Does IQ Really Measure How Smart You Are?

People say Einstein had an IQ of 160, and you need an IQ score higher than 130 to join Mensa. But does IQ really measure how intelligent you are?
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[@ClareBearBunny]

My IQ's a 195. Sure, the doctor kept saying "ma'am, that was a cholesterol test," but I know I'm a genius.

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz102]

THIS IS UNDERRATED

[@thomasalberto613]

lol, didn't know about that

[@Rafi-0071]

Lol that killed me

[@DomainAspect]

lmao

[@marlenehussein4530]

In that case your IQ is definetly 195. Great job 👍👍!!

[@armanm246]

For some reason, 95% of the people in the comments will apparently have an IQ of 130 or above.

[@mybackhurts7020]

Arman M that makes me laugh because I was tested with a visual IQ of 130 LOL I'm terrible at math I failed school I dropped out of college and I'm a janitor IQ doesn't mean shit LOL

[@AtlantideVFX]

It just means your ability to do abstract reasoning. Like say how well you're able to conceptualize a complex 3D structures in your head to know the different faces. And that's why the IQ is level off by the average mean, because throughout the ages humans have became more able to abstract reasoning through education, better healthcare, better nutrition and so on. Like if you were discussing with someone in 1806 and say to that person "ya but put yourself in in his place" he would surely respond "you stupid I'm not him". However, today most people can at a certain degree put themselves at the place of the other one (the willingness to do so is another story)

[@VlRGlL]

Arman M 168

[@armanm246]

By definition the average 1Q is a 100

[@armanm246]

+DaimondTurtle? What? no... only about 2% of test takers have an IQ of 130 and above

[@user-iu2gm7os7d]

I don't want to know my IQ, I feel like I'll live better without knowing it.

[@LaisCordiolli]

Me too, and I consider myself smart

[@KimJongUnGamingAndVlogging]

Accepting your weaknesses is smarter than not to. You have nothing to be ashamed of, IQ tests doesn't mean everything, it's basis is mostly academic knowledge and academic intelligence, how much you understand the function of IQ tests. General intelligence is way broader than that.

[@_d--]

@@KimJongUnGamingAndVlogging Yes and no. To be more precise, the IQ test should be taken without prior knowledge of its contents and meanings. It determines the adaptability of the test subject to respond to problems that requires logical answers without any cultural or academic knowledge whatsoever

[@KimJongUnGamingAndVlogging]

@@_d-- If you say without any cultural or academic knowledge then you must be excluding things we learn in that area like math or science or vocabulary. Some people simply get better education than others and perform well first time. this is due to more exposure. Even with things like geometrical patterns, education has a role to it even if its not as big. this is somewhat the flaw to an iq test. if you give a caveman an iq test and it failed, it doesnt necessarily mean its dumb. iq tests today isnt a good way to conclude with someones intelligence, AS A WHOLE. its only one way of measurement

[@shamtradtam3769]

@@KimJongUnGamingAndVlogging a caveman failing an IQ test is not the same as someone who lives in the same culture and speaks the same language scoring less than another person of the same culture. Heck, adopted children perform similar to their biological parents even when they didn't share an environment with them and have 0 correlation with the IQ of their adopted parents. That shows that IQ points to something very real and having a genetic component. Read the decades long twin studies of Robert Plomin or watch his lectures on KZbin

[@YouTugas]

99% of comments - "this comment section is full of geniuses" 1% of comments - "I have an IQ of 47"

[@litinupcito2044]

JAPL I whish I was more stupid so I can be an early bird :(

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

JAPL really though how do all these people claim to be so smart?

[@michaelhedrick589]

My sister has an IQ of 68 But I just tell them she has an IQ of 69

[@dickurkel6910]

No, half the comments are about Stephen Hawkins and the rest are idiots who think IQ is a good test for intelligence.

[@sandeep_shared3596]

@@o.s.h.4613 😆

[@mihalis1010]

We need to stop using IQ to tell kids they're "gifted." When I was 7, I tested into one of these gifted programs, and ever since then, far too much has been expected of me. My parents always said "you're gifted, why are you doing bad in this class?" It went on for years, and now that I'm 20 and unemployed, I'm starting to do it to myself. Kids need to stop being told they're gifted so they won't grow up thinking they're better than everyone, just to be crushed when they're treated like everyone else when they become adults.

[@spindash64]

And don't even get me started on the potential damage of telling kids the opposite...

[@umiluv]

World Known - I'm sorry you experienced that but that is not the experience everyone has. Being tested as gifted when I was 7 gave me access to special classes in elementary school where we were learned about Shakespeare and logic tests and gave me access to different school options for middle school and high school which allowed me to get out of the ghetto gang riddled schools I would have been sent to. My mother never pushed my brother and I harder than we could do and praised us for trying our best. I'm sorry your parents did that to you but for some of us, the experience had an extremely positive impact on my life. Perhaps, what they should do with testing kids as gifted is explain to parents how to raise a gifted child and have reasonable expectations as well as avoiding shaming their children.

[@mikeman7918]

I had a very similar experience, my IQ was found to be ~125 but it was also found that I have ADHD and generalized anxiety disorder. My mom just threw medication at the problem and raised her expectations. This was made even worse by the fact that my brother is pretty much a savant who got his associates degree at age 15 and his IQ was measured to be a bit lower then mine, so after I still wasn't doing well in school she thought the problem was my motivation and started punishing me for not meeting her high expectations. Things have since improved but that time in my life was the only time to date I have seriously considered suicide. I agree that the real problem is not telling children that they are gifted but parents being uninformed as to what a high IQ actually means. Psychologists who give these tests should really do a better job at telling people that.

[@kateg9437]

That's not just the systems fault, you are partially to blame. In secondary school, I was part of the GifMAT (Gifted, More Able and Talented) programme, and while I may not have worked as well as I could have for my GCSEs, I worked to a level I knew was good. You can't blame your lack of personal motivation on anyone else

[@PheOfTheFae]

I read one article that was talking about how a really high IQ person really needs as much special help as a really low IQ person, just for different reasons. The general educational system is set up for the middle, and anybody too far outside that range is underserved. How many genius kids get into trouble or slack off because they are bored?

[@hectorreygadas4226]

It works when it makes me feel good, when not, it doesn't.

[@valeriobertoncello1809]

Well, that's an accurate description of life...

[@DerTolleIgel]

Take out the text slides of the video, replace sound and you have a pretty decent rap video. It makes you feel good and nobody cares about IQ anymore.

[@spencerconnor9282]

Henimus Roicalgord I

[@mickmickymick6927]

That's why I'm in a near-constant state of masturbation

[@geoffytheonemanband905]

IHenimus Roicalgord iii

[@Jojo-kv6iv]

Short answer: IQ measures the ability to see connections and thereby create a better understanding of the whole picture of a subject. But obviously the concept of thinking and consciousness is too abstract to be limited to that alone. It neither means everything or nothing. It means something.

[@Icariaball]

best comment

[@Rick-tf4dl]

IQ measures cognitive ability, lets keep it simple IQ is a standardized method of measuring one's ability.. It basically is a true measure intelligence, people who deny this FACT have their own agenda or failed to research the subject. People are either unaware of the scientific research or are lying.

[@Aliyah_666]

@@Rick-tf4dl Stephen Hawking is by all rights an example of a very intelligent man and he never took much stock in IQ tests, just saying.

[@atwilliams8]

@@Rick-tf4dl But it isnt, really IQ measures one's exposure to complex environment but skills gained from this exposure seem to be inheritable.

[@mathewsimeon4054]

@@Rick-tf4dl One could also say that those who propagate the concept of IQ also have their own agenda, too.

[@kenshin6553]

Great video! I personally have an IQ of 5000, but I don’t like to brag about it

[@DomainAspect]

5000 meaning 5.000

[@kenshin6553]

@@DomainAspect No, 5000 as in 5,000,000

[@soupchewer9213]

I have an IQ of 69420, beat that.

[@kartikmalhotra1035]

@@soupchewer9213 I have 42069

[@peskypigeonx]

I have an IQ of pesky bird

[@Seraph.G]

"Do not let a number define you." High school has taught me otherwise.

