/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10003676]

what books may i read to get smarter?
iqtest.dk/

[Anonymous No.10003683]

11 IQ here, what is a book?

[Anonymous No.10003696]

>>10003676
Hello african fella. You lost?

[Anonymous No.10003698]

>>10003683
i may b a literal moran but i don't believe u

[Anonymous No.10003713]

>>10003676
this test is shorter but gave me this
http://test.mensa.no/
>tfw too smart for mensa and /lit/

[Anonymous No.10003757]

>>10003696
??i'm Argentinean

[Anonymous No.10003761]

>>10003713
That means ure a real doo doo head but IQ doesnt go negative yet lmoa

[Anonymous No.10003765]

>>10003757
That's what he said

[Anonymous No.10003862]

>>10003713
Iq was ~140 in my teens, now 123.. fk

[Anonymous No.10003864]

>>10003862
How do i increase my iQ>? I want to be average

[Anonymous No.10003900]

>>10003864
You can't but you can follow my footsteps and destroy it even further by degeneracy

[Anonymous No.10003908]

>>10003900
Maybe it's like a loop. If your iq gets so low it turns over into 200.

[Anonymous No.10003914]

>>10003862

you decreased your autism, good job

[Anonymous No.10003924]

>>10003676
Intelligence is genetic.

[Anonymous No.10003932]

>>10003924
all of it?

[Anonymous No.10003940]

Read all about ENERGY ...

I mean the physics kind, you dummy.

[Anonymous No.10004009]

the wallpaper on that website looks like a bunch of bear assholes

[Anonymous No.10004014]

>>10003908
iq underflow

[Anonymous No.10004090]

>>10003862
Same here, dropped from 148 to 125. I think speed was the reason why though. I didn't even come close to finishing the test because I spent too much time going through different permutations to confirm my answers. When I was a kid I would just throw caution to the wind while taking tests and live with the occasional dumb mistake which probably games these timed IQ tests better than making sure every answer is correct.

[Anonymous No.10004143]

tfw 120

I didn't finish it though and I'm p drunk soooo

I'm frankly a bit scared to take it sober, because if I don't do so well, i won't be able to say that i might do better sober.

[Anonymous No.10004260]

Any thoughts on how one should go about fulfilling their intellectual destiny based on IQ ranges? Most of us here have intellectual interests of some sort, but what can we reasonable expect to achieve with IQs in that superior, but not very superior, range of 120-130 (going off the other posts in this thread).

[Anonymous No.10004266]

>>10003713
It's probably on the low side of the spectrum buddy

[Anonymous No.10004271]

>>10004260
if you didn't get into a top ten unergrad it's basically over for you ever accomplishing anything of note due to the american education caste system, but you can still get a upper five figures job and get a condo in the hip section of town if you try hard

[Anonymous No.10004289]

>>10003676
>tfw you are 5 points short of entering mensa

They are all just elitist pseuds... right? RIGHT?

[Anonymous No.10004314]

>>10004271
I was strictly wondering about IQ, but why would undergraduate education be that important anway? I seriously doubt you could adequately explain how America's educational system resembles a caste, but feel free to try.

[Anonymous No.10004322]

>>10004314
can you name anyone who did anything good who didn't go to stanford, harvard, yale, princeton or upenn?

[Anonymous No.10004333]

>>10004322
Plenty of people

[Anonymous No.10004339]

>>10004314
the thing that really highlighted this point for me is the book "hard thing about hard things" there is a point when they, a group of jewish stanford grads, are searching to hire a sales exec for their startup and they are doing reference checks on this gentile from utah who went to a barely top 50 school, and people were calling them up randomly saying "under no circumstances hire this guy!" and they almost didn't but then someone said "if he had gone to a strong school he wouldnt be a sales exec for us, he'd be ceo of ibm" and then i realized, if you're not from an elite school you better be 10 times better than every jewish guy from stanford and yale, and quite frankly, good luck with that because those dudes are legit good

[Anonymous No.10004349]

>>10004339
What about Faulkner, Hemingway, Frank Herbert? They didn't even graduate.

[Anonymous No.10004356]

>>10003676
what the fuck is that background image sage

[Anonymous No.10004358]

>>10004349
faulkner and hemingways careers were started before ww2, and herbert just writes genre fic

[Anonymous No.10004374]

>>10004358
But they didn't need top 10 universities to accomplish things of note. That's the point I'm making.

[Anonymous No.10004381]

>>10004339
What if you're a gentile but go to a school filled to the brim with Jews (like Penn)?

[Anonymous No.10004383]

>>10004260
Achievement and intellectual goals are value based. The thing which, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing worth possessing is well within the range of my 123iq friend.

[Anonymous No.10004387]

Is anyone else about shit at unscrambling words? Are those supposed to be more difficult or am I lacking in some area of intelligence?

