[historia_novae]

What I find fascinating about discussions about IQ (tests) is how they trigger a whole class of people. It's like there are smart people who are confident about their intelligence, less than bright who are conscious about their shortcomings on the matter, and in-between a whole bunch of midwits who can't accept that smarter people than them exist and thus declare IQ (tests) measure nothing.

[pessimizer]

I took the test and joined Mensa for a year before letting it lapse. I think that IQ tests measure nothing but test-taking ability. I've always been good at tests. I'm not exceptionally bright.

[password54321]

There seems to be a pattern with people's IQ and their profession. The average IQ for physicists and philosophers or even just someone with a PhD is like 135. The guy who cleans the toilet is very likely not going to be in that range. Clearly something to do with intelligence is being measured.

[pessimizer]

The reason I took the test is because when I was listening to the Howard Stern radio show, their crew was taking IQ tests, and I realized I hadn't ever taken one and had no idea where you would. I've cleaned a ton of toilets professionally in my life, even well into adulthood. Do I sound smart? Because I've been deemed in the top 2% of IQs.

Also, because I got a score in the 140s that means I can say that IQ is silly and that even its inventor didn't like the uses to which it was put, and you have to accept that. High-IQ privilege.

[password54321]

I also got into Mensa not that it has anything to do with the correlation of jobs and IQ.

[paulpauper]

Dr. Jordan Peterson is correct that IQ tests are highly predictive of many important things in life, like educational attainment, wealth, income, etc. It's understandable how the concept of a single number encapsulating so much about a person's potential, is controversial.