like, an odor................i'm a legend in my own mind

Well I think I tend to study the best under stress, not normal stress, stress that I know I have to do it. I do agree with DA on the mid stress = best performance, I've seen it in real life and in text books just this summer semister in my management classes.

Crybabytek, that 192, I am a bit skeptical about that, I mean thats uber-1337 you probably wouldn't be as "laid back" posting here if you had that high of one. Take the emode one and see how you do, we have apparently established that that one scores a bit high.
Crybabytek - I am also abit skeptical on your 140 for the average college grad, maybe if you purely look at population percentages of college grads MAYBE, but real life expierence from a darn good undergrad engineering school I know very few who I could honestly say have an IQ that high, I'd guess most range in the 120s.

Originally posted by acidosmosis
Well said Phant. I was actually doing some research on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) today and one part of the article talked about how stress effects some peoples performance but helps others. It just really depends on the person and how their brain reacts to pressure. This was also described as one of the very many symptoms of ADD. Though it IS normal for people to experience this. You wouldn't be human if you didn't experience a certain style of performance gain or loss due to pressure.


Its sometimes, when I am under the most stress, and my back is against the wall, that I am my most brilliant....

....Or most dangerous....

Originally posted by Phantasm66
Its sometimes, when I am under the most stress, and my back is against the wall, that I am my most brilliant....

yeh thats what I said, I simply cannot modivate myself to study for a test if I know I have time to delay, even in graduate school. But I bet I learn more in those hours before the test that I study than most of the regular students do in their hours studying.
People are different, does it make one "smarter" than another, not necessarly, people just adapt to what works best for them.

My IQ is over ten :)

OK folks, I guess I should have been clearer. When I said that stress lowers performance, what I mean't was bad stress (like when something bad will happen if you fail), not the stress that gives you a buzz (like jumping out of a plane).

Stress is both a blessing and a curse...

Some of my best work has been done around 4 am in the morning when the project has to be deliviered by 8 am... But then again, some of my worst work has been around 4 am when the project has to be delivered by 8 am...

For me it has everything to do with motivation... Ie. when I wrote a short paper on why give away free heroin to the most serious addicts (please, if you want to discuss that, do it in a new thread), I got excellent feedback from those who read it... It was written in one night, though I'd researched it for about a week beforehand, and I was really motivated...

Though another paper written in one night (researched for 3 weeks) about how different philosophers through time has looked upon a persons soul, it became quite thin... I wasn't really too motivated, as the research wasn't easy (hard to find anything about that topic when you're an undergrad....), and I felt the problem was too narrow...
And I couldn't expand it, since I had (stupid me) waited until the last night to write it... (To my own defense, I had written 2 other papers the same week which were quite good)

My point is that unless you're motivated, stress is (at least for me) the biggest enemy... I postpone the project as long as I can, in hopes of finding some aspect/view that will give me the needed motivation, but when that doesn't appear, I find myself doing it the last night...
The papers then usually contains quite a lot of "fill words", and I work the entire night without "finding my way"...

Thus I've learnt that things I'm not motivated to do, I start doing as soons as I can, but things I'm really interested in, I can spend more time in research...
It doesn't allways work, but has improved the average quality of my papers...




Over to "you can be anything that you want"...

I too has gotten that info, and not only from my parents, but teachers, study advisers etc.... And yes, it can be a curse... But it depends on how one looks upon it...

The pessimistic way is thinking that whatever you choose to study/do, you have to be good at it... Thus you're under a lot of pressure, might not be motivated, and drop out...

The optimistic way of looking at it, is that you can try several different things, and then take the way that suits you the most... "Think outside the box" as one adviser told me...

That you have the possibility to do what you want to do,is good as long as you don't make it into an expectation to do it extremely good...

This. again, depends a lot on how friends and family understand/mean "you can be anything you want to be"...
For a parent, it is better to say "Whatever you choose to do, we will stand behind you", as that is a much more positiv way of saying it ..

For friends, it all depends on how the person says it to them... If you say "I'm so good I can be anything I want", then you've got the pressure coming, but if you say something along the lines of "The adviser told me I had a lot of potential, but we couldn't quite figure out what classes/whatever was right for me, so I'll just have to look around" there shouldn't be much (if any) pressure...

My point here is that if you've got the potentail, it's all about how you use it, and how you let others percieve it...


Lastly, EQ...

How do you define EQ?
Is it how well you get along with others? How well you can tell if someone of the opposite (or same if that's what you fancy) is attracted to you?
Does it say anything about how good you are to work as a team, instead of alone?
And how do you meassure it?

The reason I ask these Q's are that whereas I like the idea of EQ, I have a trouble with how you quantify it...
And IQ test will tell you how good you are at solving certain tests, and to a certain extent how likely you are to learn certain things better than others...
But an EQ test is based on things that imo isn't quantifiable... Ok, so I get along easily with some people, that doesn't mean I'll get a long just as easy with others... It depends on the chemistry (let's call it chemistry, though afaik it hasn't been proven) between the you and the other people... And so if you've got good chemistry with some, that doesn't mean you'll have good chemistry with everyone...

