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One of my old Canby friends who played in bands with me way back in the old days was a member of Mensa (he's the guitarist in that old B/W band photo).  He was and of course still is a genius.  He had a great sense of humor too!  Loved the Firesign Theater.  He's one of the first guys who had one of those Hewlett-Packard engineering calculators back in 1972.  The coolest thing mine could do was figure out a square root.  His mind was always working at high speed -- figuring out every possible angle to some of the simplest things.  I like knowing really smart people.  It makes life a lot easier for me sometimes!  LOL

Oh....... so that's why you hang out with me?

And here I thought it was cause of my cute face, my singing, and my redneck ways!!  LMAO

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It's the brain baby, it's the brain!  "I like big brain's and I can not lie...."  

Are ya calling me a "big butt"?

Now granted, I have a bubble butt, but it aint BIG......  LMAO

Must...... be the alcohol induced brain, like ya said. The one that appears only when I'm out at karaoke night.  :D

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What? No! You didn't read it right!  Brains, it's the brains.

no it's the butt - no it's the brain  LMAO

less taste - more filling  LMAO

You guys crack me up!

My brother is super intelligent. He didn't talk until he was 4 yrs old. My
parents thought there was something wrong with him. Come to find out
some children with high IQs wait until they can speak in full sentences.
We still tease him about it.

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Maybe he couldn't find anything that interesting to talk about until he was 4!  LOL

I'm developing my own easy-to-do Multiphasic personality type tool called
"Which One of the Three Stooges Do You Prefer?"......I think it might be even more accurate than current tests being used....

My son Austin, who's now 17, was very smart as a child. Well, not that he's dumb now.... he's very quick witted.

At a year and 1/2 old, he spoke sentences as fluently as any 3 year old. He completely skipped the baby "da-da" stage it seems.  And it was even funnier to see people's reactions when they heard him, cause he was a very small child. (weighed 4 lbs 9 oz when I brought him home.... tiny little guy.... up until his growth spurt a few years ago)

And he would literally....pick things apart, and analyze them, until they made sense to him. Lord, the questions we got out of that kid were unreal.

We used to threaten to tape his mouth shut while watching movies... haha, as young as a couple years old... cause EVERYthing had to make perfect sense to his little brain.  And I'm talking every day movies, not cartoons. We would constantly have to pause tapes to go over the "why's" of what someone was doing, until he'd be like "Oh, okay, so .... blah, blah" and he'd give us his view on it.

It confused all his teachers at first too, cause he was either very shy & observant.... or asking a gazillion questions. And he wouldn't let up until he understood it entirely.

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That sounds kind of vaguely familiar  :shock:

My Mini-Me was like that...

And, according to my mom, the apple didn't fall very far from the tree

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I was out of diapers, fully potty trained, and speaking understandible phrases by my 36th birthday !!!  One of the other second graders mothers baked cookies.  THAT birthday was a milestone.

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When I was twenty I tested out at 143....They told me I was in the upper 1 percent IQ-wise....The Navy made me take their testing over cause I aced their entrance exam. When I took the exams the second time, I aced them again....I got my degree by challenging all the courses...I never spent a day in class.

But I never could understand why if I was so smart I sometimes did some really stupid things, like getting married

I am not sure if I believe in the IQ test. It only tests part of your intelligence. When I was young, I took the standard tests twice. Once I got 144 and second time 145. A lot of good it did me, look where I am now.  LMAO

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Certainly it would've kept me from nodding off during class with my head on my arms snoring.  No kidding,  I used to fall asleep during class, especially right after lunch.  Either food allergy, or the pint of scotch I'd down outside the cafeteria to get me thru the rest of the day. Forget skipping the music career tho.   You have to be a musician dude, chicks dig that !   <hehehehe>




Actual IQ of 144 is smarter than 99.7% of the population.  148 would qualify a person for the Sigma society at smarter than 99.87%. I think 135 puts a person at the top 1%,  132 (which was Mensa minimum scoring cutoff) was top 2%



You guy's are both smarter than me.  I took a battery of tests, including the Brooklyn Mensa test.  I've taken the Chimera oblique exams, Stanford-Binet, Cattell Intelligence test (old norming), WAIS, Mega Society test, and a few others... I'm not 140  :(.    Just a range from 129-139.  I think more accurately I'm very low 130's tops, and that's on a good day, given a true test encompassing abstracts, verbal, and the standard quantitative aspects.

