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15 Feb 2008, 3:27 pm

As have I...

When I was in middle school, one student described me something along the lines of "... he's very stupid, crazy, but extremely smart!"



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15 Feb 2008, 3:35 pm

Yea I've been called all those things including the cliche "little professor." I've been physically assaulted and afterwards asked why... and the answer was something like because you're the dumbest smart person they've ever met.


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15 Feb 2008, 3:47 pm

During my moments of insecurity, yes. But then again, doesn't everybody?



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15 Feb 2008, 5:19 pm

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Yea I've been called all those things including the cliche "little professor."


My spoiling, doting, over-protective, verbally-abusive, strict, codependent grandmother used to call me that. Sometimes still does.



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15 Feb 2008, 5:24 pm

Mine's 110. I'd say that's fairly accurate.



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15 Feb 2008, 5:48 pm

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I got accused of cheating on the Army Intelligence test, and was made to take it over. Of course I scored higher, duh!


I've never heard of someone having to retake the ASVAB because of a high score or of cheating as there's several different sequences of the questions that differ from test to test. If you took the paper test, everyone at your table should've gotten a different sheet, and if you took it at the computer it would be a moot point. I myself got a high score from it and they had no interest in anyone out of the several hundred taking the test that day to redo it. The ASVAB isn't an I.Q. test. It's to test what general knowledge you're strong in and so it may direct you to a specific collection of jobs to choose from. I've taken both the recruitment paper ASVAB and the one on the computer; obviously, the paper tests will be different, it doesn't adjust for question difficulty (as I read the pc tests do). The person's AFQT score (the score on a specific selection of subjects within the ASVAB test itself) is taken from the ASVAB, you must meet the minimum AFQT to join the military.


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15 Feb 2008, 5:53 pm

Afraid I went off topic, sorry. ;/ I've no reason to doubt my I.Q. as I've never taken an I.Q. test, at least that I remember. I've tried several online, but as they're not real the answers don't mean much.


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15 Feb 2008, 6:52 pm

I have just had an IQ test recently and still waiting on the full results. I did get preliminary results of between 85 and 115. I have no reason to doubt that. But I would doubt it if say my IQ results came back as less than 80, because even though I was not the brightest kid in class I could beat many of the brightest kids at chess and had a good depth of general knowledge; especially science.
If the score was higher than 120 I would doubt that too because of my inadequate way I relate to people and my lack of verbal imagination when say writing an essay or prose.



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15 Feb 2008, 8:56 pm

LemonDemon wrote:
hartzofspace wrote:
I got accused of cheating on the Army Intelligence test, and was made to take it over. Of course I scored higher, duh!


I've never heard of someone having to retake the ASVAB because of a high score or of cheating as there's several different sequences of the questions that differ from test to test.


I'm sure you haven't, because those military guys were being discriminatory based upon my sex. They were basically doubting that a woman could score high on their stupid test. BTW, this was back in the 70's.


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15 Feb 2008, 9:11 pm

I've never taken an official IQ test, but I'd be willing to bet it's not all that high. :|


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15 Feb 2008, 9:18 pm

Depending on the online test, I'm from a 110 - 125 (I would get higher if I understood half the questions - they word it so freaking weirdly!)
I'm sure you're smart, just naive like me :D



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15 Feb 2008, 9:33 pm

Was surprised to be awarded membership in Phi Beta Kappa when I graduated from the university, especially since I hadn't applied for any such membership.

Took an online IQ test once while bored at work years ago, scored a 138.

At another job, had two bosses at my yearly performance review call me Einstein and then remark how Einstein would not fit in well with the corporate culture, such that what started out as a compliment ended up feeling menacing and downright mean.

Have also been told that I am expected to think like "everybody else" in the company, with the clear insinuation that my thinking style is neither welcome nor appreciated, and that I'd better change ... or ... or ...


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15 Feb 2008, 9:58 pm

No.


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15 Feb 2008, 10:26 pm

it seems my IQ raised as I caught up with language and focus skills.. started at 85 and went to 130.. what a difference..lol



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16 Feb 2008, 10:09 am

I have always scored high on the verbal and general knowledge tests, and atrociously in spatial tests. I completely bombed out on the block design portion of one I.Q. test, but still scored in the normal range of intelligence because of my above average scores in vocabulary, general knowledge, and other strictly academic tasks.



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16 Feb 2008, 2:18 pm

It's probably because those are situations you are unfamiliar with, or might be attributed to the more social stuff that everyone else knows, yet, we're not instinctively born with. It's kind of like having Windows XP without Microsoft Word--XP works, but there are certain things you just don't know and can't work with.

If it was for something more abstract and easier to grasp without social norms, like math, it would be easier to see how you could have a higher IQ score, if the questions were based solely on math or logic, rather than applications in real life in which you actually have to have some knowledge or experience of.

I've had, and still have difficulty obtaining this kind of knowledge. I've never understood how it is people know so many of these things, or where they learned them from.


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