What's your IQ?

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I would think that if anything an iq can go up as we get older and wiser

Posted: Sun, Apr 29 2007, 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: re: What's your IQ?

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Personally I find this whole thread ridiculous - however I would like to share that of my 2 children who went through this testing through professionals actually have an IQ of 137 and 139
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Posted: Sun, Apr 29 2007, 11:04 pm Post subject: re: What's your IQ?

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No idea. I've cheerfully been a subject for any number of psychology grad students who have to give a certain number of IQ tests to qualify, but they never tell me the results!

But as my mother always told me, it doesn't matter what your IQ is--it matters what you do with it. She was so right.

Posted: Mon, Apr 30 2007, 9:43 am Post subject: re: What's your IQ?

Amother, daughter of the rocket scientist, notwithstanding, Jews have always been comparatively 'smarter' than others. A "self-described Scots-Irish gentile from Iowa" theorized that it's was the mandate of R' Yehoshua ben Gamla of universal schooling and the focus on prayer and scholarhship. In addition, advanced literacy and intellect is needed to read and learn Torah/gemorah.

Even further back, is the concept of mesorah, holding fathers and sons accoutable for learning. Amusingly at the end of his article in Mishpacha, he calls upon his "irrefutable hypothesis" of why Jews were the only tribe living among other nomadic peoples that evolved elevated intelligence: "The Jews are Gd's chosen people"

Some numbers quoted from the article: in this century so far, of all the literature, chemistry, physics and medicine Nobel prizes, 32% were awarded to Jews; Jews make up 2 tenths of 1% (.0002) of the population.

I must be smart too; I did that math. (correct me if I'm wrong...)

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Hmm. This borders on my area of expertise, although I deal more with language, but the IQ test measures at best two of the seven typical kinds of intelligence that scientists talk about (Linguistic; Logical-Mathematical; Bodily-Kinesthetic; Spatial; Musical; Interpersonal; Intrapersonal). A person can be brilliant in many areas, but, regrettably we do not always acknowledge, let alone test for, all areas of intelligence.

I'd be interested in knowing if the posters here experienced big differences between their verbal and non-verbal scores.

On a personal note, I've always been a bit sceptical of overinterpreting the significance of high IQ test scores, particularly in my own situation! I find my success with a project is due as much to diligence and motivation as to what I bring to the table mentally. My IQ was taken when I was 15, because I needed some kind of number to go to university at that age. In those ancient times, you had to be 16 to take an SAT and 18 to get a GED. So, like Ruchel, I got a little head start.

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I'm with healthymama on this one, the results of this survey are laughable-- 16 out of 20 scored "highly gifted" or "genius"? It just doesn't make any sense.

Yes, Jews win a lot of Nobel Prizes. Usually those Jews have multiple PhDs and spend many years at the top of their fields. Do they have high IQs? Maybe, but not necessarily. Just because there are lots of smart Jews out there shouldn't necessarily correlate to 3/4 of all imamothers scoring in the genius range.

I realize that many of you who voted may have taken some of these online "IQ tests". They are not accurate, and skew very high with scoring. I was administered a standardized IQ test at age 7 with my whole class (we weren't told what it was-- just that it was yet another #2 pencil standardized test). Parents were sent the results, but mine never revealed my score until I asked recently. Why? Because it doesn't matter.

(Additionally, I would be curious if this Touro professor really administered a valid IQ test. I somehow doubt it-- I once had a HS teacher who gave us a test of logic and called it an IQ test, but it clearly was not.)

I hope I don't offend anyone here, but I think MENSA members are sad, sad people who need a card to carry in their wallet that says, "I'm a genius! respect me!". A true genius doesn't need that kind of silly affirmation. Excelling in their careers and using their unique abilities to do great things should be enough, one would think.

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I don't know what my IQ is and I did TERRIBLY on SAT's.

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batya_d wrote:

Posted: Mon, Apr 30 2007, 3:11 pm Post subject: re: What's your IQ?

I read recently that they found that people with just above average IQs generally do better financially in life than people with very high IQs. Being clever does not make you a good businessman or streetsmart, even if you do understand einsteins theory. (and college lectures and professors, no matter how brilliant, are generally not the most well paid people around)

So, take heart, those of you with just average intelligence. Thee are other aspects that matter much more - plenty of people have a high IQ but are bone lazy. They won't get very far in life. There is also something called an E.Q. - an emotional quotient, also important.

I once took an IQ test and for the life of me I can't remember the result, Embarassed

except that it put me in the top 5% of the population.

Anyway, I'm quite sure my score must have gone down, sometimes I feel like my brain has turned to mush...

Posted: Mon, Apr 30 2007, 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: re: What's your IQ?

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Posted: Mon, Apr 30 2007, 9:52 pm Post subject:

thanks for your support, abel