I am a 23 year old female with a IQ of 76. Ask me anything
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A gentle reminder that about half the population has their IQ below the average (“about” because average≠median, yes, nerds, I know)
Having it below 100 is nothing to worry about, just like having anything below average is.
average≠median
Intelligence is thought to have a normal distribution, in which case the mean, median, and mode are all equal.
Also “average” can technically refer to any measure of central tendency.
Okay, you successfully outnerded me :D
I found this thing earlier that says that the average IQ in America (where I’m from) is 98.
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/average-iq-in-usa-1710768833-1
What is your hobby?
Don’t really have one. I play video games, shitpost on the web and watch Futurama/movies a lot.
Futurama has a lot of “smart” jokes. Which are usually just references to other things considered “smart”.
Why do you like it? I love it myself even the new ones.
The character Fry really speaks to me and I like all the over lovable characters. Bender is my spirit animal and I love the fast pasted writing.
I’ve seen videos breaking down the jokes in Futurama. They’re pretty interesting
Your attitude towards learning is fantastic and you are a great example for people who have disabilities. Have you ever considered becoming an advocate, a speaker, or some kind of teacher?
I don’t know what an “advocative” is and I struggle with speech and being a teacher way out my league. I wouldn’t be a great example for people with disabilities as my disability isn’t visible nor one people care about. People feel bad for you if you’re in a wheelchair or have down syndrome but your like me your just dumb.
That’s the thing. People with invisible disabilities need people to speak for them the most! An advocate is just someone who helps people get the help they need, and get noticed.
Do you work? How old are you?
I work as a cook at burger king and I’m 23
That’s some hobby, alrite :)
What is?
Playing video games, shitposting on the web and watching Futurama/movies a lot.
Still a hobby i reckon. Not a balanced one but still a hobby. Try jogging once in awhile. That always perks me up after jogging.
What kind video games genre do you play?
I know what you mean by ‘jogging’ working out but I already do that and to me it’s more of a chore if anything
“What kind video games genre do you play?”
I love world building games like Minecraft, Star Bound and civilizations. I love GTA with a passion. I have a soft spot for shoot 'em ups like Halo or Doom and all it’s mods.
Well, i’m out of question. All i can say is goodluck with your future. Take one step at a time.
Thanks same for you too
Do you notice your low IQ in daily life? Like, when grocery shopping or when just being at home, being with a partner, or doing chores?
Yeah, I use my card more because I suck at maths and I need to use my voice to text feature on my phone to write things down. My memory isn’t that good and I get overwhelmed by information easily
Do you want to be friends? 🪻
Well that came out of no where. Sure but why did you ask?
Great! What’s your favorite food?
Pepperoni pizza with cheese crust
That’s a really good favorite food. Have you tried it with extra cheese?
Beware, maybe they’re being friendly, but I could also imagine people trying to take advantage of you here, knowing that you have a low IQ - a lot of scams revolve around overwhelming people with numbers. So if you receive messages like “hey, if you invest 500$ with me, I can turn them into 1000$” here, block them.
I guess you already know that, though 🥲 you seem very sympathetic. Do you feel like you have good social intelligence? That you can feel what people mean, also when they’re not saying things directly? Do you have an easy time making friends, and being social with people?
I took it more as: they were making a joke about the feeling of lower intelligence being relatable.
*Reads post “Heh, yeah im dumb too”
Kinda thing
I understand what your saying you got to be careful out there.
“That you can feel what people mean, also when they’re not saying things directly?”
With enough practice. I know what people mean when they say things like they wanna “hang out” or “roll with someone”
“Do you feel like you have good social intelligence?”
Yeah, I make friends easily and I’m good in social interactions.
For what it’s worth, free IQ tests are notoriously bad for evaluating general intellectual capacity, and tend to evaluate visual pattern recognition.
On top of that, you can learn how IQ tests are evaluated and score higher on them in a matter of seconds.
For example:
The answers are in the diagonals.
