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Thor_MN

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13. "wasn't living up to my potential" Story of my schooling.

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 11:24 AM

Oct 2017

I'm good at taking standardized tests and read voraciously. Trivia seems easy to me. I make a living in IT, although the one official class I had, I knew more than the instructor (Philosophy prof pressured into teaching an intro computer class).

I just find some things easy that others do not. I do not relish proving myself or showing my work to "authority figures" that "manage" what they can not do themselves.

IQ scores are ill suited to older people. IQ scales are age related - mental age / chronological age * 100. Trump is 71. A 140 IQ would give him a mental age over 99. I wouldn't doubt for a second that he has the mental faculties of the average 99 year old.

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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