Comments on: It’s Official – I Lost Brain Cells http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2007/12/19/its-official-i-lost-brain-cells/ Various Epiphanies of a Technical Mind Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Selbstbräuner http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2007/12/19/its-official-i-lost-brain-cells/comment-page-1/#comment-74075 Selbstbräuner Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:39:12 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2007/12/19/its-official-i-lost-brain-cells/#comment-74075 IQ-Test are obsolete anyway, so don't worry. IQ-Test are obsolete anyway, so don’t worry.

]]> By: Ffoeg http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2007/12/19/its-official-i-lost-brain-cells/comment-page-1/#comment-8258 Ffoeg Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:15:48 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2007/12/19/its-official-i-lost-brain-cells/#comment-8258 Same thing happened to me. I was a whiz kid in school and they were rather excited about it etc so they tested my IQ and all that. The counselor that was doing the testing (a psychologist) went against the grain and told me my scores. I was around 140 according to him. Now when I take one of the online tests I invariably get a score of around 120. Some sites have explained that language skills are not tested as thoroughly due to the fact that tests are also taken by people who have English as a second language. If you are a hand-coder like me (I see the link to this topic below) then your highest scores would probably be in the same area, language. Don't worry, I think the average IQ in the US these days is around 80, not 100 from the look of the advertising they feed these cats. I think they scores are skewed by the fact that anyone as dumb as that never took a test to begin with. You're not at any disadvantage at 120. Same thing happened to me. I was a whiz kid in school and they were rather excited about it etc so they tested my IQ and all that. The counselor that was doing the testing (a psychologist) went against the grain and told me my scores. I was around 140 according to him.

Now when I take one of the online tests I invariably get a score of around 120. Some sites have explained that language skills are not tested as thoroughly due to the fact that tests are also taken by people who have English as a second language. If you are a hand-coder like me (I see the link to this topic below) then your highest scores would probably be in the same area, language.

Don’t worry, I think the average IQ in the US these days is around 80, not 100 from the look of the advertising they feed these cats. I think they scores are skewed by the fact that anyone as dumb as that never took a test to begin with. You’re not at any disadvantage at 120.

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