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Girard442

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4. It amazes me that IQ is still a thing.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:47 PM

Oct 2017

Seriously, does it make any sense that one number is any kind of useful measure of a person's aptitudes? If someone devised a test to reduce people's athletic abilities to a single number, an Athletic Quotient if you will, it would be transparently obvious how lame the idea was.

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Have you ever taken or given an IQ test? [View all] BigmanPigman Oct 2017 OP

That is my own experience with family madaboutharry Oct 2017 #1

145 ain't nothin' defacto7 Oct 2017 #2

I had the second highest IQ ever measured SCantiGOP Oct 2017 #5

I know what you did there! defacto7 Oct 2017 #7

My brothers and I took them in school. The results were given to our parents. AJT Oct 2017 #3

It amazes me that IQ is still a thing. Girard442 Oct 2017 #4

Look into Gardner's Intelligences. murielm99 Oct 2017 #6

Trump is dyslexic without the empathy capacity and big picture. He does applegrove Oct 2017 #8

I have never heard highly intelligent people murielm99 Oct 2017 #9

I took the test in 11th grade. Atman Oct 2017 #10

"wasn't living up to my potential" Story of my schooling. Thor_MN Oct 2017 #13

Trump couldn't possibly take an IQ test PJMcK Oct 2017 #11

It is possible that The Con once scored over 145 on an IQ test. I suspect that in addition to Nitram Oct 2017 #12

IQ is mental age / chronological age * 100 Thor_MN Oct 2017 #14