This stuff also depends on the time of life a person is tested, how in tuned to test procedure a person is, how often he thinks in abstract profound mathematical areas day to day, how often a person problem solves, does riddles, follows current events, studies english literature, etc.. It ALL plays a huge part.  A person need not have a high IQ to be very familiar with :taking tests: of this type. Once you've taken a few, on a fourth test, you can be quite sure, your more honed into procedure, and comprehension (based on repetition) and that alone raises you're odd's of scoring a higher score, because pattern types, and concepts remain the same from test to test (assuming it's written verbal and math).  A professional test taker, or person with a photographic memory WILL test higher. Yet "Intelligence" isn't an understood term. A few that test VERY low MIGHT have certain gifts none of us have, that make us look foolish in certain areas.  Bottomline is MOST of us have different strengths and weaknesses, and although some might test at the Prometheus societies 160+ entrance level, or belong to any number of the WIN, or High intelligence societies.  What does it really mean ?  Nothing  IMHO.  Bottomline is how complacent, comfortable and happy we are really is all that matters. I really don't like these elite societies, and still don't know if young children should be told their IQ in school.  What good does it do THEM to know ?

Eben and Keith,  you scored that high in BOTH math AND verbal areas ?  As I recall the tests that are abit more limited such as Stanford-Binet, or the tests that are primarily just written timed tests to even score in the upper 120's in verbal areas is tough !   Some that score in the 120's are walking dictionaries.


I'm a crappy test taker.  These tests are given with the assumption at the time of the test, a person doesn't have a "Stormy mind", "ADD", is feeling sick, and has full capacity for comprehension.  Comprehending some of these questions, and thinking with an uncluttered mind is of utmost importance.  It's also something I can NEVER do.  I can't empty my mind... When I can focus, I'm bright.... The other 99% of the time I'm a dumb (@$%&#!).

Here's a fun test I took yesterday.  It's only ten questions, it's not timed, and it's sort've an easy version of Chimera Oblique, yet this is a Chimera riddle format, and I enjoyed it.. It's not the type that you need to sit at for hours on end, and when you try to save it to do something important, you find you've lost all your earlier answers... You can use reference material, but just not other people for assistance. But be aware, that the more tests you take, the lower your "IQ" often tends to get

http://www.puzz.com/puzzles.html

After that check out the "Giga" society.  These are the 1 in a billion top 5.  IQ score over 190.


See Keith,  that's the problem with emotions. Emotion detracts from our IQ, and lowers it up to a few hundred points much of the time :(
See what I mean though ?   ALthough I'm not quite as smart as you, I'm smart enough to learn from the mistakes of those of you smarter than myself  LOL

One thing that's quite stupid is the hospital tests.  A few times I voluntarily went inpatient for detox, and was on all sorts of meds 1st day I'm there, they give me this clinical IQ test... WTF !!   That's just wrong,  Dope someone up with Librium, thorazine, and give them an IQ test while they are shaking with the DT's.... Yeah right..  But the state research hospitals do that ALL the time.  WHat a stupid waste, and means of milking the insurance companies for more money.  Had I know that at that period, I'd have refused... I just sat there repeating  "Can I go lay down now, I feel sick".  


"Nope,  arrange these blocks to look like a dodecahedron"

If a test is timed FORGET IT.. I choke bigtime !  Part of my fear of competition stuff I suppose.

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That was the HP-65, or one of the first magnetic card programmable calculators, and it fell into an affordable consumer range of under $300 bucks.  Within 6 months TI had trigonometric, and algebraic calculator's out for under $100. There's alot of intellect among the better musicians, some dropped out've HS, and couldn't pass the verbal category of any test, yet once you get to know them, you can see the knack they have for grasping abstracts, and doing what THEY like to do. Which often NEVER existed in a regular scholastic curriculum (Which is TERRIBLY boring).  I wanted to drop out at 16.  Not only did the folks not allow me to drop out of HS, but they made me go to college too,  otherwise I couldn't live under their roof.  That was the ultimatim I was given,  We will support you as long as you are getting an education, but if you quit school, you are now 18 so on your own !  FInd your own place (which wasn't possible in Westport CT), get your own car, auto insurance, etc, you're on your own UNLESS....etc etc...The options just weren't doable, I was totally dependent on the folks while under 25..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Check out the test scores that can qualify a person for the Triple-9 society.  (smarter than 99.9%)