[@bluestorm9977]

Same here.

[@hollyhayes9640]

I had poor marks because I never studied, not because I was stupid. (I'm not.)

[@jimflagg4009]

High school is where you go to get dummer. They tell you "Don't think about it just memorize it for the test." One of the reasons Einstein struggled in school is because he was trying to understand it not learn it.

[@TheFishCostume]

Something that isn't very often mentioned is that test taking itself is a skill that you can practice.

[@Jackknifegyp]

Not I Q testing. You can't fool the I Q test unless you have the answers ahead of time.

[@ofentsejay]

@@mike-0451 plus you can improve on a subject by working harder. some maybe due lucky guesses

[@diamondmeeple]

BS

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

TheFishCostume oooo

[@DaveWard-xc7vd]

Have you taken many IQ tests?

[@bocolatebhipbookie]

I've never seen stronger Dunning-Kruger effect vibes from a comment section.

[@greyhornbarger4605]

Madeline Mayer truth

[@Hectopath2006]

Waiting for the kid with 4000000 IQ to come to this thread.

[@psychedelictacos9118]

I have the highest IQ on all of youtube, I am so much smarter than everyone else. Everyone else is so primitive compared to me.

[@shurik3nz346]

Laughs in *negative iq*

[@tusseriesfavoritas7441]

Many thanks, I have been researching "how to figure iq" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Norayla Jonrayson Cure - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my partner got excellent results with it.

[@MichelMPrins]

I'm considered below average when it comes to IQ, which always makes me feel bad. Hearing that last line "Do not let a number define you" was something I kinda needed. Thank you

[@charleslol3613]

I just consider IQ the ability to learn stuff quickly, you don't have to have a high IQ to learn to do anything that you're passionate about, it shouldn't be a requirement. IQ tests are probably some kind of scam, imagine paying for your results just for it to tell you your IQ is 0.1 or some s***

[@freedapeeple4049]

Do you know what having a brain that works a bit slower or less efficiently than many others means? It means you have a brain that works a bit slower or less efficiently than many others. In other words, it means nothing beyond the sentence itself. Some of the wisest people I have met have never so much as read a single book, and some of the most skilled could not add two 2 digit numbers.

[@daybyday3840]

If you have a low iq you probably do not have a highly complicated job like engineer or doctor. I can bet on that.

[@freedapeeple4049]

@@daybyday3840 But an average IQ and some effort can get those jobs.

[@daybyday3840]

Can be possible but the thing that you do not consider is that smart people have diffrent intrests. I have seen that through my whole life. More average people do not have the same intrest in more abstract topics. I like to read about everything from theology to topology. Other people just do not have the same more intelectual intrests. There is nothing inherintly wrong about that. If you think you do not need intelligence for a relatively highly complicated job you are just plain wrong. The complexity and speed of university material you can not really afford to be quote on quote slow. That also why the average iq of STEM fields are around 130 which only 2 percent of the population have.

[@fulmarmusic1413]

you may all have your fancy IQs of over 180 but I have an orange

[@icearstorm4210]

But what's if I want watermelon?

[@Jonathan-xe4ec]

That's racist.

[@youmaycallmeken]

I like turtles, too.

[@mvmlego1212]

I've got a jar of dirt.

[@thealmostfreerunner]

mvmlego1212 I've got a Johnny Depp. Hanky panky friday.

[@mimiteas]

It's better not to know and to think you are average and work hard. Thinking that you are highly intelligent may leave you with the laid back attitude towards studying and work. High IQ means nothing if you don't work hard.

[@blue_cameron]

I saw a quote from Albert Einstein saying "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer" but he should have said that its not just that he's smart but also... since its a combination and to say that it is only down to effort is incorrect.

[@darkninja___]

Mimi Tea it doesn't matter how hard you work, if you have an iq of 85 you will not be a good neuroscientist. IQ tells you what is a realistic goal, but you should still always work hard towards that goal.

[@1pcfred]

What's wrong with being laid back? Work is a four letter word.

[@Zippyser]

Dark Ninja Try adding a measuring cup of proof and you may get better results. Before you start you are not allowed to say it's common sense, and you cannot assert it's self proving. You may bring up studies in which they challenged someone like this to succeed. More specifically multiple people. You may not bring up what psychologists have theorized about unless you are willing to explain the correlation to the topic and provide evidence this is the case. Until such time you should keep your mouth closed.

[@respberry123]

A former friend of mine had a self esteem over the roof because as a teenager he'd scored high on the legit Mensa test and was also pretty good at maths, poker and chess. He thought very highly of himself and decided to quit law school and get serious about playing street poker and selling pot. Last I heard from him he was asking for money and a place to stay because his parents had kicked him out and he was in huge debt. Moral of the story for me was that you should never overestimate yourself and that IQ doesn't necessarily correlate to sensibility and reason.

[@Sarah-lr6vp]

"do NOT let a number define you" my new favourite quote

[@michaelhedrick589]

Oof 2 inches yikes

[@Terence.McKenna]

sounds like a low IQ cope to me

[@quadeevans6484]

@@Terence.McKenna come on man don't be like that

[@markstewart7002]

It's not just a random number, the number is an indication of many things.

[@clipit4503]

@@markstewart7002 Who tf said that it's a random number

[@Daniel-ht4wr]

Increased IQ score is directly correlated with Rick and Morty fandom

[@raz0rcarich99]

Certainly, the consumption of quasi-intellectual sci-fi cartoons is directly proportional to cognitive computational capacity. Wubba-lubba scrub-club. Go read a book, idiots :)

[@JaceCavacini]

Or hipsterism, general elitism, or just plain arrogance.

[@alanazunikoff4249]

How did this meme even start?

[@jandersontolentinogandra4173]

@@alanazunikoff4249 some guy made a post somewhere about being a hardcore Rick and Morty fan and that you need a massive IQ to understand the show,and it turned into a copypasta

[@alanazunikoff4249]

@@jandersontolentinogandra4173 Oh, makes sense. Thanks

[@PeroFromBotinec]

I has IQs 60,very many smart.

[@BuMPiHD]

Armchair lmfao

[@lunaalt5148]

Armchair lol

[@fidelcatsro6948]

you are great many high smart

[@taurohkea2169]

You have won American citizenship. Take this ticket to Saudi Arabia

[@alex-cv8kh]

Aw

[@zekelyness]

Thank you. IQ tests are the reason I was given an unfair disadvantage in school. I was labeled as learning disabled and held back a year. When tested again when my home environment was more stable and I was much older, I scored much higher but was told that because my first round of tests and the education I'd received thus far I'd never be able to join normal classes.

[@thedefenestrator2994]

zekelyness. a couple of my brothers have really bad dyslexia, and one of them scored so low, that the principle knew the test was BS because according to the number he shouldn't have even been able to feed himself. Yet he was one of the most free-thinking and intelligent students in the entire school. The dyslexia just crippled his grades because he would see numbers and letters on paper mixed up.

[@Nerobyrne]

dude, what? "Yeah this test is perfect, but for some reason only the first one we gave you. Even though this situation proves it isn't, we're still going to pretend it matters because fuck you." I really hate the tendency in humans to just put people in nice easy drawers even if it ruins their life. Hopefully you can find some employer that doesn't just look at a piece of paper and decide you're worthless.

[@mariuszj3826]

If the IQ test discovered some learning inhibitions in you, it doesn't mean you're dumb or cannot perform well academically. It just means the schooling needed to be adjusted to you individually. Frequently it is executed poorly and simply people are put in the so-called "special needs" or "special groups", it's a rather demeaning practice. This often includes people with dyslexia, speech impediments, and various others. It includes also people with serious mental handicaps. The system cannot universally cater to everyone. How to adjust student's aptitude to increase performance hasn't been solved yet properly so I'm afraid some of your experiences might have been very poor.

[@LB-ou8wt]

Did they hold you back a year because you were not performing well or because of intelligence?

