The most interesting part was that the person with the PHD had a very average IQ score. Most of the rest could be considered “gifted”
Thanks, Bryan. That's gotta be one of the best YouTube videos I've watched. One thing that stood out for me: only 5 IQ points separated first place from 4th (out of 6). Close-knit group, IQ wise. And the PhD ranking last, with a very average score? Likely shows how hard work brings rewards. Can't imagine that could have been easy. Big props to that lady!
I did enjoy the woman shaking her head at 11:02. Hopefully each of these people have learned more about the relative meaningless of IQ. It's like a recidivism score in criminal justice. Can it tell you things about the aggregate population? Of course. Should someone rated medium or high-risk to re-offend just give up and resign themselves to going back to prison? Not a chance. Because that score doesn't capture their individual characteristics, circumstances or tenacity. I've considered getting an IQ test done, but I also know that a) if I have an average or high IQ that doesn't materially change my life and b) if I have a low IQ it might damage my self-esteem in spite of all that I have accomplished and the goals I continue to set for myself.
Dustin, if you want to know what your IQ WAS, when you were younger - there's a free way. In Ontario you can request the contents of your Student record from the Board of Education offices where you went to school. That'll include the results of any IQ tests administered at school. They were big on IQ tests back in the day. Everybody got a couple in grade school. My last one was in 8th grade. I don't know if that's still true. I did that - when I was in my 60s. Time was running out - they only keep the microfiche record for 50 years. Believe it or not, some school asked me for my high school records, after I'd graduated from College FOUR times from ages 46-62! I never went with the school that asked, but I DID get my IQ. I'm a vain so-and-so and I'm itching to tell you the number - but I'll refrain --somehow. Suffice it to say, it was higher even than conceited Johann imagined. That was then, (1955). This is now. I'm not the same guy - at least I don't think I am. When I read it, the high number "damaged my self-esteem." How could a guy with that number have made such mediocre progress in life? YMMV of course.
No comment on your life at all but I am sure you are aware that many Mensa people live ordinary or "mediocre lives". This is one of the ideas of the importance of EQ. The researcher noted that without it you have many high IQ people who make incompetent managers and so on (he used the example of a government scientist who is good at his job and so is promoted based on performance but has a low EQ). I have seen people who are highly competent and smart as a worker in a certain job but failed abysmally at the management opportunities they were given.
Yep. for sure. I see someone like that in the mirror, every morning! Now that I'm retired (for 29 years!) and do what I want, it doesn't bother me quite so much. But dang - I never bought the Maserati, or the villa in Antibes - and I never married the Brazilian model, either. A culpa é minha! (That's my fault!)
