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IQ measures how good you are at IQ tests. I'm brilliant at those tests, I consistently score 5+ SD above 100.

I'm also an idiot, and pretty much an asshole. IQ itself puts no beans on the table, and has little to no relationship to how good a human being you are.

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> I'm brilliant at those tests, I consistently score 5+ SD above 100.

Are those professional tests supervised by a psychologist? Or rather "IQ tests" on websites that vastly inflate results to get you to share the results on social media? Both the "consistently" and the "5+ SD" (equivalent to an IQ of 175) make me think it's the latter.

I'm talking about sit down in a room with a psychologist for hours, lots of questions, coloured blocks, tricky pictures, with stop watches etc. Reciting lists of numbers backwards and forwards, the _real_ tests, not pop quizes.

How are you managing to convince psychologists to repeatedly test you?

I'd imagine that somebody with scores consistently that high would be of interest to lots of researchers.

I used to work at a university. There were people there who found me interesting. No accounting for taste with some people.

It's not hard, for instance you can pay them. If it's a PhD student, free pizza may be enough.

My apologies, I stand corrected.

How many of these have you taken, and why?

Scores that high mean very little, because a) there are so few people who might qualify for such high scores that they can't be assessed reliably and b) the people who wrote the tests weren't at that level and thus could not write questions capable of distinguishing them from the rest. Anything above about 3 SD (score of 145) is just noise.

High IQ is the ability to think faster, not better. And what you are going to do with that ability is determined by all other factors of who you are and what environment you are in.

> I consistently score 5+ SD above 100

You consistently score 175+ on IQ tests?

Yes. IQ tests are easy. Life, now that's a real challenge.

Do you have any other family members with very high IQs?

Yes, there is a pattern. Most of my relatives are very quick, those tested all come out 120+. Two of my sons have absurd IQs like me. My second is about my level (170+), and my youngest is some kind of megamind mutant. His brain scares me. He's very very clever.

What was your experience like in school and university? Have you come across people who you thought were at a similar level intelectually as you?

Consistently scoring 175 on tests that have a maximum of 140 is no small feat. If that is not a sign of superior intelligence, I don't know what is.

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