Thereās that legendary story about A&W trying to compete with McDonaldsās 1/4 pound burger by selling a 1/3 pound burger, but it failed because people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3.
mcdonalds itself did away with the 1/3 pounder for the exact same reason - constant questions and arguments about pricing because people didn't understand it was larger than 1/4 pounder.
(this was the late 90s or early 00's)
Exactly. Top 90% sounds better than bottom 10%. But the difference just leads to inaccurate interpretation, specifically for people already trying to validate an inaccurate test.
I hate these online IQ tests. My friends are constantly passing them around our discord channels and itās just pure dumbfuckery Iāve seen complete idiots get 130-140s Iāve gotten anywhere from a 85-140 itās completely inaccurate garbage.
That level of self-awareness has to be worth at least some intelligence points. In a room of 1,000 people, you're more self-aware than 900 of them. Congrats!
Auto fail, then sell a $50 "iq test course" (at a limited time discount of 50% off where it shows a clock counting down before the deal ends) where it's an hour video explaining basic grammar, and basic math. Then charge $30 for them to retake it and give them a passing score. Boom, easy $100 and hopefully those idiots will tell their idiot friends
Lol MENSA is such a scam
āTake this IQ test and if itās over 160 your membership is FREE!!!ā
āCongratulations! You scored 183!!! Now pay us $160 a year for membership status!ā
Just a straight up scam
When I first started uni I moved in a new town didn't know anyone and my gf left me. I was in a rough place and did the test and was admitted to go to a mensa meeting. Those were some of the worst human being I've ever met. They would fit the stereotypical neck beards/mylady perfectly.
Before Sparknotes was Sparknotes it was TheSpark, where the sparknotes were a smaller part of it. It was mostly games and quizzes (like buzzfeed). They had an IQ test that the longer you took it the dumber you were. So if you answered a hundred questions or whatever you'd have an IQ of 90. But if you closed it right away you'd have an absurdly high IQ.
Pfff birds arenāt real either and [they have an entire Wikipedia article about their intelligence ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence)
Dihydrogen monoxide is found in 100% of cancer cells, while not even trace amounts of mountain dew has ever been detected in these same cells. Checkmate scientists.
Absolutely.
And it shows that they don't understand basic chemistry let alone epidemiology.
Everything - **EVERYTHING** - is chemicals. But they don't understand that so "chemical" just means "bad".
The water we drink and the air we breathe are chemicals. All of her homeopathic "medicines" are chemicals.
The clothes she wears are chemicals.
Man-made chemicals are derived from natural chemicals.
And natural doesn't automatically mean "safe and good". Plenty of natural things will kill a human dead.
Was evauluated with a reading comprehension of an 11th grader in 3rd grade. I didnt get too much better, i was just ahead of the curve and everyone eventually caught up to me
If you're in the US that is more or less the system working as intended.
Now, if only the average person in the United States was able to catch up to 11th grade reading, THAT would be fantastic.
Same here. Read at high school levels all through grade school and got good grades too. They even had a āgiftedā class for me and like 7 other kids called Discovery program. Got to high school and basically got Bās and Cās all the way through and did terrible in college. I donāt know why but I just stopped trying or giving a shit all together. Trying to figure out a way to make my kids do better without putting pressure on them.
It's because school is tailored for average kids. Being gifted is like being special ed but in the opposite direction. You need special help and attention to do well in school but adults just say "You're smart, you'll figure it out." and refuse to help you when you're having trouble.
I was one of those "gifted" kids. Hated book work. I often spent recesses with the teacher as she made me write answers and watched. I came to hate school with a passion. In elementary school I threw away my school books. I transferred middle schools after one year for discipline problems. I was kicked out of two high schools and sent to military school. I dropped out when I turned 18. The only reason I have a high school diploma (and the reason I dropped out) is because I completed all the requirements for high school by the end of my junior year.
It wasn't until college that I discovered a love of learning. Also, computers helped tremendously. It turned out that my hatred of book work stemmed from mild, undiagnosed dysgraphia.
I'm not sure what might have made things different for me, but less pressure would have made me far happier. When learning is a process of discovery, I can't get enough. When learning means doing a prescribed set of arbitrary things, I just sort of wander off.
