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Leta Hollingworth has done some work with IQ and a quote of hers might be able to answer your question, “ To be a leader of his contemporaries a child must be more intelligent but not too much more intelligent than those to be led… But generally speaking, a leadership pattern will not form–or it will break up–when a discrepancy of more than about 30 points of IQ comes to exist between leader and led.”

Average Stacy with a 100 IQ and autist George with 150 IQ are 2 IQ deviations apart and process things on different levels, and will have tendencies to talk about concepts of different complexities. George can process abstract concepts at a much faster and with much more elaboration than Stacy, and combined with his likely untrained social cues and hesitation to initiate conversation will leave stacy with a pussy about as wet as a silica gel packet.

For all of you Georges out there who still want to chase after the dime-a-dozen Stacy, consider that she will never take interest in whatever you’re studying or reading up on, and will only pretend to because she knows that your brain will be pumping six figures into her wallet so that she can go drink rainbow-colored cocktails with her 90 IQ friend Shaniqua every night, who she’ll have to bring to your apartment every time to crash when they get too drunk. You’ll probably be the one cleaning up both of their vomit in the morning unless you want to shell out on a maid, and you’ll have to live the rest of your acquaintance with her in a pretense of sympathy for her moronic problems. You two will never be on the same page.

Let's get an IQ thread going.

What's your IQ?

What are you majoring in?

What is your current GPA?

What is your gender and race/ethnicity?

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RESOURCES

Raven's Matrices test (the best on the internet):

iqtest.dk

Wonderlic test:

http://wonderlictestsample.com/wonderlic-test-sample/50-question-wonderlic-test/

Wonderlic-to-IQ conversion table:

https://www.us.mensa.org/join/testing/scoreevaluation/testscoreconversion/

Mensa Workout (be sure to self-time):

https://www.mensa.org/workout/quiz/1

Repeating any of these tests lowers their score validity, so try to do your best the first time through. Once you're done with the Raven's Matrices, Wonderlic, and Mensa Workout, calculate your average score to get a reasonable approximation of your IQ.


Here is a little something about me,
My IQ is 163. For those of you unfamiliar with IQ, this means I have "genius-level" intelligence. I also have synaesthesia, and absolute pitch. Things as diverse as math, music, and art come naturally to me and I get straight A's without studying much at all. I also am able to understand music at a deeper level than most people. While most people my age spend their free time listening to mainstream music, I spend my free time listening to works such as Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2, and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. All this and I'm still in high school.

Has a professor with a PhD ever failed a class in college? Or ever had a bad grade? Do all professors have brilliants and are straight A students?

>never did great in school
>tried other options
>became 20
>realized you're either a scientist or a loser with some lame job
I was just wondering if people of average-below average intelligence even get into college and study something worthwhile, no one in my family really knows

Would evolution help explain why some people from a certain geographic area are smarter than others? Would diet and food availability play a part or would it be more genetic?

Is IQ relevant to success in college and/or life, or is it hard work that equals success?