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Easy! Disband the military
Easy! Disband the militaryIf anybody can get him to answer this one question, we can look at his response and find out:
What will you do to make government smaller, reduce taxes, and balance the budget?
Then we will see if he can provide a rational solution.
Come on.
"She was TUAGHT it by sombody." is very funny.
The caps, the misspelling, the sentence structure, the second misspelling, the sheer irony. It all comes together.
Maybe I just have a perverse sense of humor.
125 Mean of persons receiving Ph.D. and M.D. degrees
115 Mean of college graduates
105 Mean of high school graduates
100 Average for total population
75 About 50-50 chance of reaching ninth grade
Probably too late in the thread to introduce new information...but here's a website listing the average IQ scores of various groups.
IQ Scores - AssessmentPsychology.com
I'd be surprised if the average person at debatepolitics wasn't as smart as a college graduate.
Probably too late in the thread to introduce new information...but here's a website listing the average IQ scores of various groups.
IQ Scores - AssessmentPsychology.com
I'd be surprised if the average person at debatepolitics wasn't as smart as a college graduate.
I've taken the Mensa test, as well as 3 different online tests and I've consistently scored in the mid to upper 150's....
Depends on which IQ test I took at which time. The first one was 155, the second was 128 (was drunk during that one - LOL), and the third 142.
I think that IQ is only one part of someone's intelligence. Being able to act within a social context is also another measure. Some who have high IQ's have the social skills of a 3 year old.
135. It looks like everyone is a friggin' genius. :mrgreen:
I've taken a buncha nd I'm going by the best I have ever done.
161, just barely passed the mark!
I was tested by Mensa at the age of 8 or 9 or somewhere around there. 142 "or so" if my mother's memory is correct. They didn't tell ME the results, and urged my mother not to tell me either until I was much older. /shrug
I've not ever taken one since, online or otherwise.
If those online tests gave people their REAL scores, people wouldn't want to take the test. They'd rather take a test that inflates their ego.
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.
I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. I mean, look at what they do in their spare time...these people aren't exactly playing texas hold 'em on yahoo...they're discussing ideas.
As for mine, the three times it was measured, I came in at 135, 132, and 141.
I also don't think raw IQ scores are an accurate measure of total intelligence.
Excellent point. I took three online test to get my result and used the average. The results varied by nearly 40 points.
Just look at the results of the poll. The average IQ is 100, and nearly everybody here would be above 120 or 130.
The average person is a slack-jawed meatbag whose only productive use is industrial labor, and eventually, fertilizer. It is hardly surprising to me that the average poster on this board scores considerably higher than the average meatbag-- even our densest posters are literate at beyond the eighth grade level, and capable of forming and expressing their own opinions.
As for my scores, when I was tested at 10-- ironically, to test for learning disabilities-- I scored off the scale the test was calibrated for, and all they could tell me was that it was higher than 163.
Professionally-administered tests as an adult place me consistently in the mid-140s, with an occasional fluke score in the high 130s or low 150s. The scores would probably be much higher if I'd spent more time in an intellectually stimulating environment and less time in a drug-induced stupor as an adolescent.
The average IQ for middle class white people in the United States is not 100. It's significantly higher than that. I would be surprised if it's much below 115. Maybe higher than that, if you're an Ashkenazi Jew.
100 is the median IQ for everyone, and first-generation immigrants and underprivileged minorities routinely score below 100, bringing the median down.
Yet many researchers have made a compelling case that the discrepencies are cultural in origin, not biological; to wit, the test is biased in favor of middle-class whites (and possibly males).
And this is what I believe.
I remember reading in a magazine some years ago that the avearge Hispanic and the average black scored about 10 points below the average white. However, it said that the average Asian (Chinese and Japanese) scored about 5 points ABOVE the average white.
Korimyr, your IQ is more than ample to comprehend the principles of free market economics and the dangers of big government, regulation, "public" (government-run) education, excessive taxation and social-welfare programs. Please read LewRockwell.com and Strike The Root - a journal of liberty on a regular basis and finish your education.
I was tested by Mensa at the age of 8 or 9 or somewhere around there. 142 "or so..."
I've not ever taken one since, online or otherwise.
Last time I took one it was 152. Not bad.
Actually, that's pretty lame for this forum, where the median IQ is allegedly something like 174.
/ smirk.
Still under 80! High five!
I know, thats awesome.
IQs are tabulated like golf scores right? :2razz:
There is a pop up ad on this forum that says Barack Obama's IQ is 125.
Do you have info on the closing gap in IQs? My guts tells me there is an enviromental cause in much of the difference between African-American and White scores but I've never had the info to defend that position well enough yet. One should not be so PC though so as to completely rule out a large school of scientific thought of the subject, that believes there is large genetic component in the difference, out of hand.The fact that more than half of all black people tested in the US before 1973 scored under 85, causing the AAMR to actually lower the threshold of mental retardation to <70 so that opponents of the civil rights movement could not use this to withhold equal rights from blacks, and that today black people score significantly higher than they did thirty years ago (although their median score is still not on par with that of whites), and that research by reputable, nationally renowned authorities in the field have proven that there is no physiological, biological, or genetic difference in intelligence between the races... the difference in test scores is caused by cultural and environmental factors.
In fact, the overall average Black-White IQ gap has been reduced by one third over the last 30 years (although the median IQ difference between black and white adults is still 17 points).
The test is racist. The end.
It's also classist and anglocentric/ nationalistic/ xenophobic, as the poor of all races and also first-generation immigrants of nearly all ethnicities score significantly lower than middle-class whites.
If the test wasn't racist, the IQ/ race gap wouldn't have begun closing since the end of Jim Crow/ the beginning of civil rights.
It's not like black people were troglodytes who just suddenly and miraculously began to evolve 30 years ago, and that this miracle just happened to coincide with our decision to make racial discrimination, segregation, and general abuse illegal.
It's only been one and a half (or possibly two) generations since the civil rights movement. Black people haven't had time to change. The reason they suddenly score so much higher on IQ tests is that society has changed, and the reason they still don't score on par with whites is that society still hasn't changed enough.
It is stunning to me the heightened level of brilliance that the internet seems to attract.
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