[Anonymous No.10004389]

>>10004381
if you have an ambiguous hebrew name like "elon" you could pull it off, of if your daughter marries a jewish magnate

[Anonymous No.10004392]

>>10004383
That thing being what? The ability to construct a coherent value system?

[Anonymous No.10004393]

>>10004387
real iq tests don't have that

[Anonymous No.10004396]

>>10004389
I'm not going to do that.

[Anonymous No.10004401]

>>10004393
Mensa?

[Anonymous No.10004402]

literally any book, just keep reading

[Anonymous No.10004403]

>>10004401
mensa is fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.10004408]

>>10004403
I ask because they're cheap compared to professionally-administered IQ tests.

[Anonymous No.10004416]

>>10004408
dude who cares, the only reason to take an iq test is to get certified retarded so u can get free gibbs and/or avoid the death penalty, there's not value in the upper end

[Anonymous No.10004417]

I'd rather be dumb with a big dick than smart with a tiny pecker

[Anonymous No.10004420]

>>10004417
yea but u never get laid so who cares

[Anonymous No.10004424]

>>10004392
Fk bitches, write a book about it for my fellow mediocre iqers and get money braa

[Anonymous No.10004428]

>>10004424
no one is gonna publish a book by a straight white male from a mediocre school

[Anonymous No.10004439]

>>10004416
I'm assuming that with this knowledge I could make a more suitable career choice.

[Anonymous No.10004440]

>>10004439
am i being memed or is this guy really this retarded lol

[Anonymous No.10004456]

>>10004428
It's gonna be edgy as fk, dominatrix ritual type shit with occult gnostic rape fastasy vibes. Baptism by humiliation, complete ego depletion and entrapment into the bosom of the demiurge with soma induced logos unification. Sold at your local spencers

[Anonymous No.10004489]

>>10003676
'sup brainlets
>also that feel when wicked smaht but not smart enough for mensa

[Anonymous No.10004497]

>>10004289
i think either way knowing your IQ might be detrimental to your psyche. if low you feel like shit and if high you build yourself up like some kind of shit don't stink cunt. knowing your IQ will only change the way you look at yourself, it doesn't really help you in any meaningful way.

[Anonymous No.10004523]

>>10004489
>Only 130

Virtually braindead

[Anonymous No.10004527]

>>10004440
Who are you talking to?

[Anonymous No.10004529]

>>10004527
the guy who wants to pick his career based on his iq score

[Anonymous No.10004546]

>>10004529
(An IQ could tell us for sure if I am retarded, by the way)
>70 IQ negroids should become doctors
>160 IQ jews should become cashiers

[Anonymous No.10004553]

>>10004523
kek motherfucker it's been a long day I will take it again tomorrow and wreck u

[Anonymous No.10004680]

>>10004090
>>10003914
>>10003862
Do you guys even understand what IQ stands for?

Listen up I'm gonna blow your minds here, it stands for Intelligence Quotient meaning that of you get older and don't improve at the test but stay the same, your IQ diminishes

This is why IQ is good at what it's designed for: testing intelligence development of children. However it's usless when it comes to grown adults, who for some reason still believe it to be valid.

I don't know if these online IQ tests ask for your age but either way they're just crap.

[Anonymous No.10004684]

>>10004680
holy shit someone with a clue

[Anonymous No.10004688]

>>10004260

>Any thoughts on how one should go about fulfilling their intellectual destiny based on IQ ranges?

Any STEM careers where you are a sort of worker, but not a groundbreaking theorist, should be able to be done by someone around two SDs, e.g. a career in engineering, but not someone who is going to be working on cutting edge theory in math.

Here is a researcher in intelligence talking about the different parts of IQ spectrum and what they are capable of in society (in a popular, non-resourced blog post that doesn't get bogged down in technicalities like some of his other posts): https://web.archive.org/web/20160208155242/http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-7-tribes-of-intellect.html

[Anonymous No.10004698]

>>10004688
Reminder Feynman didn't have an exceptional IQ score

[Anonymous No.10004708]

>>10004698

Search around the internet. This Feynman story is not correct, because the tests used were old ratio IQ tests sometime in the 1920s or 1930s. They weren't good measurements of g.

[Anonymous No.10004762]

Mathematics

[Anonymous No.10004790]

>>10004708
The only reason they changed the test methods is because they realised they weren't adapted to measure intelligence past puberty, so they made the new tests as a money grab for people to wank over an arbitrary number
There's a reason Feynman was so critical of IQ tests, psychometrics is a pseudo science

[Anonymous No.10004836]

>>10004680
You're not making any sense, you know that right?

[Anonymous No.10004849]

>>10004836
The way IQ was originally created was to measure the degree of mental retardation of children
If a 10 year old had the mental age of a 9 year old, his IQ would be 90, hence intelligence quotient.

