Sorry, I got it wrong: the questions I just quoted were in the IQ thread and were not modded, the comment “does not seem legit, all polls” I quoted in the OP was in the brain-computer interface thread, and that got modded.
You strike me as pretty smart.
A lot of people here strike me as pretty smart.
I strike me as pretty smart.
But my IQ is nowhere near 150.
It’s important to remember you can be really fucking smart, so smart you impress anyone who meets you, and still not be a genius.
I did briefly date a guy with an IQ that high and he was weird as fuck. I dug it, of course, but after our first date he took me back to his dorm and pulled out a giant, detailed schematic he’d drawn of the Detroit sewer system, complete with his plan to become Mayor and revamp the city’s infrastructure.
That’s not even the weirdest thing that happened with him (there was a lot more going on there than giftedness.)
I bet dating a supervillain gives you all kinds of clever stories.
Though I bet it gets boring hearing him say yet again, “And they called me mad!”
He changed grandiose plans all the time. Always something new and overambitious. I’d say he had OCD, Bipolar (both of which were diagnosed) and autism (which I’m not sure if he was diagnosed) at a minimum, and I could have also made a good case for OCPD.
All the IQ talk smacks of Trump’s doctor saying he might live to age 200 he was such a perfect specimen.
Altho’ he looked like any old dumpy 75yo man trying to look like a young, virile studly dude, with shoe lifts.
Then of course there’s his apparent genius.
If you got plenty dough you can buy anything. Don’t make it true.
My eldest grandson is in the gifted program at school. At the beginning they offered his Mother a program to have him tested. $350. Big ones.
I told her she was a fool to pay it. She didn’t.
He still got placed in the program. It consists of 2 times a week he goes to a special class and they do stem stuff, have cookies and goes back to his regular homeroom.
Ridiculous.
At home he can’t figure out how to get out of the door without doing some comical pratfall or how to get up and get a spoon instead of eating cereal without.
Me, neither. And I agree this is a board that skews smart (and that includes you).
I’ve taken professionally prescribed IQ tests, and I still don’t know my IQ, they won’t tell me, or they just don’t say. I was in AP classes in school, etc. My mother says… Does it matter?
I came to this site during the first Obama elections and lurked, and lurked. I finally registered at last Trump decision. I can’t remember how I found this site, probably some search back when Google was easier to use.
You know, these things are not difficult to answer,
Adding that posts from Beckdawreck and Strangers on a Train answer most of my questions.
Other: The OP is letting this individual live rent-free in his head.
That seems to be how social media works,esp. the cliche replies
What’s wrong w/ “88” in names?
As the H is the 8th letter in the alphabet 88 stands for HH, which is generally understood to mean “Heil Hitler”. 18 stands for AH, thus Adolf Hitler. I am not making this up, and I have come to see that you may be the only user with an 88 in his name that I know of that does not mean it that way. This is extremely rare in my experience.
More than I ever got.
My Mom wanted me to blend in with all the other kids, and to be treated the same. They asked her if I could skip a grade and she said no, I don’t want her to be the youngest in her class. She was more worried about me being left out than fulfilling my potential.
I don’t know how I feel about it. Sometimes I wonder if I could have met other kids like me if I would have had an easier time socially. I was a weird kid, very precocious but undiagnosed ADHD so I was always off in my own world. I never really fit in.
By the time I got to high school, it didn’t matter. I had friends from a lot of different backgrounds and abilities. I got into the right college for my interests and abilities and went on for a Masters and made a good career out of my education. It took extra effort for me because of my ADHD and other conditions, but I did it.
I’m glad I went to a hard college because I was not even close to the smartest person in the room, and I learned from a lot of brilliant people. And I found my husband who is smart in ways I’m not.
For me it was probably not strictly necessary that I had a bunch of extra support in elementary school. But for some kids it really does matter. I think for my son it’s going to matter a great deal.
It would be so easy to dismiss this as paranoid fantasy, and in fact I know several people who flatly disbelieve it, but they have not visited the darker corners of the internet. 
I was already the youngest in my class (November bday), so I would definitely have not wanted to be moved up a grade. In high school, they made me move from the Spanish 3 class to the Spanish 4 class. That was a good thing. I was really coasting in the lower class.
I had already decided to ignore them, but now that you ask, No. I’m going to continue to ignore them. I’m lazy.
Hey, I was good at Spanish, too! I ended up getting my BA in Spanish. I think my senior year we tried doing AP Spanish (I was the only student) but I was going through a lot that year. Like, a lot. So I don’t remember if I flaked out or what but I didn’t get AP credit. But I went on to go into an intensive Spanish language program in college, that was just grueling. I loved it.
I haven’t spoken Spanish in a long time, but sometimes I dream in it, or I overhear conversations that I understand. I was always better at reading and writing in it than speaking it.
Yeah, it’s like French. I’ve been watching a lot of French TV shows over the last few years, and when I’m reading the subtitles, I can understand what they’re saying. I only took one quarter of French (to fill a gap in my schedule), but it was enough of a help with that. My Russian, though, has really atrophied.
I made a joke in another thread about Humans, but honestly I don’t mind them–I was just going for an easy (and not especially funny) joke.
As for IQ tests, I’m not especially skeptical of the stats, for a couple of reasons.
First, there are a ton of tests out there, and they’ve changed over time, and they’re not all especially rigorous. It’s plausible to me that a bunch of people have taken a test at some point that told them their IQ was 150+.
Second, my experience with testing kids for a “gifted” identification at our school (side note: I loathe the term “gifted” and want to burn it to the ground, even though I think the identification itself can be super helpful). I administer the Cognitive Abilities Test to second graders every year, and our district protocol is to identify students as Intellectually Gifted if they score in the 98th or 99th percentile on at least one of three subtests.
With a standard distribution of scores, expect 6 or fewer kids in each 100 kids to be identified. Probably fewer, since you’d have an overlap: a kid that scores in the 98th percentile on the verbal test is likelier than average to score in the 98th percentile on the quantitative test, and so on. In a cohort of ~70 kids, you’d expect about three or four kids to be identified.
We just got our scores back. Twenty two of our ~70 kids are identified.
A given pool of people won’t necessarily score in a standard range on a test. It doesn’t surprise me if we don’t have a standard distribution of scores here.
What would you replace it with?
Nowadays there’s more emphasis on twice exceptional (2e) kids, which I’m sure you know is giftedness + developmental or learning disability. I’m beginning to wonder if most gifted kids don’t have some kind of comorbid condition, diagnosed or not.