What is our collective IQ?

Well, you’ve got your brains on here with IQs in the triple digits, but you’ve also got to account for all the trolls, Serlin, concrete, and oat willie incarnations.

We should be glad the average isn’t in the red:D

wanker.

Mine’s 155. Do with it what you will.

No, no, no! It’s what you do with it that makes the difference!

Gee, and I was all impressed with my measly 147.

I’m 38 years old but I read at a 52 year old level. Can you figure my IQ from that?

Apologies to whomever I stole that joke from.

May I offer some empirical evidence drawn from a recent LonDope get-together? In a public house in central London, about 8 Brit Dopers gathered around a ‘Weakest Link’ game machine, confident that our collective genius would easily outwit the feeble machine and we’d win some booze funds in the process. We had carefully chosen the team to include specialists in sports, history, science, art and literature etc.

We had about 10 games before quitting, and never won a penny. Our performance in each game ranged from truly dire to passable but not quite good enough to win even our stake money back.

So, if we may extrapolate from this at all, the collective IQ is… less than that of a quiz game machine in a London pub.

Terry Pratchett: The IQ of a mob is the IQ of it’s stupidest member divided by the number of members present.
Now I grant you the dopers don’t exactly constitute a mob, (more of a peaceful gathering protected by the 1st amendment) but it’s something to consider.

Anyway add in my 138.

Well Tatertot and I managed to get the Sigmund Freud Award in this month’s Esquire Quiz. Will that help any ?