>140-149 — Intelligent
>Capable of rational communication and scientific work.
>From this range on, only specific high-range tests should be considered. Important scientific discoveries and advancement are possible from the upper part of this range on.
>We do not know if intelligence from about this range on is simply the extreme end of a normal distribution centred at 100 and largely formed by heredity, or if high intelligence in some cases has other causes (non-inherited or non-genetic) which make it deviate from the normal curve centred at 100
>and form a "bump" in the far right tail, similar to the bump in the retarded range (which has non-inherited and non-genetic causes).
>And since we possess no physical, absolute scale of intelligence, these questions are hitherto meaningless altogether.
Real intelligence starts at this range.
It's similar to average people identifying other people as "smart", up to a point. When the other person is really smart, like +140IQ smart, they can't identify him. They don't know if they are in front of a genius, or an average person, or even a retard.
People under this range are not capable of rational communication.
They are not really self-aware. They are capable of fast superficial learning... and that's it.
They can express rational thoughts or ideas, but they are not able to really understand them.
It seems like a mechanism of self-preservation very hard to avoid. When you jump over that mechanism, a whole new world opens... hence the "bump".
After the bump measurements become really difficult.
However, there seems to be another bump, another layer of self-awareness which opens after +170 or so points, which seems to be a sense of unconcern and lightheartedness. You get mega geniuses here. Real creators. A more pure form of mental freedom.
This has been my experience dealing with really intelligent people, which are way different than your average braggadocious "yaaayy! I'm fit for MENSA!" guy.
>Capable of rational communication and scientific work.
>From this range on, only specific high-range tests should be considered. Important scientific discoveries and advancement are possible from the upper part of this range on.
>We do not know if intelligence from about this range on is simply the extreme end of a normal distribution centred at 100 and largely formed by heredity, or if high intelligence in some cases has other causes (non-inherited or non-genetic) which make it deviate from the normal curve centred at 100
>and form a "bump" in the far right tail, similar to the bump in the retarded range (which has non-inherited and non-genetic causes).
>And since we possess no physical, absolute scale of intelligence, these questions are hitherto meaningless altogether.
Real intelligence starts at this range.
It's similar to average people identifying other people as "smart", up to a point. When the other person is really smart, like +140IQ smart, they can't identify him. They don't know if they are in front of a genius, or an average person, or even a retard.
People under this range are not capable of rational communication.
They are not really self-aware. They are capable of fast superficial learning... and that's it.
They can express rational thoughts or ideas, but they are not able to really understand them.
It seems like a mechanism of self-preservation very hard to avoid. When you jump over that mechanism, a whole new world opens... hence the "bump".
After the bump measurements become really difficult.
However, there seems to be another bump, another layer of self-awareness which opens after +170 or so points, which seems to be a sense of unconcern and lightheartedness. You get mega geniuses here. Real creators. A more pure form of mental freedom.
This has been my experience dealing with really intelligent people, which are way different than your average braggadocious "yaaayy! I'm fit for MENSA!" guy.
