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( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:41, archived)

yay
I see what you've done there!

edit - doh, meant to edit this one...
Anyone remember who famously said it was dreadful that half the population has below average intelligence?
( barnesy, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:41, archived)

you did
just then.
(Maels, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:47, archived)

wow
does that mean I'm famous? I'll be on telly next!
( barnesy, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:50, archived)

I think it was
michael jackson
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:49, archived)

And (statistically)
most people have an above average number of legs.
( wonko the sane, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:54, archived)

Dunno. Who was it said
"You know how stupid the average person is? Well, half the population are thicker than that"

apart from me just now, obviously
( Fronds are waving gently on, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:09, archived)

How do you find out your IQ level?
I'd love to do a test...I bet I'm thick.

Even worse with a hangover too
( Az The Spaz, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:42, archived)

it should be behind your left ear
if you were born before 1976, not sure on later models
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:44, archived)

old man

( Banana, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:45, archived)

only as old as my
willy I feel
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:47, archived)

I don't have an
answer to that.
( Banana, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:50, archived)

Don't worry
it wasn't a question.
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:52, archived)

mines
a hundred and eleventy eleven
( thebear has now achieved 50 Solar Orbits, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:51, archived)

IQ that is
not my willy
( thebear has now achieved 50 Solar Orbits, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:51, archived)

164
not that I beleive in these things...

;)
( thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:53, archived)

if yours was 164
you'd be thick to believe it!
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:56, archived)

that means you are a member
of mensa...with Sir Clive...!
( thebear has now achieved 50 Solar Orbits, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:06, archived)

Membership's not automatic,
the high IQ is just a prerequisite. As is the ability to be a remarkably intelligent arse, it seems.

I was brought up in Cambridge - can't be doing with that sort of fowk now. Living Oop North, where the hills are.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:10, archived)

yup...
my IQ is 3/6d
( aaarrgghh...wasps! !spsaw...hhggrraaa, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:47, archived)

do a crappy test
then pull a meaningless number out of a hat. simple.
( Spoon, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:44, archived)

Do a search for "IQ test"
/genius
( JustHere, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:44, archived)

I wish I'd thought of that

( Az The Spaz, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)

bear in mind
that you can improve your score on an IQ test with practice. Which to my mind makes them pretty drned useless!
( barnesy, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:49, archived)

I did one
by finding a mensa test in the paper which didn't involve maths.

Then they send you a proper full test.
( Amerella, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)

and if you do that they invite you (if you get more than 132 on that one)
to come and sit in a proper examination style exam. And that one is what they base your IQ score on.
(on that one I got 168)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:55, archived)

Apparently the guy
who came up with the test fiddled the results. So it's all meaningless anyway.
( jsut peopel, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)

they are not entirely meaningless
they were designed to help identify children who might have special schooling needs. They don't have much other valid application that i am aware of.
( Spoon, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:50, archived)

But if the original experiment was fixed
then how does that help exactly?
( jsut peopel, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:54, archived)

hmm
not sure which 'original experiment' you are thinking of, though intelligence testing has an entirely dodgy history.

Read 'The Mismeasure of Man' by SJ Gould for the story, it's a great book
book here
( Spoon, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:58, archived)

yes will do
SJ Gould was an excellent bloke in my opinion. As for the "original experiment" thing well i don't know, it was something that was told to me a long time ago and has stuck in my head. I s'pose it could have been the deciding what is average part of the thing.

Edit: I was just badly trying to say I guess, that if the concept is flawed due to bad practice fromthe start then how can that help? I think I need a new vocabulary
( jsut peopel, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:13, archived)

IQ is relative,
to a supposed average which they get from a large sample of the relevant population, I believe. So it doesn't matter that the first test was flawed.
Whether it tests for anything other then the ability to do IQ tests is up for debate, however.
( tomsk, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:01, archived)

or
whether there is even 'a thing' to measure
( Spoon, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:06, archived)

Apparently
Bush was going to changed the way they were done in the US, cos his was bellow 100 and therefore below average. Although that could be a lie.
(jonnies, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:55, archived)

I found
this, which seems fair. He's not dim, but he's not a genius.
( tomsk, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:08, archived)

And they're only good for one standard deviation
ie a normal IQ test will only be valid if you're between 76 and 124, or something. If you're not in that range, you need to take a different test.

Don't know why I know this rubbish, I think IQ tests are daft but I got 160-something on one when I was 13
( Fronds are waving gently on, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:13, archived)

I did one on the 'ninternet
once, it said 165. I'm not so shore... ;-)
( The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:53, archived)

its funny
cos its true
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:43, archived)

Oh that's shortsighted
it reaches so many more levels than that.
( Banana, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:44, archived)

its funny cos its true and
on another level its pretty
( Dai_Marzipan Ain't no party like an S Club party, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)

heh!
i mean: i don't get it!
( aaarrgghh...wasps! !spsaw...hhggrraaa, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:44, archived)

i don't get it either..

( bumblebee.. I am not a number! I am a free snail!, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)

ug
drink and shag in sun.
URRRRG. Me want.
(jonnies, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:52, archived)