[@eclecticgal2]

Learning disabilities are diagnosed when your scores on tests is specific learning areas (math, reading, etc) are much lower than your IQ. Most people with learning disabilities have an average or above average IQ

[@JoeNoshow27]

I think people have a strong tendency to underestimate just how much of a role emotions have with intelligence. If someone feels a strong desire to think, and gains a sense of emotional fulfillment from doing so, then they'll essentially learn how to better think through practice. Likewise, if someone feels anxious or depressed when they think, their capacity to learn things in a cognitive manner will be diminished. Yet they may better learn how to perform physical activities instead if they find doing so to be appealing. Stephen Hawking would've turned out a lot differently if his passion had been plumbing.

[@JoeNoshow27]

@James Teare I'm not sure why I thought a guy stuck for most of his life in a wheelchair, with really nothing left to do but ponder the universe, was a particularly good example. But ghost hawking the plumber would make for a great sitcom.

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

JoeNoshow27 wow

[@localslenderman3264]

He definitely would have turned out differently if he had a passion for walking.

[@SineEyed]

For some reason the phrase "learn how to better think" cracks me up..

[@JoeNoshow27]

@@SineEyed That's because it's the kind of thing an AI would say first learning how human speak works. Whoops, I've said too much.

[@vedadhusic4890]

I have an IQ of 75 and I am proud. Low IQ doesn't mean you are "stupid" in any way. I personally believe that I accomplished way more than some "intelligent" people did, thanks to my natural tendency of hard working. It's you hustle and hard work which makes you successful and respected in life. For all of us, who are unintelligent,cheers guys.😋😁👍

[@thotslayer2684]

@Statistical he’s just like naruto

[@sebuhiqeribzade]

Dude ı dont want to be rude. But you are a little bit smarter than a gorilla xD

[@zackyfirmansyah2448]

@@sebuhiqeribzade you a menace, bruh 💀

[@lenclovek]

@@sebuhiqeribzade so funny, he was born that way and has no control over it, you was born with higher IQ than him, omg you are truly amazing how did you do that?

[@sebuhiqeribzade]

@@lenclovek chill out bro ı am just joking :D

[@morningmadera]

After reading the comments I'm certain that MENSA will triple its applicants in the short future ... Didn't know that KZbin is full of 135+ IQ geniuses ...

[@padoco73]

You're technically both correct. The Mensa admission system however, is slightly more complicated than only Stanford-Binet scores. Wechsler is a more common test to give to adults, although it mostly tests the same categories of learning ability. The questions are just framed differently. They admit based on quite a few different tests and have varying standards for each one. As Hank mentioned, the score is more based on deviation from the mean. As such, IQ scores change not so much based on the test or test takers, but more based on where the mean scores fall on the scale. For example, my score was given to me as a number when I took it as a child. As an adult (I took it again when I joined Mensa, my previous score was based on a truncated test and didn't qualify), my score was given to me as a standard deviation. Also yes, most online IQ tests are pretty baseless.

[@XathaReiru]

Morning Madera It's probably because they are taking these online tests, and they're inaccurate. IQ test are nearly always administered by psychologists.

[@chopperhead2012]

Mensa gives their own IQ test.

[@AmericanTestConstitution]

my IQ is 335

[@jan_phd]

MENSA is at the bottom of the Hi IQ groups. We laugh when we mention MENSA... I know it's smirky but those people are boring.

[@WirinelDuSaule]

"Do not let a number define you..." whether it's positively or negatively. While I feel sorry for people that think they're stupid because they have a low IQ, I hate people who feel superior to everyone else because they have a higher IQ.

[@TheArnoldification]

WirinelDuSaule Smart people usually don't care about IQ because they're smart enough to realize it's meaningless to boast about without using it. As such it's more common for people to boast about projects they're working on and how much work they put in.

[@zamundaaa776]

WirinelDuSaule I would consider myself pretty smart. But I don't need a number to know that And I don't even want to feel superior... My brother sometimes gets a F where I don't understand how I could ever even get a D in that test (on tests you have to learn a lot I can understand that. Sometimes a bit lazy for that, too). I just often cannot understand how others cannot understand some things as they seem so intuitive to me. It's so sad

[@TheArnoldification]

+Zamundaaa Correlating intelligence with academic rigor is actually pretty iffy if we're talking in general. For instance, schooling prior to university focuses on student development. The question is less so "how smart are these students" and more of "are our students capable of getting through this curriculum?" The distinction is that gifted students are at most shown to be a bit precocious and tend to get high grades without studying (depending on the rigor with the associated curriculum, of course). Namely, they have no platform to really demonstrate, and therefore develop, creative capacities or (usually) even critical thinking skills (the hardest classes I've seen a high school offer - calculus BC and college physics - really don't require extensive critical thinking skills as the hardest thing you'll do is algebraic manipulation). College is fairly similar but gives you more of a platform to demonstrate your skills. Higher understanding of the concepts is greatly encouraged, and professors usually love their work/ have more passion about what they teach and would be more than happy to indulge the curious student. Basically, grades aren't good indicators of intelligence. We really don't know enough about how the brain works to really know the "why". At best the IQ test shows a pleasing trend line and people just go "yeah why the hell not, we don't have anything better", and considering our intuition alone is probably not going to be a better at distinguishing intelligence than a test with tons of research going into it it's safer to only draw conclusions after knowing a person for a long time.

[@bigbenhebdomadarius6252]

+WininelDuSaule Aside from an unbiased appreciation of my own genius, I consider myself a humble person.

[@Lillu700]

Humbleness is not a virtue, some people are better than others.

[@shoot_the_glass5654]

My IQ test result came back 180. I was jumping up and down with excitement until the doctor said "stop, stop you're gonna have a heart attack!".

[@Regular_Decorated_Emergency]

LOL.

[@liamdavis2068]

Haha that was so funny I forgot to laugh.

[@Regular_Decorated_Emergency]

@@liamdavis2068 Whoosh.

[@liamdavis2068]

@@Regular_Decorated_Emergency shut up!

[@MisterTheRobot]

@@liamdavis2068 shush

[@nomotivay]

Lol, Malaysia has an IQ test for every student every year which is required. But, most of students don't want to waste their time on that( including me) so we "ting tong tiang " meaning choose randomly in the local mandarin slang

[@1080pUHD4K]

Hentam aja la 😂

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

Jervanne Lee frfr

[@anoopjotmann1746]

Bruh whuch part of Malaysia do you live in

[@1080pUHD4K]

@@anoopjotmann1746 bruh isnt this anoopjot which goes to elc

[@anoopjotmann1746]

@@1080pUHD4K Wait a minute, are you Nafiz used to go to elc and left Nafiz?

[@jesuspeng7736]

original: "an incentive of 10$ increased the average IQ of ppl on a test by 20 points" first filter: "breaking news, money can make you intelligent" second filter "rich people are more intelligent than the poor"

[@andrewswitzer6334]

So Huffington Post would be like the fifth filter, right?

[@nexus3756]

Andrew Switzer here's the Huffington post filter: "RUSSIA HACKS INTO IQ DISTRIBUTION CENTER TO INFLATE DONALD TRUMPS IQ"

[@Jay-kx4jf]

well considering rich people have more access to better education and resources, that does make sense.

[@johnnastrom9400]

"rich people have more access to better education and resources, that does make sense" -- for god's sake, you have no clue as to what IQ is.

[@skepticmoderate5790]

John Nastrom Did you watch the video? There's evidence that access to good education can positively affect one's IQ.

[@arooobine]

My IQ is... OH LOOK A SQUIRREL!

[@peterm6737]

My IQ is.... What are we talking about?.. Oh yeah :)..... Sorry, absolutely beautiful butterfly over there (^_^)

[@crusadinalldaylong5591]

Benjamin Hershey my IQ is 98 :(

[@Ghostmanriding]

Said "stable genius " Donald Trump...

[@thelagg9824]

crusadin' all day long ! Dont worry just do a hard work on stuff that drag you.

[@stephenowesney5173]

Spydyr_Byte Byte Where did you hear that

[@grimsobad8545]

“Genius is person who has contributed to the society”

[@nedaltrebor8553]

Like my momma always said. Smart is as smart does

[@brandon3872]

I've done a few IQ tests online and I've had very different scores on each of them. Some asked me to do mathematic sums, some didn't and just asked me to identify patterns in a series of shapes. I don't think they're very reliable.

