Now you’re on the trolley.
You sure do like making up your own “facts” out of nothing at all.
There are different types of brain function just as there are different types of muscle function. Who is stronger? The muscle-bound man who can lift a bench-press a huge weight, or the 110lb woman who can run a marathon?
In the comments above we’ve seen - memory, language skills/vocabulary, problem solving, and mathematics; not to mention the ability to process what you see or hear properly. Some people excel at some but not others. An IQ test measures a bit of each of these. It’s like a “how fit are you?” number, or a BMI number. In general, good in one probably means good in most - but not necessarily.
So can you tell? Yes and no. SOme people are very good at “social engineering” and may appear far smarter than they are, particularly depending on expectations (Seen the movie “Being There”?). Some smart people may be socially inept and appear stupid.
But again, dedcuing someone else’s intelligence from what is essentially their Turing Test audition with you is essentially a problem-solving exercise. From this, we may be sure that (in general, most) smarter people are better able to observe, understand, and piece together the information that leads to a conclusion about intelligence.
This thread is evidence excessively high IQ is no immediate danger.
Just how old are these IQ Tests ?
The I.Q. scores for specific jobs came from this webpage:
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx
These scores were taken from a 2002 paper:
In that paper the jobs were the ones held by the subjects of the research in 1992 to 1994. They had taken a test called the Henmon-Nelson Test of Mental Ability in their junior year of high school. It appears from what the paper says that this means that the I.Q. tests were given between 1957 and 1975. No, I don’t know how many people who declared their job as being a sexton there are.
No, Mr. IFailedAlgebra, not only math problems. Logical steps, of which math would be a subset. “What would be necessary to turn collecting underwear into profit?” was actually a better example.
That mess you wrote should be
5 + x = 10
x = 10 -5
x = 5
I’ve never met a sexton. Even verger’s duties are now done by church volunteers now in England.
Many are the professions of the past. Still, I could not be persuaded a sexton, nor a janitor, was obviously less mentally equipped than the priest or rabbi etc., who directed him. I’m sure that even in such mentally abstruse vocations there have been dumb priests.
The claim of the paper was not that all members of profession X were smarter than all members of profession Y, but that the average I.Q. of all members of profession X was higher than the average I.Q. of profession Y.
And the other take-away is the huge overlap. If one just plotted the averages, it would look like IQ explains a whole lot. But looking at the overlaps in the ranges, it’s clear that there is much more to the picture than whatever IQ is measuring.
While this is an oversimplification, there have been studies that suggest this is true.
I’m not so sure about that. Just the other day, a stupid person asked me, “Why are you so damn smart?”
May be I’m confusing social class ( rich, upper class vs lower class, lower middle class and working class) and personality traits with IQ? Unless those traits people with average IQ.
What do you mean by logical steps with missing information?
Are you sure they didn’t ask “Why are you such a damned smartass?” 
Example:
Bosses: “We want to send you to Germany and have a German come here as a researcher’s exchange”.
Researcher: “Oh nice… if we both travel at the same time we can exchange homes and don’t need to worry about getting renta… uh, what did I say?”
The bosses had been part of that exchange program for 9 year, but neither had latched onto “exchange” and come up with something which allowed the exchange to last 3 months, rather than its usual 1.
A smart person will understand that traveling at the same time makes more sense than sequentially without needing every little detail explained. A not so smart one will need it explained, but will eventually see it. A dumb one will keep asking the same question, not seeing it no matter how it’s explained.
Not quite the same thing tho. Overestimating ones own intelligence doesn’t necessarily preclude the ability to make some general observations of others.
I think the Downing Effect is more what RedSwinglineOne may have been getting at. See link in post 4, and skip down to the section on IQ.
I think it does.
Bolding mine.
Personal insults are obviously not permitted in this forum, and this was close enough. No warning, but don’t do this again.
RickJay
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A 15 point IQ difference is probably not enough to notice. A 20 to 25 point IQ difference probably very little well a 25 to 30 point IQ difference you will probably notice some things here and there.
A 30 to 40 point IQ difference will probably be very obvious.