California Girl
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IQ quizzes are quite easy, takes barely any effort to get beyond 120 myself, and that is even with getting lots of questions wrong. Personally I find IQ misleading but that's just me.
IQ is very misleading. I can score between 128 and 170 depending on the test.
But what does it matter? Intelligence is much more complex than those simple tests. And those tests are only designed to measure small skill sets.
Personally I think it does great damage to our culture to even allow standardized testing at this remedial level. There are far too many valuable kinds of intelligence that these tests do not even recognize.
Many of them are the most important splinter skilz within our society, like social skilz and the ability to lie convincingly. Nearly all of our successful politicians have 180 IQs at lying. Sociopaths, or just gifted liars?
GWB had a modest IQ of perhaps 135. Yet he was the national champ at political manipulation and power lust, a skill far more important than solving simple riddles or correctly interpreting metaphor.
135 is not considered "modest".
and no one believes gWB had an IQ that high. He was also not the person responsible for the political manipulation that went on. that would be karl rove.
In fairness, mine's MENSA tested (and I mean properly tested... not these bullshit online tests) at over 150....... I figure I cheated.