/sci/ - Science & Math

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.

If you score below 145 on an IQ test, you really shouldn't be in STEM.

http://www.iqtest.dk/

In 1952, psychologist Anne Roe administered a test to 64 scientists with the help of the ETS (the same people who design the GRE). The MEDIAN score was 152, and that's AFTER excluding the physical scientists from the math portion on the basis that it would be too easy for them. Even so, the MEDIAN math score was 154, with the highest score being 194. (!)

Let me repeat that, because I don't think you understand. One of the scientists (who was not in the physical sciences, mind you!) scored over 6 fucking standard deviations from the norm on math.

The median VERBAL IQ was 166, with a high of 177. (!!!)

https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Roe.aspx

And before you get hopeful about the Flynn effect, keep in mind that these scores indicate the percentage of the population capable of a career in science at that time. Also, they're entirely speculative (the Flynn effect may have capped out as early as the 70s, in which case the point difference would be much smaller). In fact, it is probably HARDER to get a science career now due to international competition, greater nepotism and lock-in effects, the "everyone is a genius" mentality in education, and much lower demand for unskilled labor.

Working your ass off isn't enough. These scientists were geniuses AND worked their asses off AND lived during America's golden age.

If you want to be a scientist but don't have a >145 IQ, you are *fucked.*