[Closed] How intelligent is the average STW poster...

[i]Most IQ tests, are just general knowledge quizzes[/i]

You're thinking of TV game shows.

Most IQ tests, are just general knowledge quizzes, you could score highly because you were lucky, or had lots of exposure to the subject matter or just have a good memory.

I've never seen an IQ test that is based around general knowledge? I must have been doing the thicko test.

you may be confusing IQ with QI

I ride a single speed .
HTH

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Perhaps it was general knowledge and you were too stupid to notice 😉

FWIW I agree with you

Ha ha great question ! People can hold divergent opinions and argue their case forcefully and intelligently whatever their level of qualifications.

not sure about intelligence....but I am always right! 8)

A considered appraisal of my 'intelligence'...

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Luckily I have looks...

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If you're looking for an Intelligent STW member you need to find a poster who's may be asking for help pumping up a tyre 12 months ago because they're completely new to bikes and riding and now is offering constructive, well balanced knowledgeable advice on the subtleties of wheel building or setting up a CCDB without referring to their website for base settings.

Isn't that just a driven obsessive?

Opinions are like arse holes........ Everyone has one but some stink!

Everyone has one but shouldn't try to force it on others.

https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978

What is intelligence? 😐

I've just been for a brain scan. It came back negative.

So are these posters genuine high flyers with a wealth of qualifications and high IQs to back up their comments and views

I have very little in the way of qualifications and I try to restrict my comments and views to things which haven't got much of a clue about.

That way I don't get annoyed when people disagree with me.

Because quite frankly I find there's nothing more annoying than people disagreeing with me when I know I'm right.

tpbiker - Member
ooohh...this got just the reaction I was looking for

a fair evaluation

I feature in the bell curve. Towards one of the edges.

I'll let you conclude which end.

The trouble with IQ tests is that you can improve your score by practising them.

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The trouble with IQ tests is that you can improve your score by practising them.

You can practice at being clever? I knew it was worth trying.

FWIW, I find this forum to be a pretty decent source of well thought-out and reasoned opinions from a large number of posters.

The fact that those opinions and experiences don't always align with my own is what makes it interesting.

This. And I always have the feeling that if I actually met the people I violently disagree with, we'd enjoy a drink together 🙂

I didn't even know that STW sold posters.

Are they of log burning stoves and Audis*?

*not sure which poster would be more intelligent though

Besides all the known issues with IQ tests, you can have people who have wildly varying IQ's between the different test subtypes....eg Verbal/Non-Verbal etc.

Having ADHD or generalized anxiety can knock your mark down considerably as well.

IQ tests can be strange, I do really well in verbal and pretty well in non-verbal. However, I do really really ****ing badly with questions that look for patterns in objects. Yet I am good at maths and chemistry and most of my relatives are professional musicians. Make of that what you will.

Qualifications aren't a particularly good way of comparing intelligence either.

Apart from the fact they generally test memory better than they test intelligence, unless everyone took the same exams then it's a pretty pointless comparison.

The fun thing is that if you're intelligent, you're more likely to have mediocre idiots as children....regression to the mean and all that.

I reckon this is why wealth is poorly correlated with IQ.

Qualifications aren't a particularly good way of comparing intelligence either.

Its is a pretty good way
IIRC the higher and the better the qualification the brighter you are

Apart from the fact they generally test memory better than they test intelligence

, unless everyone took the same exams then it's a pretty pointless comparison.

You do know different exams are at the same level dont you?

For example GCSE are all meant to be the same level of difficulty as are A levels as are degrees etc

Whilst no system will be perfect, and you will find exceptions, qualification level , including grade, is a decent indicator of intelligence.

s is a pretty good way
IIRC the higher and the better the qualification the brighter you are

I had a friend who got 5 GCSE's grade C.

For a laugh I encouraged him to go to university with me and study a foundation course. He worked hard, transferred to the university of Leicester and came out with a 2:2 in Computer Science.

He wasn't bright....most degrees value good memory over IQ.

For example GCSE are all meant to be the same level of difficulty as are A levels as are degrees etc

They used to do degrees in Take That, were [i]they[/i] the same level as a degree in Civil Engineering?

The fun thing is that if you're intelligent, you're more likely to have mediocre idiots as children....regression to the mean and all that.

I reckon this is why wealth is poorly correlated with IQ.

For example [s]David [s] lord Posh son goes to eton so he gets plenty of advantage form that as well as his genes

I went for a job recently where I had to do some online intelligence tests as well as personality profiling before they'd accept me for interview. I'm really good at those sorts of intelligence tests and scored highly, a mate went through the same process and didn't score too well but well enough. Thing is he's better at the job than me - and I think comes across as brighter than me.

Testing was done by Mindmill.

I am a Bachelor of Science but present me with numbers or equations and I haven't got a clue. I think I have a number dyslexia if there is such a thing.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia ]Dyscalculia [/url]

I suggest you all go away and read up on Intelligence[ and types], IQ tests and memory.

yours the person with a degree in Psychology who wont be listened to on this thread.....backs away slowly

Intelligence is one of the most hereditary traits we have .75 iirc
Twins studies etc show this pretty consistently plenty of research on this

http://www.my-iq.net/iq-test-Regression-450.html

[s]yours the person with a degree in Psychology[/s] yours the person with a misunderstanding of heritability who wont be listened to on this thread.....backs away slowly

The fun thing is that if you're intelligent, you're more likely to have mediocre idiots as children....regression to the mean and all that.

Er no. Not at all.

You're actually less likely as you're starting from a higher basis genetically. If you were more likely to have "mediocre idiots as children" there would be a negative correlation coefficient for intelligence being passed genetically between generations.

Oh Tom Bless 😆

As I said Backs away but this time chuckling

Bet you come back for a look.

See told you so.......

Hmmmmm cheers for that, not sure that is what I have, I can add up, multiply, divide and subtract no problem. It is when people start substituting letters for numbers. I get genuinely bewildered and confused by stuff like that.

You're actually less likely as you're starting from a higher basis genetically. If you were more likely to have "mediocre idiots as children" there would be a negative correlation coefficient for intelligence being passed genetically between generations.

Oh Tom Bless

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Heritability is below 1, you are less likely to have children more intelligent than you if you are highly intelligent yourself. Given time, your family tree will regress back to the mean in terms of intelligence.

http://infoproc.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/assortative-mating-regression-and-all.html

thestabiliser - Member
I've just been for a brain scan. It came back negative.

Turns out I'm a bit of a [i]Tiger[/i]

Grrrrr, yeah baby....

Not all qualifications are based on exams that test memory

I'm a Mensan.

I had a friend who got 5 GCSE's grade C.

For a laugh I encouraged him to go to university with me and study a foundation course. He worked hard, transferred to the university of Leicester and came out with a 2:2 in Computer Science.

He wasn't bright....most degrees value good memory over IQ.

So he got a Desmond from a non-Russell group university? Not sure which side of the argument you're trying to support here...

Not all qualifications are based on exams that test memory

Yeah, Maths, Physics and Chemistry. 😆

So he got a Desmond from a non-Russell group university? Not sure which side of the argument you're trying to support here...

If you hadn't noticed, Leicesters doing better than quite a few of the Russell Group unis. I'd consider a 2:2 in Computer Science as equivalent to a first in English anyway. 😆 Fnaarrr.