For this example, on the diagonals are the number of dots.
For this example, on the diagonals are the arrow directions.
Having this knowledge can easily boost your IQ score by 10.
In any case, intellect has many different facets; memory retention, memory recall speed, emotional intelligence, motivation, visual/spacial, verbal, etc.
There are people who are Mensa certified geniuses who can’t hold a conversation to save their lives, or boast to others about their score, which is… really dumb.
If you put both diagonal directions in would you increase by 20 or fail?
Nah you average it. 10+10/2
/s
Is that the intended solution to the question, or just some sort of hack? For me, when solving that, I notice the arrows are rotating clockwise when viewing each row left to right, and that each row contains a triangle with 1, 2, and 3 dots. Same answer, very different strategy.
IQ tests generally start out easy, and have multiple solutions to account for different pattern recognition.
The later questions will only have one correct way to solve the question.
The reason I demonstrated the method of solving the question this way is because many IQ tests rely on this format.
Many people will look at the columns and rows, but not the diagonals, thus, why having the knowledge is a huge boost.
I followed the exact same logic.
Know what you’re talking about. There’s a guy on YouTube who’s in a similar situation to me called Mark Malloy. He talks a lot about IQ maxxing shall we say.
I just found this video by him.
It perfectly encapsulates what I’m talking about, when I say motivation is a part of intelligence. A raw IQ of 150 is functionally useless, and letting that potential go to waste is… really dumb.
This guy Mark, is motivated to attain gainful employment so he can sustain himself, and is trying to improve his intellect in the meanwhile, which demonstrates a intuitive wisdom most people lack.
Yeah that’s him…
I’ve been working on my motivation it’s hard but I give myself goals. I would love to have a higher IQ somehow.
This resource is also very helpful.
It explores biases which virtually everyone holds, and might be easier to understand than the other link.
I watched a few of Marks videos and I’m not convinced he is as stupid as he believes himself to be, just read the comments on his videos.
Through my life I’ve been told by people I’m smart, which gave me an ego, and lead me to being an asshole to people I deemed less intelligent.
Later in life I began to resent the association, and I almost reflexively deny any assertions that I am anything other than slightly above average.
As aforementioned, getting stuck on how intelligent you are is the wrong metric to evaluate your personal worth. I wish that instead of being told I’m smart, that people praised me for my effort.
For example, if there was a word I’ve wrote which you don’t know the meaning of, look it up - that’s a very simple way to improve your vocabulary, which helps to improve how you navigate your own mind.
I feel that encouraging growth is far more important than telling someone they have some kind of innate talent, and it’s something I live by.
If I can offer one resource for you to study to “have a higher IQ”, it’s learning about logical fallacies.
To put it simply, people are stupid because they fail to recognize flaws in their own thinking. With the link I’ve given you, click on each fallacy and try to think of a time when you’ve committed that fallacy.
It can be a bit wordy, so don’t worry if you don’t entirely understand the definition. Try to infer the meaning by reading the examples in bold at the bottom of each fallacy.
Even very intelligent people are not immune from logical contradictions, so don’t be disheartened if you begin to recognize you’ve got some bad habits.
And whatever you do, if you notice someone else committing these fallacies, keep it to yourself. Too many people learn basic epistemology (study of knowledge itself) and think they’re capable of debating others by dismantling the other persons arguments by citing their fallacies. This is… (say it with me)… really dumb!
Do you think that like an opposite to the Dunning/Kruger effect were really smart people think of them selves as dumber than they really are
There is the impostor syndrome.
I’ve tended to score suspiciously high on most aptitude/iq type tests my entire life (70s kid, among the earliest ADD diagnoses, etc) and tbh i think I am quite a lot dumber than those tests imply.
Show of hands all y’all “talented and gifted” kids that never did nuthin …
*edit: to be clear, I don’t think ‘raw intelligence’ or anything similar necessarily confers a lot of life benefits. It can, but doesn’t always or maybe even most of the time.
