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Why are there so many complete fucking idiots who say their IQ is 200 or something? Are they all taking some sort of ego boost internet IQ test that tells you you have a super high IQ if you provide your credit card information or is this just an extremely common lie?
 
Gangster Talk said:
New Why are there so many complete fucking idiots who say their IQ is 200 or something? Are they all taking some sort of ego boost internet IQ test that tells you you have a super high IQ if you provide your credit card information or is this just an extremely common lie?
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Because they're tards who think that having a high IQ means shit. They're the same people that brag about having a high GPA but never took the hardest professors and selected a piss easy major. (I'm looking at you communication)
 
Gangster Talk said:
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Why are there so many complete fucking idiots who say their IQ is 200 or something? Are they all taking some sort of ego boost internet IQ test that tells you you have a super high IQ if you provide your credit card information or is this just an extremely common lie?
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Depending on who you ask IQ tests don't really mean much. It's like getting a university degree or a high school diploma.

Please tell me any real world application for this besides autism:
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More dumb questions:
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Even more:
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None of these really would indicate that someone is intelligent, and its also based upon speed of answering. I get that in the hands of a qualified doctor they're probably quite useful for certain things, but taking a test online or even IRL and then saying you're mensa-level is dumb.

I think the only real use for them is legally establishing whether someone should be allowed to make decisions about their life. The other use seems to be when it comes to separating auditory/spatial/verbal/visual "intelligence" and being able to diagnose things like ADHD and studying things like autism.

Even having a high IQ and being a member of Mensa doesn't mean you're ever going to achieve anything in life. For a group with 134,000 members there aren't that many notable members:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans

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w0w nigga "magazines"... its almost like i could find all the same information using the internet

Even the mensa questions are mind numbingly stupid:

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I'm pretty sure that if I were going to be calculating how long "typists" (which is a job that largely hasn't even existed for at least a decade or more) I'd use a fucking spreadsheet and not waste time writing it out like a high school exam question.
 
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"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple." ~ Albert Einstein

I fucking hate tools like this who abuse the thesaurus in an effort to seem "smart." The purpose of language is communication. Being able to communicate your thoughts effectively is far more important than vomiting out a bunch of long, "complicated" words. Also, synonyms don’t actually mean the exact same thing as the original word, so his "large vocabulary" sentence doesn't make sense.
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If someone seriously tried to tell me they lost their "contacting device" I'd assume they were a special needs patient who lost their caretaker.

And their "phone" too, I guess.
 
Wow... do you guys know how dumb you look making this thread and THEN featuring it. This has been something anyone with a modicum of exposure to the internet has already experienced and digested. But you act like you're on some huge discovery here... *sneers at your mental feebleness*. Why would you read a thread on KF, when you could have gone on r/iamverysmart years ago and quickly summarized the concept via a compilation of examples of said concept... you truly are only one step above the autists you mock. I retreat to my weekly Rick and Morty binge marathon, to keep my mental synapses razor fucking sharp.

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neger psykolog said:
Even having a high IQ and being a member of Mensa doesn't mean you're ever going to achieve anything in life. For a group with 134,000 members there aren't that many notable members:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans
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Incidentally - and take this with a pinch of salt because I cannot remember the source for this little anecdote - I read about one person retelling their initiation into Mensa, basically doing the paid paper test at one of their gatherings and getting a high enough score to qualify as a member.

They soon discovered that the restricted Internet forums for these people harbored some of the most despicable cunts he'd ever seen. Reason being that when you take a bunch of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and put them into a restricted area where no dummies can enter, they start thinking in a very circular way that they are always right and everyone outside their peers is terribly wrong.

So the forums were naturally a hotspot for conspiracy theorists. That Mensa membership got discarded quite fast after that out of fear of becoming just as delusional.


It's certainly consistent with some folk saying that smart people have an easier time believing stupid shit because they're intelligent enough to find plausible arguments to themselves that they're right, no matter what the evidence says.
 
Whenever I think about high IQ scores and similar bullshit I remember a moment from my childhood. We were all sitting around and doing one of those Mensa IQ tests and my best friend's dad was watching and laughing at us. He was an incredibly crazy Nam vet and had a very low opinion of liberals in general.

