[Closed] High IQ = Success (or not)

No idea - NHS Manager

Post your IQ and job status.

unknown - employed full time

did you actually mean to say post your job title?

Don't know and don't care enough to find out - Self employed technical illustrator.

IQ varies based on which test on which day but always over 150.

How are you judging success in a career?

For me success is doing something you enjoy and get something out of. I am therefore successful in that I like analysing stuff/coming up with/implementing solutions and that is mainly what I do.

I went to a really academic school and several kids were definitely 'smarter' or 'cleverer' than me which I figure likely equates to higher IQ.

But that didn't always translate into exam success and I got better grades than many of them. I kind of think that's similar in career 'success' too. Business is often about pragmatism and finding less than ideal solutions rather than the cleverest, most complex ones.

I have no idea what my IQ is and am not bothered in the slightest either.

I'm a Civil Engineer.

181 ... shark wrestler

Define IQ and define success

182 - shark tamer

define success

Posting about your carbon santa cruz, woodburner and audi/range rover on here, it would seem.

IQ, Effort and existing Money are the strongest factors influencing financial success.

How do you define sucess with regards to your career? Salary? Rank? Position?

I have a high IQ but almost zero motivation and a crap education (entirely my doing). I'm fairly capable of most things I try, but never pick one thing to really learn at an expert level. I make a very comfortable living doing not a lot.

Define IQ and define success

IQ is well defined and can be easily test.

Success cannot be defined as it could be different for each person but if OP come back with an answer that involves salary/money then we know which way they will be voting today...

Posting about your carbon santa cruz, woodburner and audi/range rover on here, it would seem.

Dammit. I have none of those 🙁

183 - Bedlington terrier motivator

I have a high IQ but almost zero motivation and a crap education (entirely my doing). I'm fairly capable of most things I try, but never pick one thing to really learn at an expert level. I make a very comfortable living doing not a lot.

I thought that was just me. I could have written those words to describe myself exactly.

I was the cleverest kid in school by miles. When I was about 6 a lady came round to assess me for some reason or other. I thought it was a test with right and wrong answers, but I remember showing off by giving smart alec answers that were technically right but not what she was expecting.

In GCSE English lessons I used to monopolise the discussion sessions arguing about the books whilst the other kids stared out of the window or chatted. In the GCSE exam we had to write a follow-on to an excerpt of fiction, and the teacher thought mine was better than the original book. We had a Physics class where we had to come up with our own ways of solving problems; where the teacher (whom my mum knew) would rave about how brilliant our class was with all these creative ingenious solutions, until he found out that it was me giving out ideas to the rest of the class. Not only that, but I cleaned up at school sports days too.

Wtf happened to me? I have a shit degree, keep getting into trouble at work and I've got no KOMs.

Dunno what mine is really but from tests I did years ago in the 140s - note sure I'd get into Mensa. Work in IT, which doesn't mean much, paid better than most but have earnt more from the stock market in recent years - Brexit/weak pound aided!

5 lottery winner (Not)

My IQ is high enough to realise that career /= success so I work as little as possible to get by and enjoy all the other things life has to offer.

Surely without age this is useless?

The other thread on IQ was about a 13 year old having a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking.

And the kids job title is what? He is 13! Maybe Senior X-box player?

I've got no KOMs

Outrageous.

Next question - Is IQ linked to KOMs ?

Mine actually is (was) in the 140s and being fairly clever is helpful in scientific research, though luck and other abilities play a very significant role. Might have been better off slightly less good at maths and working a bit harder instead! Or indeed being more clever and also working harder...oh I see a pattern emerging.

250. Professional liar.

180 - Shark

90 - MTB wheelsize researcher

I have a high IQ but almost zero motivation and a crap education (entirely my doing). I'm fairly capable of most things I try, but never pick one thing to really learn at an expert level. I make a very comfortable living doing not a lot.

Also me to a tee. I'm an expert spreadsheet twiddler but that's just compared to the majority of users. I appear to be very well educated cos I know a bit about a lot of stuff, but I'm such a hopeless student I've barely got enough certificates to wipe my arse with.

I wouldn't say so, from what I hear about my Son's school if anything it's going the other way.

IQ tests are of course deeply flawed, with no fixed criteria of testing but we’ll forget that for a bit.

In the ‘World of Education’ In my experience the kids who did really well in school weren’t the bright ones, not in real terms anyway - they had good attention spans, and good memories.

Fast forward to the ‘world of work’ and I see people with good ‘Emotional Intelligence’ succeed, which is odd because the more emotionally intelligent people are, the more robotic they seem, if you can set aside your feelings, and use other people’s feelings to convince to share your goals you’ll do very well.

In the ‘world of business’ I’m fairly sure intelligence is a complete hindrance, most intelligent people won’t take the risks people do in business, they understand the odds too well. No, blind unwavering determination is what you need – even the best ones like the ‘Dragons’ and Lord Suge belief utterly and completely that every move they made was right, even the wrong ones and all you need to do to succeed it to keep getting up after your failures and luck plays no part in it.

