Your IQ?

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[quote]TOTrev wrote:
X-Factor wrote:
Anyways, about the OAC thing how the hell did I know that they don’t have that in US, I’ve only been in canada for 8 years, get your shit straight dude before you try and seem smart.

Wow…seriously…OAC (Ontario Academic Credit) I’ve been in Ontario for 6 yrs…and didn’t do OACs…b/c the rest of Canada doesn’t have them either! That’s a terrible excuse…and you’re high IQ should have realized that.

Don’t spout your high IQ then come on here with incoherent arguments and slag talkin.

I guess I could have saved this all by saying that I dislike braggers…that’s all. So I decided to pick apart your foolish statement. I guess no one really reads these posts anymore they just assume that OAC is some sort of universal standardization, when it really means take an extra year to sort your life out. Also, if you’ve been in ontario, you should have know what they are if you used them as a gauge to reference. If you didn’t go to high school here, you have no right to use that as a a measure.

I realize this is going to go on for another three pages…so I’ll jsut say I won’t be responding. Tough luck on the hurt ego!

T
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Actually i’m part of the double co-hort thing so I never really cared what OAC was, in fact in grade 6 when I firts heard the term I could’nt care, the reason I believe that my reading comprehension and speed etc was so high is because where i’m from we don’t have kindergarten and shit we start “school” at 4. Furthermore, reading was my passion. As for my hurt ego you can’t hurt my ego i’m too smart for that!!!

Seriously though…I don’t really care if you don’t like people who brag because I don’t feel I was bragging nor do I feel that I have any reason to. The extent that I know you guys is virtual text…whoaaa, really need that approval. I’m sorry you feel the way you do but I don’t think you really picked apart my “foolish statement”…You simply manifested an overlooked and moot point; that not everywhere has “OAC”, i’m sure everyone had an idea of what it means, the context is rather rudimentary at best.

I also don’t think that you don’t want this to go on for too long, because if that was the point you would’nt have started an argument, the reason people do that stuff amazes me still, they go out of their way to try and insult someone with a totally disdainful mannerism and make them look stupid, then claim to not want any real part of an argument…and then call them on slagging…in fact where did you hear the word slag I thought that was a british term “, you have no right to use that as a a measure” of someones tone…and like I contended several times, IQ does’nt mean a tonne in my opinion so if I wanted to brag I would’nt use that term.

Also I’d like to add, I was wrong on mensa getting me at 169, I checked with parents and they laughed at the 169 saying it was pretty much the ceiling score of the test, apparently I got 139 which is apparntly nearly enough to be a member. But my mommy says i’m still smart. :smiley: that is all…

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The average salaries of skilled readers and those lacking basic skills diverge widely. The people with the best reading skills earned an average of $50,700 in 2003, compared to $22,700 for people without basic skills.

And an American Enterprise Institute study of 1,704 pairs of siblings found that in 1992, the brighter ones earned an average of $33,500, while the less-smart ones made on average $20,000–a 67 percent disparity. (In today’s dollars, this is about $45,367 to $27,000.)
Here’s something mind-boggling, especially if you have to work in a group: Your effectiveness as a group can be foretold if you know the IQ of the smartest person in the room, according to researchers at Yale.

It didn’t matter so much what the average IQ of the group was. What mattered most was that there was one really bright person in the room.

This is what a Yale University psychology and education professor found after studying 96 volunteers ranging in age from 14 to 70, and reported in the December 1988 issue of the journal Intelligence.

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
zeropointzero wrote:
I think Sharon Stone has a score of 150 of the Cattell which, according to the website, converts to 131 on the Weschler and 133 on the Stanford-Binet. The latter two scales are more standard.

135 on the Stanford-Binet. I guess I’m slightly smarter than Sharon Stone. I also did the test after working night shift three in a row with little sleep. I had higher scores when I was younger…hmph…I guess it could be age-related brain degerative changes. That, or working nights in a crazy ER and being chronically sleep deprived (my brain gets too lazy to have to think after work, it just wants to go to sleep!).

