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[Anonymous No.19902127]

>though i was intelligent all my life
>take mensa test
>score 97
>tested at 125 when i was 6

Did my mom lied to me?
Also book about thinking you are intelligent when you are not?

I think i'll just drop the greek since i am probably too dumb to understand them

I am unironically depressed from those results as i recall the numerous time i thought someone was dumb or when i was struggling with algorithms as a developper and thought that was because i was off my adhd meds, my whole life has been a lie, unironically contemplating suicide, i feel ashamed

[Anonymous No.19902138]

>>19902127
I can score 150+ in IQ tests by preparing for them.
what's the point of these tests if can do this?

[Anonymous No.19902140]

Being stuck gold 4 on LoL for 7 years should have given me a hint but no i was coping that it was because i had 0 mental

[Anonymous No.19902151]

>>19902127
listen, anon. No intelligence can be proven by a standardized test. It is an abstract thing. Don't beat yourself up over it.

[Anonymous No.19902157]

>>19902138
How do you prepare for one tho?
>https://test.mensa.no/
This is the one i took btw

[Anonymous No.19902166]

I could easily get 140 off a free brain training app.

[Anonymous No.19902207]

>>19902151
this anon

Not to mention the online tests are so inaccurate. Iq tests in person take 90+ mins, and the results differ depending on what test you take.

They might be good general indicators, but don't base anything of of them.

[Anonymous No.19902218]

>>19902127
Just so you know, I took mensa's online test once and it told me I didn't score high enough to become a member, and then I took the actual test at a mensa facility and they accepted me because I was in the 99th percentile. So their online tests apparently aren't trustworthy.

[Anonymous No.19902234]

>>19902218
>>19902151
This sound like cope.
Book about this subject?

[Anonymous No.19902244]

>>19902234
>cope
I don't need to cope, I literally got into mensa. I'm still a fucking dumbass, so I generally disregard IQ tests.

[Anonymous No.19902262]

>>19902127
IQ results only become stable around late adolescence. Some children really develop faster, which doesn't mean they will still be the 1% percentile in adulthood.

[Anonymous No.19902264]

I scored high enough on some IQ test to get into the gifted program and I think that was the last time I was concerned with IQ, even though I’m pretty sure I had no idea what was actually happening at the time.

Does a high score mean you’ll apply yourself more? Does a low score mean you’ll be depressed and fated to mediocrity? I fail to understand any utility in measuring IQ unless it opens more opportunities to you. Being able to join a high IQ society so I can mingle with people who put energy into that measure is wholly uninteresting to me. I would much rather spend my time with people that may score low on a test but are more interested in things I wish to form a community around (sports, games, books, etc).

[Anonymous No.19902277]

>>19902218
The one i took when i was 6 was with an actual psychologist prior to my adhd diagnostic, i'll probably take one at the mensa facility just to be sure, also does taking massive amount of codeine when i was 16 fuck my brain up?

[Anonymous No.19902296]

>>19902277
>does taking massive amount of codeine when i was 16 fuck my brain up?
Probably a bit, yeah

[Anonymous No.19902322]

>>19902127
congratulations OP you have an average IQ.
What you have to ask yourself is why does being "average" attack your core sense of self so stongly? Is it because you've built a false self around yourself, in which IQ seems to have been the pillar? Has perhaps your shame and fear of your own nature caused you to create a shiboleth, and automaton personality, and without it you have nothing?

[Anonymous No.19902328]

>>19902264
Scoring low mean i'll probably stop pursuing intellectual things like philosophy and stop trying to be a better developper and stick to making shitty website

[Anonymous No.19902336]

>>19902322
Yes to all your questions

[Anonymous No.19902337]

>>19902328
many high IQ people have wasted their lives, and many average IQ people have done great things. You are the master of your own fate.

[Anonymous No.19902361]

>>19902328
You don’t need a test to tell you that. If you were pursuing philosophy on some kind of contingency of you being special, it’s probably for the best that you stopped anyways.

Why are you such a slave to externality? Why can’t you make your own decisions? IQ will neither help nor hurt you in answering these questions. Why does your sense of self-worth depend so heavily on some probability distribution in relation to strangers?