American College Testing Program (ACT) 32
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT, prior to April, 1995), combined verbal and quantitative 1450  
Scholastic Aptitude Test I (SAT I,after April, 1995), combined verbal and math 1520  
Graduate Record Exam (GRE), combined verbal and quantitative 1460
Graduate Record Exam (GRE), analytical 760
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)  85 raw
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 149
Wechsler Intelligence Scales (any form) 146
Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices, Set II 31 raw  
Cattell Intelligence Test Scale IIIB 173 (old norming)
Mensa Admissions Tests IQ 149
Cattell Culture Fair, Scale III (Form A and B) 149
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) 149 SAI  
Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) 149


Yet the reality is, put a few people together, one with an IQ of 125, another with 140, and one with 180.  They are ALL extremely bright !  Can't tell the difference in a "think tank" setting. What is intelligence anyway ?  Most animals aren't supposedly as "intelligent" as we egotistical human animals, but look at the navigational skills many have ?  Instinctual behaviour seems so much more developed.  Isn't that a form of "intelligence" ?   Intelligent species such as Ants, Bee colonies, etc.  How do cat's and dog's find their way home if you drop them off a few miles away ?

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Check out this test

Verbal Analogies
1.  Armstrong : Astronaut :: Jason : ?
2.  Horse and Donkey : Mule :: Question mark and Exclamation point : ?
3.  753 : 776 :: Rome : ?
4.  Roosevelt : New :: Truman : ?
5.  Right, Rite, Write : Wright :: New, Nu, Knew : ?
6.  9 : 361 :: Tic-tac-toe : ?
7.  Dawn : Rosy-fingered :: Sea : ?
8.  Year : Light :: Second : ?
9.  Fox hunter : Unspeakable :: Fox : ?
10. a : bnn :: y : ?
11. Sartre : Nothingness :: Heidegger : ?
12. RD : 22 :: CP : ?
13. 42 : Cousin :: 6 : ?
14. Where late the sweet ____ sang : birds :: Bare ruin'd ____ : ?
15. Small : Large :: Omicron : ?
16. ____ me as I am : Paint :: ____ and all : ?
17. 5,280 : Mile :: 43,560 : ?
18. I keep six honest serving men
   (They taught me all I ____) : Knew ::
   Their names are ... and ... and ...
   And ... and ... and ____ : ?
19. A ____ consistency : Foolish :: Is the ____ of little minds : ?
20. Home we bring our bald ____ : ? ::
   Romans lock your wives away,
   All the bags of gold you lent him
   Went his Gallic ____ to pay : tarts



If an hour passes, and you only know 17 out've 20 don't feel bad.  This is an example of the Mega societies test searching for "Smartest person in the World"  

If by some chance, any of you folks know a bunch of these answers,  I don't want to know about it  LMAO


HOW the heck are many to know the answer to this ?

17. 5,280 : Mile :: 43,560 : ?  (which is Sq ft in an acre). This aint fair !

13. 42 : Cousin :: 6 : (to yo mama?)

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Here's an interesting bit of triva for you.  Read closely


Executive summary: Mensa member, High IQ Society, Writer

AKA Jessica Andrea Steinhauser

Born: 6-Aug-1973
Birthplace: New York City


Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pornstar (AKA Asia Carrera)

Nationality: United States


(there you go Eben)   ,  Maybe you have a chance.  I don't qualify for porn, my IQ isn't high enough

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Steven, don't get upset, but.........

Back in '73 I completed the navy GCT test battery where I scored 75....There were 100 questions, but time enuff to only correctly answer 75, so the best you can score is 75....The trouble started when I completed the test and got all 100 right in the time allotted.....So later when I get almost out of boot camp they pull me into a room with two suits and start grilling me....They are investigating the possibility that I was 'horsed' by the recruiters to do well on the test.....So they retested me with a different series battery of tests and cut the time 10%....And they had an official proctor sit there and watch me the whole time....Once again I aced the tests with a perfect score.....But once again all they could give me was 75 vice 100.

Mensa, Tripple Nine and all the other high IQ societies require GCT scores of 68 to 74 for membership.

Do I trust IQ test results? Do I think I'm some kinda genious?.....No....I just happen to be very good at taking tests, that's all.

Try  this test,
http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/index-p ... tent_iq&z=

You need to regester as member to get the result.

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