P-Jay - that's what I keep telling myself too 🙂

I have a high IQ but almost zero motivation and a crap education (entirely my doing). I'm fairly capable of most things I try, but never pick one thing to really learn at an expert level. I make a very comfortable living doing not a lot.

Perhaps you're intelligent to understand that life is finite, and not enough people measure success in terms of happiness.

184 - Flagpole

IQ tests are somewhat flawed, if you keep taking them then you become good at them, which affects the end result. Moreover, you're tested on a relatively narrow range of cognitive abilities.

At school, I was in the category of "cleverer than average, but lacks focus and can't be arsed". At primary school, a teacher attempted to motivate me by telling me often that I was stupid. I was at an impressionable age, so I believed it all the way until I sat my A Levels. I still make the mistake today of believing that everyone I meet is by default cleverer than I am. That's imposter syndrome for you.

Today, I note with some tinge of sadness that so many of the kids I admired at school for their intellect seemed to have intellectually peaked as teenagers and are either damn good at hiding their light under a bushel or have grown to be mediocre, banal adults. One straight A student at twelve now seems to communicate by smashing a keyboard with his forehead.

Apparently, I'm in the top one percentile which by rights ought to make me a millionaire. I'm not, but I do own two bikes.

What wheel size though?

IIRC - 160 - job status? Failure

(Wasn't aware til now that I went to school with PJM1974)

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Flag flying Shark tamer trainer.

molgrips - Member
I was the cleverest kid in school by miles. When I was about 6 a lady came round to assess me for some reason or other. I thought it was a test with right and wrong answers, but I remember showing off by giving smart alec answers that were technically right but not what she was expecting.

In GCSE English lessons I used to monopolise the discussion sessions arguing about the books whilst the other kids stared out of the window or chatted. In the GCSE exam we had to write a follow-on to an excerpt of fiction, and the teacher thought mine was better than the original book. We had a Physics class where we had to come up with our own ways of solving problems; where the teacher (whom my mum knew) would rave about how brilliant our class was with all these creative ingenious solutions, until he found out that it was me giving out ideas to the rest of the class. Not only that, but I cleaned up at school sports days too.

Wtf happened to me? I have a shit degree, keep getting into trouble at work and I've got no KOMs.

If they could measure ego - Im sure youd score the highest for that too. You sound awesome!

The combined sum of the wheel sizes of both of my bikes, divided by two equals the IQ of your average UKIP voter.

350.

Politician.

I'm considering writing it on a bus.

Have never done a formal test, but fairly confident my IQ is high enough for Mensa, whatever that level is.

Always top of class at school - probably in pretty much every subject until I got bored with history and couldn't be bothered (I'd managed to drop any other subject I was bored by and only doing history because it was the only remaining choice on the timetable). Went to a very good university and excelled in my first year, faded a bit in my second and almost failed my final year. By any standards my work career has at best been one of mediocrity, though it's currently slipped a bit from that high standard.

Ironically I was rubbish at sports at school and almost unfailingly one of the last picked for anything. Yet I have plenty of KOMs and alongside my mediocre work career managed to compete internationally at an elite level. So in some senses I've been very successful, just not in the way anybody who knew me at 16 would have anticipated.

200, IQ test designer

350.

Politician.

I'm considering writing it on a bus.

You sir, are a bona-fide genius.

100 - my job's alright. Average.

Given that fewer than one person in a thousand has an IQ over 150 you lot are a clearly a strikingly elite bunch of freakishly intelligent intellectuals.

So, what wheelsize to make the trails come alive?

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160 isn't all that much. It's about the same as 80 MPs.

I'm as thick as pig shit but am a relatively successful middle manage / SME. Go figure.

we have a quick fire "intelligence" test that accompanies the psychometric* ones we use for new recruits/candidates. The chap they sent to show us how to run the test, interpret the results, and so on, had us (the middle and senior management team) do the intelligence bit "for a bit of fun"

I scored second highest (my immediate boss came first, phew) both of us apparently "high enough for entrance to Mensa" (right... 🙄 ), and some of the senior management team are very highly placed consultants in some world famous hospitals, it was more than a little embarrassing TBH. I think it entirely depends on what sort of puzzle you're good at solving, and has some-one said, if you've seen these sorts of tests before.

*yes I know, I thought the same when they were introduced.

couldn't care less - work in a supermarket

Never done it, never wanted to. Got 5 A levels, 2 degrees and a good job. But that isn't doesn't mean with "success", which is multiaxial.

However - just as being rich doesn't make you happy, but helps, I think being clever can help with success.

Re Mensa - The idea of people repeatedly testing themselves and joining clubs for people with a high IQ, is as lacking in attraction as repeatedly measuring ones left foot and having a club for those with the largest ones... or getting one's tape measure out and measuring yer cock. And having a club for the largest cocks too...

Sad ( and the membership cost too much 😉 )

aracer - Member

Have never done a formal test, but fairly confident my IQ is high enough for Mensa, whatever that level is.