Assuming the test continues this principle into adulthood, if you score 100 IQ at age 20 but do exactly the same throughout you entire life , your IQ will be lower and lower the older you get since the test expects you to improve.
The principle is simple but I don't know how many IQ still use it (since it's inherently flawed at older ages for obvious reasons), but none of them seem to disclose exactly how they attribute IQ scores to individuals which is why they should be disregarded as the unscientific pieces of crap they are

[Anonymous No.10004858]

>>10004849
As far as I am aware this definition of IQ has not been used for a long time.

[Anonymous No.10004859]

>>10004849
So at age 20, average IQ is 200.

[Anonymous No.10004869]

>>10004859
No, the average IQ is always 100 (meaning your mental age=your real age)
If you are 20 years old with 200 IQ this means your mental age is 40, since the test assumes people always increase in intelligence

Again, modern tests don't indicate what principles they use, but the one I'm explaining was the original one and the meaning behind the term IQ

[Anonymous No.10004890]

WOOOOOOOOW I JUST GOT 100 AFTER 60%

[Anonymous No.10005000]

>>10003713
for some reason I doubt the accuracy of this

[Anonymous No.10005100]

>>10005000
115 here, is there a way to train it?

[Anonymous No.10005112]

>>10005100
You missed your chance if you are 23+

[Anonymous No.10005131]

>133 IQ
feels good

[Anonymous No.10005179]

>>10005112
I can confirm this is false. You can absolutely make huge changes to your mental pattern recognition abilities past 25.

[Anonymous No.10005186]

>>10003713
some of those patterns were a bit hard, but it was mostly counting, rotating and flipping

[Anonymous No.10005353]

>>10005112
>>10005179
What if I'm like 19
I took this last night drunk and got 120 which is frankly not high enough for a person whose identity is as staked in his own intelligence as my own
I'd like to do everything I possibly can to boost it
I probably ought start reading more and teaching myself the math i fucked about and skimmed over in highschool ey

[Anonymous No.10005364]

>>10005353
If you were smart enough you'd realise it's just a number that an online site gives you

[Anonymous No.10005766]

>>10005353
You can still do some catch up as your brain is not fully developed.

>>10005179
In your crystalized IQ but your liquid IQ will stall and start to deteriorate once you hit 23-25

[Anonymous No.10006005]

Tfw when too smart. The 39th and 37th were difficult.

The Brother Karamazov is one of my favourite books, It really make me think.

[Anonymous No.10006010]

[Anonymous No.10006029]

>>10003676
what is 'smart'? "functional" knowledge?

study
>algebra
>logic
>politics
>economy
>social engineering
>new languages
>socio-economic-geo-politics worldwide
>rhetoric
>choose an area and train specific technical skills of this area, for instance IT -> programming, cybersec, databases, etc)

now, if by smart = high IQ in some not-reliable tests?

study
>problems used in IQ tests (lol)
>math problems

[Anonymous No.10006114]

>tfw tests say you have a high IQ, but everything you say turns into an unintelligible mess where you can barely keep your thoughts focused for more than two sentences

[Anonymous No.10006252]

>>10003676
try
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

it's actually really boring, but it's the only book I can come up with

[Anonymous No.10006310]

>>10006114
froggy

[Anonymous No.10006339]

books won't improve your fluid intelligence, but drugs(nootropics), exercise, and maybe other stuff can. By how much, is debatable.

[Anonymous No.10006350]

>>10004790
feynman scored 127, that's literally better than 99% of normies who use him as an example that IQ is somehow not valid, despite IQ and psychometrics being the only realistic recourse if we must choose a standardized test. of course its not perfect, but life is hard, yadayadayada, unless somebody else can propose a more impartial and statistically valid method, people need to stop talking. there are culturally fair tests as well. Feynman also scored insanely high on the GRE(highest in history iirc), he's not some retard who 'just worked hard'

[Anonymous No.10006352]

>>10006339
I bench 140kg+ and run 3200meters in 12 minutes at -37 celsius and I can tell you I'm dim as fuck

[Anonymous No.10006357]

>>10006352
that's anecdotal, but grats on your stats bro

scientific evidence says that a fit brain comes along with a fit body

[Anonymous No.10006369]

>>10006357
I wish. Only thing I want to be is smart and I can't achieve it.

[Anonymous No.10006547]

>>10006350
Nobody is denying Feynman was a genius
I used him as an example because the IQ test clearly did not consider him a genius seeing as how half the people in this thread scored better than him

IQ is a fucking retarded test and the problem stems from the fact that it attempts to measure something it can't even accurately define

[Anonymous No.10006590]

>tfw to intelligent to take an online iq test

[Anonymous No.10006627]

Only 125 for me.

[Anonymous No.10006697]

>>10006590
beautiful painting anon, did you masterpaint it?

[Anonymous No.10007069]

>>10006697
yes I did! Save it, it's all yours my friend :)