For some reason, one of the kids challenged him to an IQ test.

He accepted and immediately gulped down what looked like an entire cup of whiskey.

Then he instantly answered every single question on the test and barely even thought about it.

We had all already scored some genius shit on the test, but he basically broke the test. We all fell silent and moved upstairs to smoke dope.
 
My favorites are qualified medical researchers and astrophysicists who can't understand something as basic as the communication of free-form art.
Seeing these snarky smartasses cry over how Munch and Pollock make no sense and loving them is an offense to humanity is always hilarious, and them cry over religious art and the existence of so many churches is even more. Science people who are allergic to art are my pet lolcow
 
AnOminous said:
Whenever I think about high IQ scores and similar bullshit I remember a moment from my childhood. We were all sitting around and doing one of those Mensa IQ tests and my best friend's dad was watching and laughing at us. He was an incredibly crazy Nam vet and had a very low opinion of liberals in general.

For some reason, one of the kids challenged him to an IQ test.

He accepted and immediately gulped down what looked like an entire cup of whiskey.

Then he instantly answered every single question on the test and barely even thought about it.

We had all already scored some genius shit on the test, but he basically broke the test. We all fell silent and moved upstairs to smoke dope.
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Dude was fucking woke.
 
AnOminous said:
Whenever I think about high IQ scores and similar bullshit I remember a moment from my childhood. We were all sitting around and doing one of those Mensa IQ tests and my best friend's dad was watching and laughing at us. He was an incredibly crazy Nam vet and had a very low opinion of liberals in general.

For some reason, one of the kids challenged him to an IQ test.

He accepted and immediately gulped down what looked like an entire cup of whiskey.

Then he instantly answered every single question on the test and barely even thought about it.

We had all already scored some genius shit on the test, but he basically broke the test. We all fell silent and moved upstairs to smoke dope.
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And then everyone stood up and clapped and gave him %100$
 
Anyone who constantly flaunts a high IQ either doesn't have one or has failed to use it in any meaningful way. Your high IQ means little if you spend all your time on the internet informing everyone of how inferior they are compared to you.
 
Clop said:
Incidentally - and take this with a pinch of salt because I cannot remember the source for this little anecdote - I read about one person retelling their initiation into Mensa, basically doing the paid paper test at one of their gatherings and getting a high enough score to qualify as a member.

They soon discovered that the restricted Internet forums for these people harbored some of the most despicable cunts he'd ever seen. Reason being that when you take a bunch of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and put them into a restricted area where no dummies can enter, they start thinking in a very circular way that they are always right and everyone outside their peers is terribly wrong.

So the forums were naturally a hotspot for conspiracy theorists. That Mensa membership got discarded quite fast after that out of fear of becoming just as delusional.


It's certainly consistent with some folk saying that smart people have an easier time believing stupid shit because they're intelligent enough to find plausible arguments to themselves that they're right, no matter what the evidence says.
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Most of the MENSA members always seem to be the bookworm types who excel in being able to recite shit that someone else wrote or to be super speedy at doing maths.

I'm sure it had more of a point before the internet, but its kind of pointless now (unless you watch Rick & Morty)
 
What is most interesting is our societies obsession with IQ when there are multiple types of intelligence.
In the psych field, we identify 9: spatial, naturalistic, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, interpersonal, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, and linguistic. You can even take a quiz to see which you are highest in.

Despite all of these intelligences, psychologists actually consider emotional intelligence (a combination of inter/intrapersonal) to be one of the most important and difficult to fully master, not IQ, or mathematical intelligence.
On top of that, we truly only use IQ as a means to determine if you are developing correctly as you grow up. How much you can word vomit at me has no practical use in our society and I will still deem you an idiot in my paperwork.

The ultimate kicker is that the higher one intelligence is, the lower the others are based on the allocation of neurons, so all these twits bragging about their "high IQ," if they even have one, are most likely severely lacking in other, more important areas of intelligence.
 
Imma yell ya'll right now, people that have to brag about their high IQ and how much smarter they are than everyone around them are fuckin' retarded.
 
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