I need help from a genius

[oskar]

If you want a "fair" assessment of your intelligence, you need to seek out an IQ test which is biased toward your socio-economic and educational background and cultural preferences. Then you need to NOT study for it.

I'd be anxious that I won't do as good as I would want to and then I'm not even allowed to improve on my score and rather take it as: Look at this! This is how dumb you are! What's the point?

The word on Mensa is that it's a bunch of pre-cancer Walter Whites talking about how much potential they have.

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[Poopadoop]

Another fun IQ test fact:

The first large-scale IQ tests were administered by the US Army during WWI. The idea was to make the smart guys into officers and the dummies could go die in the trenches. But they had some problems. All the people who scored the highest were either native-born 'Muricans or from the UK or Canada. The highest-to-lowest scores went something like :US, Canada, UK, N. Europe, S. Europe, everywhere else.

Why did this happen? Because the test was written in English and a lot of the immigrants from outside English-speaking countries didn't speak English very well. Another reason: They asked questions about American culture, like 'how many players on a side in baseball?'.

Ya, slightly biased that test was.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I'd be anxious that I won't do as good as I would want to and then I'm not even allowed to improve on my score and rather take it as: Look at this! This is how dumb you are! What's the point?

I'm not saying it's a good point, but it's like measuring your height. Maybe it's not what you wish it was, but it is yours. The exact result is probably not going to be surprising to you. (You strike me as more self-aware than most.)

There are some things about yourself you just have to accept. This is one that you don't have to put a number on unless you want to.