My point is that's it's a good idea, but quite useless...
You can't test it with a paper, so it'll have to be a practical test... And you can't test with people the person knows, as that'll offsett the scales.. But testing with people the person have never met might also throw the scales... There is simply too many variables, that the answer will be extremly thin at best and you might end up changing how the person behaves, because of the test, at worst...



I hope this made some sense...

EQ refers to motivation, and how much drive you have to want to succeed (i.e. how you feel about something and how much it means to you). Something you've already said is important (MrG).

Originally posted by Nic
OK folks, I guess I should have been clearer. When I said that stress lowers performance, what I mean't was bad stress (like when something bad will happen if you fail), not the stress that gives you a buzz (like jumping out of a plane).

Update: I didn't actually say anything about stress in my post. In fact, what I said was that 'pressure' is what can lead to failure. Pressure is 'bad stress', as opposed to 'good stress', which is something that gives us the drive to succeed. It seems someone misunderstood my original message, and confused 'stress' with 'pressure'. They are not the same.

Originally posted by Nic
EQ refers to motivation, and how much drive you have to want to succeed (i.e. how you feel about something and how much it means to you). Something you've already said is important (MrG).

I read quite a lot about EQ several years ago (when it was supposed to be the end to IQ tests), and from what I read then, it was supposed to tell how well you'd get along with others/work with others & motivation etc.

So that's why I asked the questions about EQ that I did... If you're really going to try to quantify it, how would you go about it?

If someone came up to me and said they had an EQ over 100, I'd most likely go "how nice for you", since it doesn't tell me anything....

Thus I don't really see how EQ will be tested/used, as, imo, there are way too many variables we know nothing about, that might have radical changes from one person to the next...

agreed mr g

also its difficult (possible but hard) to quantify "lying" on tests like that, I mean you get something like "I often get frusterated at whatever" well quantify "often".
Eh, just tried to come up with a good example but its 4:40 am here and I'm too drunk to think of anything that intellegent.

How can you test something that varies on a day to day, hour by hour, basis (EQ)?

is 135 good? im 14 goin into grade 10

135 is pretty damn good for your age. What was the description of your type?

Originally posted by SNGX1275
agreed mr g

also its difficult (possible but hard) to quantify "lying" on tests like that, I mean you get something like "I often get frusterated at whatever" well quantify "often".
Eh, just tried to come up with a good example but its 4:40 am here and I'm too drunk to think of anything that intellegent.

Hehe... Yeah, I see what you mean...

Like, "Do you get along with other people? Answers:
1. Very Easily, 2. Easily. 3. OK, 4. Not so easily 5. Not at all"...

How would anyone check if you chose correctly between 1 and 2? Or 1 and 3 for that matter...

You could always include some "filter" that calculates the cheating, but then you'd be penalised if you really did answer truthfully...

Originally posted by XtR-X
I don't want to brag but I've just got to say that---

I hadn't eaten in 3 days when I took the test. If I would have eaten something I'm positive I would have made it even higher. About 1 hour ago I just finished a footlong from Subway.

I don't want to say much more, I don't like to brag, just thought I should add that.:D

Sorry to say but most people I know that I would consider to be intelligent remember to eat daily for survival purposes ;) :p

129 Peter, you are a Facts Curator.

Whats one of those then?

Ill make the kids do it now lol

:grinthumb

he'd do much better......no brag, just fact..........after all, x hadn't eaten in three days, .......i'm sure he just gobbled that thing down.......hehe :grinthumb

Yeah, it was great too. Heh.

Happy to say I'm eating once a day now... usually.

she said :grinthumb

/me is confused on all of JSR's one line posts. Please post things that are worth while for our readers, not to amuse yourself. Simply because your above post makes no sense.

x......gobbling down a foot long, after, apparently three days of fasting, for some unfathomable reason, of which he asserts, that he would have done significantly better on his iq test had he consumed some life sustaining substance........which was promptly, a foot long...............of which he did not elaborate........so, yes. too amuse myself, and others, i hope, i was investigating the origin of his meal....... a foot long :grinthumb i know where you reside, poertner, so i don't expect you to ...."get".........everthing i amuse myself with....hehe................but, considering ......"where" .............you are from.......hehe..........i'll let it go this time ;)

Originally posted by JSR
x......gobbling down a foot long, after, apparently three days of fasting, for some unfathomable reason, of which he asserts, that he would have done significantly better on his iq test had he consumed some life sustaining substance........which was promptly, a foot long...............of which he did not elaborate........so, yes. too amuse myself, and others, i hope, i was investigating the origin of his meal....... a foot long :grinthumb i know where you reside, poertner, so i don't expect you to ...."get".........everthing i amuse myself with....hehe................but, considering ......"where" .............you are from.......hehe..........i'll let it go this time ;)

Is understanding your posts part of the IQ test?

If so, maybe I have a lower IQ than I thought.... ;)

as a bonafide euro....part of this message would be greek to you ;)
but, to poertner, i am poking fun at the state, of america, in which he resides, missouri....here, in the states, we affectionately call missouri, ....."misery"..hehe, ........and therefore, i like to cast aspersions, in regards to poertner's state of mind, as being a direct result, of his place of origin :grinthumb

when i was 10 i took an IQ test.....and it appaers that i have a IQ of 168 :D no kidding
i'll have a go at the test this'll be interesting.....

hey, here's my iq: 129....

and the rest of the stuff:

We also compared your answers with others who have taken the test, and according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Facts Curator.