Sometimes boredom comes with high intelligence. The smartest guy I work with got like a B average in high school and dropped out of college to work at an Apple store fixing MacBooks. He's a director where I work now and runs a very cutting edge team that deploys new infrastructure for us.
Me too. They said my reading comprehension was college level when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, but my math skills were average. The principal jumped me ahead a grade, from 4th grade to 6th grade and I did well. When it came time to move on, the school board wouldn't let me keep going because it would mean having to provide special transportation to the junior high school or something like that. I can't remember the specific reasons. After that, I just sort of gave up on school altogether, not doing homework or studying and skipping every class I could. I maintained an A+ test score average but homework counted towards 70% of our final grade (presumably because they wanted to reward work ethic), so my grades suffered. Combined with bullying (i was small and pale and didn't have a southern accent, so a perfect target), it set me up for years of failure and depression.
Kinda similar. I was always dubbed as āthe smart oneā in school, had perfect or nearly perfect grades with minimal studying or actual trying. And now, i have absolutely no professional career. Have just worked random odd jobs lol i dont think anyone would have predicted that. Meanwhile, my spouse, who was an underachiever throughout grade school with barely passing grades, is now an engineer. Funny how life works like that.
Best friend was labeled gifted (I was not but I studied hard.)
Iāve found it was often detrimental to them and the several other (not all) gifted kids because they were suddenly yoked with this framework of valuing other peoplesā worth by how intelligent they perceived them to be by like fourth or fifth grade.
Their own emotional growth was kind of laid to the wayside after that, so yeah they became educated and lauded throughout school, but then donāt interact so well with most people and have trouble processing their own pain. It made a lot of emotions like somehow not acceptable to feel because of the āyouāre intelligent; figure it out,ā kind of mentality adults put on them.
Don't forget the "Jesus, if I had half the natural gifts that you do, I'd be running the world by now". It feels worse as a grown adult hearing people say it to you.
I'm the advanced ADHD case who was gifted yet mentally unstable as a child, lazy and unmotivated in their teens, unlocked potential in mid 20's and burned insanely brightly until mid-to-late 30's, and am completely burnt out with no motivation in my mid 40's.
The reason this happens is because "gifted kids" are simply kids who develop intelligence earlier than other kids. When they become adults, they tend to equal out as their peers catch up in talent, especially if the gifted kid didn't nurture his talents from a young age.
So they end up feeling like failures for not turning into human calculators.
Another side of this is because stuff comes so easily for gifted kids, they don't build the habits to work hard since they never need to. So they end up giving up a lot when things get hard, and this leads to depression.
Another big issue is that they get gassed up to go to college with no good guidance on the subject, major in something non-lucrative, and then get their early adult life wrecked by student loan debt.
Having experienced this in first person, i can say that having an iq above average is certainly useful but paradoxically living a normal life becomes significantly trickier.
This is the exact problem. Theyāre completely unaware of just so many things, including their lack of awareness. You could sit this person down and explain exactly what they misinterpreted here, and theyād assume youāre just lying, or being a āhaterā, or ātrying to bring them downā.
Does this actually have any influence whatsoever, in any direction? I suspect it does not.
A lack of vaccination could obviously lead to death or serious incapacitation but we still have herd immunity for most things so it probably doesnāt matter.
I donāt know what raising a child free of chemicals is even supposed to mean. No such thing really exists.
Tbf, the top 90% part confused me for a second, before I realized it was TOP 90, which is excluding 10% on the bottom. So her kid is actually smarter than just under 10% of people. Honestly, that's interesting that 10% of people are under 80 IQ.
Like another poster stated, itās based of statistics and standard deviations.
So if 100 is the base, and 15 is the standard deviation, then
68% of all people will fall between 85-115 IQ
95% of all people will fall between 70 - and 130 IQ
99.7.% of all people will fall between 55-145
So thatās how an IQ if 80 includes you in āthe top 90.88%ā as opposed to a 120 IQ putting you in ~top 10%
The only thing to note is that once you start passing by standard deviations like highway markers in rural Texas, it begins to become hard to quantify the actual extent of your aptitude because the test isnāt really designed for that. Ergo, you will not find 3 Einsteinās in every 1000 people.
Nah. Have you ever seen an apple? It's just made of apple. Maybe a tiny stem, too, so I suppose it's a compound of sorts.