The score does make sense per the table below, I am a nurse (120) and I did get accepted into law schools (130) when I was 20-21 years old, and always fantasize about being a surgeon (130)- either Cardiovascular or Cosmetic (boobies doctor). Hehe, thankfully I changed my mind about being a lawyer…only kidding, law t-peeps.

IQ SCORES IN TERMS OF OCCUPATION:
140
Top Civil Servants; Professors and Research Scientists.

130
Physicians and Surgeons; Lawyers; Engineers (Civil and Mechanical)

120
School Teachers; Pharmacists; Accountants; Nurses; Stenographers; Managers.

110
Foremen; Clerks; Telephone Operators; Salesmen; Policemen; Electricians.

100+
Machine Operators; Shopkeepers; Butchers; Welders; Sheet Metal Workers.

100-
Warehousemen; Carpenters; Cooks and Bakers; Small Farmers; Truck and Van Drivers.

90
Laborers; Gardeners; Upholsterers; Farmhands; Miners; Factory Packers and Sorters

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Believe me when i say that people do not match up to those jobs that are described. So many manual laborers and people working at 7-11 with 135-140 iq levels.Good jobs have to do with factors such as looks,school preferences (such as someone prefering someone that went to a paticular school),nepotism etc. Take a look at many of the NFL and collegiate strength coaches.Emotional iq is a more important factor.
Brandon Green

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Believe me when i say that people do not match up to those jobs that are described. So many manual laborers and people working at 7-11 with 135-140 iq levels.Good jobs have to do with factors such as looks,school preferences (such as someone prefering someone that went to a paticular school),nepotism etc. Take a look at many of the NFL and collegiate strength coaches.Emotional iq is a more important factor.
Brandon Green

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I don’t believe you.
You are talking about the exceptions, not the rule. In a town of 100,000 you would only have about 1000 people with an IQ in the range you are talking about. I seriously doubt there would be that many leftover after the engineers, doctors. lawyers, etc. to fill the ranks at the 7-11s and manual labor positions.
I have seen smart people in lower paid jobs, I’ve been one, but it isn’t the norm.

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[quote]human743 posted a picture of Christopher Langan
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I’m not very impressed with Chris Langan. The man may or may not be endowed with an impressive IQ, but everything I’ve read about his cosmology seems exceptionally amateurish.

Some of what he writes reminds me of the kids in high school who thought they’d revolutionize science (artificial intelligence, in particular) because “all you gotta do is…”

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[quote]nephorm wrote:
human743 posted a picture of Christopher Langan

I’m not very impressed with Chris Langan. The man may or may not be endowed with an impressive IQ, but everything I’ve read about his cosmology seems exceptionally amateurish.

Some of what he writes reminds me of the kids in high school who thought they’d revolutionize science (artificial intelligence, in particular) because “all you gotta do is…”[/quote]

I agree, but really I was just posting that to give the rare example of someone with a high IQ that doesn’t do much with it. Plus, at least he lifts.

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[quote]human743 wrote:
nephorm wrote:
human743 posted a picture of Christopher Langan

I’m not very impressed with Chris Langan. The man may or may not be endowed with an impressive IQ, but everything I’ve read about his cosmology seems exceptionally amateurish.

Some of what he writes reminds me of the kids in high school who thought they’d revolutionize science (artificial intelligence, in particular) because “all you gotta do is…”

I agree, but really I was just posting that to give the rare example of someone with a high IQ that doesn’t do much with it. Plus, at least he lifts.[/quote]

Doesn’t he also live in the woods alone?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
human743 wrote:
nephorm wrote:
human743 posted a picture of Christopher Langan

I’m not very impressed with Chris Langan. The man may or may not be endowed with an impressive IQ, but everything I’ve read about his cosmology seems exceptionally amateurish.

