Brain and brain! What is brain!?
IQ Scores.
- Thread starter TedShatner10
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Yuh huh.
Sounds like the Diogenes Club. Which was named after me. Because my IQ is so high.
This thread is really weird because I was thinking about posting something similar yesterday when mowing the lawn at the exact time this was posted. Forget IQ scores, let's talk about esper ratings like in "Where No Man Has Gone Before." 
Anyways, my thoughts on it were more along the lines of if there is any value to be gained from an IQ score at all (mostly in laypeople knowing and comparing scores, that is). A friend of mine took a test recently (a real one administered by a professional, not one of those ridiculous internet ones) and kept recommending that I take one. He was doing it for some sort of mental health reasoning and was able to cover the cost of it (which I think was $100) with insurance, but I get the feeling that the real reason was more for purposes of ego stroking or validation.
A lot of IQ tests just strike me that way. Someone takes an online test and says, "Oh, 150, I must be pretty smart." They flaunt this number in people's faces when they've got nothing else to show for it like a reasonable degree, a job actually associated with intelligence, or maybe even accomplishments or rewards that would seem to back that up. And even if they might have some of those things, they might be totally socially inept Sheldon Cooper types. To think that a simple number is some sort of measure of a person's worth is silly. There's so much more to it than that.
I realize that's not the intended purpose of the tests, but that's just how some people treat it, like a dick measuring contest.
Anyways, my thoughts on it were more along the lines of if there is any value to be gained from an IQ score at all (mostly in laypeople knowing and comparing scores, that is). A friend of mine took a test recently (a real one administered by a professional, not one of those ridiculous internet ones) and kept recommending that I take one. He was doing it for some sort of mental health reasoning and was able to cover the cost of it (which I think was $100) with insurance, but I get the feeling that the real reason was more for purposes of ego stroking or validation.
A lot of IQ tests just strike me that way. Someone takes an online test and says, "Oh, 150, I must be pretty smart." They flaunt this number in people's faces when they've got nothing else to show for it like a reasonable degree, a job actually associated with intelligence, or maybe even accomplishments or rewards that would seem to back that up. And even if they might have some of those things, they might be totally socially inept Sheldon Cooper types. To think that a simple number is some sort of measure of a person's worth is silly. There's so much more to it than that.
I realize that's not the intended purpose of the tests, but that's just how some people treat it, like a dick measuring contest.
In-person tests, while imperfect, can at least be performed in a consistent way so you'll get reliable data (to the extent of what an IQ test measures.)
Online tests are dubious as hell and not worth anything.
Online tests are dubious as hell and not worth anything.
I took an IQ test once and it scored me at 151. When I took it again, it scored me at 127. I was afraid to take it a third time.
This !
I was a bit disappointed with my 143 but I'm not risking another go...
I've never taken an IQ test.
At least, I don't think I have.
At least, I don't think I have.
My IQ is thick, warm, and throbbing.
It's not the size that matters. It's how you use it.
Isn't a club for introverts a bit of an oxymoron? It's like the joke about the support group for agoraphobics. They had to disband because no one was showing up for meetings!
It's like they say: "That and a dollar gets you a ride on the bus."
The Diogenes Club from Sherlock Holmes was basically a social club for antisocial people.
So, did they have monthly meetings where they all ignored each other except for the occasional glance and disparaging 'hmph'?
Sounds like a great Monty Python sketch to me.
You get an idea about what the Diogenes Club is like in this clip
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpC-GsxXgw[/yt]
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpC-GsxXgw[/yt]
I love Holmes. "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues." 
Jeremy Brett was fantastic-- definitely tied with Basil Rathbone as the best Holmes.
Jeremy Brett was fantastic-- definitely tied with Basil Rathbone as the best Holmes.
Though I really like Basil Rathbone as Holmes as I find Nigel Bruce insufferable as Watson and therefore I much prefer the Jeremy Brett series to the Rathbone movies.
Dude. Just make shit up.