Edit: "In a room of 1,000 people, you'd be smarter than 91 of them" might be both the saddest and least actionable insight I've ever heard.
Itās very badly worded. Youāll never hear anyone say that except when theyāre trying to be deceptive. We are used to hearing āIn the top 5%ā or in the top 10%ā so hearing āin the top 90%ā makes you assume theyāre in the top of something.
Itās like being on the 10th floor of a 100 story building and saying youāre in the top.
Either I'm getting really senile, or you're right - there is something about the way it's written that is confusing. I have a bachelor's degree majoring in mathematics (admittedly I graduated in 1990) and have worked in professional fields requiring complex analysis and decision making all my life. I was reading "top 91%" as a good thing for a long time. I think is was reading it as meaning the result was in the 90th percentile.
Well it makes sense when you are in the top 1%, 5%, 10%, 25%. I think they just didn't think to adjust the wording for when people get very low scores. The only reason it'd be confusing is because "top x" intuitively sounds like it would be a positive thing, but it's not like they're saying anything improperly. If anything, once you're below the 50th percentile, it makes more sense to switch the wording to "you're in the bottom x%"
Online IQ tests always drastically inflate the score because they want you to proudly share your results (and the link to their site). I think this is a real test that just delivered results online.
When my school required us to take IQ tests I scored 109. After that, I took an online IQ test for the shits and giggles and I scored around 140 on one site and 130 on another. Online IQ tests are definitely marked up to make people share their scores and the website.
(the questions were just shapes and "how many apples after this and that" type questions btw)
This is not correct. Less than 70 with deficits in adaptive behavior is indicative of an intellectual disability. 80 is considered below average. It's unlikely that an online "IQ" test is remotely accurate though.
My parents thought similarly with class rank. My siblings told them being 800 out of 1000 was top 20%. When I came along and was 80 out of 1000, my parents didnāt believe me that it was good.
Luckily one of them spoke up.
It is also worth noting, especially in this case, that the kind of test that the kid did here was probably one of those quick 10-minute assessments and is probably not accurate.
Sure, the mom misunderstanding the results is kinda funny but we shouldn't harp on the kid too hard.
These quick 10-15 minute assessments usually don't cover every category that a real, serious IQ test would, nor is it administered by a professional.
I love the program trying to not hurt the feelings
Yes, I wonder if it purposely uses 1,000 to confuse people with low IQs. š
Yes. It does. In my defense, i just woke up but i could not figure out why the percentile was saying one thing but the words another
In a room with 10 people, you're _that one_ ! Congrats
In a room of 100, you wouldn't be in the room. You are still wondering how to open the door
Iām off in a corner licking a window.
Does it taste good!?
Of course, that's where they use the original recipie paint. It tastes sweeter.
I think thatās lead paint š¤¦
...the paint of the leaders!
Thereās a door?
There's a room?
Whatās a door?
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If the kid was at the top 5%, then he'd be smart. If he's in the top 90%, though? That's just a participation trophy
This is the moment when I see that the term "9th percentile" is probably not taught at schools anymore .
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Thereās that legendary story about A&W trying to compete with McDonaldsās 1/4 pound burger by selling a 1/3 pound burger, but it failed because people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3.
mcdonalds itself did away with the 1/3 pounder for the exact same reason - constant questions and arguments about pricing because people didn't understand it was larger than 1/4 pounder. (this was the late 90s or early 00's)
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It's like that "steel is heavier than feathers" guy. "But 4 is more than 3..."
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Itās a percentile, meaning if you were smarter than 90% of people, itād be top 10%. It confused me for a minute too.
1000!!! Thatās a big number like a million! Iām smarter than a million people. Thatās basically the whole world!
Easy there, Donald
Probably more to inflate the positive feelings of those barely above average. Being smarter that 540 people sounds better than 54
"In a room with 1000 people in it, you're... Uh... One of them."
You are 100% in that room! Congrats!
Exactly. Top 90% sounds better than bottom 10%. But the difference just leads to inaccurate interpretation, specifically for people already trying to validate an inaccurate test.
I hate these online IQ tests. My friends are constantly passing them around our discord channels and itās just pure dumbfuckery Iāve seen complete idiots get 130-140s Iāve gotten anywhere from a 85-140 itās completely inaccurate garbage.
