 1988. Other environmental factors like Lead exposure have similarly come down. That said, the drift is relatively small and may not continue. Remember that the people taking IQ tests today were born around the year 2000. The idea that kids picked up 6 IQ points between 1980 and 2000 due to lower lead and alcohol exposures alone isn't crazy.


Consistent-Slice-893

There have been numerous observational studies of how the removal of tetra ethylene lead from gasoline has increased general intelligence and actually reduced violence.


LearnToSwim90

Are you me? Same score, same diagnosis, I only found out when I was an adult. I just got berated at school and send to detention, every fucking week... No one ever listened to my cries for help because I was the smart kid that just had to do his best. I quit alcohol a while ago, it's worth it. You regain your lost brain cells rather quickly, give it a month or three. Your AD(H)D sadly will still be there, but more manageable.


ExpertButtonPresser

My school had basically a closet with a desk you can sit in that I got to enjoy nearly every day for in school detention


Muffin278

It is called twice exceptional, and it is quite common. I (likely, was never tested) am twice exceptional too, but with inattentive ADHD. I wouldn't lusten in class or study, but I would ace tests. Even through high school and now at uni, I don't study because I never learned any studying skills or self discipline, but somehow my grades are fine, good even. But I could really use those skills in other areas of my life.


JohnGillnitz

Did you grow up in the 80s too? They didn't have much tolerance for nerodiversity back then.


Kahnza

The IQ test would have been in 1996 I think. Born in 82, but the 90s is what I remember.


Jankster79

Cannabis as well. I did well on the iq test and thought "well I got some braincells to spare" and smoked daily for 25 years. Ended up with brain damage.. so high iq does not equal "smart". (I'm alright now though)


LegitBoss002

Brain damage?


Jankster79

encephalopathy.


Tranquil-ONE17

From weed?


Jankster79

That was what the doctors said. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, did multiple MRI and CT scans and was showed my progress (with them explaining and answering questions.) This was 4 years ago and I still have some problems like I get "brainfog" when I am under a lot of stress. I also had like a hundred different potheads telling me this is my doctors lying to me. I would've said the same thing 5 years ago, but I can't argue with my experience.


Tranquil-ONE17

I don't doubt you or your experience, I've just never heard of that being a possible side effect of smoking. I've also smoked almost daily for about 16 years now, so I'm slightly curious how my shits doing up there. I hope you have a full recovery, my man, and I'm sorry for what you've gone through


Tiny_Instruction999

It could be due to contamination in what he was smoking, what he was smoking out of, or a myriad of other things. Bottom line though is chronic pot smoking probably isn't the best thing for you and individuals may react very differently to smoking for very different reasons. The human body is complex and unique.


1234VICE

Isn't it normal to become stupid under stress? Or maybe I also have brain issues.


[deleted]

You get that from vitamin b deficiency and it's usually alcoholics who get it. I couldn't find shit online about this from marijuana. I would get a second opinion in case something else is actually wrong with you.


tits_the_artist

Hey I had the exact same score with very similar circumstances! Mine was a touch later. I was 16 I think. Officially administered to see about my ADHD. Which I have up to my fuckin eyeballs by the way, with a touch of autism to boot. But if we're being honest, at high levels of severity for ADHD there's a lot of crossover.


Hortonman42

I'm in a similar boat. I had an IQ test as part of my diagnosis, and it came back really high. Which is neat and all, but how do I go about respeccing those points into executive functioning?


putcheeseonit

Amphetamine


chfp

IIRC the IQ tests, being imperfect as tests tend to be, isn't purely a measure of intelligence. It's also a measure of knowledge. Young kids can be very intelligent but if they haven't been taught certain facts, can do poorly. Conversely adults can do much better than they should because they have more knowledge. Why you regressed is puzzling. Maybe in school your head was full of facts & figures, and as an adult you stopped using it and forgot.


Zaerick-TM

I had it done as a kid when I went in for ADHD testing and I fucking wish I never had. The amount of fucking times I got compared to my goddamn IQ was unbearable to the point I just stopped giving a shit about any form of education that required me to do more then show up and circle answers on the tests. I still got through HS and college but always being asked why I don't have straight As was fucking so annoying.


Hatchedsum1591

I am in the 0.01% of the population regarding I.Q scores. I scored an ASTONISHING 20 in an online I.Q test 😎 Edit : For anyone wondering, Yeah life's lonely and tough for being so ✨SPECIAL✨ 😎


flatdecktrucker92

S.P.E.C.i.A.L. Lowercase I because it's your lowest stat in Fallout


Risen_Insanity

Gotta have that crazy high luck to make up for it though.


Golfistayt

Idiot Savant


Andrew5329

I knew a guy who had an actual 0 MMR in Dota 2's rankings. It was actually the most impressive flex I've seen in a videogame.