[@Terence.McKenna]

IQ tests online aren't IQ tests they're a joke. You go to a university or something similar.

[@_d--]

Try the mensa one

[@josephcrespo7822]

Ya'll may have your fancy 160+ iq's. But I have a jar of dirt!

[@kbxbrdr]

@fynes leighAwful punctuation.

[@mahasinasim4150]

@General Eisa actually the lowest iq in the world is 9

[@frosty-xw5gi]

good reference i enjoyed it

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

Joseph Crespo oooo

[@Beautiful_Sound_1995]

What's inside it? Should I guess?

[@Nerobyrne]

I've always said that an IQ test cannot tell you exactly what your inherent mental capacity is, for one simple reason: If you practise, you get better at them. You can't get better at an inherrent trait. Great video though, I agree. They can be useful but don't let a number define you.

[@freezy5517]

iq is how fast you learn; the value of practice (btw u spelt practice wrong) low iq people can get better at some tasks but if you were to take the sum of all skills high iq people are more skilled.

[@anotherks7297]

Freezy LOL, looks like someone doesn’t know there is a difference between American and British English.

[@freezy5517]

@@anotherks7297 thank you for informing me I thought that was incorrect

[@jandersontolentinogandra4173]

@@freezy5517 well,that was polite

[@saxophones1041]

@Sagrotan yet people are always changing it's too abstract to be judge sure people who are mentally challenged will have a harder time but they still can

[@craigspakowski7398]

Never mind that is biases against people with test anxiety......

[@Rick-tf4dl]

Higher IQ equals more cognative ability equals less anxiety

[@BrushEm]

@@Rick-tf4dl not exactly because anxiety can develop later in life

[@Rick-tf4dl]

@@BrushEm uh?

[@BrushEm]

@@Rick-tf4dl wot

[@simonbobandvagene8596]

@@Rick-tf4dl not necessarily, people generally perform tasks (e.g. taking blind tests) that they are not familiar with better on their own, and perform tasks that they are familiar with better with other people around.

[@Dejager3112]

"IQ is something that will decide your fate later in life." Let me tell you, it doesn't. Example: Where I live, we have in highschool 3 different levels that can decide your future job. VMBO (aka "normal") HAVO (aka "average/above average") and VWO (aka "above average/intelligent"). They tried to make it so that your IQ determines your level. Well it doesn't, multiple people with a IQ under 100 are doing VWO and multiple people above 110/120+ are doing VMBO. Please for the love of god, don't worry about IQ. I've been there and if it doesn't meet your "requirements" it makes you mad for no reason. Just enjoy life

[@SeraphsWitness]

Your small sample size example doesn't really tell us anything. Statistically, IQ is actually one of the best predictors of life success. It's no guarantee, because nothing is. But it's fairly well documented.

[@woetoe2535]

Ngl nog nooit iemand gezien die op vwo zit die onder de 100 iq zit, en TL is normaal, kb is onder gemiddeld, bb is zwakbegaafd

[@suaypordulu6056]

@@SeraphsWitness sir what can I do with 80 IQ? I read lotta things about it and it's pretty much hopeless. Just giving up. But I dont is there something I can do

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@suaypordulu6056 I wish I had a good answer. I don't know enough to really help you.

[@grimsobad8545]

@@suaypordulu6056 Richard Feynman had a pretty low iq 120 actually but become a great scientist

[@profmtrfkrz6917]

i have IQ of 420

[@vloh3097]

DebilMs1 so your intelligence is dank high

[@Avokado34]

My IQ is lower than it should be because of your IQ.

[@creemyice]

You watch Rick and Morty?

[@robertimmanuel577]

@@creemyice I feel like i've seen you before

[@aaronlandry3934]

creemyice After watching a single episode, my IQ went up by 100 points. I now have an IQ of 42

[@opsoc777]

My iq is 3, notification squad.

[@tnttiger3079]

you have iq exactly on the threshold to feel pain

[@aleatoriac7356]

@OP's OC Actually, in your avatar... shrinking the features of his face doesn't seem to change it. I mean he really looks like that.

[@mikester1290]

Its possible that his face is a normal size, but he has an extremely oversized head.

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

OP's OC Your picture looks like Kim Jun Il, the North Korean Dictator.

[@zakleclaire1858]

My favorite quote when defining intelligence is "a monkey and a fish are both intelligent in their own rights. A monkey is a genius in the trees while a fish is a genius in the water. To compare the strengths of one by the weaknesses of the other is not a proper comparison of the abilities of either creature."

[@akituokko9461]

That sounds cool but it doesnt apply to humans really

[@someperson92312]

Aki Tuokko What about someone who is intelligent in math or someone who is extremely articulate, or great at learning languages or at playing instruments. Also something like creativity.

[@akituokko9461]

Honest Bear yeah but all of those things are correlated with each other and thats well known thing in psychology and it is Called G factor. Because I felt that Original comment was trying to say that everyone is intelligent in their own way which just isnt true because people whose IQ is under 80 arent really good at any of those ”different types of intelligence” but people whose IQ is +140 are usually really good in all of those different categories.

[@someperson92312]

Aki Tuokko I get what you’re saying, but I’m pretty sure that creativity and IQ aren’t correlated, but I don’t know.

[@akituokko9461]

Honest Bear there has been correlation found in IQ and creativity in some level but personally I dont think creativity really fits in the category of intelligences.

[@dr-ozone]

"Don't let an IQ test define you" Jordan Peterson has left the chat.

[@hithere5553]

Benzodiazepines have left his system

[@t_0246]

Why'd he leave? Jordan Peterson doesn't think iq measures a person's intelligence

[@slagondrayer447]

They thought I had a developmental disability in high school so they gave me an IQ test, scored 127. Its not the individual, its a failed system.

[@DreamLionViolet]

John Brogan i'm dyslexic and dyspraxic and had my IQ tested to get surport for university and I got an IQ of 138 'Spelling and grammar is a sign of intelligence' my ass!

[@sinephase]

that was your perfect chance to say "maybe your curriculum is just boring and uninteresting. ever consider that?" :P

[@sinephase]

sounds like a sensory interpretation issue in the brain, not an intelligence issue. great score BTW :)

[@GBart]

There are different types of intelligence. IQ measures frontal lobe related things like logic, math, spatial awareness etc., and not so much temporal lobe intelligence, which has more to do with communication, relationships and language

[@Leucian5005]

I concur, my IQ is 182 and yet my psychiatrist diagnosed me with ADD and said I was handicapped in Executive Functions because of how I was in school, skipping, not paying attention, etc. In reality I was so bored and disinterested that I ended up dropping out.

[@Vonliktenstien]

I know it's anecdotal, but the motivation aspect of IQ had a big effect on me as a child in a kind of non-intuitive way. Straight-A student until 7th grade, when my school had me take an IQ test and placed me in AES. I lost motivation because I started assuming that classes were going to be easy based on my intelligence, and my grades suffered.

[@person6459]

Quit blaming it on your IQ score.

[@myttydohun4851]

Person Why, dumbass?

[@danny6714]

@@person6459 You must not be very intelligent, Person.

[@yashaswikulshreshtha1588]

@@person6459 you're idiot fr

[@infj-tguy6275]

I took an online IQ test n at the end It wanted me to pay money for my results, I guess I'm pretty smart because I didn't need my answer that badly

[@sunnysdreamland]

Great video! I always agree that non-intelligence abilities decide how far the intelligence abilities can go. IQ test is not for parents to how awesome the kids are, but for parents to understand their kids more.

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

In my case it measures how stupid I am.

[@jonathanowo7584]

L Galicki that's just depressing........... im laughing so hard

[@cdc849]

Someone who is honest

[@NewMessage]

What does it mean when your IQ test just makes the guy grading it laugh hysterically for 20 minutes striaght? What? Stop laughing.. what does it mean? Stop laughing!

[@emmamay3820]

If he laughed for 20 minutes straight at a single IQ score, congratulations, you scored 420.