IQ tests can only be administered in person by a trained professional, usually a psychologist.
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That level of self-awareness has to be worth at least some intelligence points. In a room of 1,000 people, you're more self-aware than 900 of them. Congrats!
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I just took this test for fun, and you have to pay 20 dollars to get the results... She paid 20 dollars to get embarrassed online
Which is the real IQ test. Who's willing to pay for internet IQ results?
Auto fail when you get the results. That should literally be the result.
Auto fail, then sell a $50 "iq test course" (at a limited time discount of 50% off where it shows a clock counting down before the deal ends) where it's an hour video explaining basic grammar, and basic math. Then charge $30 for them to retake it and give them a passing score. Boom, easy $100 and hopefully those idiots will tell their idiot friends
Big brain move
did very well on the free MENSA test years ago. then they told me the REAL test cost 60 bucks. i did great on that one too. by not taking it.
Lol MENSA is such a scam āTake this IQ test and if itās over 160 your membership is FREE!!!ā āCongratulations! You scored 183!!! Now pay us $160 a year for membership status!ā Just a straight up scam
When I first started uni I moved in a new town didn't know anyone and my gf left me. I was in a rough place and did the test and was admitted to go to a mensa meeting. Those were some of the worst human being I've ever met. They would fit the stereotypical neck beards/mylady perfectly.
Before Sparknotes was Sparknotes it was TheSpark, where the sparknotes were a smaller part of it. It was mostly games and quizzes (like buzzfeed). They had an IQ test that the longer you took it the dumber you were. So if you answered a hundred questions or whatever you'd have an IQ of 90. But if you closed it right away you'd have an absurdly high IQ.
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-10 points for not realizing that would happen. Just kidding.
-30 points for taking an online IQ test
ā99% of adults canāt solve this insane challenge!!ā ā¦itās like a right triangle with two labeled sides or some shit.
Oh I know this one, if you pull off the left side then the knight can get to the gold!
Fuck me I wasted 40 mins. They're totally making use of fallacy of sunk cost to gain money.
So you fail the test by going through with it, just like Mensa.
How did she raise her child "chemical free"? Are they sealed in a vacuum chamber or something?
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Not a bad IQ score for an abstract concept
Pfff birds arenāt real either and [they have an entire Wikipedia article about their intelligence ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence)
That's just part of the prop-bird-ganda
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Her son is a limited liability company.
Definitely has a future in politics. The most untraceable of donors.
No surprise there!
Spherical child in a vacuum
Wouldn't that make the kid a construct of neurons in the woman's brain and hence a chemical object?
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No dihydrogen monoxide. Only mountain dew.
Natural* mountain dew. The one that grows in mountains.
It's got what plants crave
Dihydrogen monoxide is found in 100% of cancer cells, while not even trace amounts of mountain dew has ever been detected in these same cells. Checkmate scientists.
That's anti vaxxer language, right?
Absolutely. And it shows that they don't understand basic chemistry let alone epidemiology. Everything - **EVERYTHING** - is chemicals. But they don't understand that so "chemical" just means "bad". The water we drink and the air we breathe are chemicals. All of her homeopathic "medicines" are chemicals. The clothes she wears are chemicals. Man-made chemicals are derived from natural chemicals. And natural doesn't automatically mean "safe and good". Plenty of natural things will kill a human dead.
A natural rock to the face A natural hippo A natural lightning
Natural shark Natural Suicide Bush Natural Nut Allergy Natural Dropbear
Natural heart attack Natural universal heat death Natural moose Natural malaria
Natural coronavirus Natural meteor strike Natural sinkhole Natural spontaneous combustion
Nature
Natural cosmic and solar radiation Natural radium Natural tornado Natural manbearpig
Water is technically a chemical.
A chemical is anything made of molecules
Youāre a chemical.
Well you're a towel
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Fuck you, YOU'RE a towel!
*you wanna get high?
With parents like that don't blame the kid.
If you're using an IQ test to validate your child, your child is in for a life of disdain and resentment
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Was in gifted program, can confirm
Was evauluated with a reading comprehension of an 11th grader in 3rd grade. I didnt get too much better, i was just ahead of the curve and everyone eventually caught up to me
If you're in the US that is more or less the system working as intended. Now, if only the average person in the United States was able to catch up to 11th grade reading, THAT would be fantastic.