[Anonymous No.19902373]

>>19902328
it's not IQ that's stopping you from pursuing those things, but a fear of failure and lack of diligence.

In terms of books unironically read Brothers Karamazov
>Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love

[Anonymous No.19902377]

>>19902127
Intelligence is not the end all be all. Many great men in history were intelligent enough to realize greatness and proactive enough to seek it. Intelligence is also a downside as many people that realize how pointless things (presumably) are just become apathetic and lazy or kill themselves.
I say be the better man and enjoy yourself don't worry about shit you cannot change.

[Anonymous No.19902471]

>>>/sci/

[Anonymous No.19902491]

>>19902471
I asked for book rec tho

[Anonymous No.19902500]

>>19902127
Read Flowers for Algernon.

[Anonymous No.19902515]

>>19902500
Unironically.

[Anonymous No.19902516]

>>19902361
I'm currently pursuing philosophy because i try to find a point in living, i just wanted to stop being a nihilist, i feel no pleasure doing anything, the only thing i do with my money is buying cocaine that i snort alone in my room, literally nothing bring me pleasure, i would kill myself if i was not such a coward, in philosophy i try to find something to live for or something that will remove my fear of death

[Anonymous No.19902527]

>>19902516
That sounds like a good enough reason to keep studying then, regardless of what some test tells you about yourself.

Also, easy on the coke. It’s probably not helping.

[Anonymous No.19902533]

>>19902500
Already read it, it was assigned to me when i was in middle school while all my classmates were on school trip and i was punished for my shitty behaviour back then, one of the rare book assigned in school that i read front to cover in one sitting because i enjoyed it very much

[Anonymous No.19902542]

>>19902127
Don't pride yourself on intelligence, or else you'll become another stuck up asshole who thinks he knows everything

[Anonymous No.19902558]

>>19902500
i also read this and came away a sadder person like OP.

[Anonymous No.19902617]

>>19902127
>did my mom lied to me?
yes

[Anonymous No.19902716]

>>19902127
>>19902157

You took a matrix reasoning test with a score that isn't age adjusted. Raven's matrices or matrix reasoning on the WAIS is only a component of intelligence. I would trust the results of a more comprehensive test, although I'm sure what you took would be significantly correlated to what you would find on a real test.

[Anonymous No.19902785]

>>19902296
100% man. You fucked with a very delicate chemical environment crucial to proper development; while your brain was still in development. Definitely bad news.

[Anonymous No.19902790]

>>19902127
What should be the minimum IQ for a person to have in order to attempt reading philosophy?

[Anonymous No.19902798]

>>19902785
Not him, what about occasional weed smoking in my early twenties

[Anonymous No.19902819]

IQ lowers with age. Not that you become dumber, but the relative gap lowers. If you are a 6 year old with the intelligence of an 8 year old, that's a massive gap of intelligence and growth. Whilst a 30 year old with a mind of a 32 year old is barely any different.

I.Q. measures you're mental age compared to people your physical age.

[Anonymous No.19902827]

>>19902277
Child IQ scores don't seem to be all that predictive of adult IQ. The children enrolling in elite/magnet elementary schools usually vastly underperform relative to what would be expected from 6 year olds with IQs in the 150s.

[Anonymous No.19902865]

>>19902827
>vastly underperform
I mean as adults

[Anonymous No.19902904]

May I ask wtf mensa is?

[Anonymous No.19902906]

>>19902127
get pic related anon

[Anonymous No.19902914]

>>19902904
it's a nice way to say period, you know, that time of the month

[Anonymous No.19902953]

>>19902127
I did 3 tests.
First one told me 145, second one told me 100, third one told me 128.
Final conclusion? It's all bullshit, at least as far as online tests go. Now, tests made by professional psychologists to you are another thing I guess.

[Anonymous No.19902963]

>>19902953
I tried thrice. First one said that it was 107, the second one said that it was 103. the third one said that it was 105... I think those ones were getting at something...

[Anonymous No.19902969]

>>19902264
Dumb ipleb