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hi

does iq of a population generally fit in a bell curve?

Yes. It's called a normal distribution.

whats the standard deviation of iq?

Uh' date=' what? The tests at the IHIQS use a SD of 16.

and also, whats your iq?

Asking that is like asking an old aunt her age. It's usually considered crass and you have to be naive if you expect a truthful answer in most cases. Those that don't intentionally lie may also have been misled by inflated scores given in "fake" online IQ tests or they may not be aware of the SD of the tests they took. A percentile score is much less likely to be misinterpreted.

i know that internet iq tests arnt that good, but the best one ive found is the

international high IQ society free IQ tests, (i used 'ultimate iq test, but if your rather smart, try the exceptional one)

Although there is a lot of kafuffle on this subject the fact is that the IHIQS tests have a very close correlation to professionally administered tests. The TFEI my be an exception in that it is very difficult to norm tests designed to measure IQs above 150 due to the lack of data.

And no, I had no hand in designing them although as an IHIQS member and forum admin I know a little of them. Personally I find the process of taking IQ tests to be tedious in the extreme.

As I said, high IQ society doesn't pay my bills nor my taxes. The test can be repeated till the correct answer comes up.

And what exactly will be gained by doing that? Do you do it to impress gullible friends of your "mammoth" IQ? Perhaps it's to gain membership into a society you're not otherwise able to, again to impress the impressionable? The only one you'll be fooling is yourself; fool being the operative word.

I can assure you that very few members of the society itself would be overly impressed by any score you tout. Something you may also be unaware of; the membership certificate that's awarded when you have successfully signed up makes no mention of the score received.

Now, you're quite welcome to pay up the 60 bucks for a fake membership if you wish but as has been previously pointed out, you are in breach of copyright by continuing to post society test questions here and in other threads.

Oh yeah, and one more thing; test takers are logged of course and it's quite obvious from the logs who are the people that repeat tests.

As an admin on the site in question I find this thread very sad indeed and it's just as sad that the admins here have not pulled this thread and discouraged such discussions.

You of course realize that discussions of this nature undermine the validity of such tests and that once the answer to a question becomes common knowledge the question may have to be removed?

I don't suppose the considerable wasted effort of creating and norming these tests bothers you guys? Hm?

How does a guy get 12 doctorates in 14 years? OMG? wtf?

 

isn't it like ... 4 years to get a B.A.? i can see maybe... 4 doctorates..

Are norweigan schools different?

No, they aren't that different. 12 PhDs is utter nonsense and either the original poster has been lied to or they misunderstood.

Guess what. That's not going to necessarily be the case. As has been said' date=' high iq is not necessarily a guarantee of a good life. In fact, a high iq could easily be a gun to shoot yourself in the foot. Most people get by just fine without one. They have social skills. They shmooze.

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As you point out, a high IQ is not a guarantee of success although studies have shown that it is a good predicator, at least good predicator of what is traditionally thought of as "success". But Mr. "I'm the smartest in the school" up there is in for a shock if he thinks he can rest on his laurels. IQ is only one facet of many that is required.

I was wondering what yall think.

 

I know groups like Mensa are where you just meet up and sort of have fun. It's alot of really smart people who get together and have a good time.

 

However' date=' from my knowledge, most of the high, high IQ societies, like Mega Society, and Mysterium, are full of themselves. I have heard that the Giga society is not(in fact it was specifically created to mock high IQ societies), and I am pretty sure of this.

 

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Full of themselves? Hm, a few of the members are full of themselves, yes, but as a general rule most members join to find like minded people they can talk to. It's nothing more complicated than that really.

 

The interactions between the members tends to differ depending on the entry requirements - The International High IQ Society with a cut off at the 95 %tile tends to be viewed as the coffee shop (relaxed and informal) among IQ societies even though many of the people there are also members of other societies with much higher entry requirements. It's probably the most active online IQ society at the moment and is the 2nd largest in the world, second only to Mensa. Others, such as Cerebrals with a cut off at the 99.7 %tile tend to be a little more restrained and the discussions in general are a little more high level although that's not always the case. Some societies are specialized and aim to bring poets and more creative people together.

 

I think that most of the ambivalence towards IQ societies is based on ignorance of the societies themselves and also of IQ and what it represents.