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How to increase your IQ level ?

wise47 said:
What do you think it means that the population average is 100 points?
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That's an arbitrary choice in order to norm the scale in order to compare scores as the population data shifts. We scale the population data to a new distribution with a mean arbitrarily set to 100 and varying according to a standard deviation arbitrarily 15. Even though those values are arbitrarily chosen, it does not then follow that any number you choose to come up with is meaningful according to that scale. As has been exhaustively shown, your claimed values are meaningless and impossible. Not just physically possible for an organism to attain, but statistically near enough to impossible that we can confidently use the word.

If you're claiming to use the ordinary x ~ N(100, 15) distribution, then you have to justify your x = 1600 scores with more than just circular references to the normal distribution. To address @arthwollipot question precisely, we can take a particular score on the standard scale and, with some knowledge of which test was administered, speak with some authority on what kind of intelligence and how much of it was demonstrated on the test. In that respect, the difference between an I.Q. of 105 and one of 106 can be expressed in terms of actual measured aptitude in demarcated intelligence domains. The question then is whether you can do the same with a score of 1600. It doesn't appear you can, which makes your claim meaningless.
 
How can you measure something using only one point?

I just made up a temperature scale where the boiling point of water is 100 degrees. OK everyone, guess what the freezing point of my scale is?

Sorry you're all wrong. It's actually 25.49144
 
PSXer said:
How can you measure something using only one point?
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You can't, which is why the standard I.Q. scale has both a mean and standard deviation, which in turn are parameters to a mathematical expression that gives the probability of data having certain values of interest.

PSXer said:
I just made up a temperature scale where the boiling point of water is 100 degrees. OK everyone, guess what the freezing point of my scale is?

Sorry you're all wrong. It's actually 25.49144
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Which excellently illustrates the OP's problem. If you say your boiling point is 100º and your melting point is 99º then we can use the property of water to infer what other values on the scale might mean. But yes, we need more than just a single fixed point. If someone says he can hold in his hand an object whose temperature is 50,000º on your scale, then our inference from your calibration points and the nature of water suggests that this claim is impossible.
 
According to Meowdoku, only people of IQ 220 can solve level 21, which I've just done. I wouldn't dream of arguing with such an authoritative source as a gaming app, so it looks like I may have found out wise47's secret. I would imagine that solving level 99 would raise my IQ to 1000, but I don't have that much time to spend on video games at the moment.

Dave
 
My favourite 'what does IQ mean?' story, revolves around a brother of a friend, who liked to hang around our band.

He was a nice guy, but his IQ was 69.

He was quite pleased that his IQ was 69 because it gave him access to particular government programs and services, and meant that he could work with the people he liked in sheltered workshops.

I once spent an afternoon, trying to assist him, in learning how to tie a shoelace.
(The standard bow knot that undoes when the ends are pulled.)

No matter how he tried, he just could not do it.

There was something about the number or complexity of the steps that just defeated him.

Later on, chatting with a psychologist, she mentioned that a person needs to have an IQ of 70 or more, to be able to tie a shoelace.

His adaption to being unable to tie laces, was to usually wear elastic sided boots.

If he needed to 'dress up' for some reason, where loafers or boots were not allowed, he'd just get someone else to tie his shoes for him.
(Similarly if he needed to wear a tie or bowtie, he'd seek assistance, usually he favoured 'string ties' where no knotting was required.)

:)
 
I myself, as a kid, could not learn to tie shoelaces.
Because I am strongly right-handed, and my parents were both lefties.
Eventually my cousin taught me, when I was in second or third grade.
 
If you want to reach 1600 points, you just need to focus on it and properly tune in to reach that level.
 
Is it possible to have an IQ so high, you can't communicate effectively with normal people? There was a Star Trek: Next Generation episode about that.
 
IQ tests can be useful. I was medically retired from the USN. The VA tested me for possible advanced schooling. (Eight years at Purdue, much fun. No debt when I left with my Masters.) Then the State of Indiana tested me for possible advanced schooling. (Indiana paid for everything the VA didn't pay for while I was a student.) Then the FBI asked me to help with their serial killer data base system. I showed them were they were working too hard.

My score? Good enough. I felt exactly the same after learning it as I did before I was aware.
 
PSXer said:
Is it possible to have an IQ so high, you can't communicate effectively with normal people? There was a Star Trek: Next Generation episode about that.
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There is at least one poster on the forum that believes this.
they are just too smart for us to understand their communications on the board (apparently) - the Simonton Gap.
 
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