I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).
Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?
Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.
Does anyone know anyone who has ever admitted to getting below 100 on an IQ test?
I’m guessing the answer is no. In which case, presumably none of us can know whether or not we have. You would need to have to know someone who both scored below 100 and was willing to admit that to know for sure.
That’s true. Everyone thinks they are smarter than average as well, because each person feel like they are.
There is research that the smartest people doubt themselves the most, and the dumbest feel the most confident in how smart they are.
Obviously because smart people recognize all their own flaws and feel very insecure about those.
I always say that I’m not as smart as I think I am, but I’m definitely smarter than others think I am.
I watch Jeopardy regularly, and I know I could hold my own, and they don’t have dummies on that show. My biggest strength is that I know my strengths and weaknesses.
Of course I’ve known less intelligent people, some even officially handicapped, but intelligence is fairly low on the list of my priorities for friendship. I wouldn’t hire a lot of them, but I value their camaraderie, humor, trust, respect, morality, etc. All of those are more important in a friend than intelligence.
Absolutely, I have the same view on things. Intelligence is useful for solving tasks but there are many other qualities in a human being that makes them amazing.
Yes but even that research is a generalized average, there are still dumb people who are very self doubting and smart people who are over confident.
I have never had an iq test that I know of. It test general intelligence so the ideal time to take it is kinda as you finishing your gen eds in college but have not started the real intensive high level stuff. Either that or when you take the ged wich is kind of a general intelligence test. Most people just have things like sat and shoot. honestly I forgot what the other one was called.
I have.
I have doubts about the veracity of the test however, I got something like a 30 because they changed the numbering on the answer sheet and apparently noticing that is part of the test…
A 30 would mean you have profound disability, could not take care of yourself. Possibly need assistance just to feed yourself, etc.
And given that I am at least capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, I dont think the test was accurate.
Someone with a 30 IQ would not be able to form complete sentences. That’s nearly five standard deviations below the mean.