Completely OT

Fyron · #1 December 27th, 2004, 05:38 PM

IQ tests really only test how good you are at taking IQ tests... IQ tests only test one small, not so significant in the big picture portion of your intellect.

Iansidious · #2 December 27th, 2004, 05:53 PM

Tell me about Mr. Fyron. I took a fun quiz on MSN a month ago. I SUCKED on the grammer protion. But, I passed with flying colours on the meaning of foreign words, like trompe l'oeil, auld lang syne, etcetera, iechyd da. I'm good with words, but, terrible with English grammer(I do know the basics, its the details I dilike.).

AgentZero · #3 December 27th, 2004, 06:05 PM

I am fully aware of the limitations of IQ tests, but in my Last two years of High School, I was subjected to an enormous battery of IQ Tests, EQ (emotional quotient) and even a few IQQ (IQ Quotient test -a test to see how good at taking IQ tests you are. Of course they didn't tell us that at the time). I think over the two years I took something like 140 of the things. All throughout, my IQ results never varied by more that 6 points up or down. So I found it a bit shocking that according to http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/IQtable.html being sick dropped me from having an IQ in the 1 in 6,709,882 range to the 1 in 4,298 range. Which one has to admit, is a pretty big drop.
The main point of my question was that if anyone, possibly someone with medical background, knows what's going on inside me that is making me, well, dumber, while I'm sick, I'm very curious to know what it is.

Fyron · #4 December 27th, 2004, 06:26 PM

Puke answered that question, more or less. Anything that alters the neurochemical balance in your brain will affect such tests.

Rathar · #5 December 27th, 2004, 08:50 PM

IQ tests were designed by and administered to largely a western european based/raised audience. As such they are only useful in determining the "intelligence" of such and are very very biased towards what such western european minds consider "intelligent".. And then you toss in the impact of error bars and it's not surprising that some internet lowest common denominator test produces wildly disparate results..

To make a long story short these types of tests aren't "science" but mostly polls registering popular opinion..

But let me get off my soapbox.

You are sick, your body only has so much resources, since you are sick it is forced to apply a greater amount of said resources to the disease and thus you have less left to be "smart" with.

Sleep inducing expansion on this basic idea framework available upon request.

Atrocities · #6 December 28th, 2004, 12:46 AM

USing those same tests I scored 188, then 140, then 55.

I can honestly say that I did have an IQ of 183, but over the years I have become stupid. All those years working around vented fumes from floor polishers, chemicals from working with semi-conductors, and thousands of gallons of chemically enhanced or produced products such as milk, pop, water, coffee, diet pop, and so on.

Basically put, living makes you stupid, having a cold just helps it along.

DarkHorse · #7 December 28th, 2004, 12:51 AM

Nothing makes one more stupid than watching TV though. Especially that "reality" nonsense. You can almost hear IQs plummeting worldwide.

Atrocities · #8 December 28th, 2004, 01:02 AM

Reality TV.... please forgive me for saying this, but what in the hell are people thinking who watch these God foresaken [instert]bad language[/instert] shows?

Reality TV is a waste of Reality not to mention a complete waste of what could be great fantasy TV!

David E. Gervais · #9 December 28th, 2004, 07:29 AM

Quote:

DarkHorse said:
Nothing makes one more stupid than watching TV though. Especially that "reality" nonsense. You can almost hear IQs plummeting worldwide.

Watching TV does 'Not' make people stupid. Though there sure is an overabundance of stupid shows on TV. Many of us here are in no way stupid and we watch TV. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see (hear) Babylon 5, SG1, Star Trek, or any of the other 'imho' good shows on radio, so what is a person to do? Also, there are many good-great movies that are shown on TV. The 'Real' problem with TV is that the commercials are even more stupid than the shows and therefore make even the worst shows look good. ;P

/ramble mode off.

Cheers!

AgentZero · #10 December 28th, 2004, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Rathar said:

You are sick, your body only has so much resources, since you are sick it is forced to apply a greater amount of said resources to the disease and thus you have less left to be "smart" with.

Sleep inducing expansion on this basic idea framework available upon request.

I'd actually quite like a 'sleep inducing expansion on the basic idea framework'. It seems while I may be dumber than usual, my curiosity retains it's almighty appetite.