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To: UnwashedPeasant

I tested out in middle school with a very (freakish) high IQ. I was pulled out of class three or four times over the course of the year to take different tests. Didn’t know what it was about at the time. Years later my parents shared that they were giving me different tests to confirm the original score.

I graduated high school 23rd in a class of 444. In college I majored in political science and graduated with at 3.5. Nothing stellar. The only benefit I get out of my IQ is that I am able to make connections between disparate ideas/concepts that other people don’t make and I have a very good memory. Doesn’t make me a great businessman, or author, or musician or anything.

IQ is NOT an absolute indicator of exceptional.


74 posted on 02/13/2013 4:20:42 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Crusher138
I tested out in middle school with a very (freakish) high IQ.

People like you generally get an offer from the NSA or other letter agency. I knew a kid with a hyperIQ just out of college who practically got lassoed out of our internship program at a national laboratory. He disappeared behind highly secured gates somewhere in northern VA and was never seen again.

95 posted on 02/14/2013 5:12:39 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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