same thing here...

at school, there was these questionnaires supposed to be IQ raters... i usually had extra high ranks... until they found i was intelligent ... they always thought having higher ranks was bad for the education.. .because being a high IQ meaned you were smarter than the teachers.. lol

What "smart" person thinks: "You know I'd like to teach at a high school".

Heck the "dumb" kids were smarter than the teachers, just look how they are able to control the classroom while the teacher stands there mostly helpless to do anything about it. So you send the kid to the office, he's back in a day or three tops, and what about the other 5 people doing the same thing? Do you send them all to the office or "lab" just so they can continue to cause trouble there for the rest of the day? ;)

On topic: If I've taken one it was so long ago that I can't remember. I've really never had a reason to take one so it isn't something I'm going out of my way to do. ;) IIRC anything over 120 is good right? If so some of you have some high scores....:p

I took an IQ test last Thursday. 123. It was some little 15 minute one administered by my school, so I don't know how accurate it is.

I've seen people score well on one of these and still not be able to clean their house or balance a bank statement....

I've never taken one.

Where's the motivation? :D

15 minutes... not the Mensa test... the last Mensa test i had was like 12 hours spread on 3 days... lol
(oh, and for that test, i passed it.. lol... they never give you the result, just tell if you pass or not)

My bank statement already comes balanced for me.

Whether or not I meet the funds necessary to make ends meet... that's another story :P

:D

I think we can all agree on that last bit.

There is a difference between raw intelligence and life skills / common sense. In fact some of the most famous intelligent people would look like a complete idiot if you met them doing ordinary day to day tasks. There are some famous examples of their inability to grasp simple skills, I guess because they were to busy thinking about important things to pay much attention to what was going on around them.