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I have had many arguments/discussions with friends,teachers,parents and other adults about genius level I.Q. I read it is about 135 and up, while some people say that is only "gifted" level and genius is like 160 or something. My I.Q. is 139, and I was wondering if any one might know theirs OR have an answer to this predicament.

  • 11.23.2004 10:25 AM PDT
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I think the concept of I.Q. is rather silly. It takes work for someone to be really smart, and basing someone's intelligence off of a test is just stupid. Not everyone does well on tests, even if they are very intelligent.

  • 11.23.2004 10:38 AM PDT
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IQ is a daft concept yes, not actually proving anything (middle class people do better, and thats due to education not due to natural ability). Doesnt stop me boasting about my iq or around 120 though. Way im higher than average, though im middle class so it means nought)

  • 11.23.2004 10:46 AM PDT
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well, some one I know said that say a "grease monkey" had to fix a car, your car, that you knew nothing about. They are smarter in the respect that they can fix cars and know all about engines, spark plugs etc. whereas you don't. I can respect that. But I do beleive that someone with an I.Q. of say 200 can build a rocket, even if a man with an I.Q. of 90 studied all about it and still can't build one. There are some timed I.Q. tests, and some you can take all the time in the world, so I see no reason to be nervous on those.

  • 11.23.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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So IQ is supposed to be a measurement of potential intelligence? How exactly do you test that? I've been told repeatedly that my IQ is probably very high, but I have never seen any reason to believe that really means anything.

  • 11.23.2004 10:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Socialist
IQ is a daft concept yes, not actually proving anything (middle class people do better, and thats due to education not due to natural ability). Doesnt stop me boasting about my iq or around 120 though. Way im higher than average, though im middle class so it means nought)

My I.Q. is higher than average, but I'm still middle class. I have some talents, mostly like music. But I still learn things, I am still getting educated. I have a natural ability, and a good education. That doesn't mean I'm better then most people. And I know plenty of "Middle Class" people who have many natural talents.

  • 11.23.2004 10:52 AM PDT
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Im not saying middle class people cant have natural talents, im saying that iq doesnt measure the natural ability it poports to measure. It measures attainment not natural aptitude, which people with better educations do better at, which means it favours middle class people. Middle class paople have natural abilities like veryone, but not more than everyone else, which is what iq tests generally seem to show.

  • 11.23.2004 10:55 AM PDT
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My I.Q. is 240!

  • 11.23.2004 11:09 AM PDT
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I never do well in IQ tests because my memory is terrible.

However, I think it's plainly clear that I have a high level of intelligence, which no such tests can reflect.

  • 11.23.2004 11:15 AM PDT
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Greetings, comrades,

I must add my tuppen'orth to this minor debate. We all have our abilities. We are all able, to a greater or lesser extent, to exercise our intellects. However, it is impossible at the moment to accurately measure intelligence. The original IQ test was designed to prop up the theory of eugenics, and made non-whites come out with lower scores. Deliberately. However, it is not beyond reason to assume that at some point in the future we will be able to measure intelligence. But even when we can, it doesn't matter anyway. We are all human, we are all mere mortals. 'From each according to his/her abilities, to each according to her/his needs' seems to sum it up for me. Essentially, IQ is meaningless.

Your comrade,

Captain Swing.

  • 11.23.2004 11:26 AM PDT
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well, I have been hearing the same things form just about everyone. It's amazing. I would have never guessed that what the C'apn said could be true. I ask if any one knows their I.Q. or the level for being declared a genius.

  • 11.23.2004 11:34 AM PDT
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the scores you get from the iq test don't tell you how smart you are it tells you how you stake up against others.

ex. If every one get every question on the test right then there iq would be 100 (the average)

so its not saying your smart, its saying that there are a hole lot of dumb asses out there that make you look good

  • 11.23.2004 12:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Metal Nutz

so its not saying your smart, its saying that there are a hole lot of dumb asses out there that make you look good


Thats what being smart is.

I've taken Five IQ tests, and my scores have varied from 149 to 117.


And I think that cheeze is good.

  • 11.23.2004 12:29 PM PDT
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wow. You speak the truth yo hommy. If every one got every question right, then the world would be full of geniuses, not an average I.Q. population.

  • 11.23.2004 12:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: triggerhapysyco


And I think that cheeze is good.

What a Kwinky-Dink. So do I

  • 11.23.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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My IQ is 135...took one...I could probably do damn good in school if I didn't have ADHD, therefore if anybody mentions anything to do with Halo, I'll be thinking about that all day...plus I'm a high school dropout, doubt there are many genius dropouts eh? :P

  • 11.23.2004 1:32 PM PDT
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IQ tests are supposed to determine your intelligence quotient. they aren't supposed to be a measure of your education/aquired information, but rather a measure of your ability to aquire new information. of course, we all have our aptitudes, but the idea here is that those with higher IQs should have a broader range of aptitudes due to the fact that they should have a generally easier time learning different things.

if i remember correctly, the score for genius is 140+, but it's been a long time, so i'm not sure.

last i heard--as of a year ago or so--the person believed to have the highest IQ is a bouncer in New York. he has some other side job, but at the time i read about him, he was saying he had no desire to get into research work or anything else. he cooked up some theory while he was checking IDs and it wound up getting published and causing a little bit of a stir in the physics community. supposedly he's around 205...

there were chinese twins who were also supposed to be around 202 at one point, haven't heard anything about them for a few years...

...and there was a freakish instance where some missionaries in africa stumbled onto a non-english speaking african man who had found a math textbook near the site of a plane crash and from a geometry level book written in a language he didn't understand had pieced together enough that at the time they found him, he had reached the same levels of mastery over the subject of mathematics as the foremost thinkers in the world. think Goodwill Hunting, except that unlike Matt Damon in the movie, this dude literally put it together from a book written in a language he didn't understand. at all. he lived in a mud hut. that is mind blowing. this was a long time ago, i can't remember how long exactly--but i believe 20+ years ago, probably closer to 40. something i read about a long time ago and have forgotten some of the details of.


lots of confusion about the subject of IQs...i have a boss who swears up and down he's over 200, but the guy is a total moron. the subject came up when he was mentioning that my brother (Bgrngod on XBL, btw) was pretty bright and asked what i thought his IQ was. i told him in all honesty that i would peg Kyle (my brother) around a 135-140 if i had to take a guess and he laughed and said that was average and that he himself was over 200. this kind of thing is why this subject often turns into something silly.

some marks, and again these are going off of old memory:

35 or below = retardation...

35-60 approx range for being 'challenged' with varied degrees of severity

65-115 would be a broad range of functional folks

115+ would be above average...

130+ would be gifted

160+ would be probably the classical definition of 'genius', meaning extremely gifted and prodigious.

200+ would be super genius and rare to such a degree that the number of folks at this level could probably be counted on one hand at any given time.

  • 11.23.2004 5:14 PM PDT