Apparently I'm actually less smart than collectively remembered from childhood testing (in all honesty the remembered number was a bit implausibly high) and my verbal IQ is more in the 145-150 range (based on records and a retest). Oddly this is quite reassuring.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
Feynman was supposedly only 125, but he maxed out the second that he did well at and got in an argument about the meaning of words on a verbal part so
i'm really convinced it's a bad test.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GeniesLoki
the spatial questions, at least, to be more about how much time you're willing to dump into solving them than anything
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Replying to @goblinodds @GeniesLoki
yeah i mean i don't understand why people think this can really be a match for real challenges at this point.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GeniesLoki
maybe could be valuable w more specificity-- if you can match the test sections to specific domains, idk the vocabulary section seems fairly useless though tbh >_>
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Honestly, lay opinions about IQ are so reliably bad that I've learned to discount anything anyone who hasn't actually studied the subject says about it. IQ is an imperfect tool, but it's less imperfect than anything else we have in this space and its flaws are well understood.
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None of these things being tested are supposed to be reflective of real challenges. What's interesting about them is that they seem to have good predictive validity anyway.
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maybe I'm biased but I really think strategic intelligence, coupled with the courage to know what you know and act as you can act is the full package that it *misses*. I mean there are a lot of high IQ people who are stuck and don't grow for some reason. Maybe it's teachable tho.
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