IQ scores

[California Girl]

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.

 

[rdean]

Woodrow Wilson’s IQ was possibly the highest of any President, and he gave us the income tax, the Fed, US entry into WWI, the League of Nations and many other things we still regret.

He was also the first president to hold a Ph.D, thus losing all common sense....

Right wingers hate education. They say stuff like that and then deny they said stuff like that.

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[California Girl]

Woodrow Wilson’s IQ was possibly the highest of any President, and he gave us the income tax, the Fed, US entry into WWI, the League of Nations and many other things we still regret.

He was also the first president to hold a Ph.D, thus losing all common sense....

Right wingers hate education. They say stuff like that and then deny they said stuff like that.

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Still a lyin' lil racist, huh? I'm glad not all lefties are as house plant stupid as you are.

 

[skeptic]

135 is not considered "modest".

Yes. Well that speaks volumes about the crowds you frequent.

 

[skeptic]

What makes a great politician and leader is his IQ as it relates to the ability to understand and deal with other people. Most politicians are geniuses at it.
Those with high measured IQs tend to lack those people skills

There is a reason for that! The folks with the highest IQs are almost all bearing some kind of autistic burden.

Almost all of the world's greatest geniuses were ASD and the same applies less generally to the smartest 20% of humanity.

Politicians on the other hand tend to have remarkable social intelligence which is useful for their ambitions, but actually suggests considerably lower practical and cognitive intelligence. All generalizations mind you.

There have been a few people of the billions and billions of humans who ever lived who were both highly gifted in interpersonal and social skilz and highly gifted in cognitive skilz. But those are rare exceptions like William F Buckley and Ayn Rand. Both of whom were sociopaths/born politicians.

 

[skeptic]

In fairness, mine's MENSA tested (and I mean properly tested... not these bullshit online tests) at over 150....... I figure I cheated.

a 150 IQ is not much to brag about. Esp since stupid people tend to draw correct conclusions as often as really smart people. Esp in the realm of life choices.

On the other hand really smart people have invented nearly every disastrous invention or device ever created by man. Nuclear war, genetic engineering, fractional reserve banking, societal genocides, communism, socialism....all products of really, really smart people.

And I could go on for pages and pages. Till you died of boredom and resignation.

Having a high IQ doesn't make you smarter. It really doesn't. Only being smarter makes you smarter.

 

[California Girl]

In fairness, mine's MENSA tested (and I mean properly tested... not these bullshit online tests) at over 150....... I figure I cheated.

a 150 IQ is not much to brag about. Esp since stupid people tend to draw correct conclusions as often as really smart people. Esp in the realm of life choices.

On the other hand really smart people have invented nearly every disastrous invention or device ever created by man. Nuclear war, genetic engineering, fractional reserve banking, societal genocides, communism, socialism....all products of really, really smart people.

And I could go on for pages and pages. Till you died of boredom and resignation.

Having a high IQ doesn't make you smarter. It really doesn't. Only being smarter makes you smarter.

If you read what I said, I'm actually mocking the IQ thing.... certainly not 'bragging' about it.

Oh, and I said 'over 150'. Seems to me that you lack some basic comprehension skills. Nothing to do with your intellect, or the lack thereof, I'm sure.

 

[zzzz]

What really counts is common sense, practicality, communication, and the ability to work towards a solution to problems. IQ tests are just a measure of static problems. Life is not static, it is ever moving and changing and your ability to respond to these changes is a true measure of your intelligence.

 

[rdean]

He was also the first president to hold a Ph.D, thus losing all common sense....

Right wingers hate education. They say stuff like that and then deny they said stuff like that.

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Still a lyin' lil racist, huh? I'm glad not all lefties are as house plant stupid as you are.

Lying? I was quoting.

 

[Avatar4321]

IQ is meaningless. It's a pointless test. The idea that we should base our opinion on someones IQ and not with what they say and believe is ridiculous. Who cares if they scored high on an IQ test? If they are indoctrinated with completely incorrect information their IQ may end up being a hinderence more than a blessing.

In fact, I think most people are smart. Most just happen to know alot of crap that just isn't true.

 

[Avatar4321]

Right wingers hate education. They say stuff like that and then deny they said stuff like that.

6%

Still a lyin' lil racist, huh? I'm glad not all lefties are as house plant stupid as you are.

Lying? I was quoting.

Yes lying. You know we don't hate education. We just aren't as ignorant as to suppose that degrees indicate that a person is educated or that degrees are the only way a person can be educated.

So what's your PhD in?

 

[LostAmerican]

Woodrow Wilson’s IQ was possibly the highest of any President, and he gave us the income tax, the Fed, US entry into WWI, the League of Nations and many other things we still regret.

Sending troops into Mexico? WAIT......that was a GOOD thing!