Originally Posted by Endangered
Flynn effectReverse Flynn effect?
In the meantime however, there have been studies that indicate the Flynn effect may have ended. Studies in Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom have shown that the Flynn effect has not only ended, but that there is actually a decrease in the average IQ scores. Convincing explanations for this reversal have not been found yet.
You're like so totally whatever!
On what scale? What would the top 1% fall out on this scale?
Yessss...I beat them all. 147. The IQ is normally on average around 115-120. I was tested twice by an agency of the German government, in regards to a job application. the second time I got 145, but the night before I had been on the booze and was still a little drunk when I arrived at the testing centre. Intelligence test dont prove much, and a lot is placed upon results which dont always tie up with other abilities needed in society. The only advantage I have found is an ability to ignore often proven methods and improve or throw into question things generally accepted by the majority. Hence I later was given trouble shooting tasks.
It does not mean I can deal with my own concerns, often I have the answers to other peoples problems, while my own go unresolved and I often find I have to resort to friends advice, thinking too much can be something negative and depressing indeed.
Thinking outside of the box can be risky, when things inside the box are vital to the resolving of a given task.
The BNP as an organisation is functional, but out of control, information output is negative while input is left unused. The machine is worn out and needs replacing.We all can hear the grinding of its cogs and the squeaking of its outer parts, the tread on its tyres say, pit stop and soon. A good lick of paint is much needed and a cleaner fuel.
I dont think the IQ rating say anything about the BNP members at all. Ideology has little to do with intelligence, just look at those religious nuts who have high IQs....
Mensa measured me in the 150s (and that was before I went college, which has undoubtedly improved my IQ). However, standard deviations ... well ... they deviate, so your 145 might not 'beat' the 143 - it depends on the scales used.
A bit simplistic. There are lots of reasons why certain parts of the world developed and others didn't. IQ might be involved but there appears no particular evidence for it. IQ tests cannot compare intelligence from people with vastly different cultures anyway.
The Chinese typically have higher IQ than us but somehow they allowed their superior civilisation to collapse a few hundred years ago and are only now catching up.
Plus there are many far more important things than IQ - I say that as someone who has quite a high one but know that a persuasive manner, a hard work ethic and an ability to work with others are equal or better things to have in your personality.
There is something profoundly unintelligent about professing one's intelligence using statistics and unquantifiables .. quite ironic I think.
From a cursery Google search I found the same figures here: IQ's of Nazi leaders tried for war crimes
The source I found states that a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue test was used. This test produces results with a standard deviation of 15, i.e. where approximately 68% of the population fall within the range 85 to 115, with the average set at 100.
I'm not sure about the top 1% measurement level, but at Mensa they work on the basis that the top 2% will fall at or beyond two standard deviations above the average. On the Wechsler-Bellevue scale, this would be 115 x 1.15 = 132 or above.
Mensa use the Cattell Culture Fair test which has the same scale as the Wechsler test, and also the Cattell B test which works on a standard deviation of 24. Therefore on the Cattell B test to be in the top 2% intelligence wise one would need to score 124 x 1.24 = 153 or above and someone with a score of 132 on the Wechsler test would theoretically have the same intelligence as someone scoring 153 on the Cattell B test.
I would estimate that all of those from Karl Donitz upwards on Star Wolf's list would have been in the top 1%.
Last edited by Papa Luigi; 07-06-2011 at 06:17 PM.
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Last edited by Marilyn; 07-06-2011 at 06:37 PM.
No, not life, but most people think you are.Heyyyy Enraged ! how the hell are yah .. life's still a bytch, huh
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