Thursday, December 04, 2003

Well... I took Emode's little IQ test thingy...

Let's be honsest with ourselves... The IQ isn't a measure of intellegence. The IQ measures the ability to recognize patterns and retain information. For those who don't know, the IQ score (Which is constantly being adjusted...) is calibrated such that 100 is the mean and every 15 points in either direction marks a standard deviation boundry. So people between 85-115 are within 1 standard deviation from the mean. 68% of all people fall in this zone. People with IQ's between 70-85 and 115-130 are in the second standard deviation and 27% of all people fall in this zone, etc. Because of this relationship, the fact that most people have an IQ between 70 and 130 isn't suprising, because 80-120 includes 95% of the people. This means that in the US, people with IQs > 130 or < 70 is only about 14 million people. That's roughly the same number of people who suffer from chronic bronchitis in the US.

Oh, and if you absolutely must know the result of the test... I pulled a 138... You'd think I'd be extra happy about this, but as it turns out, I'm one of the dumber people in the group I hang out with :p. Most of the people I group with seem to score in the 140-160 range, It's kinda sad really... But then again, when one of the people you hung out with scored a 1600 on the SAT and a 35 on the ACT (and was LIVID that he couldn't get that 36,) it's kind of hard to compete... (and I though my 31 was awesome... I wanted a 25 so I could get into a good college...)