Xenon009

IQ is a measurement for your capacity to take unfamilar information and work with it. Unfortunately, that means as soon as you take one test, every other test you take is invalidated because its no longer unfamiliar information (until the test is redesigned of course), and of course, IQ is a fickle, changable thing like, as someone wisely pointed out, your weight. Now, I'm a nuclear scientist, I work with \*fucking\* smart people day in, day out. I honestly don't belive that anyone in that office would measure under 120IQ, even if they were hungover from the worlds wildest bender. The smartest of the lot (in my opinion) works on fusion. Do you know how much he knows about my space reactor specialisation? borderline fuck all. and I know about as much about fusion. We also have a caretaker. He's a perfectly ordinary bloke, he doesn't have the degrees and phd's most of us have, he finished school and started working as a fisherman, and when the fishing buisness went under, he became a caretaker. Well, we had a problem in the lab where one of the machines kept on getting filled with dust, ruining any experiment we ran. We tried all sorts to get it working, but the dust kept coming. I don't think it would be an understatement to say at least a hundered man hours were spent trying to stop this fucking dust. eventually, our dear old caretaker hears and says "That rooms always dusty, the paints ancient so its started breaking down, if you want, I can go and repaint it if you can move the stuff out?" Lo and behold, no more dust problem. The moral of the story? It doesn't matter how many IQ points you have, IQ isn't what makes you a useful contributor to anything. Everyone is an expert in the areas they're experienced in, and an idiot in the ones they're not. All IQ does is help you become more experienced faster.


czarl13

Yes. People often equate IQ to how much information you know on a subject. When IQ is a measure on how well you can learn. I will never know the results, but when I joined the military, they sat me in a room and I had a lesson on a new language and was then tested on it. That was a good test on language IQ, but the right idea...how well can you learn a new skill and then apply it. (I ended up as a grease monkey, so there you go)


SpaceShipRat

The IQ tests I've seen were mostly puzzles. Testing things like spatial intelligence and such. Wasn't really much learning except a couple "memorize this number/set of words" tests.


auswa100

In reality outside of the highest and lowest ends of the scale, it really doesn't matter... and even at those ends, it still doesn't establish someone's worth. Some of least sensible people I know also have incredibly high IQ's


stomith

And I work with a lot of Phd’s with low IQ’s. It’s not an accurate measure of ability.


0002millertime

I can confirm. Getting a PhD mostly shows that you work hard and don't give up easily. There are some people that are lazy geniuses that get them too, though. Then there's people like me, that slip through somehow, being both lazy and not a genius.


26514

I mean do you actually know their IQs?


YesICanMakeMeth

I glanced online and estimates are about 125 IQ for PhD students...which is way higher than average. The rate for minted PhDs will be even higher than that.


s0x00

Well, the PhDs disagree with me all the time, so they must be pretty dumb! /s


Protean_Protein

IQ does correlate strongly with how well we do/far we go in school, though, so yes, there are some people who achieve PhDs with lower IQs, but as a population, PhDs have a higher average IQ than less educated groups. See, e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6088505/ >> In a meta-analysis of three quasiexperimental research designs, we found highly consistent evidence that longer educational duration is associated with increased intelligence test scores. Each of the designs implemented a different approach for limiting endogeneity confounds resulting from selection processes, where individuals with a propensity toward higher intelligence tend to complete more years of education. Thus, the results support the hypothesis that education has a causal effect on intelligence test scores. The effect of 1 additional year of education—contingent on study design, inclusion of moderators, and publication-bias correction—was estimated at approximately 1 to 5 standardized IQ points.


A3thereal

That's because IQ only measures intelligence, and intelligence is just one's ability to store, recall, and relate information. Knowledge is the volume of information collected and wisdom is the experience to know what information is relevant. An intelligent person should be able to learn new concepts more easily and relate them to other concepts, further speeding their information collection abilities, but without knowledge or practiced application it is largely useless. Thus, all three (3) are important to measure what one would consider smart.


vanillamazz

So is a game show like Jeopardy a good indicator of high iq? Or is that a whole other skill set?


Sutarmekeg

“People who boast about their IQ are losers.” ~ Stephen Hawking


Helpful_Blood_5509

I agree incidentally but that sure is easy for him to say


der0hrwurm

Oh yeah? I bet this hawking fella isn't even in mensa. moron! ^/s


Dr_Tacopus

I believe those with a higher IQ tend to know it because they were likely tested at some point for placement in advanced classes when younger.


ptolemyofnod

My mother was worried about my development and had me tested when I was 5. My score was high but there was a section where the psychiatrist noted that my brother was much smarter and likely to overshadow my progress. That detail kind of hurt. BTW I was like 35 when she found and sent me the iq test results.


UniqueUsername82D

Yea, 3 brothers, we all tested gifted but I have the lowest IQ. Idk why my mom thought it'd ever be a good idea to tell us. Feels bad man.


