- Great_Pretender
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I know for a fact that I am -blam!- at online tests for IQ and typing speed. I don't think well in stressful situations, and a TICK TICK TICK blaring in my ears as I'm trying to find 20% of 1005 or as I try to type a really long word as fast as I can and I get it right, except it says I'm wrong because I'm Australian and we put U's in cool places, IS A STRESSFUL SITUATION. I was just playing Mavis Beacon on my old Mac, and I observed that I work a hell of a lot better when I'm not sitting in a race car and when the computer doesn't beep loudly every time I make a mistake.
Frankly, I wouldn't have bothered with this site if I had to be subject to an IQ test before I got in.
Anyway, this idea is under the assumption that you need a high IQ to be a good member of a community. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know a -blam!-load of people with rather high IQs who suck social ass.
If anything, we should be testing social eptitude through some sort of faux MSN conversation with a bot. You can gauge someone's niceness on how they react to being asked random questions by a computer while they're trying to sign up to a website.
No, wait, that's a -blam!- idea too.
PS. 201, yes I know.
-TGP-
[Edited on 08.12.2007 2:14 AM PDT]