• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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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      27 days ago

      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.

    • superduperpirate@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      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.

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    26 days ago

    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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    27 days ago

    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.