Quote of the day:

[conuly]

Jesus, the average human IQ is only 100?

IQ tests are specially designed so that whatever the average is, it's marked as 100. It's graded on a curve. So if you took a room full of MENSA candidates and ONLY measured them (let's say the rest of the human population had been killed off), the average IQ there would be 100. And the same applies to if it were a room full of people with Downs syndrome.

Seriously, doesn't everyone learn that?

Comments

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I have a 145 IQ, but it didn't get me into an Ivy League school, or out of regular math or physics. It just means that I have the capacity, but I'm too busy using all them pesky points for daydreaming instead, heh.

And if you know me, I definitely should NOT have an IQ high enough to get into MENSA. I'm nowhere near that intelligent.

So I backup the uselessness of IQs. But I honestly never knew that.