Technically, IQ grades learning potential, not outright intelligence (though since the two are interrelated, that's pretty much just splitting hairs). I was tested when I was five to have an IQ of 157 on the Stanford-Binet standard children's test -- which is technically higher than over three quarters of MENSA. I'd probably join the Triple Nine Society (MENSA is for those in the 98th percentile of IQs; TNS is for 99.9th percentile IQs), which I also qualify for, if it wasn't full of Objectivists and Libertraians who think this counts as a genuine accomplishment.
Post Merge: October 22, 2009, 02:33:42 AM
Quote from: Miniar on September 11, 2009, 06:25:23 AM
That's already been established. And the first post doesn't suggest causation either.
That and really -- polling people on the Internet is hardly going to buy Hypothesis a one-way ticket to Theory. That alone was all I needed to know to prove that this was pretty much "for entertainment only". If this was a serious inquiry for a scientific study, there would have to be, you know, testing. Most of the people I know personally (even the TS/TG individuals) are of average intelligence and potential -- almost none of them will actually admit it in casual conversation, especially not on an Internet poll.
But eh... I came, I saw, I clicked a radio button on a forum poll. My mother may have proved i have immense potential, but my high school counsellor put it best when he said "I've listened to you go on about Marc Bolan and The Chicago Seven and other things that won't ever provide gainful employment for three years. You're highly intelligent, bright, articulate, and very witty; in fact, I think you might prove a threat to the government if you had even an ounce of ambition. And this is going on your permanent record."
