Durrrrrrrrrrrrr
…Huh?
How would you know that the transcripts that I somehow provide are mine, or not doctored?
The safest way (that I can think of) for you to remote-check my IQ would be for me to have to login to your IQ testing webpage, and take the test.
Is there an online (free) IQ test that is reasonably accurate?
And remember: you can have a high IQ, but still be uneducated. (If an individual never took calculus or above in school, for example.)
We tend to kill and eat the stupid, so no, I don’t think an IQ test is necessary.
Apparantly it is what informed dumb people say.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=420765&highlight=scam
“Many of the victims were well-educated, including doctors, lawyers, engineers and professors.”
Jodi, I’ve read and enjoyed your posts (esp. in the Pit). You’re a shoo-in, believe me, on personality and, ahhh, vivaciousness alone.
Gee, maybe I should try that. I need to put on a few pounds.
I agree with 5-4, you rock.
One of my part-time jobs ages ago as an undergraduate was assisting a lady working on her doctorate in psychology. It was her second doctorate; she was already a professor of English. Her research involved administering IQ tests to people. She was blind, so needed me to help organize her data, write up her research, etc. I was not a psych major, but that didn’t matter. I never took part in administering any tests. She warned me ahead of time that my working with IQ tests like that, becoming so familiar with them, meant I could not take one for x number of years myself and be able to consider the results valid. I think it was 5 years. But she also told me that IQs were completely bogus, period. I can’t remember now what her subject topic was even about, this was long ago, but I’ve always remembered what she said and never bothered wasting my time with that sort of thing. She was no flake either; definitely one of the sharpest people I’d say I’ve ever know.
Then we need to devise a test for JQ – Jerk Quotient.
Musicat, the planning meeting for this thing is at 4:00pm in the pie shop. Don’t be late.
uh oh… I may be in some serious trouble! 
I’ve taken two IQ tests and scored barely above retarded :eek:. Actually, my scores are so low I think I ought to be able to qualify for some kind of government assistance (hmmm, now there’s a thought 
). Anyway, I’m glad that no such rule yet exists, especially since I have been working on my “selective mutism” at work (making life better so far), I come here to connect with people :D.
It’s pretty fashionable to pretend that IQ has no bearing on “smarts” whatsoever. I find this rather disingenuous.
I would make a guess that the average IQ of active posters on the SDMB is 125 or so (give or take maybe 10 points). But that doesn’t matter right? Right? (Be sure you are in full politically-correct mode before you answer…)
OK. Now suppose the average IQ of active posters on the SDMB was 75? You’d enjoy it here just as much because the conversation would be every bit as scintillating and illuminating because IQ doesn’t matter, correct?
No.
That is not correct.
She said that IQ’s are COMPLETELY bogus, PERIOD and you consider her one of the sharpest people you’ve ever known and not a flake? That is very interesting, I must say.
All that being said, it would be ridiculous to have a minimum IQ requirement for the Board.
Well, can we still “lurk”?
This thread makes Algernon cry.
Why was she doing any research involving IQ tests if she thought they were bogus? (I know you wrote you don’t remember the “subject topic” but did you get any clue from what you wrote/discussed?) Was she trying to prove they were bogus? Did she succeed?
Tell me, 5-4-fighting, how elitist should one be toward the Teeming Millions? I passed tests for Internation Mensa (2 weeks after giving birth), but after a rough day, feel like I can barely qualify for a round of “Hit the Buzzer, Win a Cookie”. It’s nice to add my comments to a thread.
Are you asking me this because you think I’m advocating this test (which I haven’t) because I support elitism? I’m not following you (it’s been a rough work day).
Yep.
Communities self select. If you feel you fit in here, you probably do - and if that skews for high IQ, well…so be it. But high IQ isn’t the only thing this board skews to - it skews for a wicked sense of humor, a certain social liberalness, religious skepticism (even, I think, in our believers), an interest in cats, and knowledge of odd trivia.
And if you think you fit in here and you don’t, eventually we do kill and eat you. It might take a while - a few pittings - eventually maybe being driven to suicide by mod, but when the pack turns, few can outrun it for long.
Dangerosa, thanks for this response also. I suppose, perhaps, that this was sort of the discussion (others have said as much in other ways) I was seeking with my post. I possibly did everyone a disservice by stating it so blandly, but, in a sense, I wanted to draw people out about how they experience the Dope vis-à-vis the people the enjoy interacting with. And I didn’t want to color that right off the bat.
The IQ question sort of loomed large because a few posters have mentioned it for different reasons recently and it colored this inquiry. Maybe I’m also asking about how one would go about proactively shaping a community of people such as you’ve described above, if (and most here, including myself, don’t think so) IQ is a paramount criteria and, if you could, how do test for and weight things such as humor, quirkiness, life experience, etc.
mlees, I’m not ignoring you. I just want to respond when I have time to write the post I’d like to write.
We’re talking decades ago, and I’d not even thought about her for a long time until I saw this thread, so please forgive my feeble old memory. She was not trying to prove anything about the IQ tests themselves per se, I do remember and am sure of that. But other than that, I honestly don’t remember the exact subject. I did not watch her administer any tests, but I do know she was a big one on impartiality during her research. She knew her biases and tried hard not to introduce them, and I remember she seemed to succeed pretty well. It wasn’t something she harped on, but rather would mention it almost matter-of-factly that such scores were bogus, like in passing. I’m not trying to be “fashionable” in not believing in IQ scores; I’ve just never believed in them myself, and I’m not going to pretend to believe in them just to buck some sort of trend. And yes, she was a sharp old lady, and I say that not knowing her IQ; she probably didn’t either.
No offense to Mensa members here, but I’ve known one Mensa member in my life, and he was an insufferable prig. (I’m not suggesting this is typical among Mensa members.) I knew another guy who never took an IQ test in his life, but he was darned sure that if he did, he would score higher than a kite, and he actually lorded it over everyone, how high he WOULD score. Neither of those served to endear me to the concept of IQs.
Well that’s certainly the picture of a warm and welcoming community. 