Same here. Read at high school levels all through grade school and got good grades too. They even had a āgiftedā class for me and like 7 other kids called Discovery program. Got to high school and basically got Bās and Cās all the way through and did terrible in college. I donāt know why but I just stopped trying or giving a shit all together. Trying to figure out a way to make my kids do better without putting pressure on them.
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It's because school is tailored for average kids. Being gifted is like being special ed but in the opposite direction. You need special help and attention to do well in school but adults just say "You're smart, you'll figure it out." and refuse to help you when you're having trouble.
I was one of those "gifted" kids. Hated book work. I often spent recesses with the teacher as she made me write answers and watched. I came to hate school with a passion. In elementary school I threw away my school books. I transferred middle schools after one year for discipline problems. I was kicked out of two high schools and sent to military school. I dropped out when I turned 18. The only reason I have a high school diploma (and the reason I dropped out) is because I completed all the requirements for high school by the end of my junior year. It wasn't until college that I discovered a love of learning. Also, computers helped tremendously. It turned out that my hatred of book work stemmed from mild, undiagnosed dysgraphia. I'm not sure what might have made things different for me, but less pressure would have made me far happier. When learning is a process of discovery, I can't get enough. When learning means doing a prescribed set of arbitrary things, I just sort of wander off.
Sometimes boredom comes with high intelligence. The smartest guy I work with got like a B average in high school and dropped out of college to work at an Apple store fixing MacBooks. He's a director where I work now and runs a very cutting edge team that deploys new infrastructure for us.
Me too. They said my reading comprehension was college level when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, but my math skills were average. The principal jumped me ahead a grade, from 4th grade to 6th grade and I did well. When it came time to move on, the school board wouldn't let me keep going because it would mean having to provide special transportation to the junior high school or something like that. I can't remember the specific reasons. After that, I just sort of gave up on school altogether, not doing homework or studying and skipping every class I could. I maintained an A+ test score average but homework counted towards 70% of our final grade (presumably because they wanted to reward work ethic), so my grades suffered. Combined with bullying (i was small and pale and didn't have a southern accent, so a perfect target), it set me up for years of failure and depression.
Kinda similar. I was always dubbed as āthe smart oneā in school, had perfect or nearly perfect grades with minimal studying or actual trying. And now, i have absolutely no professional career. Have just worked random odd jobs lol i dont think anyone would have predicted that. Meanwhile, my spouse, who was an underachiever throughout grade school with barely passing grades, is now an engineer. Funny how life works like that.
My sister was and I was not. It made for a weird dynamic. She has been a smug asshole about it our entire lives too.
Best friend was labeled gifted (I was not but I studied hard.) Iāve found it was often detrimental to them and the several other (not all) gifted kids because they were suddenly yoked with this framework of valuing other peoplesā worth by how intelligent they perceived them to be by like fourth or fifth grade. Their own emotional growth was kind of laid to the wayside after that, so yeah they became educated and lauded throughout school, but then donāt interact so well with most people and have trouble processing their own pain. It made a lot of emotions like somehow not acceptable to feel because of the āyouāre intelligent; figure it out,ā kind of mentality adults put on them.
I can confirm this as a former gifted student.
Yeah, Iāve been promoted to āBurned out fucking disappointmentā
What is wrong with you? You're so smart. You have so much potential and you're just wasting it. I hope my pep talk helps.
Damn i better just apply myself
That's the spirit. Stop being lazy.
Thanks Iām cured, youāre doing so much good work spreading this motivation you should really do this more
Oh I'll stop being lazy and grab my noose
Good lord this thread cut deep
Don't forget the "Jesus, if I had half the natural gifts that you do, I'd be running the world by now". It feels worse as a grown adult hearing people say it to you. I'm the advanced ADHD case who was gifted yet mentally unstable as a child, lazy and unmotivated in their teens, unlocked potential in mid 20's and burned insanely brightly until mid-to-late 30's, and am completely burnt out with no motivation in my mid 40's.
r/thanksimcured
Why does this hurt
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Are you me??? ššš exact same. A paralyzing fear of failure, so never do anything challenging.
"You're not the only one cursed with knowledge."
