You have to pay?
bleh
I dont mind paying for things as long as its worth it, the problem i have with internet costs is the fact that i dont have a credit card as you cant get one til youre 18

im up to 122 on that test now

I also took the amazingly challenging exceptional intelligence test-whereby hardly anyone gets reven 2 answers right...apparently

and i got 110

which isnt exactly brilliant
But considering i got an above average score in a test to notice geniuses im happy still

Havent taken the verbal test
Im not...exactly brilliant at languages even my own being english >_<
I prefer numbers lol

Just out of interest...the poll has an option for lower than an IQ of 79

But im trying to wonder if someone with that kind of IQ could get onto the internet
and/or whether theyd realise the <79
means less than 79

and would probably think the < is a typo or something

The lowest IQ ive seen someone get is 94 i think

Ah im very proud of my IQ of 143 score on www.iqtest.com

But if im honest-that IQ test seems rather easy

hahaha
i don't think who has less than 130 IQ can make an IQ test for measuring 180
who made those super hard tests is surely on the high score list.
intelligence is not about "finding the code" who finds out the code wins $$$, just subscribe ...

do any of you think taking some of these tests are useful for anything? entertainment?
is it worth taking the time with iq tests? have nothing better to do?
why whould someone want to measure his iq above 130? because: i'm the king?
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Doesnt IQ just test cognitive ability usually?
which means someone with an IQ of 130 could make a question that could baffle someone with an IQ of 180

Its similar to the scenario of "Oh thats simple"
yeah-when you have the answer

but the human mind is very interesting and someone who makes a question and is the only one who knows the answer for that period of time can be a question in which someone may have trouble with IQ of 180 or not.

also
dont mean to make a biography or anything but it does have relevance to how the human mind can be pushed to acquire knowledge
Longlivelinky,
I know what you mean about you never used to be interested in science, or wasnt good at science? and then it comes naturally.
I feel the same way.
For some people I think school is flawed at that level and age.

First off. Survival should be a mandatory subject.
Why real life's lessons and experience is not taught at school eludes me.
I would much rather have been taught how to cook, survive in poverty and budget then half of all the other crap subjects they teach at school.
Unless of course its to train us to be dumb stupid consumers in debt to the bankers and easily controlled through fear.

I would much rather have learned the basics at school, had a break and then gone back to school in my 20's to learn science when my brain was geared up for it and started acting like a sponge and i WANTED to learn about everything, not forced to.

In my teens i wasnt interested in science and maths really, or foreign languages. I just couldnt grasp it and got bored. Drawing was the only thing that i liked at school. Then when i left school and got to about 25, i just wanted to know everything that i didnt want to know when i was at school, like science, maths, etc.
Like you said, all of a sudden it just came naturally and science became appealing.

We dont push teens to wreck thier bodys physically at such a tender age of 12 until they have stopped growing and then apply sports, but we push them mentally when most likely the brain hasnt fully developed at that age and cant absorb (OR WANT TO ABSORB) in many cases, at that age.

Summing up, i dont think the brain absorbs information like science and maths until later in life or should i say, WANT TO for alot of people. Mainly because it hasnt developed until that age when it wants to know everything. That might be just the case for some of us, most of us or the minority, i dont know the stats.

I sure got fed alot of bible studys at 12 though.
Good brainwashing but it didnt work on me.
I was born thinking that there is life besides us out there and i wasnt buying bible studys.
Which is good because now im older i still feel the same way, and ive stayed true to my beliefs.
Im sure its a conspiracy.

Maybe if school started much later in life kids would be more interested in science then in bible studies because they would have had enough exposure to the effect of religion on the world and thier brains would be more like science sponges and more likely to take up a career in science then be fooled into not thinking for themselves.



I was forced to go to church and got bored with it and never took it in either, even when I decided to actually listen I thought “wtf? How do you work that one out?” or “riiight…that makes as much sense as giving McDonalds your pet cow to look after lol”
At a young age our brains are more practical and factual-why do you think we only learn facts and play with many objects in younger years?