[@hunkulus]

Probably 69

[@mr_ekshun]

In high school, I was in a calculus class with about 20 other students and the teacher was incredible (won several big awards and often part of major educational organizations in the US). Several students were your stereotypical "jock" type. At the beginning of the year, their behavior was what you'd expect. But as time went on, I noticed that they started to actually participate during class a little and even ask questions. When asked to come up to the board and help solve a problem (as we all did regularly), they actually started to try. It was weird, but really cool to see. Some of them actually started to perform pretty well, a couple times coming up with answers to problems that stumped the "intelligent" stereotypical students. At the end of the year before our AP exams, our teacher was visibly proud of these students and I overheard him several times telling them they'll do well on the AP exams. The tragedy is that at least most of these "jocks" didn't even show up to the exam. The stereotype had been beaten into them over a lifetime and one school year wasn't enough to help them learn that they are so much more than a stereotype. On the last day of school, when most of the Senior class was skipping school in celebration, I accidentally saw a notepad on my teacher's desk that charted his projected AP scores for each student throughout the year with brief notes. These "jocks" were expectedly low for most of the year but shot up in the latter half. There was even a note or two saying that he saw potential in these students early in the year. I might have been imagining it, but I swear our teacher looked depressed after the AP exams. I wonder how many times he'd seen this happen. He saw their potential, perhaps not just in intelligence but for their ability to take their lives back from the horrible "jock" stereotype. Our teacher was just that kind of guy, the kind who could read you and understand you and would clearly care about you. This experience really made me wonder just how much I misunderstood about intelligence and about other people in general and I'm still digesting it, even 8 years later.

[@carlborneke8641]

A true genius isn’t someone with superior intelligence, it is someone who uses their intelligence in a superior way.

[@jacksonpercy8044]

All the online IQ tests say I have about 145 IQ, but I'm still a dumbass lmao

[@akaakaakaak5779]

That because those online ones give a score of like 120 for selecting completely random answers. Your score probably corresponds to around average (100) on a real test.

[@emilsayahi1]

Online IQ tests mean nothing you moron. Take a real one.

[@nirv2796]

Online IQ tests want to make you feel good so that you tell your friends/ family, it's a business; they have no incentive to actually tell you an honest score.

[@Yellowdigigod]

IQ tests are good at measuring types of intelligence individually. It means nothing as one number. "Everyone is a genius, but you cannot expect a fish to climb a tree"- A.Einstein

[@jonathanowo7584]

Sagrotan he's just quoting a fitting line from einstein, he's not doing anything you say not to do

[@jonathanowo7584]

HolyFlame Dragon yeah, the ones that are really detailed, and describe your personality without putting people in a group (simom binet tests) are really great

[@chopperhead2012]

This quote was pertaining to expectations based on IQ as well as educational psychology, specifically involving methods of learning that caters to different personality types.

[@ZiePe]

There is apparently no evidence Einstein ever said that

[@weirdshamanwizzard3156]

Well i had a temporary case of braindamage and can tell you from experience that for some people its just way harder to learn or remember stuff than for others

[@MegaGuitarplayer92]

I feel like having a high iq only means you're good at taking an iq test.

[@yeetinggoddess2113]

True

[@kleinofficial9615]

having a high means you're good at logical thinking and you know what that good logical thinking can get you? u can be an engineer, can build a new thing that will help humanity, for example, einstein, stephen hawking, nicola tesla and many more

[@kleinofficial9615]

but im not saying that u need to have a high iq to be a succesfull person u can be succesful person even if ur not good at logical thinking, like maybe u have a great memory but doesnt have a high iq something like that

[@MegaGuitarplayer92]

@@kleinofficial9615 engineers are dumb musicians are the real smart people

[@kleinofficial9615]

@@MegaGuitarplayer92 nah it depends on the person, cus i have a friend who's good at piano but is dumb

[@blan_k4691]

I've got an incredible self-awareness intelligence, but figuring out the specific steps to answering a clever shape puzzle, is not my strong point. You can be really smart, and aware of reality and predictions, but maybe a fancy number puzzle is not your strong suit, within a reasonable time. Time is also another factor.

[@kleinofficial9615]

its the opposite for me im not great at self-awareness intelligence but im great at other things like logical thinking, planning, deductive skills, inductive skills and incredible emotion intelligence

[@kleinofficial9615]

the was once i outsmarted a teacher in my class about me cheating

[@7chanconn7]

I bet the average IQ of people that comment "notification squad" or "first" is 80.

[@jesuspeng7736]

you're so positive :)

[@MrPolluxxxx]

Chanconn what is notification squad?

[@eusebiu4506]

A part of me is afraid of the answer

[@petmach]

You can click on a bell icon on any channel and it notifies you immediatly when a new video is up from the channel. So they're usually the first viewers and spam shit like "first" or "noification squad" so other people with notification will give them thumbs.

[@jonathanowo7584]

5th

[@jazminalvarado8433]

I agree with this assessment. Many people have high score on these test, but have barely any common sense; just been my experience.

[@MasamuneX]

went to a gifted school with kids (120+IQ) and i 100% agree, abstract thought is so strong in some ppl that common sense gos right over their heads... also there is a lot of ppl that are very emotionally dumb and a lot of ppl that are complete idiots socially. also a lot of kids with adhd and a lot of kids on the spectrum

[@danibroxy1465]

Me

[@farisaljohani9957]

I've watched this 4 times and every time i learn a new thing

[@blidge8282]

A person's IQ score is a measure of their ability to perform in an IQ test. An IQ test is intended to represent idealised abstractions of problems that one could encounter in the real world. So if you consider the IQ test itself as one of these problems, then it follows that a person can improve their IQ score if they already have a high IQ.

[@AlmightyFSM]

Percentage of people with an IQ less than 130...98% Percentage of people who upvoted a video claiming that IQ is a load of bollocks, 98%. Spooky

[@innosam123]

DelusionaryKiller its a joke.

[@oBCHANo]

It may be a joke but it's also accurate. It's usually uneducated morons who clearly don't have an IQ even remotely above average that cry about how it means nothing. Meanwhile in psychology it's accounted for in tests constantly because IQ correlates with all kinds of things like success in life. Also, there's a number of different tests some better than others and one that is influenced by motive for example isn't a very good one.

[@SamahLama]

You're forgetting the amount of people who didn't upvote or down vote

[@aaronlandry3934]

AlmightyFSM You think that something based on Psychology from the early 1900s isn’t bollocks? Do you really think that you can figure out someone’s level of intelligence with one simple test that ignores the laundry list of variables?

[@HieronymousLex]

fynes leigh how stupid can you be? You’ve clearly never seen an iq test or even had one described to you. You’re definitely proving the above commenters post, it’s always some below average intelligence virtue signaling nobody who thinks they know the truth that IQ and therefore intelligence is just made up. What a joke

[@60secondsuccess39]

People need to realize that iq doesn't mean somebody is smart or dumb, it just means that they fall in a certain percentile of the population. For example, one standard deviation of iq is 15. This means 68% of the population will fall between 85-115 on their iq tests. So take these with a grain of salt; don't let the number define you. Please up vote and send this to the top. People need to see this.

[@josefernandez1077]

Upvoted. I couldn't agree more with the, don't let a number define you part.

[@60secondsuccess39]

It influences your propensity towards learning new information. It doesn't mean you are smart or dumb. It simply means you can learn new information faster; quite a bit faster in some cases.

[@ryanpmcguire]

"Just means they fall in a certain percentile" That percentile representing how much of the population you are smarter than.

[@claytonkramer7234]

Ryan McGuire exactly. This is bullshit.

[@60secondsuccess39]

Ryan McGuire What is being smart? I'm not trying to be snarky, more just trying to create discussion.

[@loricrockett-owens5117]

Well I took an IQ test one said my IQ was 90 the other said my result was 96. All I know is I'm studying over five Languages so I don't have a frikking clue what my real iq is. Lol

[@SeraphsWitness]

That's well within a normal variation range, you're not going to score the same twice in a row in all likelihood.

