Why Are Some People With Very High IQ Just Plain Stupid?

[Cliff Rogers]

.... If he or she had passed the board examinations,

Yes

How about an IQ test then?

[Ruddigar]

How about an IQ test then?

No thanks. I had one two years ago and I couldn't possibly fit another one in.

Appreciate the offer though.

[Rossluck]

How about an IQ test then?

That's quite clever, Cliff.

Truthfully, I'm not really opposed to IQ tests as such. Most psychologists have a good understanding of their shortfalls as a means of measuring intrinsic intelligence. They are indicative of where a person in Western society stands in relation to others with the same educational and cultural backgrounds and so on. I think that as a means of testing people so that their particular interests might be identified (i.e., they did well at maths in the test: or they did well in the spatial component) so that they might be guided to a suitable career.

But it annoys the hell out of me when people start using them as a means of lording it over other people. That type of intellectual snobbery is not only damaging and repressive for some members of our society, it's also a pointer to a strongly delusional sense of self on the part of the perpetrator.

[silentC]

How much of a problem do you really think that is? I don't know too many people who would actually know what their IQ is. I don't know mine. Have you come across many people who flaunt it the way you suggest?

[Cliff Rogers]

That's quite clever, Cliff. ....

By what measure???? Did I pass???

[Ruddigar]

I don't know too many people who would actually know what their IQ is.

Mine is 4.

No wait - that's my rating on Brown Dog's theist scale.

Wongo may have a point.....

[Gra]

By what measure???? Did I pass???

I was wondering what the smell was

[Wongo]

Wongo may have a point.....

and my point is?

[Gra]

and my point is?

sharp? is this a quiz?

[Ruddigar]

and my point is?

Something about getting confused about what thread you're reading

I was wondering what the smell was

Cliff petarded!

[Wongo]

Something about getting confused about what thread you're reading

I see

[Rossluck]

How much of a problem do you really think that is? I don't know too many people who would actually know what their IQ is. I don't know mine. Have you come across many people who flaunt it the way you suggest?

Mensa

[Rossluck]

By what measure???? Did I pass???

You looked like passing, until you pushed it with this.

[Wongo]

I once had 2 hair cuts together and got a bottle of shampoo for free. I thought that was pretty clever.

[echnidna]

Mensa

But does Mensa flaunt IQ

or they about having intelligent discussion amidst intelligensia without interupptions from cretins.

if so

should WE

get rid of the cretins also