Posted on 12/19/2001 2:42:06 PM PST by Beep
Just for fun! Test your IQ, and get the gift of self-knowledge this Christmas! It doesn't take long, and it's relatively painless. It's scientifically accurate as well! Give it a shot!!
Click eMode IQ Test
The Wechsler is generally the first IQ test that someone will be administered. It is fairly accurate to a point, but the Stanford-Binet (L-M), which many have begun to overlook (why, I don't understand, except for laziness in the test-giver?!) (*G*), actually is more useful in assessing those who are generally considered to be "gifted." It deals more with abstracts, and gives a better picture of one's strengths and weaknesses.
I am impressed, though, and definitely don't think of you as a "lazy farm boy!" *G* My father grew up on a farm, and while I am extremely peeved at him right now, it doesn't negate the fact that he has an IQ of 174. (Yeah -- stinks, doesn't it? My mother had to enter the mix and dumb me down! *VBG*)
You're not in denial! *G* This silly thing peaks at 144, and mine is higher than that too. Not to worry; your brain is still working fine!! ;-}
Are you sure about that?
I screwed up on a few. :(
I am in absolute agreement with you on that. It has definite limitations, which is why I think it peaks at 144. I know that mine is higher than 144. It served its purpose for me, though. I am, most definitely, not suffering from clinical depression. If I were, the logic questions and the visual-spatial questions would have thrown my score into the dumper! So -- I can tell my mother to lay off and quit trying to stuff more pills down my throat! Sheesh!
I am currently disabled, and bedridden for the most part. I plan on that changing, after my next brain surgery in March. I am taking release-controlled morphine for bodywide pain, and butalbital for headaches from CSF pressure, and Zanaflex (new, zombie muscle relaxant) already. My mother thinks that because I am allowing myself to openly disagree with her (she's a liberal!) "all of a sudden," I must be suffering from a chemical imbalance! That woman is warped. I knew I wasn't depressed, but she refuses to listen to me. I have four doctors, and none of them think I need an antidepressant, but she thinks she knows better, since she's my mother. She has never known who I am, as a person, though. I am not her clone, as my sisters are, and that's all that matters to her. She's trying to psychoanalyze me (she's a nurse), and I'm the one with the MA in psych! That is too funny! She says that I am "too sick to see clearly!" She voted for Clinton. Twice. Who's the sick one?! Hmmmmmm?? *VBG*
It compared me to Charles Whitman so I guess I better find a high place and...oh that was Walt Whitman. Fuggit about it.
LOL; as a lawnmower mechanic, I understand where you're coming from; around my house about this time of year microeconomics is wrapping the spare change in the 33 ounce, "3 pound" coffee can. Got almost $14.00 tonight, enough for cigs and beer tomorrow, they aren't linear either - one beer and 4 cigarettes every hour and 12 hours of boredom to fill them with. Except for FR and the "fun" topics here, two hours of Andy Griffith and infomercials all night long I wouldn't make it through the whole day.
This is no sh!t, that is my average day.
I agree with you. I think what eMode was trying to say, albeit poorly, is that familiarity with taking tests can be useful on an IQ test, and I do agree with that. I was taught to reason my way through multiple choice questions. It was in one of my first college courses, which was required of all Freshmen, if I remember correctly!
I don't blame you, maybe if they warmed that little pointy thing up a bit, it wouldn't be so bad.
The grape is the only choice that doesn't grow on a tree. It grows on a vine.
You're right again; I got used to the plural, and forgot that they changed it. (I don't use them! *VBG*) However, one mustn't use sweeping generalizations! *G* I never say "Crackerjacks!" It's "Cracker Jack." Maybe it's a Midwest thing, but I have never used the plural of the latter in my life! ;-}
My scthor is 47,.... I lick...I mean like beer and babes .. yep..uh hu... and wrestle mania... yep...mmhmm ... dats what I like.
ROFLMAO!! Thank!You! I have a little-known, and fairly rare, condition known as Arnold-Chiari malformation. Related to that, I also have significant spina bifida occulta and scoliosis. Symptoms don't appear until the third decade of life, as a rule, but it is still considered a birth defect, related to a lack of the proper amount of folic acid intake by the mother. I had symptoms when I was in my 20's, but I wasn't correctly diagnosed until I was 37 years old! Maybe Mommy Dearest is having guilt pangs; I don't know. But she needs to deal with her "stuff" and let me alone to deal with mine!
I appreciate it, monkeyshine! God bless ya!!
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