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Darzil
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eggy said:
In the general population, yes. Depends what company you keep. It's a lot higher among university students. Seemed pretty high at LRP events.
Wish I could find the 'Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think' Dilbert cartoon at this point.
I've never bothered to get my IQ checked - why would I think that a culturally biased test that only looks at a small % of what the brain can do is any decent guide to intelligence, or that it is worth knowing.
I'm also sure my IQ would be far higher in the middle of the evening than first thing in the morning when I've just woken up, so how come people have only one IQ number ?
I'm used to high IQ people being around. At one stage I felt decidedly unusual amoung my circle of friends, lacking a PhD as I do.
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Hey there. This is my first post here in FH but i visited the forum many times for peeks and infos that i needed.
Hope the servers will be back soon. Gotta keep workin on it
Hope the servers will be back soon. Gotta keep workin on it
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Darzil said:
Yes, but common sense is lower to compensate
In the general population, yes. Depends what company you keep
wow u sound like my uncle, he is an i have a PHD so all you lower beings can remove yourselves from my presence kind of guy.
also the reason IQ doesnt seem to mean anything is because it has nothing to do with knowledge, someone who is at university for example or someone who has a PHD means absolutly nothing in relation to their IQ
your IQ is your ability to understand what you are seing and how well and fast you can learn and how you perceive things which gives an idea of how well your brain is working..
someone with very low IQ can get a PHD, someone with a very high IQ can fail their GCSE's it doesnt measure how much you know at all.
also, university students have an average IQ a lot lower than you would expect, and binmen have much higher IQ than you would expect
university students just seem to have a higher IQ because they a: act intellegent, and b: have learned a lot, neither of which rely on or give any indication of their IQ
wow u sound like my uncle, he is an i have a PHD so all you lower beings can remove yourselves from my presence kind of guy.
also the reason IQ doesnt seem to mean anything is because it has nothing to do with knowledge, someone who is at university for example or someone who has a PHD means absolutly nothing in relation to their IQ
your IQ is your ability to understand what you are seing and how well and fast you can learn and how you perceive things which gives an idea of how well your brain is working..
someone with very low IQ can get a PHD, someone with a very high IQ can fail their GCSE's it doesnt measure how much you know at all.
also, university students have an average IQ a lot lower than you would expect, and binmen have much higher IQ than you would expect
university students just seem to have a higher IQ because they a: act intellegent, and b: have learned a lot, neither of which rely on or give any indication of their IQ
"Who took their Armsman out of his closet ? Their sole presence was triggering the closing of the zone on which they were trying to appear."
might have been? seems to say it was
i think they were actually just being funny, all they really said was it was an old character from many expansions past, it prolly wasnt actually an armsman
might have been? seems to say it was
i think they were actually just being funny, all they really said was it was an old character from many expansions past, it prolly wasnt actually an armsman
Aeris said:booked time off work yesterday so i could be home for opening of server (im working 2-10 shift this week) and this happens :O now it will prbably be up for when i go back to work
im sooo gonna slap that armsman ! with a bright yellow rubber glove ! oh yes, he will know he was slapped by me !
actually .. if you look carefully at all the patch days in europe since launch of daoc you will see that taking the next day off is probably one of the most frustrating thing to do
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i had 165 IQ after i did the same test 3 times
actual IQ i get in those online tests is about 135, prolly exagerrated. but u gotta tihnk 100 avg, all those chavs (about 50% of pop) have iq of 60 so the other 1/2 need to balance the avg to 100 so the other 1/2 are 130-140 iq
actual IQ i get in those online tests is about 135, prolly exagerrated. but u gotta tihnk 100 avg, all those chavs (about 50% of pop) have iq of 60 so the other 1/2 need to balance the avg to 100 so the other 1/2 are 130-140 iq
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XenX said:
IQ is a measure of reasoning ability of a certain type. The tests I've seen have been similar to the 'non-verbal reasoning' tests they used to throw around at school. If you have the sort of brain that's 'clever' at spacial problem solving, you'll excel at them. If you have to sort of brain that's 'clever' at linguistics, it won't help.
My wife is a faster learner generally than me, and is cleverer in a real world situation. I probably would score higher on an IQ test, cos it's the sort of test that I'm good at.
What does that mean in practice - nothing significant.
I find the whole concept of IQ as a measure of worth hilarious !
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and while you're all chatting away you didn't notice Glastonbury, Excalibur/Prydwen and a bunch of other servers come up
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Yay! Thanx for the info once more...
Here i go!
Here i go!
who ever said intellegence was a measure of worth?
and linguistics is a part of an IQ test as well as maths general knowledge perception etc..
it isnt designed to be a measure of who is better than who, it is designed to show intellegence, as i said before intellegence and knowledge are 2 very different things, which you dont seem to understand which is why you dont think IQ actually means anything of worth,
it does mean something it just doesnt mean what you think its supposed to mean, but anyway i thought this conversation was over ages ago?
"and is cleverer in a real " <<-- linguistics, your wife would score higher
and linguistics is a part of an IQ test as well as maths general knowledge perception etc..
it isnt designed to be a measure of who is better than who, it is designed to show intellegence, as i said before intellegence and knowledge are 2 very different things, which you dont seem to understand which is why you dont think IQ actually means anything of worth,
it does mean something it just doesnt mean what you think its supposed to mean, but anyway i thought this conversation was over ages ago?
"and is cleverer in a real " <<-- linguistics, your wife would score higher
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XenX said:
If these things are included, they make the test culturally biased. These sort of tests are the ones 'proved' that various peoples of the world have lower intelligence than 'us'. ie they are crap measures.
What does it mean, then ?
I think it is a measure of something, but not anything worthwhile, except maybe for bragging rights.
If I see IQ mentioned on a CV (and I have), I tend to just think that that person doesn't know what is relevant to an employer.
Maybe I'm wrong, though. What does it mean ?
Darzil
ps. Thanks for the hard work GOA. See you in 5 hours when I'm not stuck in work.
