# Posting Your IQ is the Same as Saying "Please Disregard Me" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048 "2010-04-14T08:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/41 "2010-04-14T18:32:19Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I have a 12-inch pianist. Goddam that deaf genie. My BIC lighter is just as long, thanks to that damn genie. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/42 "2010-04-14T18:39:16Z")
My penis is so large that, whenever I get an erection, it drains blood from my brain and I lose about fifty IQ points. Fortunately, I am 54, so that almost never happens. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/43 "2010-04-14T18:44:15Z")
If we state that we’re smart enough to understand that IQ tests are unscientific at best and utterly meaningless at worst, is that better or worse than claiming a high IQ? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/44 "2010-04-14T18:52:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The funny part is that a high IQ is one of the few things that’s actually discernable on the internet. You can claim to have a twelve inch penis and who’s going to be able to call you a liar? But your intelligence is there on display for everyone online to judge. > > Coincidentally, I do in fact have a twelve inch penis. What you\* can’t \*discern from the internet is that, although I am only of above average intelligence, I type these posts with my aforementioned enormous penis. I use a specially constructed 52-inch (diagonal) touch screen for the purpose lest I touch 7 characters at once. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/45 "2010-04-14T18:53:09Z")
I would post in this thread, but I can neither read nor write. My IQ is -168. Stanford-Binet owes me points. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/46 "2010-04-14T19:16:50Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I would post in this thread, but I can neither read nor write. My IQ is -168. Stanford-Binet owes me points. You’ve got a negative IQ? I can beat that – mine is imaginary. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/47 "2010-04-14T19:50:29Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > When I read “I have an IQ of 170” or “I tested off the charts in kindergarten” what I see is “I secretly have really low self-esteem.” > – **Vinyl Turnip** , _who tested off the charts in kindergarten_ I wrote a whole angsty post in the other IQ thread about how I have low self-esteem because kids made fun of me for being in special ed, and that I brag about my IQ in order to convince myself that I’m not a “retard” and… Aw, heck with it. I am a super genius person. I broke the IQ scale. I know so much, I had to save part of my memory to a computer. I calculate digits of pi to fall asleep. I once asked a deaf genie for a twelve-inch pianist, which was rather awkward, especially given that I’m female. I speak eight extinct languages, and five that never existed in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/48 "2010-04-14T20:33:22Z")
Oh yeah? Well I’m about 99.6% certain I’m within 3 standard deviations of having an IQ of 100, so clearly I’m right. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/49 "2010-04-14T20:43:13Z")
> [@](#): > > You’ve got a negative IQ? I can beat that – mine is imaginary. Oh yeah? Well, my intelligence is irrational! Which makes me a typical internet user actually. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/50 "2010-04-14T20:48:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My penis is so large that, whenever I get an erection, it drains blood from my brain and I lose about fifty IQ points. You, me, and every other XY-enabled person on the planet, dude. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/51 "2010-04-14T20:50:17Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I once asked a deaf genie for a twelve-inch pianist, which was rather awkward, especially given that I’m female. The awkward part is convincing him to wear the full-body condom, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/52 "2010-04-14T21:15:01Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > When I read “I have an IQ of 170” or “I tested off the charts in kindergarten” what I see is “I secretly have really low self-esteem.” Fuck you too! Says the guy who tested off the chart he made on the back of some wallpaper one afternoon when he was very bored. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/53 "2010-04-14T21:27:46Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > **Garula** , you talk like a fag. It takes one to know one. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/54 "2010-04-14T21:43:42Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Somehow this post makes me imagine the imtellectual equivalent of the guy who flexes so hard he rips his shirt sleeves. > > Scene: A beach, midday. > > **Random Goon** : _kicks sand on ivn1188_ > **ivn1188** : Oh yeah? You’re gonna regret. _assumes a strained expression, after a few seconds of which his skull splits in half to reveal it can’t contain his ENORMOUS THROBBING BRAIN. He immediately keels over lifeless._ > **Random Goon** : _Flees, shrieking like a little girl_ Great, now I want to change my username to “Random Goon.” Well, that or “Enormous Throbbing Brain.” I say sometimes that my IQ is above average, but average ain’t much to write home about. Being above average IQ means that I hardly ever wet myself and can usually walk and chew gum at the same time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/55 "2010-04-14T21:54:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I say sometimes that my IQ is above average, but average ain’t much to write home about. Being above average IQ means that I hardly ever wet myself and can usually walk and chew gum at the same time 🙂 “Think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that.” Good ol’ George Carlin. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/56 "2010-04-15T06:29:06Z")
I honestly never bragged about my IQ score because it’s only considered high amongst the average people that don’t seem to care. Amongst the people who brag, I feel like the dunce in the corner. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/57 "2010-04-15T07:31:37Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > And fleas have pretty spectacular penes. From your link: > [@](#): > > Flea penis […] During mating, the male attaches himself to the female […] Mating can last from one to nine hours. Emphasis added. :eek: So, **marshmallow** , how _you_ doin’? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/58 "2010-04-15T14:14:45Z")
My dick’s IQ is 163, as he keeps reminding me. He’s a smug bastard, but I don’t tell him that because his size intimidates me. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/59 "2010-04-15T14:15:40Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > My dick’s IQ is 163, as he keeps reminding me. > > He’s a smug bastard, but I don’t tell him that because his size intimidates me. Win. ---
**Author:** ![hankhill911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@hankhill911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hankhill911)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048/60 "2010-04-15T15:32:15Z")
I know in theory intelligence is a constellation of factors and it’s impossible to really accurately distill it down to an IQ score, but I’m still terrified of taking a test for fear of scoring 90. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-your-iq-is-the-same-as-saying-please-disregard-me/536048.md?page=4)