Then when we get older our brains start its cognitive ability(obviously some young people have this already but it isn’t common) and can use logic and understanding to think of things, Like this site, many people know many facts-but you don’t just hear them blurt them out, they always present the fact, then support it, then show there understanding of it to use it to there advantage of what theory they wish to discuss-which reaches us at a late age or sometimes never (I know some really dumb people not trying to be mean, but sometimes the things they make decisions on etc are just….so obviously flawed…)

During middle school my science teachers didn’t present the work in a way I found interesting or in a way I could grasp and understand, kind of similar to some maths teachers (they always bloody exist) whereby the tell you to press buttons on a calculator and you get the answer but they never damn well explain WHY (and I hate that).
Same with high school-I got a U (so bad cannot be graded) in my science tests, then in year 11 I got the one of the best science teachers ive ever had. He put humour into science and it made me very interested and because id screwed up my past years I had to do loads of coursework and something like 9 separate modules of science within mere months, In the end I was able to get my coursework to an acceptable standard in the given time but he said I had to get 89% of my test correct to just get a C, which I did, which made me very happy.As to foreign languages-could never do them, and still cant do them, and weirdly im getting more useless at maths…mainly because I haven’t done it in years(not hardcore maths anyway)
My want for knowledge also came about when it came to discussions and I either couldn’t participate or looked like a bloody dummy and hated myself for it and wanted vast amounts of knowledge, which is why I now spend hours online just reading and reading, which has helped a lot funnily enough as pretty near every lesson I get I remember reading about it which gives me a nice advantage.



Aaaand
My experience tells me that intelligence is but one tiny part of a human. And, there are different types of intelligence. Take the motor mechanic, dirty hands and all. The eggheads go to him to get a repair. The mech cannot begin to explain his fault finding abilities, he just knows............ Is'nt THAT intelligent?

Well this is the thing you see, people always deem intelligence being great when you have hair sticking out like Einstein with maths no one can understand written on a board, most do anyway.
However there are skills which some people never get or can do
This brings me back to neural activity
The brain fires more neurons in an area that your working with, which is why practice does indeed make perfect and it becomes second nature in your brain when you do it for a long time, intelligence is definitely relative, while hyper space travel and quantumn mechanics requires an amazing amount of knowledge and intelligence to do and comprehend, it isn’t exactly a very good thing if your goal is to fix a cracked swimming pool or something, which is where a simple builder then outsmarts you (dads a builder and is very intelligent given the stereotypical “stupidity” builders apparently have, but he reads Stephen hawkings books etc and fully understands them)
Intelligence is dependant on the goal you seek, while some goals contain more information, it doesn’t make the intelligence required more. Intelligence is DEFINITELY relative.

To back my 130-180 IQ thing more

You dont see scientific advancement only happening through people with higher IQ's now do you?

an answer to something just needs the right way of thinking

which theoretically can be done with someone of average 100 IQ.
As long as you look over data all you need is your mind to work similarly the way of the for now unknown answer and you get the answer.

Its kind of like a maze-the maker knows the route because he made the question but the one who has to get through the maze has to work the way the makers mind did to get through

thats not a brilliant analogy but...meh

nope, you see?

i was telling about this, iq means intelligence, you can have a 180 IQ but you cannot know everything, iq test is not about knowledge, knowledge test is knowledge test.

i was primarily thinking of i have these find the code iq test thing, it is so unintelligent, take a pencil, and try try try ... this is all about, very cheap trick making you think you have ... and you know, subscribe ...

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i can imagine someone whose intelligence can be decribed after 10 questions...

Is an IQ of 230 even possible?
and 400?
erm...hmmm
thats definately one boost mode lol

sorry matrix seems i misunderstood you yes i understand what you mean now

I would say that smart people make bigger discoveries than the average joe. That doesn't mean joe didn't contribute, but smarter people will tend to contribute much more.

Everyone keeps talking about: smart, intelligent, and knowledge. Some saying that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing. Others compare smart to being intelligent. No real concistency at all.
Actually says a lot about many of the people getting high scores on these funny tests. They don't even know what they are being tested on.

einsteins IQ is relatively (hahaha major irony) low and look what he contributed to science

its a more exaggerated version of the 180IQ to 100IQ but from what i know einsteins IQ was 160

considering some people are getting 40-70 points above that and arent making contributions to science id say its a good example

although the1 you are in GENERAL correct-it is usually the smarter people who contribute.

WayuU
Although you are in some respects correct that some people believe in different ways of what smart and intelligence is

all you posted is how none of it has consistency

you failed to specify why and back it up
you also failed to specify what you personally think intelligence and being smart is

and considering we dont know fully about the brain its all opinionated and the best guess going and in general how academic one is to base intelligence onto them, but as i said intelligence is relative.

The IQ tests we are taking tests mainly the cognitive power of the brain and logic.