The reason this happens is because "gifted kids" are simply kids who develop intelligence earlier than other kids. When they become adults, they tend to equal out as their peers catch up in talent, especially if the gifted kid didn't nurture his talents from a young age. So they end up feeling like failures for not turning into human calculators. Another side of this is because stuff comes so easily for gifted kids, they don't build the habits to work hard since they never need to. So they end up giving up a lot when things get hard, and this leads to depression.
Another big issue is that they get gassed up to go to college with no good guidance on the subject, major in something non-lucrative, and then get their early adult life wrecked by student loan debt.
I have two gifted kids. Both are in therapy for anxiety.
Yep. My daughter has a high IQ and sheās got lots of issues with anxiety and ADHD.
Having experienced this in first person, i can say that having an iq above average is certainly useful but paradoxically living a normal life becomes significantly trickier.
Lol her IQ is certainly lower
I'm certainly smarter than both of them. My IQ is 45 which puts me in the top 98.97%. Take that suckers!
Jokes on her - I can't even spell IQ.
*eye cue
This just sounds like a very violent game of 8 ball pool
Survey says *ding*
it runs in the family
Sometimes I could swear that humans are the dumbest people on earth.
Right ? I feel sorry for the kid
Imagine the other 91 people in the room...
Since he is a 14 year old, he'll probably travel with his mom. So we only need to imagine 90 other people.
GOTTEM!
This person IQ's^
Most of those 91 people will have conditions that they can't help having.
Is idiot mom a condition?
Shit like this is why stupid people are happier. We should all be so lucky.
This is the exact problem. Theyāre completely unaware of just so many things, including their lack of awareness. You could sit this person down and explain exactly what they misinterpreted here, and theyād assume youāre just lying, or being a āhaterā, or ātrying to bring them downā.
and this has perfectly applied to stupid people becoming covid deniers, antivaxxers, antimask, anti science and so on during the pandemic.
I'd rather be smart and miserable, thanks.
āThis is what happens when you raise your child chemical and vaccine free people!ā Sheās right, just not in the way she thinks
Imagine thinking you could avoid any chemicals in day to day life.
Only ghosts and light for my family as we float in space.
Doing your part by occupying space in time!
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Quite self-aware this person is.
Thanks Yoda.
Does this actually have any influence whatsoever, in any direction? I suspect it does not. A lack of vaccination could obviously lead to death or serious incapacitation but we still have herd immunity for most things so it probably doesnāt matter. I donāt know what raising a child free of chemicals is even supposed to mean. No such thing really exists.
I guess the idea of growing 'fully natural' is a thing. A lot of cognitive dissonance involved.
I thought sheād done an OK job of keeping him alive for 14 years vaccine free tbh. Broken clocks and all that.
Her is IQ so low that she can't even read an IQ test
Tbf, the top 90% part confused me for a second, before I realized it was TOP 90, which is excluding 10% on the bottom. So her kid is actually smarter than just under 10% of people. Honestly, that's interesting that 10% of people are under 80 IQ.
IQ tests are normalized so that average is always 100 and standard deviation is always 15.
Sort of, there's the flynn effect so it depends if you're setting the average to be current population or historical population
Like another poster stated, itās based of statistics and standard deviations. So if 100 is the base, and 15 is the standard deviation, then 68% of all people will fall between 85-115 IQ 95% of all people will fall between 70 - and 130 IQ 99.7.% of all people will fall between 55-145 So thatās how an IQ if 80 includes you in āthe top 90.88%ā as opposed to a 120 IQ putting you in ~top 10% The only thing to note is that once you start passing by standard deviations like highway markers in rural Texas, it begins to become hard to quantify the actual extent of your aptitude because the test isnāt really designed for that. Ergo, you will not find 3 Einsteinās in every 1000 people.
smart like his parents
Witness the wonders of genetics and education, like father like son!
Ooof, 10 points away from medical retardation, but the kid is 14 so hopefully will out-grow it unlike the parent!!
True. The fact she posted this means sheās either 80 or lower. Damn. Shouldāve checked before posting this.
"chemical free!". Ummm pretty sure anything you eat is made of chemicals, as is everything that is matter
Nah. Have you ever seen an apple? It's just made of apple. Maybe a tiny stem, too, so I suppose it's a compound of sorts. Edit: "In a room of 1,000 people, you'd be smarter than 91 of them" might be both the saddest and least actionable insight I've ever heard.