I joined for a bit - found the test extremely hard tbh, way more difficult than the typical 'mensa IQ questions' you might see knocking about. Prob easier if you're younger and still have that exam-taking mindset.

If they could measure ego - Im sure youd score the highest for that too. You sound awesome!

That was meant to be self deprecating - apologies if this wasn't made clear 🙂

I'm amazed anyone knows their IQs....

No idea what mine is.

VRQ of 145+ ( verbal reasoning quotient - a type of IQ test) and 135ish on standard IQ tests

Staff nurse. Perfectly happy as one and having time and energy to do other things than work

footflaps - Member
I'm amazed anyone knows their IQs....

No idea what mine is.

1967 - European cup winner! 😆

footflaps

I'm amazed anyone knows their IQs....

No idea what mine is.

Do an online test. Then do another one on a different site and wonder why you've suddenly lost 40 IQ points.

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I don't know how successful I am or what my IQ is but I do have a BSc (Bronze Swimming certificate)

This thread is awesome!!!

Do an online test. Then do another one on a different site and wonder why you've suddenly lost 40 IQ points.

I think my time would be more productive watching cat videos online...

No is the answer depending on what your opinion of success is and assuming it's making lots of money which most people seem to consider success then the thickest boy in our year finished bottom of the D stream every time, went on to make the most money. But he was single minded in it's pursuit and a bit dishonest as most successful business types generally are.

I did an internet test and it came out 165 wether that means anything or not given I just like those kind of logic puzzles, it doesn't make me especially successful, but I have had my moments of both, success and failure and as the man said treated them with equal disdain.

Most of the really rich folk of my acquaintance and i know half a dozen or so mega wealthy types, I wouldn't call the sharpest tools in the box. Being very intelligent is a disadvantage I would say.

I reckon if I did the test again (pretty sure I was in my 20s when I did it), I reckon I'd get about a 50. Still a complete failure.

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graemecsl - Member
I did an internet test and it came out 165 wether that means anything

I think a necessary indicator of a high IQ is an absolute understanding that online IQ tests tell you nothing about your IQ. 😆

Looking at my friends there doesn't seem to be any correlation between their IQ and their level of success. Some are very intelligent and useless at life, others are dull as hell but can't do anything wrong! Most are in the middle on both counts.

I have a high IQ but almost zero motivation and a crap education (entirely my doing). I'm fairly capable of most things I try, but never pick one thing to really learn at an expert level. I make a very comfortable living doing not a lot.

Same here too.

I regularly score very high in IQ tests but have no motivation whatsoever to climb the career ladder in anything! Bizarrely I've managed to get myself into a job that has very little stress, I'm good at and pays a very good wage (considering the job requires no academic qualifications) for only working 4 days a week. I earn more than the vast majority of my friends that have degrees etc in their chosen subject!

As to whether I am a success? I only work 4 days a week but earn enough cash to have a good standard of living with a 3 year old car and a few expensive bikes. I get to ride these bikes 2 days a week as a minimum and have one 'weekend' away every month at least. I don't own my own house, that is the next target, but I'm happy and stress-free. I count all that as a win 😀

Way above average, but seriously who cares? I feel dumb for even giving hints on this. I work as a teacher for kids with special needs/autism and trust me, there are so many other and more important things in life than IQ. Some of my students score really high in IQ test, but apart from that they can't do shit, because they need the skills required to functioning within a society and ultimately; live a good/happy life.

To me, bragging about your IQ only makes you sound like you have issues and are unaware of all the truly important things in life.

This thread is packed with Mensa members it appears

Listened to an interesting podcast on IQ at the weekend, would recommend. Is controversial though...
[url= https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/forbidden-knowledge ]Sam Harris - Forbidden Knowledge with Charles Murray[/url]

footflaps - Member

Do an online test. Then do another one on a different site and wonder why you've suddenly lost 40 IQ points.

I think my time would be more productive watching cat videos online...

And you'd be write. Thats very purrseptive of you. I think you might have a genus level eye que.

I was tested repeatedly at school and stole the results 🙂 Thats how I know not from doing on line testing. I have also tested as an adult.

But what do you mean by sucess? I am happy, I am good at my job but its a fairly low level job as a staff nurse and get enjoyment out of it but I work to live not live to work. I lead a reasonably "green" lifestyle and spend as much time as I can outdoors.

By my standards I am a success. My creed being " do as much good as you can, as little harm as you can and have as much fun as you can" I doubt many other folk would define me as a success tho - certainly my mother is disappointed.

greentricky - Member

This thread is packed with Mensa members it appears

Listened to an interesting podcast on IQ at the weekend, would recommend. Is controversial though...
Sam Harris - Forbidden Knowledge with Charles Murray

Great podcast.

I do find IQ tests very interesting and have been formally tested three times. They definitely measure a type of intelligence but through my life, the people who I consider geniuses, or close to genius level intellect have all been highly artistic people who struggle with IQ style tests. Both in terms of what is being tested, and the principal of the test.

certainly my mother is disappointed

My mother was absolutely gutted when I got straight As at A level, but then we never did get on!