I don't know why I torture myself so...

[pagansalamander]

So I took an IQ test today. It was an online one, not a "real" one, so thbbt.

Anyway, I scored a 135, which I'm rather happy with. I mean, it's not as nice as the 155 I got a few years back when I was younger and about as knowledgable, but hey. Such is life, eh?

Anyway,

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[tao_gone_blue]

First, well done. :) Though, I do have some of my own opinions about IQ Tests..

I can't say I've ever been a fan of IQ tests as a whole. It's a qualifier/quantifier of things that are really hard, if not somewhat impossble, to gauge. My pattern recognition skills are great in the context of human beings. But, in the context of mathmatics and certain kinds of logic puzzles - hell no. My brain just doesn't like numbers and certain kinds of logic puzzles (deeming them an overly complicated waste of energy atop the fact that I'm not partial to the tests to begin with) - the result being that my brain just doesn't want to deal with them and thus they become a hurdle/time killer on a Test. But anyone who's listened to me speak can figure out that I'm certainly stupid and have my own insights.

Atop of all that, myself and my sister had to take a good number of various types of them due to the Navy when we were little. Ahh, the joys of being a military brat. To the best of our understanding it was primarily to gauge how well we were adapting and handling life given our unusual circumstances(my sister started school in Scotland and then came here, having the same mother but different fathers, the fact that I was diagnosed as 'hyperactive' and a candidate for ritalin precursors at the age of 9 months, the jobs in intelligence my mom and stepfather had, mom being raised in the projects, me being a multi-racial child, etc - and the list goes on) and to life as a whole. I think being aware of the fact that we were gineau pigs along with a lot of other kids around us basically turned me off to it. It's not a concrete gauge of anything, in my opinion. Someone with a high IQ hasn't necessarily read all the grand works of Shakespeare, but in a common conversation he may be perceieved as 'stupid' as a result. And vice versa, reading Shakespears means you can read and hopefully understand Old English, it doesn't inherently make you intelligent.

And, as of the late 80s, it mostly became a way for people to feel superior to one another. I have an uncle and an aunt in mensa and they don't really interest me at all. I've known some other folks with mensa memberships and it's essentially another place to have cocktails parties for people who are typically socially challenged.

Sorry for the random tirade, heh. I rarely get a chance to discuss the subject of IQ Tests with anyone.

[pagansalamander]

I have to agree that standardized tests of any sort are inheirently flawed for the simple fact that they must measure a wide variety of people and personas. And yes, intelligence is not an easy thing to measure. But still, they can be somewhat useful in narrow applications.

Meh. It's justa bloody test. Like those damn "You're such and such from this movie/novel/anime/history" test. All in all, entertaining, but rather useless.