[@fixafix69]

Considering that people below 95 IQ cannot follow written instructions correctly without loosing themselves too much before the end (like a building manual from IKEA), I really think you just took some very bad tests

[@Alvin-my6wj]

Studying 5 languages has nothing to do with IQ. IQ is processing speed (286, 486, Pentium, Quad, ...) So, your score of 90-100 is quite accurate. Now if you said 5 PhD's in physics, math, and rocketry, then you can discount IQ.

[@loricrockett-owens5117]

@@Alvin-my6wj right I'm studying close to twenty languages and I have an average IQ. Lol

[@Alvin-my6wj]

@@loricrockett-owens5117 IQ is processing speed. It does not take AMD Ryzen chip at 3.5 GHz to do basic word processing program - even in 20 languages, a 486 chip can do it no problem. Now if you can simultaneously do 20 language UN level LIVE translation, then different story. Let's recap, IQ = Processing Speed, IQ not = Number of Languages.

[@redcalcium429]

I got 75 - 85 IQ ~ the test recommends I become a janitor or railroad worker. I've always thought I was very slow and this was just the push I needed to remove myself from existence after I finish high school. Good luck to all you other hairless apes with the test and life in general ❤️

[@hiimanhuman]

Hope you succeed in life dont listen to some test !

[@Zalamandar]

Well isn't this depressing

[@Isegawa2001]

IQ is a useless number. Even if you're "slow" I highly doubt you can't excel in skills that require more creative thinking, such as writing, drawing, painting or human sciences. The test is rigged to make logical thinking be the end-all-be-all of life, however this is simply not true. Have you tried things like sports, arts and the like? BTW don't let a test put you down so much.

[@kennethsinger561]

If you think you're slow, you're probably not!

[@heroiuraresjustinian4681]

@Another Faceless Name first of all iq isn't a random number,second it is the best predictor of success and also the most reliable one.

[@avsaucyboi9733]

I think what is most important is creativity and curiosity. The engines which enable learning and the reason why school can be worthwhile when we become interested in the topics being teaches.

[@SE-xg2pi]

This reminds me why I love the internet so much. You can bypass/supplement the arbitrary-disguised-as-objective teachings and tests and study what you want to study, regardless of your IQ.

[@just-a-catapult4807]

Remember your iq increases immensely if you watch rick and morty

[@jesusisthetruth4497]

RadarZ Road To 45 Subs!!! Oooo okay

[@clipit4503]

5+5=not10

[@leechyfruit4464]

Richard and Mortimer*

[@1am636]

Internet IQ tests tell me I have an IQ between 115-120. But that doesn't matter much. Good reasoning, logic, perspective and creativity is really all I want. Creativity is really important.

[@saxophones1041]

Preach

[@1am636]

@eLON_-hEAVYfALCON I know, I never claimed they were true or accurate.

[@BreeeYT]

This video is literally a summary of the intelligence unit in my first-year university psych course! Thanks for creating such high-quality content that is free for everyone :)

[@jodinha4225]

The Binet-Simon test aka The BS test

[@MaxArceus]

Fay, it's a pun.....

[@Jake-kn3xg]

+faytleingod499 How?

[@sleep3417]

faytleingod499 Jokes are supposed to be funny.

[@blake2861]

Profile picture checks out.

[@spirks2945]

I got the joke Faytleingod... it was crap but still a joke.

[@yourhate7]

My IQ is under 420, but above 420

[@cdc849]

Кирсагро you’ve cheated the system

[@peterevans3310]

Кирсагро Impressive.

[@denizbayraktar6890]

@@existenceisillusion6528 im dead

[@unk594]

my iq is actually 1010^100.

[@michaelhedrick589]

My IQ is 1000^-2

[@Alex-bd7kz]

In the end, genius is neither born nor made, it’s declared by the media or Mensa.

[@visremusic5388]

I remember being a decent student in high school, and I boasted I have a fairly high I.Q "Yea, that A I got in English, it's cause I have an I.Q of 161". As if I actually went through the motions to get an official I.Q test done. Psh. Cringy memories.

[@clearmenser]

"Don't let a number define you." Well... what about height? Weight? Shoe size? Waist size? I guess they don't really 'define you', but just give you an accurate location along a range. If I'm in Boulder Colorado, that's an accuracy of location. If I'm sleeping, that's an accuracy of consciousness. So, maybe, to be more pedantic I would prefer to say, if I had more words to use in a longer sound-bite... "Don't believe that an accurate measure of where you are is all you can ever be."

[@person6459]

Quit searching for attention, you knew he was referencing your IQ score.

[@kenshin6553]

The score you get on a test you took is not at all comparable to height, weight, or shoe size

[@raymondblake5765]

I was in a gifted class in elementary school and then decided to stop attending it in middle school. Didn't like school and slacked off. Never knew what it was like to 'struggle' to comprehend a math concept. As a young adult, I realized that my strength was in logical and mathematical reasoning, and that I could intensely focus and accomplish a learning task at an unusual level of efficacy and efficiency. This motivated me to learn French (which I learned to fluency in four months) and now I teach french in Elementary school(which pays decently well in Canada, where I live) I've since started studying mathematics and and science, and I tutor calculus. Without the knowledge that I had a high likelihood of success, because of my 'high' IQ, I may not have decided to try as hard as I did to learn the skills that now help me make a living.

[@ericmagalhaes618]

90% of criticism of the applicability of IQ is related to the existance of other factors influencing the ability to form connections. "IQ isn't valid because motivation matters... IQ isn't valid because upbringing matters..." IQ is AN IMPORTANT FACTOR in measuring one's ability to understand the world. People who make criticisms like that don't seem to understand statistics and how more than one RELEVANT factor can influence a phenomenon.

[@EMMIGREYART]

The thing that makes me so disappointed in the system is that they think they can make something as fluid as intelligence and put it into numbers.

[@dagbackerud7316]

L

[@elliottgreer2444]

Intelligence is not a fluid or object you touch it is passive and consists of the way your brain processes thoughts in a way that could fit the possible answer to fit the question

[@Wardog11111]

Well it's the best phycological measure for prediction of life success (followed by conscientiousness), so it's clearly measuring something important.

[@MisterCovek]

There was this Asian scientist who developed an IQ test by doing an analysis of your DNA. There's a type of gene that high IQ people have more than low IQ people. And it was extremely accurate. But he was forced to pull the plug on that program because of political correctness.

[@MisterCovek]

I'm not asking you to trust me. I can see you have access to internet. You can easily look it up.

[@hydrahowlite8725]

"do not let a number define you"- he says. what about our age?

[@riogutierrez8326]

Hydra Howlite Pretty sure the statement still applies.

[@edge21str]

You shouldn’t let either define you but you should know your limits. You’re probably not going to break any new ground on any science fronts with an IQ of 80 and you’re not going to be the next olympic champion in the 100m sprint if you’re 45.

[@paulmyers5017]

That does not define me either because time moves on.

[@stuartmatthews91]

I know my age and iq don't define me. That might take a few more characters to get any real info. You can obsess about these things. That could cause you some other fixation problems. But its not so much a definition of a person.

[@wayneyadams]

It makes no difference what factors affect IQ since it is a test of mental acuity. I am tired of people who usually have low or average IQ scores denigrating IQ tests. Like it or not, high IQ as tested by IQ tests give one certain advantages. The favorite tactic of these people is to find a person who is a failure while having a high IQ and compare that person to a successful person who has an average IQ. This is dishonest, because there are statistical outliers in every distribution.

[@shfuioy2586]

Finally someone who understands how the IQ science works! I don’t think IQ is perfect, but labeling things like musical talents and body “intelligence” as intelligence is plain foolish and is muddying up the water more. They’re talents and it should stay that way, not to mention more evidence for G is people with higher IQ scores are generally higher in EQ! Did you know EQ is not recognized as static and has been measured to change daily? I could go on, but what I really think is that people don’t like IQ because it’s static or people just succumb to the bandwagon effect.

[@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777]

In my country we have many entrance exams that also take reasoning tests and we were taught diffrent kinds of reasoning questions and how to solve them, how to approach them. I think it also has to do with how many reasoning questions you've practices earlier.

