IQ test see what you get!

2seaoat wrote:I did pretty good. Thanks....Let Mr Stang bad mouth me now!!!


I would trade 10 IQ points for some of your common sense, and certainly Mr. Stang will even recognize sometimes we all make decisions where perhaps we do not use our full capacity.....so I do not think he will be throwing rocks.

:)Hey dreams I the first acre is my first try just waking up out if bed I posted it by paste I'm a honest person

I'm also perfectly fine with my results

You however and some nope nOt honest

I could have taken that test more and posted a higher score but I have nothing to prove to this place either

I do well that's all that matters

The fact I posted a hOnest score says something about me

Lots of smart people in here also lots of cheaters I bet too lol

Take your time you gave all day and night for some

Joanimaroni wrote:Well the 140's are a dime a dozen around here.

Mr Ichi wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Well the 140's are a dime a dozen around here.

Would you expect any thing less from this learned group of scholars?

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I find that hard work and reasonable capacity can usually get the job done.

I have never been a hiring manager, but if I was, I would take a person with average intelligence who was willing to work hard over a Mensa candidate any day.

I worked with quite a few very smart, but very lazy folks throughout my working career, and most of them turned out to be not worth a flip. They breezed through all levels of school without having to lift a finger; but when they got to a paying professional job, all of the sudden, they weren't so special. Many of them could not find the intestinal fortitude to work hard enough, and their peers of average intelligence wound up getting promoted ahead of them.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I find that hard work and reasonable capacity can usually get the job done.

I have never been a hiring manager, but if I was, I would take a person with average intelligence who was willing to work hard over a Mensa candidate any day.

I worked with quite a few very smart, but very lazy folks throughout my working career, and most of them turned out to be not worth a flip. They breezed through all levels of school without having to lift a finger; but when they got to a paying professional job, all of the sudden, they weren't so special. Many of them could not find the intestinal fortitude to work hard enough, and their peers of average intelligence wound up getting promoted ahead of them.

They actually give people IQ test now pre hire in most places. They are like 200 hundred questions long though. Ive had 2 in the last 3 years.

Joanimaroni wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I find that hard work and reasonable capacity can usually get the job done.

I have never been a hiring manager, but if I was, I would take a person with average intelligence who was willing to work hard over a Mensa candidate any day.

I worked with quite a few very smart, but very lazy folks throughout my working career, and most of them turned out to be not worth a flip. They breezed through all levels of school without having to lift a finger; but when they got to a paying professional job, all of the sudden, they weren't so special. Many of them could not find the intestinal fortitude to work hard enough, and their peers of average intelligence wound up getting promoted ahead of them.

They actually give people IQ test now pre hire in most places. They are like 200 hundred questions long though. Ive had 2 in the last 3 years.

Dammit, I would fall asleep.

Bob wrote:A 2-hour test?  I'd rather be waterboarded.  My attention span for any test is 15 minutes,  tops.

2seaoat wrote:I have told this story many years ago on the PNJ, but I worked my way through school.   I had a break between the summer session and the fall quarter of about four weeks, and I thought I would try to get a job at a Bearing Plant as a machinist.  I had worked three years on cars in dealerships as a lot maintenance job which involved no heavy mechanical, but changing oil, batteries, and no real skilled mechanical work.

I walk in the personnel office, and I was shocked I asked for an application, and they actually gave me one.  At that time most employers would say they are not hiring, and not even give you an application.  As I sat in the personnel office around 9am in the morning, a sense of panic set up in the office.  Apparently two employees were involved in an auto accident which would have them out for weeks.  About three employees called quitting, and another person broke an arm.  As I am filling the application out, I counted 6 lost employees that Monday morning.  Suddenly the personnel manager who is fielding his secretary's telephone calls hangs up the phone, and asks me would I be available to start right away.  I said yes.  He glances at my application and says.....oh....you are in graduate school, why are you applying when you will leave in a year or less......I tell him I have a year of study left, and six months of thesis work, and I could make a two year commitment.  He hesitated, and then he said....well take this mechanical written test.  So, I am as happy as a lark......I can ace almost any test....this should be a no brainer.......well he comes back and says kid you got a 54 on the test and failed, but I  am in a big jam, can you get your physical and start tomorrow?  Yes sir.  That job changed my life, and all those gear ratios and pulleys, and things I really never paid much attention which gave me a clear message, I am not as smart as I think, and sometimes dumb luck does have a lot to say in our lives.

2seaoat wrote:Did you take it,Oats?

Nope.  My IQ has been consistently 125-130 in all the official tests in school and after school.  I am not a genius and certainly cannot compare to some of the scores posted.  My wife and both children also fell within that range during their schooling and my wife conducting the test on them in primary grades.  A little above average, but certainly nothing special.  I have to work very hard to make up for the capacity others have naturally.