G&T represeeeent
I hate my life and feel like worthless garbage. 👌
Absolutely, though I wouldn’t say it’s an opposite Dunning/Kruger, just that smart people are further along the x-axis.
Having the knowledge to understand how much you don’t know is both a blessing and a curse.
The curse: It is hard to project a true sense of authority, because to yourself, you do not believe you’re competent enough.
The blessing: humility. You understand that everyone fits on the graph somewhere.
How did you manage to win Georgia’s 14th Congressional district??
I see this is a big at some politician you don’t like. Pretty funny
Marjorie Taylor Greene, in case anybody was wondering.
Thank you for answering so many questions. This is a very interesting thread.
Do you feel supported by your parents and friends IRL or rather misunderstood?
No problem
“Do you feel supported by your parents and friends IRL or rather misunderstood?”
By parents definitely not but with friends I feel very misunderstood. They always use words like “R*traded” “sped” and “spaz” and they always use low IQ as a insult. Not against me but just as general banter. They don’t know about my IQ or learning disabilities so it’s very isolating to hear them say those things as I am all of them.
I hope one day you can find better friends
I’ve personally known PhD’s with learning disabilities who excelled where others did not. They told me, independently from each other, that it was determination and hard work that got them ahead of everyone else, not intelligence. They simply worked harder than everyone else. It’s not intelligence that gets you ahead, it’s the effort that you put into it.
Easier said than done. I was never the best student in school at best I only ever got B’s and C’s and I had to repeat the 7th and 9th grade. I was a super senior I graduated at age 20. I understand I’m not as impressive as other people but I’ll be dammed if I didn’t work my ass off for what I’ve got.
I’d hire someone that’ll work their ass off sooner than someone who was a slacking smart ass. Hard work makes the world go around!
How much you offering?
How is your memory or recall? Do you feel like you to write stuff down a lot?
It takes me a long time to get used to patterns. If I don’t completely focus on one thing I forget about it. I get information mixed up easily and I forgot the little details about things. Sometimes I forget what I’m doing all together and I get overwhelmed easily.
Luckily I use my phone a lot to write things down which helps and if I don’t do that I just write things down on my body.
Are you happy?
That’s a tough question. It depends on what time
Right now is a good time 😊
Rn I’m neutral
How did you find out about Lemmy? It seems it’s mostly a niche place for tech nerds and commies and you don’t seem to be either? Also what keeps you here? Wouldn’t the NPD push you towards more popular platforms?
Sorry for asking so many questions - your experience sounds very unique and you actually seem very eloquent and thoughtful.
“How did you find out about Lemmy?”
I looked up Reddit alternatives and it came up. Reddit has a bad reputation and it’s got too many rules. It’s impossible to post anywhere cuz you never have enough karma.
“It seems it’s mostly a niche place for tech nerds and commies and you don’t seem to be either?”
Well, I was pretty interested in programming a few years ago because of game modding.
“Also what keeps you here?”
Same things that keep me anywhere. Interacting with others and the interesting communities.
“Wouldn’t the NPD push you towards more popular platforms?”
It has been proven that people with NPD use social media more. I’m no exception I have accounts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, twitter and SnapChat.
“Sorry for asking so many questions”
It’s no problem that’s what I’m here for.
“your experience sounds very unique and you actually seem very eloquent and thoughtful.”
Isn’t everyone’s? And thank you I’ve worked on words and spelling for a while now.
Are you frequently dissatisfied by imagining things that should be possible but being unable to do them?
Yes absolutely. I really wanted to do game mods that one point however I’m not good at programming obviously.
Me too. Thanks for answering. I imagine that imagining so many possibilities and desiring them and striving for them is a common human experience.
You shouldn’t let that limit yourself. Contrary to popular belief, the brain is much more fluid and adaptable than previously thought. IQ tests give a single number to represent something as complex as human intelligence, and while psychometrics can provide some kind of quantitative insight into how our brains process, organize, and distill information, it is by no means wholly representative of intelligence.