[@izarscharf7845]

iq test are bullshit first one i took i got 142 a few years later i got 106 do you take the best or the worst ?

[@max-ed1kk]

did you take one that's actually backed by research or just a free one online lol

[@peterm6737]

I couldn't remember my score from over a decade ago, I took several ( about 10 ) different IQ tests online, all Free. I got everything between 142 and 90, some are blatantly easy and others are straight up confusing. In the end I got no clue what mine actually is XD, if it's a big deal I recommend taking a serious one, not a free online one because they aren't very consistent, just assume your smart and live you're life well 👍nobody really cares and it's not the end all golden standard to measure how smart you are.

[@howdoicreateacc6586]

The latest, because it changes over time. Stop doing drugs. :D

[@ShinimagisFTW]

My IQ is 14. Your lucky.

[@jan_phd]

The latest. You'd know that except, you aren't very bright.

[@mrurchu4812]

I failed in an I.Q test....... They gave me 3 points for the effort

[@synthguy7774]

Life outcomes are honestly the best thing we have in terms of predicting intelligence; IQ however offers an interesting perspective.

[@alifmehedi3881]

I was really down thinking i might have a really low IQ. This video really helped me man. Thanks a lot you saved my future.

[@HenkJanBakker]

Any test basically tests how good you are at doing tests. Especially IQ tests can be practiced making your IQ-score rise as much as 20 points.

[@potatoonastick2239]

Well why would you practise for an IQ test though? That completely ruins the point of taking the test altogether.

[@HenkJanBakker]

Well that is also a matter of perspective. Why be good at any test? To be considered smarter get a better position, get the job instead of the one that did not practice... stuff like that. So it ruins a strictly scientific result... but who makes a test JUST for science amymore?

[@mrburgermaster]

Henk-Jan Bakker I went up 20 points just by familiarizing myself with scrambled words and mathematical patterns. IQ leaves out too many variables.

[@jan_phd]

Curley from the THREE STOOGES said it best, "I tried to think but nothing happened!"

[@jan_phd]

There have been two responses, both are GOOD! However, You Tube censors us all and you people don't notice that. There's an IQ test, largely ignored.

[@John-yo7kh]

in short IQ is just a measurement to see how good you can process stuff while smartness is making the best of the situation.

[@Mrocznyy666]

What of the best comments among the substantive ones.

[@ravindranathhospital1362]

I never want to take an iq test. If you have a high iq, you are very proud and boast around but if you have a low iq, you are very disappointed. Not taking an iq test and ignoring it much better.

[@ENTRYEAH]

I took a test when I was younger and was determined as "gifted" so I am automatically put in smart classes, I fail them. IQ is nothing

[@unk594]

@Duupar Kids in middle school that have a IQ of 146 just might have no motivation, but have the most potential. because of anxiety or lack of motivation or depression. Which is me, but i don't know about potential as i don't know what i'll do with my life really.

[@no-gracias9863]

Lol, so THAT'S why they say some ppl are gt

[@no-gracias9863]

You severed your class until the end! F

[@tatsumakisempyukaku]

One study I read showed that kids who were told that they were smart became afraid to lose that designation. So, they stopped trying to learn so as to not be shown that they could be wrong or fail. For if they fail, they can’t be smart any more; as if they arrived at some place that they can be kicked out of. . On the other hand, kids who were praised for hard work and effort, even when they failed, continued to learn and gladly took on new challenges. They learned to love the journey. Along the way you’ll just get “smarter”. And the truth is that knowledge is likely infinite, so be Socratic, claim your ignorance and fall in love with curiosity and the love of wisdom.

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"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t." "Don't judge a fish by how well it can climb a tree." These have been repeated so many times, the origins are uncertain.

[@Draakie100]

I believe that success is being happy (at peace with myself) in life, and that IQ is how happy ((at peace with myself) I can I become with the choises and resources I have (the smartest people are the happiest people). I wish everybody a healthy, happy, and magical life 🌎☮

[@Kleo3392]

Intelligence literally translates to understanding. That’s one of the many things learning Latin has taught me, other than how to speak Latin, and thus I think of intelligence as someone’s ability to understand any given concept. The more deeply you can understand, and the more things you can understand, the more intelligence you have, simple as that.

[@dg-hughes]

"Don't let a number define you". At my former workplace we had employee retreats and were given tests to show the management our personality types so they could relate to us better (they never used the test data!). Instead of numbers some of the tests used colours I was a green and blue supportive (I think?) red was more aggressive, yellow was something again. Other versions used animals such as an eagle for one result maybe a lion for another. People can be very nervous if labelled with a number.

[@tankofnova4629]

I don't recall the standard IQ test but I was doing poorly in school, not because there is anything wrong with me,[I do have minor ADHD but while in solitude that does nothing at all.] but it was because I had a bully type that is rather rare. Sure I had the run of the mill bully hitting me but I also had thieves waiting for me to misplace my folders like it was a corpse and the thieves were vultures. No one could figure out why I was constantly not turning in work then suddenly having my grades spike then drop again. A combination of this event being rare and teachers not listening/believing me had everyone not involved in my downfall think that I am just lazy. My poor grades and the "help" I was given[I'll get to that] had my entire life moving in a downward spiral. About that "help" Some of the school staff thought that if a smarter student helped me out when time permitted it would help me improve my grades. And my poor damn luck had that smarter kid BE ONE OF MY THIEVES!!! Teachers constantly noticed me fighting with my "mentor" and there opinion shifted from lazy to straight up not care at all about anything ever. I was given classes that only the worst of trouble makers would ever be sent and that only made things worse because every kid around me practically smelled my weakness like ravines wolves. The bulling worsened and now that teachers know me as someone who fights people who try to help out [my assigned mentor was a thief but no one ever tried to see the facts] every situation that would ever happen was my fault in everyone's eyes. I was stuck in a never ending cycle of torment thanks to the asinine teachers, students and staff in FWCS[Fort Wayne Community Schools] I live in Florida now but after years of being sent though hell on earth I now have a really hard time meeting people and I have a slight speech impediment. Wouldn't you after having everyone you know steal, attack, ridicule, send you to "bad kid" classes, not listen to anything you say and only view any event involving you as negative and "your fault" when your just doing your work? Not every listing was done by everyone involved.

[@KarkatVantasBitches]

The part about disabilities is so important. I was a really smart kid, so it was assumed that I was totally fine; but I struggled a lot with social situations and it was chalked up to intelligence. In truth, I have autism. This has happened to many people I've known!

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

It's like any kind of talent: if you don't work hard of developing it, if won't amount to much. The stories of people who weren't good at all at something--but were just interested--but persisted and achieved mastery are legion. Passion and hard work are the name of the game.

I took a IQ test once and scored around 170, folk was amazed over my good memory and not my high IQ; I had take the same test 4 years before, it was in a book that also held the answers :-) The truth is that I'm not very logical at all.

[@cosminroman5878]

there are different scales for intelligence. using the standard deviation 24 you can get a score of 172, but that would be only 145 using standard deviation 15 which is the most popular one. Online tests don't count and a lot of professional tests measure up to 145 at most. Untimed tests like mega or titan aren't accurate either. point is 170 meant 144.

[@unk594]

@@cosminroman5878 Mine was with a professional while i was in Foster Care and i scored 146-148. i was also diagnosed with anxiety at that moment as well.

[@cosminroman5878]

@@unk594 what standard deviation?

[@im6star313]

was it a online one

[@unk594]

@@cosminroman5878 I actually have no idea what that is as i am 13

[@Eta_Carinae__]

Well, there are a number of different corrections one can make immediately here. IQ is a measure of G, which is precisely, the factor which predicts cognitive ability. I use "the", as the data from IQ shows one factor. Even if you're to pull out all the questions which correlate most with eachother, and questions which correlate the least with those, and compare those groups, you get a correlation of ~0.8, which indicates a single factor. The other types intelligences (social/emotional, logical-mathematical, spatial, working memory, etc.), when factors of IQ and Five-factor personality are pulled out leave next to no variability in the data to be explained by any particular deviant intelligence (working memory's variability is almost entirely explained by IQ). This means that these various intelligences only measure IQ and FFM. Heritability is right, but "multiple different factors" isn't. G comprises "fluid" and "crystallised" intelligence, the latter of which is the bundle of factors which correlate with age, education, soci-economic background, etc. Fluid intelligence is what's left over, and accounts for about 36% of the variance in IQ scores, and accounts for about 25% of the variance in job/educational success, which is some of the best r^2 values one finds in social sciences generally. For more on this, see John B. Carroll's "Human Cognitive Abilities".

