From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Eleanor Holmes)
Subject:	Yourself as a contact
Date:	Fri Mar 8 04:55:00 2002

At 07:43 PM 7/03/2002 -0600, Sebastian Wiers wrote:
>
>And you gave yourself a 6? Yowza!

Well, I've done an IQ test. *shrug* Not that it necessarily means much.

>I always figured IQ's for even very smart people were lower than that, like
>around 140-150, with 160+ being really rare.

Yep. 170 or 180 counts as 'genius'. You've got to have over 140 to be
eligible for MENSA. Etc.

>gonna be damn rare. I think the whole scale is also maybe 10 points high-
>many people with a 90 IQ are what would pass for "average" on the street,

By definition, 100 IQ is set as the global average.

(Incidentally, there are stories that the average IQ in the US is 99, but I
haven't found solid proof of that.)

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