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11-24-2007, 03:57 PM
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Re: Average SMP IQ.
i think borodog has this figured out the best, IQ tests don't test anything finite, i think it is a far greater accomplishment to do well on a test that you have prepared greatly for and worked for than for some arbitrary measurement of an unknown quality.
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#2
11-24-2007, 04:01 PM
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Re: Average SMP IQ.
Yeah, I went through two weeks or so of crazy studying before my quals, and that ended up being the year that the difficulty took a decided downturn - I honestly think I could have done well enough to pass straight out of undergrad. In one nice wrinkle, though, the department had been given some money a while before to give a prize each year in "classical physics." Lacking any sense for what they should do with this, they decided to give it each year to the highest scoring participant on the non-QM part of our quals. Ship the $1k; the keg for the party was on me.
(EDIT: Also, 24 hours? Jesus. Ours were eight over two days.)
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#5
11-27-2007, 03:02 PM
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Re: Average SMP IQ.
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I have a question for you guys who say that IQ is so important: why don't employers ask for it? [/ QUOTE ] They have low IQs? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Nah, they just dont want to double count it.
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11-28-2007, 04:35 PM
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Re: Average SMP IQ.
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For those of you estimating your IQ somewhere in the 120's, do you really think you're not smarter than 95% of the population? [/ QUOTE ] Think back to grade 9. The smartest kid out of 3 classes or so would be in the top 1%, at least ( because of prior drop-outs and institutionalized). Smartest kid in the class would on average be in the top 3% or so. I don't know what the correlation is considered to be but surely a lot SMP'ers would be in the top 1% at a minimum. luckyme
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#8
11-28-2007, 06:09 PM
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Re: Average SMP IQ.
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[ QUOTE ] For those of you estimating your IQ somewhere in the 120's, do you really think you're not smarter than 95% of the population? [/ QUOTE ] Think back to grade 9. The smartest kid out of 3 classes or so would be in the top 1%, at least ( because of prior drop-outs and institutionalized). Smartest kid in the class would on average be in the top 3% or so. I don't know what the correlation is considered to be but surely a lot SMP'ers would be in the top 1% at a minimum. luckyme [/ QUOTE ] I went to big elementary and big high schools, but I was never the smartest kid in my class until I got to college. There was always at least one and sometimes two kids who were definitely smarter than I was.
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