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emmline wrote:A few years ago I went through a spell of obsession with IQ tests. .
You should have called me. I administered IQ tests for 30 years.

IQ tests are really useful for predicting how someone will perform in school. Once you get past that, IQs are largely useless--or, at best, overrated. They don't predict how successful someone will be or, God knows, how happy they'll be. Most of the world is far more impressed with IQ tests than psychologists are. And psychologists invented the damn things.
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Dale wrote:
emmline wrote:A few years ago I went through a spell of obsession with IQ tests. .
You should have called me. I administered IQ tests for 30 years.

IQ tests are really useful for predicting how someone will perform in school. Once you get past that, IQs are largely useless--or, at best, overrated. They don't predict how successful someone will be or, God knows, how happy they'll be. Most of the world is far more impressed with IQ tests than psychologists are. And psychologists invented the damn things.

Sounds more like something a lawyer and neurologist would come up with.
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I note it appears to be a hoax. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430
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:lol: no!!! :lol:
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hans wrote:I note it appears to be a hoax. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430
Yeah. Fortunately, us IE users were intelligent enough to realise that it must be a hoax. It was only the stupid Opera users who thought different.
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Smugness goeth before....
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Next you'll be telling me that not everything on the Internet is true... :puppyeyes:
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hans wrote:I note it appears to be a hoax. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430
So I'm not stoopid any more?
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Jim will be along in a bit to explain yer logical fallacy. :P
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Nanohedron wrote:
hans wrote:I note it appears to be a hoax. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430
So I'm not stoopid any more?
I hope no one took it seriously. Even if genuine, this was a SSLOP (self selected listener opinion poll), all of which are incapable of modeling the population as a whole.
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s1m0n wrote:I hope no one took it seriously.
I think it's pretty evident few of us were going to, hoax or not. :)
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I take everything too seriously :really:
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Nanohedron wrote:
s1m0n wrote:I hope no one took it seriously.
I think it's pretty evident few of us were going to, hoax or not. :)
I know. I was about to Google for a Safari to IQ conversion chart. I'm just that gullible. Hey...stop docking me points.
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dwest wrote:
Dale wrote:
emmline wrote:A few years ago I went through a spell of obsession with IQ tests. .
You should have called me. I administered IQ tests for 30 years.

IQ tests are really useful for predicting how someone will perform in school. Once you get past that, IQs are largely useless--or, at best, overrated. They don't predict how successful someone will be or, God knows, how happy they'll be. Most of the world is far more impressed with IQ tests than psychologists are. And psychologists invented the damn things.

Sounds more like something a lawyer and neurologist would come up with.
A lawyer AND neurologist? Like a collaboration? Or a lawyer who is also a neurologist? And why does it sound more like something a lawyer/neurologist would come up with?
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I know a lot of people with IQ's below 70 who are much better people than freakin geniuses.
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