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Post #226,735
by GBert
9/27/05 2:47:49 PM
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New Cool site Ben!
Do GRE scores from (say) 1979 work out the same? If so, I might be pretty smart too, though still under (by a hair--drats!) the Ultranet society for the "severely gifted"... It figures: any club I'd want to belong to wouldn't be willing to have me :)
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Post #226,784
by ben_tilly
9/27/05 5:26:50 PM
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New AFAIK, they do
High IQ societies such as MENSA don't pay much attention to date. For instance MENSA's cutoff is 1250 on math+verbal prior to May, 1994, and 1875 on math+verbal+analytical after that date. However I know that there have been shifts in how the test is scaled. For instance Ultranet's admission criteria is 1610 on math+verbal in the GRE. But when I took it, both sections were out of 800 so a combined score of 1610 was impossible. I believe that the top possible score changed in 1981, but I'm not sure of that.

If you're really fascinated with what high IQ societies you might be able to join, see [link|http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs2.html|http://www.polymath-...ocs/hiqsocs2.html] and then [link|http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs1.html|http://www.polymath-...ocs/hiqsocs1.html] for more on said societies. My GREs qualify me for all of the 1/1000 level societies, and nothing higher.

I've never been a member of any high IQ society. The toy model that I talked about at [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=185893|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=185893] is pretty much how I feel about IQ tests. I know that I'm intelligent. I don't believe that my abilities are anything like what an IQ score would say. And I don't particularly value people's abilities (mine included) to do well on stupid puzzles.

