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Jan 03, 2005 21:38

I have an IQ of 142. I qualify for MENSA.

There are two illogical fallacies in this entry. Can you find them?

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you are smart not_quite_droll January 3 2005, 20:43:06 UTC

the mean score on IQ tests is 100. The first standard deviation is around 110-115. I was around 130. Your 142 is beyond two standard deviations (i think). This means that you are in the same IQ group as 12.5 percent of the population. This group also includes steven hawking, nelson mandella, susan sontag, and not george bush. Unfortunately, IQ may only be opperantly defined as "the result of an IQ test" meaning it has no practical application except for comparison in relation to the test itself. It is also true that from its conception, the test has had an upper class (and therefore white) bias. One still finds in current data a discrepancy between the scores of whites, hispanics, and blacks ( ... )

Re: you are smart heyyounewwave January 3 2005, 21:47:46 UTC

two SD's is actually 160, but who's counting?

xo, lori [with a 158 *wink*]

Re: you are smart becomesophelia January 4 2005, 04:02:26 UTC

According to my AP psych teacher, two SDs is 130, and only 2% of the population fall above (not 12.5). Maybe there are different scales?

Re: you are smart heyyounewwave January 4 2005, 04:37:52 UTC

maybe i am thinking up to 160? maybe it's then where the third one starts. i took a class on intelligence and creativity a few semesters ago, but i never went to it...kind of ironic, huh?

Re: you are smart becomesophelia January 4 2005, 10:04:26 UTC

Haha.

Someone said that on a standard test 160 is the maximum score. Or maybe that's the third deviation like you said. SD is a little iffy.

Re: you are smart not_quite_droll January 4 2005, 09:55:42 UTC

you have got to calm down, newwave

you are, too. becomesophelia January 4 2005, 04:09:24 UTC

Aaaaand you found the other one. Because IQ is a concept that humans have invented, I cannot "have" one. That's commiting the crime/sin/fallacy known as "reification."

The MENSA cutoff, on its own tests, is 132, but the overall rule is a score in the top 2%.

Re: you are, too. untitled_so_far January 4 2005, 09:36:41 UTC

yay you understand the concept of IQ! nothing pisses me off more than people who think its an actual like trait to have.. the specific number i mean.

they didn't even cover this concept in my psych class this year... i wanted to cry.

PS lets hang out soon?

soon? becomesophelia January 4 2005, 10:05:34 UTC

Of course!

Re: you are smart untitled_so_far January 4 2005, 09:38:10 UTC

i was 130 as well.. know what that means?

WE MISSED THE CUTOFF BY 2 POINTS!

CURSES BE TO THE IQ NUMBER THAT WAS GIVEN TO US UPON OUR BIRTH.
j/k. that was an AP Psych bit of humor. or does it not even make sense?

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