I agree with Padma that it is meaningless and inaccurate. I took it and I got a 128. I took it a couple more times randomly and it gave me between 80 and 90. That is pretty high for a few random tests. It is made so it is imposable to get below a 70 or 60 just to make some people feel smart that are not.
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Farting Bob, 160 is not over 200.
And yes, it IS quite possible that somebody on this forum has an IQ around that range, and that person could very well be me. So even though that's exceptionally high, it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Anyway, I think those who would pick civ3 for their main game would have to be smarter than those who pick other things.
Also, IQ intelligence may tell some things, but I find other types of intelligence, like being socially smart, to be more important.
And yes, it IS quite possible that somebody on this forum has an IQ around that range, and that person could very well be me. So even though that's exceptionally high, it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Anyway, I think those who would pick civ3 for their main game would have to be smarter than those who pick other things.
Also, IQ intelligence may tell some things, but I find other types of intelligence, like being socially smart, to be more important.
I disagree. Tht is part of what makes it Civ! Not all games are for everyone. Civ requires a person to think long-range (strategically). That is its appeal!Originally posted by Ultraworld
ah . . . that is where it goes wrong
Plexus
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I just got tested for 173, but I have been 'officially' tested at 153.
I've been tested officially and unofficially in the 150's, but I also have no girlfriend, $50000 in debt and like spending 30+ hours of playtime on Civ3 just to nuke the Mongols for five minutes with Star Trek reruns on in the background.
Moral of the story: IQ don't mean $#!+
Moral of the story: IQ don't mean $#!+
I wanted to point out, that IQ tests
are a DISCRETE sample and the Gauss normal
distribution is a continuous function with only
two parameters, so it can only be an approximative
model for a discrete set of data.
Everyone, including our research group, uses
this function for all sort of statistical
calculations, even for very small data sets.
You can calculate averages and standard deviations
as if it was a continuous function.
I have seen publications with standard deviations
calculated from 3 data points and that is complete
nonsense. A discrete set of data is not symmetrical
and it cannot be fitted exactly, only approximately.
Darkness
Shadow creature
I don't know my IQ, but after my lunch break, I'll give the test in the first post a try...
EDIT: scored 127....
EDIT: scored 127....
Lambert Simnel
One across
Hmm, I got 159 on the first link, but I'm slightly intrigued as to how they calculate it. This was based on 29/30 - given that someone (Padma ?) mentioned getting 158 earlier in this thread, I can only presume that they are attributing different values to different questions.
Anyway, I found out long ago that while I had a mind well tuned to doing IQ style tests, real world situations always seemed far more challenging.
(Damn - I really didn't mean to waste time on this thread, doing the test, or even typing this reply - so how smart does that make me really ?)
Anyway, I found out long ago that while I had a mind well tuned to doing IQ style tests, real world situations always seemed far more challenging.
(Damn - I really didn't mean to waste time on this thread, doing the test, or even typing this reply - so how smart does that make me really ?)
Considering I usually test at or near "Genius" level, and I'm sitting at work where I'm supposed to be training for my new position as Configuration Management, and I'm actually online here at CFC ....
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Padma, you must be one smart cookie to get away with that. I find it a challenge to complete high level work in half the time allotted to me and then browse CFC. The real fun comes when it's time for performance review and I'm wondering if everyone only really works half time.
farting bob
ThEy MaDe Me Do iT.
real intelligence is being able to be at work (or school)....... without working.
they should make a test on how well you can avoid work at all costs, and find somethign 100 times more interesting, yet totally useless for work.i would score highly on that, and im sure many civvers would.
they should make a test on how well you can avoid work at all costs, and find somethign 100 times more interesting, yet totally useless for work.i would score highly on that, and im sure many civvers would.
Civrules: 
I have never said "pilot"!
Read my sig closely.It says "Master Sergeant". NCOs are not pilots. I have been a postal clerk, a nuclear weapons maintenance officer, and a computer programmer. Never a pilot.
Unlike the other services, where the officers stay behind and send the enlisted troops out to fight, in the USAF, the enlisted stay behind, and send the officers (pilots) out to fight!
I have never said "pilot"!Read my sig closely.It says "Master Sergeant". NCOs are not pilots. I have been a postal clerk, a nuclear weapons maintenance officer, and a computer programmer. Never a pilot.
Unlike the other services, where the officers stay behind and send the enlisted troops out to fight, in the USAF, the enlisted stay behind, and send the officers (pilots) out to fight!
Originally posted by Padma
Civrules:
Read my sig closely.It says "Master Sergeant". NCOs are not pilots. I have been a postal clerk, a nuclear weapons maintenance officer, and a computer programmer. Never a pilot.
Unlike the other services, where the officers stay behind and send the enlisted troops out to fight, in the USAF, the enlisted stay behind, and send the officers (pilots) out to fight!
What is the difference Padma? You had to deal with nukes!
I always imagined you flying in some fighter!
Gothmog: The amazing thing is, I have done less "work" in the last year than ever before, and gotten the best raise I ever have! 
:sigh: Actually, there is a LOT of difference. Ask anyone who has been in the military. And what do nukes really have to do with it? Everybody in SAC (now STRATCOM) had to deal with nukes. I just got to dig inside them, and help load them into BUFFs.Originally posted by civrules
What is the difference Padma? You had to deal with nukes!
I always imagined you flying in some fighter!
The closest I ever came to a fighter was on the display ramp at an airshow! Fighters don't (normally) carry nukes. They go with the bombers. @Gothmog: To top it off, I just learned I will be getting another raise this month! And all I have *really* done for the last 6 months is surf CFC!
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Chieftain
Originally posted by Padma
@Gothmog: To top it off, I just learned I will be getting another raise this month! And all I have *really* done for the last 6 months is surf CFC!
It's good to see our tax dollars at work...
just kidding, Mr. Padma, sir. I'm sure you do a lot more than I do.
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