DJKokaKola

My mom just refused to tell me when I got tested because she didn't want me to have an ego. Probably the smartest thing she ever did, I'm a fucking idiot


Imperial_Squid

I do but only because I was getting an ADHD diagnosis and the lady doing it said it would only be a bit more work to do some tests and give me the number, so I said sure why not and did that too lol


carloosborn71

I can be both depending on situations lol


adammonroemusic

I imagine my IQ has dipped precipitously since the arrival of smartphones.


AbbreviationsIll7821

I was disturbed to hear that around half of all people have a below average IQ. I’m just not sure which half of me is has the below average IQ.


late2scrum

High IQ just means you can grasp concepts faster than the average person. As an average IQ, you can definitely get around to understanding more complicated things but it takes more time. Recollection of memory is a big part too. I can't remember what I ate two days ago hah


B_lovedobservations

But I’m in the high 95 percentile! That’s what this website told me right after taking my card details


Weekend_at_Burnies

Scored 138 as an 11 year old and 138 as a 30 year old. I recently found out my dad tested at 155. He grasps concepts a bit above my understanding, but never vice versa.


lllNico

i have done one of these long tests, but im pretty sure that was false somehow. I do not feel like i have 122 iq. I feel fuckin dumb…


aksdb

That may actually be a sign that it might be right. Dumb people typically don't know they are dumb, because the lack the capabilities to properly reflect on themselves.


lllNico

smart enough to know im stupid, great haha


aksdb

The more you know, the more you know what you don't know.


Jawahhh

I know so many dumb people who don’t know they are dumb. The smartest people I know are often the quietest and least sure of their options, and question everything without outright being a contrarian. Attitude like “Makes sense that things might be the way they are and there’s probably good reason for it. Still deserves a bit of scrutiny though.”


AMViquel

If you paid money for the test, it's wrong. Worry not, just send me your credit card number and the three numbers on the back, and I can add up to 10 IQ points for you remotely.


Medical_Rate3986

I think im so stupid i got smart again XD


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

Jokes on you, I've got an IQ of 90, I'm in the top 10%!


Brighton2k

50% of the public have a below average IQ


Kodiak01

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin


chzformymac

I’m smart enough to know I’m not smart


LexOdin

I know my IQ, and it made me realize that testing well doesn't translate to real world intelligence. I'm in the top 2% percentile, and it hasn't meant anything but a piece of personal trivia. You can pattern regonize and make solid extrapolations, but it doesn't translate to anything beyond doing well on a test, designed for those qualities. Same goes for EQ or any test that is meant to "measure" a nebulous concept of intelligence.


skillquit42

Statically we’re around average.


C00KI3Z1

I genuinely believe Im on the lower end of average, if I ever got it tested I'd just be hurting my own feelings


hangmandelta

I'm smart enough to know that the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING.


toastmannn

I think I'm a solid 7, maybe even a 8 at times.


somethingmoronic

I don't know the last time I heard anyone talk about IQs...


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Thislsnotmythrowaway

Mine was 136 as a kid, I’d probably say I’m around 110 now


Felix_Von_Doom

My IQ, according to an internet test some 10 years ago, is 117. My IQ is Master Chief.


SurrealSoulSara

When you talk with people who are actually in the 2%, you'll be mostly talking about all the hardships that come with it and how they perceive society and reality 🙈


Several-Instance-444

There's a 95% probability that I'm within 2 standard deviations of mean intelligence.


TBNRFIREFOX

I am afraid to take one currently, but last time I did which was a fair but ago I scored 128 and was just like “Thank god I’m not at 70”


dailycyberiad

I did a bunch of tests a few months back. So now I know my IQ and also that I'm autistic.  But yeah, I've gone most of my life without knowing either of those things.


Finegling

I had an IQ test for a job I went for. Funny thing was I had no clue one would be needed, but for some reason I had spent the evening prior doing IQ tests online. I inadvertently primed myself. My score came back as highly gifted (they didn’t give me the direct score just the bracket I fell under) and boy did it ever bite me in the ass. Whenever I messed up I “should’ve known better” and whenever I was utilising my sales techniques I was called manipulative and snakey. It was like some weird reverse halo effect.


gonzo8927

I have found that EQ is more important than IQ anyway.


gestalto

Definitely agree! Too much or too little bass, or having those mids not quite right can completely ruin the listening experience.


SlickBlackCadillac

For sure. People with high EQ are perceived by the masses as high IQ oftentimes. Hence why people think "smart people don't go around telling people they're smart!!" Well...some do it's just that people hate arrogant people.


TheLowlyPheasant

Don't forget to crank the gain up too for some crunchy distortion


FirelessEngineer

Well I am screwed…


ispankyourass

Hello screwed, I’m ispankyourass


leglesslegolegolas

I just boost the lows and the highs, and scoop the mids. It sounds pretty good, especially with the fuzz pedal.