Some of what he writes reminds me of the kids in high school who thought they’d revolutionize science (artificial intelligence, in particular) because “all you gotta do is…”

I agree, but really I was just posting that to give the rare example of someone with a high IQ that doesn’t do much with it. Plus, at least he lifts.

Doesn’t he also live in the woods alone?[/quote]

Last I read he was living in a converted garage.

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He was seeing some neuropsychologist chick and working as a bouncer.

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[quote]human743 wrote:

Believe me when i say that people do not match up to those jobs that are described. So many manual laborers and people working at 7-11 with 135-140 iq levels.Good jobs have to do with factors such as looks,school preferences (such as someone prefering someone that went to a paticular school),nepotism etc. Take a look at many of the NFL and collegiate strength coaches.Emotional iq is a more important factor.
Brandon Green

I don’t believe you.
You are talking about the exceptions, not the rule. In a town of 100,000 you would only have about 1000 people with an IQ in the range you are talking about. I seriously doubt there would be that many leftover after the engineers, doctors. lawyers, etc. to fill the ranks at the 7-11s and manual labor positions.
I have seen smart people in lower paid jobs, I’ve been one, but it isn’t the norm.
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Sorry i have just seen so much of the other way.
Brandon Green

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[quote]Ahren wrote:
chinadoll wrote:

IQ SCORES IN TERMS OF OCCUPATION:
140
Top Civil Servants; Professors and Research Scientists.

130
Physicians and Surgeons; Lawyers; Engineers (Civil and Mechanical)

120
School Teachers; Pharmacists; Accountants; Nurses; Stenographers; Managers.

110
Foremen; Clerks; Telephone Operators; Salesmen; Policemen; Electricians.

100+
Machine Operators; Shopkeepers; Butchers; Welders; Sheet Metal Workers.

100-
Warehousemen; Carpenters; Cooks and Bakers; Small Farmers; Truck and Van Drivers.

90
Laborers; Gardeners; Upholsterers; Farmhands; Miners; Factory Packers and Sorters

You totally don’t need an IQ of 120 to be a grade school teacher. A score of 100 will probably get you by as a school teacher.[/quote]

That’s just plain stupid. Iq is only a measure of one of many intelligences. Real intelligence is peoples ability to adapt to their environment, and to rise to challenges; thats not having your head stuck in a book all day. You know apparently people with low IQ’s and high IQ’s are those most affected by depression? I’m glad I got 125. P.S I bet all those people saying 240 are bullshiting.

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[quote]alstan90 wrote:

P.S I bet all those people saying 240 are bullshiting. [/quote]

Gee, I didn’t think it took a genius to figgure THAT out… :wink:

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I’m smart enough not to take an IQ test and impose limits on myself…

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On my last IQ test, I came in at 181. But, then I noticed I was reading the paper upside down.

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[quote]terribleivan wrote:
On my last IQ test, I came in at 181. But, then I noticed I was reading the paper upside down.[/quote]

I am sure that took several minutes for you to think up.

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if you have a 9 inch dick and you aren’t using it to fuck chicks, who cares?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
terribleivan wrote:
On my last IQ test, I came in at 181. But, then I noticed I was reading the paper upside down.

I am sure that took several minutes for you to think up.[/quote]

You just hurt my feelings. I may have a hard time sleeping tonight.

Where’s that darn playground teacher at?!!

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Isn’t this interesting many people on T-Nation lying about thier IQ scores just like they do about thier PRs. “I have a 400 pound bench oh yeah and by the way my IQ is 169.”

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[quote]BIGERIC wrote:
Isn’t this interesting many people on T-Nation lying about thier IQ scores just like they do about thier PRs. “I have a 400 pound bench oh yeah and by the way my IQ is 169.”[/quote]

Some people may be lying, some may be mistaken, and some may be… gasp… telling the truth. You never know.

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Story of my life, man.

[quote]Leon Country wrote:
if you have a 9 inch dick and you aren’t using it to fuck chicks, who cares?[/quote]