Completely OT

Fyron · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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!

Randallw · #6 December 28th, 2004, 02:12 AM

In totalitarian stories the public is pacified by watching dreary tv programs with no value except to keep the masses occupied. Does anyone realise how ironic it is that the public masses are kept occupied by watching "reality TV". "Big Brother" is doubly ironic since we are supposed to keep an eye on the contestants 24/7.

Atrocities · #7 December 28th, 2004, 02:18 AM

Well said Brother Randallw. Well said.

David E. Gervais · #8 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!

Raging Deadstar · #9 December 28th, 2004, 07:41 AM

Hehe, My IQ averages out over every test I've taken at around 120/130. Which isn't bad, but I don't take much notice of them. Some people are Genius' at one thing, and unable to grasp another.

I can Do basic maths and everything nessercary, but anything beyond that I suck badly at. But most thing's to do with English and Writing I fly through.

Atrocities · #10 December 28th, 2004, 08:53 AM

When I was tested at the age of 4 or 5, I scored very very high. I skipped kindergarden and was able to do multiplication problems out to 9x9 by first grade. But the school district of Camas WA, felt that my being half blind was a distraction to the other kids. They classified it as a illness and made my life hell. My parents were forced to send me to the Vancouver Blind School for my second grade year. I had only a first grade reading and writing skill, and found brail reading to be borning. This lack of proper education regarding my reading has haunted me ever since. Hense my horrid spelling and grammer skills. (Hey nobody is perfect.

) I Lasted at the Blind School for a year before being bumped back into the public school system. It would seem that I was so far ahead of my classmates at the blind school, and was I was litterly board to tears. The could not figure why I was attending the school when my IQ was so high. (Hey I was a five or six year old kid at the time, all I wanted to do was play with my friends and make forts in the rec-room.

And we made some dandy arse forts too.

I always found public school to be borning, and if not for evil people, I would have gone on to higher education and perhaps be a better person than I am now. But life is what life is, and Gods will has been done, I have become far less than I was, and there really is nothing I can do about it except grin and bear it.

I guess the same is true for any person in life.

We just have to take it as it comes and try to survive it without loosing our sense of humor.

I am a firm believer that if you do not use your mind, it weakens like with any musle and your IQ, your real IQ, suffors.

So use that IQ.