[@ericman3234]

incredible video.thank you.

[@nikibronson133]

There are a lot of people in this chat that tie their identity with their IQ and defend it way too much, not realizing it's a very highly overrated (and damn near useless) metric. You never hear anyone we consider "geniuses" talking about IQ...in fact, they laugh at people who care so much about it or think the capacity or potential of a human mind can be defined or measured by it.

[@mybackhurts7020]

Can I get my IQ tasted?

[@DogDogGodFog]

*tasted*

[@chrstnlbs9750]

I’ll taste your IQ 😉

[@no-gracias9863]

Lol

[@jeaniebird999]

19 years ago, while being in the local psych ward and getting diagnosed, for the first time, I was given an intelligent/psychology test that took two whole days to complete. The results - high intelligence with high anxiety and poor social skills (no number given to denote IQ). Nine years later, after insisting my doctor's test me, neurologically, because my brain was absolute mush after months of electric shock therapy and they insisted it couldn't be the ECT treatments, they finally agreed to give me a "neurological" test. But, it was the exact, same, two day intelligence test I had taken almost a decade earlier! Same results, too. Their conclusion: We don't know why your brain is mush, but it's not from going under anesthesia and getting your brain zapped weekly for almost a year. (It was three times a week, in the beginning.) Also, my brain turned to mush IMMEDIATELY after starting the "treatments", but they always dismissed my complaints. We begged them to let me stop but they insisted that it would eventually make me happy (it was treatment for depression) even though it didn't. It only turned me into a zombie and made me very sick two days out of every week. When we finally told them we couldn't afford the treatments or traveling out of town every single week, they basically told us not to let the door hit us in the ass when we leave. At that point, my husband (now ex) had been working from home, for the last 6 months, because he couldn't leave me alone because I was like a patient with Alzheimer's that would get ready for work, that didn't exist, and try to go shopping/driving to places that didn't exist. I didn't even know about this part until a few months ago! I had no idea it was that bad, until now. I thought he was going to work, but he was just going downstairs, to the office. I had no idea I was that out of it. I didn't get my mind back until I insisted on discontinuing ALL psychiatric medications. Within just 6 months of being completely off psychiatric medications, I was able to do simple math in my head, which is something I hadn't been able to do for a decade. Less than a year after that, I was able to get off all the other medications that I had to take to deal with all the side effects of the psych meds. I'm 100% prescription drug free, now, and my quality of life is finally back. I'm just as depressed as I've been my entire life. That never changed. The only difference, is that I'm no longer suicidal. I was ONLY suicidal when being drugged. According to an article I read a few years ago, doctors and scientists still don't know how ECT works, but they still do it because it does, for some people. Even though, MILLIONS of patients have the same complaints that I have. Sick mother fuckers.

[@hughconboy2540]

Not sure what this has to do with IQ tests and not sure what you mean by "mosh", but you did mention that the treatments were ineffective in your case. And that's terrible and very irresponsible if they were forcing you into it or manipulating you to do the treatments. There are some concerns that ECT may cause problems with memory. Also it's difficult to measure outcomes, in some cases it may be effective but this could just be a placebo effect. It depends who you ask.

[@spider-bat-man8791]

Doctors are evil as drug dealers they just wanna make money

[@endlessadventure541]

I know one thing for sure, I know stupid when I meet it.

[@anayacerinaryu7690]

Many IQ tests seem to heavily test: Speed of Pattern recognition, logical reasoning (usually including Occam's razor) retaining, comparing and re-using information from previous questions, and pure ability to memorize a string of senseless information (Like a row of meaningless numbers or unrelated shapes) If your ability to concentrate/focus is low, you're at a disadvantage. With ADHD I'd get bored and distracted before I could finish a test. Which... has basically happened every time. As a child I'd speed through the first part of different intelligence measuring tests, then get bored by the repetitive nature of the questions, turn distracted and unmotivated, and either refuse to continue verbal tests or just doodle until the time for a written one was over. I hated doing meaningless things, and I wouldn't get a reward for finishing, so I didn't care to. I might have powered through if I had felt any motivation to do so, but I never did, so I didn't. If I took Ritalin beforehand I'd have a much better chance. But if I do that, am I then measuring my actual intelligence? I've heard said that untreated ADHD lowers IQ by 10 points on average, meaning that with medicine my IQ might go from 121 to 131, and with actual motivation to do well it might go higher. So which is my real ability? If a person with a broken leg is given painkillers and then takes the test, he'd do much better than he'd do with a broken leg and no painkillers-- since he wouldn't be distracted by pain. Of course a broken leg will eventually pass while ADHD will not. But since the sources of ADHD symptoms like distraction and lack of focus are measurable and treatable, does ADHD count on the same level as other illnesses and injury, or is it, given it's permanent effect on a person, the actual baseline for your IQ?

[@calcifer1234]

The Problem I have always found with IQ tests is that they are biased against anyone with any form of learning difficulty such as dyslexia or dyspraxia. Dyslexia doesn't necessarily make a person any less intelligent (instead I tend to think that it provides a different way of thinking which can be beneficial) but when someone with dyslexia, for instance, is tested with a traditional IQ style test they can be made to think that they are, severely hampering their confidence. I understand (and to a certain extent agree) with the concept that Hank raised about being IQ tests being useful as an indicator for a learning disability. However, with the importance that is placed on doing well (and thus the link that people then make to their self worth), are they a useful enough indicator when balanced with the damage that they can do? I agree IQ tests are useful enough in their own way, but without a more in depth understanding of what they test, and their limitations, I personally think they can act as a limiter to a person's potential. A someone with both dyslexia and dyspraxia, my low IQ scores made me think that I wasn't as capable as my friends who scored higher, because I couldn't see the patterns or work out the puzzles. Now I am in no way a genius, but it took me a while to realise that I could contribute in a smart and helpful way regardless of my "below average" IQ. Anyone in the same boat, please don't give up and let this define you. You are more than just numbers on a page.

[@benjaminsmith3645]

I have dyscalculia which is like dyslexic but for numbers and i always felt that all the mental math questions on IQ tests were unfair because it just labels me as being incredibly stupid. i am not stupid but my disorder causes me to be very confused by numbers and unable to think of them in an abstract way.

[@Rosemary46840]

That's not true at all, the school system is biased against these things however iq tests are pretty accurate. Denying the accuracy and validity of an IQ test is only something someone with a low IQ would say to feel better another themselves when IQ scores actually tell us allot.

[@emperordarthjarjarsnoke7596]

4:37 EXACTLY THIS!!! I’m a math tutor and the number one thing I hate to hear is people thinking they ‘aren’t a math person’. Math is about problem solving, not memorizing formulas. The more work you put in the more you’ll get out, just because there’s that one kid in the class that ‘never studies’ and gets straight A’s doesn’t mean you can’t get a straight A too. Some people may have a have a stronger intuition towards a math topic than others, but that’s a head start at best.

[@phukyew14]

I used to get punished for finishing before everyone and doing the answers in my head. Our education system caters to the low IQ, when it should cater to all. Also, I agree with you.

[@capoeirastronaut]

There's a great paper out there: 'A dynamical model of general intelligence - The positive manifold of intelligence by mutualism', which compares true intelligence to a resilient ecology, and IQ to measuring ecologies purely by biomass. That's good at picking up overall ill-health of an ecosystem, but it confuses some fragile simplified ecologies with resilient versatile ones.

[@donniejuan]

I have no idea what IQ test measures but to quote Nobel Prize winning Physicist Richard Feynman: "winning a Nobel prize is no big deal, but winning It with an IQ of 124 is really something."😁😁😁