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deni wrote:I do not know what kind of test you took and if it was standardized (mean 100 with a std. dev. of 16) like the Mensa or similar tests, and I surely do not want to doubt your intelligence, but anyone cliaming a higher score than 140 makes me chuckle.

It can well be that the test you took did not have the usual (100,16) normal distribution but a higher mean or higher standard deviation.

well. given your terms, higher than 140 is just slightly higher than two deviation above par, meaning about 2 percent of people.
over 158 is 3 deviations above par, which is about 0.15 of people.
now, if you know 1000 people, and asuuming normal distribution, 2-3 of them are above 140, and one or two are above 158 (statistically speaking, of course). most people meet a few thousand, if not tens of thousands people, so yes, id say most will know a few people who are above those standards.

having said that, i don't accept IQ test as a criteria for anything.
the proof, i say, is in the pudding.
doesn't matter what you scored in some pen and papere exam, matters how you fare in RL.

cant believe this thread has been dredged up lol

as for finishing my test...i just cant be arsed

never trust online tests. they are all stupid but amusing.
i of course take them from time to time.
get the stupid question here.
if red houses are made of red bricks
and blue houses are made of blue bricks
what is a green house made. of.
Glass of course.
trick questions are fun but they do not test how smart you are they test a certain way of how you think.