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
     IQ Test - (inthane-chan) - (70) - Sept. 27, 2005, 07:43:21 AM EDT
         What is this measured on? - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2005, 01:41:21 PM EDT
             Honestly don't know. - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 27, 2005, 11:47:25 AM EDT
         I already know I'm an idiot - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2005, 12:32:03 PM EDT
             ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Sept. 27, 2005, 12:44:34 PM EDT
         IQ: 32 (under scale?) - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Sept. 27, 2005, 01:04:41 PM EDT
             Cool site Ben! - (GBert) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2005, 02:47:49 PM EDT
                 AFAIK, they do - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 27, 2005, 05:26:50 PM EDT
             I'll give it to him - (admin) - (5) - Sept. 27, 2005, 02:55:59 PM EDT
                 Deviation or ratio score in the 180s? - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Sept. 27, 2005, 06:19:29 PM EDT
                     Ratio, probably. - (admin) - (3) - Sept. 27, 2005, 07:06:14 PM EDT
                         One thing "kids like Duncan" are "maddeningly obtuse" about - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2005, 08:20:47 PM EDT
                             IQ tests and the unmeasured cute parts - - (Ashton) - Sept. 27, 2005, 10:18:56 PM EDT
                         They measure ability at certain kinds of mental processing - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 27, 2005, 09:30:07 PM EDT
         I was a 29 - (imqwerky) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2005, 01:06:32 PM EDT
             Me too... - (hnick) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:38:22 PM EDT
         43 -NT - (Yendor) - (6) - Sept. 27, 2005, 01:18:55 PM EDT
             Freak - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Sept. 27, 2005, 03:35:33 PM EDT
                 Nah - (Yendor) - Sept. 27, 2005, 03:44:56 PM EDT
                 Of course they are stupid - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:53:01 PM EDT
                     Ah -- then its a conformance test - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:55:29 PM EDT
                         "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority ..." -NT - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 27, 2005, 05:23:46 PM EDT
                         Not quite... - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 27, 2005, 05:27:36 PM EDT
         Somebody want to clue me in on part 3? - (drewk) - Sept. 27, 2005, 03:15:50 PM EDT
         Got a 22. - (static) - Sept. 27, 2005, 09:50:53 PM EDT
         86, in scale - (cforde) - Sept. 28, 2005, 01:50:56 AM EDT
         32 here. No cheating. *boggle* -NT - (Meerkat) - Sept. 28, 2005, 08:28:41 AM EDT
         Answering no questions: Score = 49. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 28, 2005, 01:58:06 PM EDT
             The only way to win is not to play... - (hnick) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2005, 02:01:39 PM EDT
                 Yer, right. :-) Try the other one (below). -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 28, 2005, 02:14:44 PM EDT
                 'War Games'__silly flik, but then it has lots of company now -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 28, 2005, 07:23:34 PM EDT
         This one seems to work better. - (Another Scott) - (34) - Sept. 28, 2005, 02:14:17 PM EDT
             138 - (Yendor) - Sept. 28, 2005, 03:11:22 PM EDT
             142 - (folkert) - Sept. 28, 2005, 03:15:08 PM EDT
             144. [Edit:] Yup, time matters: Repeated it, got 185. - (CRConrad) - Sept. 29, 2005, 03:11:35 AM EDT
             163 - (admin) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2005, 07:11:10 PM EDT
                 Odd that - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2005, 07:38:37 PM EDT
                     NFC what that measures. - (admin) - Sept. 28, 2005, 07:40:32 PM EDT
             156 / 65 ... stupid test - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2005, 08:18:36 PM EDT
                 Think light filters. -NT - (static) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2005, 10:53:41 PM EDT
                     So, Photography Experience=Intelligence. What a BS question! -NT - (CRConrad) - Sept. 29, 2005, 03:12:56 AM EDT
             Speed matters - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2005, 09:18:00 PM EDT
                 Indeed. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 28, 2005, 09:26:37 PM EDT
                 That would explain a lot - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 29, 2005, 01:46:34 AM EDT
             165. -NT - (static) - Sept. 28, 2005, 10:54:12 PM EDT
             fwiw: 139 on this one - (cforde) - Sept. 29, 2005, 12:31:01 AM EDT
             World Trivia - (cforde) - (19) - Sept. 29, 2005, 12:57:05 AM EDT
                 26/30 - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Sept. 29, 2005, 01:02:59 AM EDT
                     24 - same message -NT - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 29, 2005, 01:46:05 AM EDT
                     Ditto. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 29, 2005, 10:52:25 AM EDT
                 23/30 - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2005, 01:17:11 AM EDT
                     Same -NT - (Yendor) - Sept. 29, 2005, 01:44:23 AM EDT
                 29. BTW, It's "Michelangelo" and "Garibaldi". - (CRConrad) - (2) - Sept. 29, 2005, 02:03:54 AM EDT
                     ICLRPD: "stupid test makers!" (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Sept. 29, 2005, 03:45:51 AM EDT
                     Same. -NT - (admin) - Sept. 29, 2005, 08:42:18 AM EDT
                 29 -NT - (Silverlock) - Sept. 29, 2005, 08:24:13 AM EDT
                 28/30. -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 29, 2005, 08:33:23 AM EDT
                 25/30 -NT - (imqwerky) - Sept. 29, 2005, 09:54:37 AM EDT
                 31/30 -NT - (Ashton) - (3) - Sept. 29, 2005, 03:24:37 PM EDT
                     smartass -NT - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - Sept. 29, 2005, 04:44:55 PM EDT
                         What, you never heard of bonus points for Ashtonese? -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 29, 2005, 04:49:09 PM EDT
                         I am soo smart - (Ashton) - Sept. 29, 2005, 05:43:04 PM EDT
                 30/30 - (GBert) - (3) - Sept. 29, 2005, 04:58:01 PM EDT
                     I *thought* they had that wrong! - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 29, 2005, 05:41:33 PM EDT
                     Well, that explains my score too then. :-P -NT - (admin) - Sept. 29, 2005, 05:51:09 PM EDT
                     I must confess, I did the same; got only 28 first time round - (CRConrad) - Sept. 30, 2005, 07:06:22 AM EDT
         Age is a factor - (gdaustin) - Sept. 28, 2005, 11:22:07 PM EDT
         Hmm. - (pwhysall) - (3) - Sept. 30, 2005, 07:22:34 AM EDT
             The highest score ever, I'd say. -NT - (Meerkat) - Sept. 30, 2005, 08:24:28 AM EDT
             A Golden Bawk Bawk Award.... ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 30, 2005, 08:40:38 AM EDT
             Exile to Elba? (crowded boat, though) -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 30, 2005, 04:50:48 PM EDT

55 orders of magnitude bigger than it should be.
386 ms