This means you are highly intelligent and have picked up an impressive and unique collection of facts and figures over the years. You've got a remarkable vocabulary and exceptional math skills — which puts you in the same class as brainiacs like Bill Gates. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

Bill gates, eh...cool. That's pretty cool i guess.


I took this test w/o sleep for 2 1/2 days, i'm tired as heck right now and going to sleep, night.

Hey Zabur, so glad of you to join us.

(I invited Zabur here...)

you both could be bro's.........:grinthumb

yup, here i am.

Anywho.....you know where i was spose to post who "reffered" me? well i put XtremeXe, because i thought that was u, lol

It's not really that big of a deal, just for more fun than anything I think. Anyway glad to have you aboard :wave:

well took the test and got 131===>Visual Mathematician lower than i thought :D well i didnt score well on the sayings as i'm from belgium not that still believe my original IQ test more :D

dantrag> yeah that is true with the sayings part. it is apparent that test is culturally biased and geared towards americans.

if anyone is wondering, i took the test and i got 136. it said,
We also compared your answers with others who have taken the test. According to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Visionary Philosopher.

This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results.

it is too bad my teachers did not know that. ;)

in the states, we affectionately call missouri, ....."misery" JSR, I know you'll make me regret this, but I just had to say it, I live in Arkansas, bordering Missouri, and we call it Missouri.

A very nice place.

from missori..... and, primarily arkansas.......... this is some their self inflicted punishment :D

i taught in oklahoma for 8 years.......... i have to admit, i miss the people

To tell you the truth I know quite a few people that live in Saint Louis, and they can't wait to get out of here. I don' see what the big deal is though, it is a great town and Missouri is a great state. I love it.

I think we have the best sports city as well

126. Yawn.

Maybe everyone here has an IQ of 126!

Perhaps we all just missed much of the same questions. Perhaps it just takes a certain type of person to be interested in what we all are? Perhaps we all think in much the same way?

Hi I just took the test and got a 124 said I was a precision processor. Thank god there wasn`t a time limit on it. lol It was fun.

I scored 129 on the online IQ Test. I previously scored 132 on a certified IQ Test when I was 11 years old so this seems to be in line with that.

I just took one that was 97 and another one that was way harder that was 82. Seing all so many here way over 100 looks pretty impresive after geting these done. Wow!:eek:

:wave: Hello & Welcome to TechSpot :wave:

I wouldn't put too much faith in these scores, since the tests are only aproximations of the real tests.

But nice of you to join us here :)

Look, face facts: I AM SMARTER THAN YOU ALL ;)

I got 131 also. What an amazing coincidence!

I just looked at my profile & it's only 1/2 filled in. No wonder I felt a little incomplete today. Better remedy this. I should have no trouble. My IQ test says I'm a "Word Warrior" LOL

I was wodering if anyone has taken the BBC-TEST THE NATION- THE NATIOAL IQ test ? This test was harder than the other ones I took and it had short times allowed and recal from previos questions needed. If you want to try a tough one its at- http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq

Some of us took the one FOX TV did last year, or maybe it was the year before. Forgot what I made but I'm pretty sure it was between 135 and 145, as thats usually the range I score in on IQ tests.

I don't place much stock in IQ scores anyway, its not an accurate measure of anything really, and is only designed to measure your ability to learn, not how much you know.

Originally posted by StormBringer
I don't place much stock in IQ scores anyway, its not an accurate measure of anything really, and is only designed to measure your ability to learn, not how much you know. Strange, isn't ones ability to learn a fair description of intelligence? Knowledge is not intelligence, because we all have the ability to accumulate knowledge, and some with photographic memories are not always able to solve tough intellectual challenges (I've met a few like that). Someone that fills-in crosswords on a regular basis will be good at word games, and someone that plays darts will be good at mental arithmetic. Is this intelligence? I don't think so.

Most of the tests I've seen do in fact test knowledge, rather than the ability to learn. Someone that has studied mathematics is more likely to get the maths questions correct than someone that hasn't. Intelligence is genetic and you cannot turn a dumb person into an Einstien. So, how do you measure intelligence?

Impossible as far as I am aware, otherwise it would be reasonable to expect someone that is more intelligent than myself (for example) to always score higher in any intellectual challenge. I don't think such a person exists, and ultimately there are a very large number of very intelligent people around, some of whom may not do so well on IQ tests (although I wouldn't expect them to do badly either).

thats kind of what I was pointing out in my statement Nic. The tests seem to measure "what you know" when they are supposed to be measuring your "ability to learn"

LOL!!!!

score: 131

Your Intellectual Type is Facts Curator. This means you are highly intelligent and have picked up an impressive and unique collection of facts and figures over the years. You've got a remarkable vocabulary and exceptional math skills — which puts you in the same class as brainiacs like Bill Gates. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

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Bill gates acctually took this test?? :p