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Originally Posted by telekinetic
Did you seriously just say "I scored a 142 out of 200 on an IQ test...therefore I'm in the top 29%?" About anything else, I'd yawn and move on, but demonstrating a basic lack of understandings about distributions while talking about your abnormally-high IQ needs commentary.
The test average is 100, and the standard deviation is 15, and it's normally distributed, so a 142 would put you in the top 0.26%...as in, smarter than 99.74% of the population.
*bites tongue*
Thank you for repeatedly confirming for me that you are literally the only person on TFP I have zero desire to meet in person, and in fact would actively avoid. Aggression issues, you has them.
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Hell - is that true?
Last time I was tested by a real educational psychologist (long story short, through an accident of where and when I grew up I am part of a longitudinal study) I scored 167; recent uncontrolled online tests seem to put me in the 160-180 region, but I don't really trust them. If 142 puts you in the 0.26%, where the hell am I?
I don't FEEL clever, but standardised testing seems to show that I am.