re: IQ of 114 - 18 year old male (bad?)

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Have you ever left the internet?

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do i need to post pics from me going off at an EDM show friday night again?

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I took an actual test conducted by a psychiatrist using the scoring guidelines I laid out.

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Just for clarification, psychiatrists aren't really trained to give and/or interpret IQ tests. Typically only psychologists can give and interpret them, although some states allow technicians to give but not interpret them.

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My IQ was 130, which was the exact cutoff for genius level. She said that meant I could understand any concept humans can think up, but I likely would not develop something like the theory of relativity on my own, which would require close to the max IQ of 160.

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There really isn't a 160 max in IQ; it's just most tests set a floor (a lower bound) and ceiling (an upper bound) for practical purposes (e.g., not enough individuals to standardize at that even, volatility in the tails of the distribution, and diminishing specificity in predictions in the tails).

i remember parts of my test. the one big one was me forgetting where the sun rose/set and then begging her after to let me answer it when i figured it out

Why was that on an iq test?

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i was 5...

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Me too

man lots of shite on IQ tests that are stupid and involve memory or cultural knowledge

they should be all patterns and mathematical concepts

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i'm no fricking where near that number. i'd be lucky to get a 130 these days.

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Most broad cognitive processing areas level off then have a slight decline later in life. You're probably in that plateau age.

i spent a while doing whatever i could to be normal and be a normal person. only recently, and i mean like january 2013, have i tried stimulating my brain in an truly intellectual sense.

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man lots of shite on IQ tests that are stupid and involve memory or cultural knowledge

they should be all patterns and mathematical concepts

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Except the cognitive ability of Comprehension-Knowledge has one of the highest loadings on G along with Fluid Reasoning (i.e., problem-solving solving and reasoning) so it is important.

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Also everyone in this thread who hasn't read "outliers" by Malcolm gladwell definitely should

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Great book, but while his general theme is generally correct, he seemed to misrepresent or miss some phenomenon (e.g., regression to the mean in predictions).