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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 55 minutes ago

Has anyone here actually had a real IQ test? They’re administered by psychologists and it takes like 2-3 days of different tests. No one doing any online test is doing a real IQ test. Not that they’re the end all be all for intelligence anyways.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

My IQ test done through school came back with super high results. I’m 33 and work part time at a bakery while on my fourth year of a two year program. It doesn’t fucking matter.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago

He's also "good at Diablo" or whatever it was. And "really smart about business." And "really smart about rockets." And blah blah blah. It's all bullshit. Just listen to him. He can barely form coherent sentences.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I find it hard to believe someone can recognize patterns well enough to do well on an IQ test could also be so stupid as to not realize everyone hates him and just wants his money.

[–] currycourier@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

I mean for what its worth emotional intelligence (recognizing everyone hates you and just wants your money) is a whole different thing. That said, I'm pretty sure he's just an idiot in general too. Maybe smarter than the average person, but certainly not three standard deviations smarter.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually just kind of dumb, but humans are really bad at recognizing patterns relating to ourselves. There's a reason therapists see other therapists, for example.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone that cares about an IQ result is a permanent clown that deserves to be laughed at until they're dust

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I took a two-page IQ test in a Reader's Digest and I got 125. It meant a lot to me.

[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Me too! I got 128 and it defined me for a long time. I'm more iq'd than you. Yesss, here's my time to shine again, finally

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Same! I still have the certificate!

(Although I would have got 129 if my sister, who couldn't spell, kept insisting that "than" is spelt "then" and wouldn't stop bugging me throughout the whole test until I changed it, even though I knew she was wrong. Yes I am still bitter about it today.)

I lack real world intelligence, so bog all use that test was.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 13 hours ago

As someone with a higher and more officialler result than you IDIOTS I can assure you that I am also an idiot.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 55 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

the only thing it measures is how good you are at taking an IQ test

The axis need to be swapped.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

the punchline is that if you pay for the iq test you are instantly considered stupid and if you bribe the iq test you get a high score. everyone in between won't pay for an iq test

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The moment you pay for an IQ test - you failed it

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

tbf, i paid for an IQ test because i needed the results to prove i'm capable of understanding my own gender in court. Pretty whack but i heard recently the laws in my country changed so i hope younger trans people won't have to go through that humiliation

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I think the same thing applies to Mensa. If you’re paying to join the “smart people club”, how smart are you really?

[–] Lvdwsn@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My local Mensa hosts a lot of fun events, the cost is minimal, and it replaces a social vacuum left by religious activities for me. A wide variety of people, most very nice, almost all pretty interesting. Also a pretty insular group of folks that doesn’t really ruffle any feathers, so I’ve always been a little unsure why Mensa gets such hate online.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Because it gives off a bit of an elitist vibe to require an IQ test for entry.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
— Groucho

[–] warm@kbin.earth 14 points 16 hours ago

Yup. You can practice for it like any other test. There's no way to score human intelligence, except anyone who talks about having high IQ, then you know they are unintelligent.

[–] ambidexterity@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

IQ also has other use cases

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

I took a IQ test online it said I Genius.

[–] hopeleft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's very likely, tho honestly even if he had an iq of 300 i wouldn't care if things he says will remain bullshit.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 14 hours ago

And who's saying he's got a high IQ? Presumably it's just him saying he does, and he lies about everything else.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I bet his test results are a different scale, like imperial, but converted to normal metric standards he scores below average. Everything he says and does shows he really wants people to believe he's smart and he's willing to lie as much as needed to make people believe him, but he never actually shows anything of actual intelligence. On the contrary really.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 15 points 15 hours ago

Musk never outgrew 8th grade.

He's still in there, day in and day out, doing everything he can think of to try to get the other kids to think he's cool, and still just making himself look like that much more of a creepy, pathetic douchebag.