tigermilk said:
CrystalShadow said:
tigermilk said:
LuckyClover95 said:
I think, 108 or something?
I don't know enough about IQ to argue for or against it, but it must be sort of important as aren't you legally classed as retarded if you get an IQ score below a certain point? 170 or something?
Wow we appear to be pretty much the only two people here who aren't a) geniuses with the world at our feet but can't be bothered to take advantage of the wonderful gift of an IQ so high one can earn large amounts of money utilising said gift.
Seriously... IQ scores don't earn you anything.
Determination is 1000 times more important than IQ results.
And whoever gave you the notion that you have 'the world at your feet' if you've got a high IQ is, to be blunt, completely delusional.
With people banding about numbers around the 170 mark at that point there are grants available and if someone has that level of aptitude for numbers and logic there is a lot of research money available (well certainly a lot more than there is for the arts/social sciences.)
Grants like that aren't based on having a high IQ.
If you have a maths/physics/whatever degree, sure.
But That's independent of IQ.
IQ is a very abstract number, and not directly useful for anything. It gets used by various groups as a prediction of how good you might be at certain intellectual tasks.
But it makes no guarantee about whether a person has any social skills, ability to commit to hard work, determination, etc.
(As I said in an edit to the message you are quoting, Ironically, because people with high IQ's can in a lot of cases do well in school without really trying, it really does make it more likely they'll learn to be lazy.
Why make a huge effort when doing the bare minimum seems to be good enough?
It's only later on, when you're much older, that you realise the negative consequences that this has, and then find yourself having to work around a lifetime of bad habits.)
