Richard Baker wrote:
> 
> Rob said:
> 
> >> JD, with an IQ of 137
> >>
> >
> > Mine is 158.
> 
> 105, last time I took a test.
> 
> Rich, who doesn't think they measure anything interesting anyway.

Yeah, right...  : )  You probably transposed a couple digits.

I never took an IQ test, but did take the SATs (750, 800).  Mensa 
is prepared to consider scores on a bunch of tests, which could 
give one rough equivalences if they cared.  (That was as of a 
couple of years ago.  I just looked, and they seem to be more 
cagey about what the equivalences are.  But I did find:
http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/oldSATIQ.html)

I agree that IQ tests do not measure "intelligence" well.  I
remember seeing one with some problems on the order of 
"Combine 5,6,7,9 with the symbols +,-,*,/ to produce an 
expression equal to 24."  My response was, "I can write a
program to do this".  I imagine that this was not what the
test writers had in mind, but being able to program a solution
shows more intelligence than just solving a problem, to my
way of looking at things.

                                ---David
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