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Author Topic: How to raise your IQ by switching browser. (turns out is a hoax)  (Read 6288 times)

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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2011, 02:21:27 pm »

Just as a side note, I have an aunt (by marriage, my step-grandmother's daughter) that has an IQ rated at 26. (Yes, seriously. My grandfather thinks it should be higher though)

Can you guess what browser she uses?
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2011, 02:29:54 pm »

Just as a side note, I have an aunt (by marriage, my step-grandmother's daughter) that has an IQ rated at 26. (Yes, seriously. My grandfather thinks it should be higher though)

Can you guess what browser she uses?
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How can she even use the computer?

You are probably trolling though.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2011, 02:32:02 pm »

Just as a side note, I have an aunt (by marriage, my step-grandmother's daughter) that has an IQ rated at 26. (Yes, seriously. My grandfather thinks it should be higher though)

Can you guess what browser she uses?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How can she even use the computer?

You are probably trolling though.
I choose to assume she filled in the IQ test's bubbles with a #3 pencil, thus causing the grading machine to implode; thus, the number is not truly representative.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2011, 02:36:57 pm »

My understanding is that people who have IQs of her level take a different form of the IQ. Verbal or something like that I'd assume.

And no, I'm not trolling. Learn the definition of trolling please.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2011, 02:38:29 pm »

Well, I apologize for my comment. Poor taste.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #20 on: August 02, 2011, 02:39:24 pm »

Just as a side note, I have an aunt (by marriage, my step-grandmother's daughter) that has an IQ rated at 26. (Yes, seriously. My grandfather thinks it should be higher though)

Can you guess what browser she uses?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If she's capable of using a computer and seems all right, I'm fairly sure that the IQ is a result of a flawed test or is not actually IQ as defined today. Anything under 80 in modern IQ should already make the person seem slow (Forrest Gump, anyone?) and people with IQs under 70, by my knowledge, are classified as mentally retarded. IQ of 26 is very severe retardation.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #21 on: August 02, 2011, 02:41:03 pm »

.....a 26 IQ isn't even functional. That's someone who needs serious assistance with basic day-to-day tasks. In the old-school ranking terms, that would just barely qualify as an imbecile.

As others have said, the tests obviously didn't score correctly.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #22 on: August 02, 2011, 02:47:32 pm »

A result of 26 is quite possible, but yes, it implies either severe mental retardation or a flawed test. However, like they say in the song, people are strange. Weird savants exist.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #23 on: August 02, 2011, 02:47:52 pm »

.....a 26 IQ isn't even functional. That's someone who needs serious assistance with basic day-to-day tasks. In the old-school ranking terms, that would just barely qualify as an imbecile.

As others have said, the tests obviously didn't score correctly.
Like I said, my grandfather says she should be higher.

Also, she lives in a group home. She does need assistance with basically everything. Her competence with a computer is actually a bit surprising, considering that. She can use Skype, watch movies on Netflix, listen to music, play games online, use Facebook, and even email a bit.

And no, she's not a savant.

We should probably move on from this derail though.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #24 on: August 02, 2011, 03:03:46 pm »

She can use Skype, watch movies on Netflix, listen to music, play games online, use Facebook, and even email a bit.
These are most definitely not a sign of being smart. :B
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« Reply #25 on: August 02, 2011, 04:37:38 pm »

A clarification on how IQ is calculated (or at least, how it is calculated by those who are doing it properly):

-The test is divided into a number of sub-tests, normally six to eight. In each test, you have to perform a task or tasks (such as arithmetic, or sybol recognition), and your speed and accuracy are measured.
-In each subtest, you are given a percintile score. The percentile score is the percent of the population who would score lower than you. For example, if you are in the 42nd percentile for a test, 42 percent of the population are worse than you, and 58 are above you in that test. There is a high degree of precision for this; normally 0.1%.
-These percentile scores can be combined to give you an overall percentile.
-An IQ is a number with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Using your overall percentile, you are then assigned an IQ score.

However, it is worth stressing that IQ is a very crude measure. It can only be considered in any way representative if the individual percentile score are very near to each other. For example, when I took such a test, I was graded at between the 30th percentile and the 99.9th percentile (IQ 92 to 146).

Intelligence is not a single-dimensional quality, though. IQs are absoletely worthless when determining someone's intelligence. The only reason why it gets as much attention as it does is because there is because of the complete absence of proper, accurate tests.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #26 on: August 02, 2011, 06:33:51 pm »

Specifically, the modern IQ test is a measure of logic and arithmetic. A person with a high IQ does well in numbers and logic puzzles. However, it's been suggested that an expanded form of the IQ test would measure other facets of intelligence, including artistic and musical intelligences, social intelligence, physical intelligence (eg athletes and others who can perform physical activities with amazing skill), as well as several other forms of intelligence. Until such an implementation, though, the IQ remains a simple and very rough idea of how a person will be able to perform in a very mathematically-centered world such as ours.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #27 on: August 02, 2011, 06:38:05 pm »

I thought IQ tests included perception and memory.

At least the one I took in highschool did.
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« Reply #28 on: August 02, 2011, 06:56:03 pm »

They might, but the main focus is logic, with arithmetic as a subsidiary. I received an IQ test recently, and I don't recall any part that specifically assessed memory (and I did fairly well, so I think I probably did at least fair on that section :P) but it might be a part. I do recall that perception was a part of it, although it was still overshadowed by logic.
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Re: How to raise your IQ by switching browser.
« Reply #29 on: August 02, 2011, 06:59:06 pm »

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Researchers gave over 100,000 web surfers a free online IQ test.

Aaaaaand test is bullcrap.  They might as well put out a study of the manual dexterity of different browser users based on how well they perform with an old Punch The Monkey banner.
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