You have the capability to learn and grow. Maybe it takes a tad bit longer, but with determination and willpower (something not measured with IQ tests), you can learn just about anything.
I have MUCH more respect and appreciation for those who work hard to achieve their goals than I do for those who are naturally talented but stay within their comfort zones. If you challenge and push yourself, I think you’d be surprised with how far you can end up going 🙂
On the other hand…
So I’m not necessarily someone with a lower IQ ( I think) but I have been going to therapy to help with my autism and ADHD. One thing that looking back really set my life back was not trying because I thought I would already fail. Once I lost confidence in myself it was pretty much all downhill from there.
What I’m trying to say is how you label yourself (in this case “I have low IQ”) might be limiting what you can achieve before you even try. Don’t view yourself through that one outlook. Don’t let it limit yourself. After I started doing poorly in school because of my ADHD I just pretty much gave up on trying a lot of things I wanted to try because it might be harder for me than the average person. You’re still young enough that you can achieve a lot! Make sure you explore your interests and don’t get discouraged from small failures!
What is your perception of the world? Like does it seem complex?
Well, there’s a countless amount of people on the earth so of course its complex
I mean what’s your perception on how your world?
That’s a very broad question. Do you mean? Do you mean politically? Religiously? If you want to know my politics when I’m a left leaning centrist
I’m intentionally trying to keep it broad so that you can answer whatever part is the most relevant to you.
Ok you did a good job there
Thank you for this AMA it is very interesting to get your viewpoint.
I have many questions, feel free not to answer them if you don’t like them.
When have you discovered that you are different? What happened? Why did you take IQ tests?
Can you share story about something that is different between you and average people?
Is your memory worse or just the thinking process?
Do you have any idea why your IQ is so low? Is it just coincidence or something happened while you were young?
How can I recognize that someone has low IQ? How should I act when I meet someone with low IQ, should I use simpler sentences or simpler ideas?
Thank you.
“When have you discovered that you are different? What happened? Why did you take IQ tests?”
I was always slower then other kids my age. When I was 14 I was made to do an IQ test by the teachers in my school when I discovered my IQ at the time was 73.
“Can you share story about something that is different between you and average people?”
There’s plenty. When I was 18 somebody asked me how to spell something and I just couldn’t spell it and I broke down in tears. It was pretty embarrassing.
“Is your memory worse or just the thinking process?”
I think it’s both. My memory isn’t very good and my thinking process is very limited.
“Do you have any idea why your IQ is so low? Is it just coincidence or something happened while you were young?”
I think my mom drank while she was pregnant. Which explains why I’m different then my brothers and sisters. I don’t know if that’s true though maybe I just lost the genetic lottery.
“How can I recognize that someone has low IQ? How should I act when I meet someone with low IQ, should I use simpler sentences or simpler ideas?”
Not really, IQ isn’t immediately obvious like other disabilities and if you meet someone with low IQ just speak and treat them like there anyone else.
Your responses suggest a higher score in language, is your 73 the average of all the test areas? Such as math, etc.
… treat them like they’re anyone else.
FTFY
Is this a meme? Context, man…
Thank you for sharing your story, it must be a difficult life. Life is hard with 120, I barely make it, I can not even imagine your case especially together with NPD.
I have seen your other AMA about NPD, and I can understand “trauma”. I “only” had really bad decades long depression and anxiety and have found way out of it with good therapy (which is rare).
Good luck to you, I hope you will have some luck further on.
Thank you for your understanding. I don’t think all mental illness’s are caused by trauma. I don’t know where my NPD or HPD came from. I really wish I could be like everyone else. I feel like I’m being sabotaged from within.
Was the test administered by a psychologist? Were you evaluated for any learning disabilities?
No, I got it from MENSA and I have ADHD and dyslexia
Do you prefer cotton over polyester
I’m indifferent to both
