• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Fun fact, a man had the liquids in his brain swell up to the point of leaving the brain as a spread out layer on the walls of his skull.

    Despite this extreme disfigurement of his brain, he had a job, a family with multiple kids, and the only possible side effects of 70 IQ (which wasn’t even proven to be because of this) and a twitchy leg, which went away when they drained the pressure from the fluid.

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    7 days ago

    The official test iq i did(for autism diagnosis) had questions that had you order words in alphabet order(i did not know the alphabet order) and asked me to define a word that is not used anymore

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    I actually like this exchange; you know how many people I know who think they’ve got a 160+ IQ because of an online test they took that then tried to sell them something?

    At least a dozen, a few of which are even family members. Statistically impossible, but do they care? No, they’re super geniuses. God what I’d pay to see what they respond to their real score, lol

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      An online IQ test is probably just as meaningful as a sorting hat quiz, or whatever the 2020s equivalent is.

      Which is to say, it’s useful as a bullshitting session conversation starter with friends so long as all are aware any results should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

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      And the test is like “Whats 5+789?”

      Also IQ is just nonsense anyway. At the bare minimum intelligence isn’t a high and low line, its one of those charts where you have scales in like 5 directions and it makes a colored blob except instead of 5 directions there are like, 100.

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    Iq doesn’t matter really. Everyone has a skill. For example I had a coworker who when hired was in a dark time. Not to give any personal details but he lost his job, his wife left him, she took the kids all in like 3 months. He came in and plainly said I don’t want to think, I don’t want to solve problems just just give me a machine and tell me how to run it and it will be run.

    He was the best damn coworker I had ever. He beat my record of work in that machine by about 150% on average, his record was something like 3x my record. Now if the machine gave an error he would come get me and tell me to fix the error. He didn’t care how the machine worked or what was happening, he came in, made product and went home. He was insane at it. He didn’t want to think, he didn’t care. That’s someone else’s job, I just run machine. He probably made more profit for that company then any other 2 people combined.

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    I know someone whose IQ is measured at 86 and she has a PhD and makes a quarter million dollars a year.

    IQ is a spectrum.

    At 70, though, I believe you would be special needs.

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        The point of me posting that is to say that IQ does not necessarily correlate with success.

        For comparison, at the same time she was making a quarter of a million dollars a year, I, with my 136 IQ, was making like 90k, which was still pretty good, but compared to 250k is bupkis.

        And it’s not like she was my boss or anything, we worked in the same group, but she was about 20 years older than me with a PhD.

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    I’ve never actually taken a formal IQ test, and I’d have trouble justifying the time and effort.

    I know exactly one person who took a formal IQ test, and it was because their parents pushed them into it in middle school.

    If I won $50M in the powerball and never had to work again, maaaybe I could justify doing one just for shits and giggles.

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      I only did a weird one for kids at the age of 9. max IQ points was 120 and I got 119. I asked why its not 120 and they said I was wrong with the end of WW2. I wrote 1949 and it was actually 1945.

      Seeing my 9 year old son today, I am surprised how close my understanding about WW2s end was.

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    SAT scores are just as meaningless as IQ tests. Both are more an indication of your test taking skills. Certification programs can be a little better, but if you buy a decent study guide and use your test taking skills you should be able to pass many of these.

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    IQ tests don’t measure shit. And for the most part are pretty easy. There are only so many “follow the pattern” drawings the test makers can come up with. And outside field specific nomenclature, English isn’t getting a whole ton of extra words as time goes on. I’ve taken two formal ones at two different times in my life (child for school and then as an adult for an interview with a HFT company). And scored in the top 2-3 percentile. Is my score von Neumann levels of smart? Nah, not even close.