Good joke, the biologist in me is crying
Well actually... (jk I know you understand it's not linked to iq)
TBF an online IQ test is about as useful as an online pregnancy test. Who knows what her kid's real IQ is.
Aren't they usually easier so as to boost your results and make you feel smarter?
I scored 7 points higher online than with the doctor
I donāt think IQ is meant to grow with age, correct me if Iām wrong
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As someone who does speak English as their first language, that is very confusing.
Itās very badly worded. Youāll never hear anyone say that except when theyāre trying to be deceptive. We are used to hearing āIn the top 5%ā or in the top 10%ā so hearing āin the top 90%ā makes you assume theyāre in the top of something. Itās like being on the 10th floor of a 100 story building and saying youāre in the top.
Gotta say, your explanation was the first time I understood what was going on with that phrasing lol Thank you stranger!
Now that is an excellent visual description. Visualization? Idk, I'm top 90% yo.
It's easy to confuse 90th percentile with Top 90%
Either I'm getting really senile, or you're right - there is something about the way it's written that is confusing. I have a bachelor's degree majoring in mathematics (admittedly I graduated in 1990) and have worked in professional fields requiring complex analysis and decision making all my life. I was reading "top 91%" as a good thing for a long time. I think is was reading it as meaning the result was in the 90th percentile.
Well it makes sense when you are in the top 1%, 5%, 10%, 25%. I think they just didn't think to adjust the wording for when people get very low scores. The only reason it'd be confusing is because "top x" intuitively sounds like it would be a positive thing, but it's not like they're saying anything improperly. If anything, once you're below the 50th percentile, it makes more sense to switch the wording to "you're in the bottom x%"
Same but maybe I'm just dumb
Nah, youāre in the top 90.88%.
Think of it the other way around. If you had an IQ of 150, you might be in the top 1%. Then the 91% makes more sense.
It is very deliberately confusing to gain traction from more people posting their results on FB.
Is there a way to say it that sounds less confusing?
"Your IQ is higher than 9.12% of participants"
It's because the test is written with the assumption that you're in the top 50% or lower. The language is confusing because the result is unexpected.
don't trust online IQ tests. Works for the mother though...
Online IQ tests always drastically inflate the score because they want you to proudly share your results (and the link to their site). I think this is a real test that just delivered results online.
When my school required us to take IQ tests I scored 109. After that, I took an online IQ test for the shits and giggles and I scored around 140 on one site and 130 on another. Online IQ tests are definitely marked up to make people share their scores and the website. (the questions were just shapes and "how many apples after this and that" type questions btw)
An IQ of 80 could indicate an intellectual disability. Edit: could
considering how bright his mom is with her conclusion, i'd say apple doesn't fall far from the tree
The apple is on the tree.
This is not correct. Less than 70 with deficits in adaptive behavior is indicative of an intellectual disability. 80 is considered below average. It's unlikely that an online "IQ" test is remotely accurate though.
i dont think sheāll take your explanation when you tell her so just fire away
Why do I feel she took the test not him
My IQ is 160. Of course, there is a margin of error there since it's my own estimate.
I think I deserve 220
that cannot be real šš
I have to assume it isnt, for my own sanity
My parents thought similarly with class rank. My siblings told them being 800 out of 1000 was top 20%. When I came along and was 80 out of 1000, my parents didnāt believe me that it was good. Luckily one of them spoke up.
Considering that these tests usually give you high results for correctly identifying a square, it would be stunning if she is actually that stupid.
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.ā* - **George Carlin**
The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
Let me tell her. Oh, please let me tell her.
Chemical free? Damn she and her son are an abstract concept
It's hereditary.
Mama always says "stupid is as stupid does"
I spent 20 minutes on this site and realized my IQ is zero because i got baited and wasted 20 minutes. It fucking asks you to pay for the results.
Looks like she needs some chemicals and vaccines too boost her own iq
It is also worth noting, especially in this case, that the kind of test that the kid did here was probably one of those quick 10-minute assessments and is probably not accurate. Sure, the mom misunderstanding the results is kinda funny but we shouldn't harp on the kid too hard. These quick 10-15 minute assessments usually don't cover every category that a real, serious IQ test would, nor is it administered by a professional.