The site didn’t make clear that’s not a good thing
Hahahahahaha ha, omg, the irony
Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.
Submitted 6 hours ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 14 minutes ago
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
We had an IQ test as part of the performance review process in a company I worked in. It did not have any effect on the review, it was just there. The dudes with IQ above 120 were insufferable to work with. The dudes with IQ below 85 were insufferable to work with. Both managed to do about the same amount of work. The dudes who scored between 100-110 were a pleasure to work with, and practically carried the other two groups.
loonsun@sh.itjust.works 15 minutes ago
Like an actual general intelligence test or a cognitive ability test? Neither should be used in a performance context though so that’s wild. Cognitive ability testing should only be used for selection not for performance the fuck.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Lol fantastic shitpost
Even better if it’s genuine
taygaloocat@leminal.space 5 hours ago
What you think the site should be like “Congratulations, you’re a retard”
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Maybe it should just say “this means your intelligence is below average”. I genuinely think someone with <80 IQ would have a very low chance of understanding the text as presented in the screenshot.
Stupid people are people with human rights too, and they should be considered with empathy when building a society. That should be particularly obvious to a site that performs IQ tests. For every person with an IQ above 100, there’s a person below.
sgh@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Just took a test out of curiosity, but the result screen is much different.
Disclaimer: Don’t take too much of the score for granted, the test isn’t that comprehensive, and just by knowing basic math and intermediate logic you may reach a similar score.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
👏
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Never go full retard.
daggermoon@piefed.world 4 hours ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
just play a snippet of that “what’s 9+10?” vine
“ya stupid”
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
My IQ is so high, I don’t need to brag about it.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
People say I’m so unpretentious (for a genius)
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
My iq is even much higher than yours and I also don't need to brag about it.
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My IQ is so much higher than yours that I can’t even count it, and I also don’t need to brag about it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
IQ is dumb.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I suspect my brother is smarter than I am.
I tested very highly. I can’t remember what the number was. Triple digits at least. It impressed people. I was placed in advanced classes and did very well in school, but I also got bullied and didn’t get girls.
My brother tested very low. People told him he was smarter than that. He said, “prove it.” He attended normal classes, had more friends, and had plenty of girlfriends.
Neither of us attended university. We both work for a living and do alright.
I think he threw his test. So who’s smarter?
Also to be clear: I don’t put much stock in the test itself. We were tested in elementary school. It’s been almost 40 years, so I don’t remember much. Not all students were tested. We were tested at my elementary school, but I don’t remember if it was the office or a classroom or even the library or cafeteria. We were also tested at different ages — I’m 3 years older. So I can’t even say it was a real IQ test. Some kind of aptitude or placement test though. But after, they all said I was some kind of genius. But I never felt like they proved I was any smarter than anyone, just singled out to excel, and for what?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Triple digits isn’t a brag. It just means above average.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
My point is, even if I was in the top 1%, it’s not like I’m working at NASA or anything. I’m just a regular guy. So I don’t think the test was worth shit. If it was even an IQ test, official or otherwise.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
IQ is barely good enough for a rough estimate and only usable up to ±50% deviation. Exactly like BMI.
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Maybe you had quadruple digits!
guy@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I can’t tell if this is real or not, fantastic!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
IQ is just one factor of intelligence, and not even the most important one. And even so, 94 is only just below average, it’s not so bad.
turdas@suppo.fi 5 hours ago
Just curious, what’s the most important one?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Imo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.
As an example
When I was the former in the US, I used to seek out and make conversation with cops if I was planning to buy or carrying (well sealed and odorless) weed at an event, because I figured they’d think I was less likely to do that if I was committing a crime, so they’d be less suspicious of me/give me more leniency if they caught me (because police corruption is a fractal: any amount of positive or negative interaction with them confers exactly that amount of forbearance or spite in future interactions). That’s terrible common sense for the latter demographic, but it worked very well for me and most of the white stoner girls I knew. Even the same demographic but older has different ideas of sensibleness. I would never seek out a cop like that today, because: A) I know that the real reason it used to work probably has more to do with us having been young teenage girls recognizing their authority than with us seeming more innocent (though the corruption bit was right), and wouldn’t apply to a woman as old as I am anymore*; and B) what works best for my current demographic is just blending in (or I guess getting way closer to a cop, but that’s both skin crawling and a much longer game than I am willing to play).
/* I’d argue it’s partial credit for common sense there and partially luck that my theory had positive consequences in common with reality, but this exemplifies the problem of letting each demographic decide for themselves what constitutes “common sense,” and use it as a metric for correct behavior /** (I’m sorry about the footnote within a footnote, my ADHD meds just kicked in on a day when I have nothing to do for the first time in over two months, after just finishing teaching a six week long German intensive course, teaching the same group for four hours every weekday, and the fediverse is the victim of my hyperfocus today). Common sense might convince an adult not to trust the extremely rare sketchy-seeming but totally genuine opportunity, but it might also convince a teenager to trust the teacher or other adult entrusted with their safety who’s willing to buy them alcohol and nicotine products. However, if we allow people to weigh in for all of their younger demographic counterparts, we would risk making common sense impossible for all but the most mature people, thus making it no longer the metric we’re looking for. /** it’s not really an issue for our definition or measurement of it though, it doesn’t really change things if common sense is sometimes wronggrranibal@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I’d say EQ (emotional) is more useful on a daily basis
Ch3rry314@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I put more points into my Wisdom stat.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
Excuse me, it’s a quotient not a factor.
Pholous@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Technically not even below! The average is 85-115 IQ.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Isn’t the average 100 by design?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
it’s neither bad nor good, it’s just a relative score. If everyone except you was einstein then your IQ would be 1, but that doesn’t magically make you dumber than you are now.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 4 hours ago
IQ tests test for many aspects of human intelligence. Any that would apply to the education system.
That said, yes. 94 isn’t an indication Special Education is warranted.
Mothra@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Eh… It says that in a room with a thousand people you would be smarter than 345 of them.
That’s the same as saying in a ranking where no. 1000 is the smartest and no.1 is pretty much the dumbest person, you would be number 346.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That is the inverse of what it says
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How do you figure?.. Is this an IQ joke? in a room of 1000, where you are smarter than 346 people, you are also dumber than 654 people. You’d be the 346th dumbest person.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I bet you were looking forward to ridiculing the half person of that 34.5 people.
JelleWho@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
50% of the people is more stupid than average
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
More of less?
fun_times@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
In a quota that uses integers and puts 100 as the average, a lot of people will be exactly average. Therefore it is incorrect to say that 50% is below average. It’s probably somewhere between 48% and 49%.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 12 minutes ago
That’s a shitpost