Easy. Someone had stapled it to a chicken.
Smoking and reading that sentence resulted mostly in choking.
Do you know your IQ?
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Smoking and reading that sentence resulted mostly in choking.
Well let me look again at my question from above.
The tester is (unconsciously) expecting us to see root vegetables before we see vowels. So that cabbage becomes the accepted answer.
But why should root vegetables take precedence over vowels when selecting an odd-one-out property?
Let me propose this as an answer:
Root vegetables are a greater life-or-death factor for a hunter-gatherer, than vowels are.
So is it our primitive instinct that's being tested in the core of this question?, not the quality of our higher thinking?
So in declaring the root vegetables interpretation as leading to the correct answer, the tester is projecting a hunter-gatherer mentality onto us. And inadvertently, that is what is being tested for.
The tester is (unconsciously) expecting us to see root vegetables before we see vowels. So that cabbage becomes the accepted answer.
But why should root vegetables take precedence over vowels when selecting an odd-one-out property?
Let me propose this as an answer:
Root vegetables are a greater life-or-death factor for a hunter-gatherer, than vowels are.
So is it our primitive instinct that's being tested in the core of this question?, not the quality of our higher thinking?
So in declaring the root vegetables interpretation as leading to the correct answer, the tester is projecting a hunter-gatherer mentality onto us. And inadvertently, that is what is being tested for.
Yeah you're right. Well noticed
(pretends that I haven't already mentioned the 'o')
K'riq Sa
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see, that is why you don't do well at these things....
now insert tab b into slot m, and then insert hook 3 into the obvious receptacle....
there finished...
k'riq the unreintellagable
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now insert tab b into slot m, and then insert hook 3 into the obvious receptacle....
there finished...
k'riq the unreintellagable
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The real test is how many times you raise your hand to point out the flawed questions like this one. You get 10 points added for each time and 5 points off for each flawed question you don't ask about. We're just supposed to think it's all about logic and reasoning.
I am an atypical Trekkie. I am not a genius. (Funny that I'm running this place. I'm not sure what that says. ) I don't belong to MENSA and I doubt they'd ask me.
When they tested back in the day, our school did stanines, not IQ, and 9 was the highest stanine. I pretty much scored 8s, with a few 9s (mostly in reading/language.) This was at age 15, I think.
I think I placed in the 88th percentile somewhere along the way, probably in middle school.
Having said that, I graduated 3.6 out of 4.0 in high school, which would have been overachieving for my IQ. Why 3.6? That was highest honors. I wanted to sit with the smart kids. I knew what I needed to get there. I did it.
Oddly enough, when we (my family) all took an online IQ test, I beat all four family members. In spite of the fact 3 of the four are in the 92nd, 96th and 99th percentile IQ-wise. The other, my husband, is probably in the high 90s, if not the 99th.
If I had to guess, I'd guess my IQ to be in the 120s. Smart, but not brilliant. Sometimes I get discouraged that I'm not smarter, but I look at it this way, If I am around the 90th percentile, yeah, 10% are smarter than I am. But I'm smarter than 89%!
Not being as smart as those I hung around had advantages. It made me strive to do better.
) I don't belong to MENSA and I doubt they'd ask me.When they tested back in the day, our school did stanines, not IQ, and 9 was the highest stanine. I pretty much scored 8s, with a few 9s (mostly in reading/language.) This was at age 15, I think.
I think I placed in the 88th percentile somewhere along the way, probably in middle school.
Having said that, I graduated 3.6 out of 4.0 in high school, which would have been overachieving for my IQ. Why 3.6? That was highest honors. I wanted to sit with the smart kids. I knew what I needed to get there. I did it.
Oddly enough, when we (my family) all took an online IQ test, I beat all four family members. In spite of the fact 3 of the four are in the 92nd, 96th and 99th percentile IQ-wise. The other, my husband, is probably in the high 90s, if not the 99th.
If I had to guess, I'd guess my IQ to be in the 120s. Smart, but not brilliant. Sometimes I get discouraged that I'm not smarter, but I look at it this way, If I am around the 90th percentile, yeah, 10% are smarter than I am. But I'm smarter than 89%!
Not being as smart as those I hung around had advantages. It made me strive to do better.
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Elmo Dukat
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^I think 90% of being smart rather than simply neurologically gifted is the work you put acquiring as much knowledge as possible (which includes non-academic knowledge like being a good parent/spouse, being a leader or a good cooperator, etc). Hard work, and a good work ethic, gets you farther than raw genetic talents, in my humble opinion.
I've seen many very gifted individuals degenerate (not that this is true for all genetically gifted people).
I've seen many very gifted individuals degenerate (not that this is true for all genetically gifted people).
It has also led you not to lie through your teeth on message boards
On a normally distributed community the size of TrekBBS, we should have a statistical maximum of just 10 people with IQs in excess of 150. Allowing for the skew of a science fiction board on the internet, we'll generously double that.
Our 184 IQ upthread would probably be pleased to know his score is a 1 in 18 million rarity. The 200+ people are statistical impossibilities, with a rarity greater than 1 in the population of the world.
Our 184 IQ upthread would probably be pleased to know his score is a 1 in 18 million rarity. The 200+ people are statistical impossibilities, with a rarity greater than 1 in the population of the world.
There are different calibrations of IQ: standard deviation = 15 vs 25. Both are frequently used. So 184 on the 25sd scale is just 150 on the 15sd scale. People don't always know which one is being used.
The 2% mensa bracket is 130+ on the 15sd scale or 150+ on the 25sd scale.
But I expect some people will have massaged the figures.
It has also led you not to lie through your teeth on message boards
I'm not ashamed of my intelligence. I honestly don't know my IQ, I'm guessing it's in the 120s, but it could be higher or lower. I did know the 88th percentile figure from age 13, and that's it.
Besides, I am what I am. I'm not beautiful, I'm not a genius, I'm not young. I'm also not bothered by any of this. I'm happy, content and for most of the time, my life is good. I have a good family, three great kids who have grown up to be lovely adults and my woes are few compared to what many experience.
Why would I feel the need to lie and puff myself up? People on this board either like me or don't. If they do, it's because we've connected in a positive way. If they don't, I could have a 200 IQ and it wouldn't impress my detractors.
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Why would I feel the need to lie and puff myself up? People on this board either like me or don't. If they do, it's because we've connected in a positive way. If they don't, I could have a 200 IQ and it wouldn't impress my detractors.
Because it would kindle mortal fear in the hearts of your enemies.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
I don't know my IQ. I grew up in a family of intelligent people and while I'm not entirely stupid, I don't really match up to their levels, either. I never really wanted a number for comparison.
