Alan vs. KJ

[Mission146]

Mission,

I took a boatload of proctored IQ tests when I was a kid because I was a flagship kind of student. Scores ranged from mid-130's to low 170's. I took enough tests that there was going to be variance. The usual score was in the 140's. I'm sure I've dropped a few IQ points in the interim, although hard to tell for most people if degradation is due to loss of neurons or motivation to do well on tests.

The problem with this algorithm is that the variance for a person would be off the charts depending on the sample chosen, rendering the algorithm fairly useless. Plus you could manipulate your own writing to score higher or lower. I saw a great Mentalist where a killer pulled a long con by faking a very low IQ.

Let's look at something I just hammered out to prove my, excuse me, our point:

In maintaining the position existence has no intrinsic meaning, my inclination is to focus on those things which are undeniably provable. Unlike many philosophers, for example, I'm disinclined to deny my very existence.

However, given perspectivism, there's alarmingly little that is provable beyond existence itself. For example, individuals might make seemingly obvious observations such as, "The grass is green," and maintain that as some sort of absolute truth, but it isn't. Those who are visually monochromatic might accept this assertion as truth because they have no reason to contradict the observations of the majority, but the very nature of monochromatism renders that supposed truth incapable of being the truth for them.

Similarly, those with advanced macular degeneration perhaps no longer experience grass as something to be experienced in the visual sense and only, 'Observe,' it with tactility.

Estimated IQ: 144 (Genius)

The estimated IQ score is getting warmer. Reading level, "College graduate."

However, what did I express? Nothing, really. In an overly flowery way, I stated that the color of grass is not an absolute truth because the color of grass exists only from the perspective of the person observing it, though it is something most observers can agree upon. However, those who are either color-blind or whose vision has deteriorated to the extent that they don't see at all do not experience grass as green, therefore, the greenness of grass is not an absolute truth.

It's true, but it's so true as to be obvious. If you are colorblind, then you do not see green, so from the colorblind person's perspective, the grass is not green. In fact, nothing is green.

Dress that simple idea up enough and get a high score. Intelligence is about being able to understand, dissect and evaluate complex ideas, not literary skill in embellishing simple ones.

I was considered a well above-average student, but I don't think I was ever considered a, 'Flagship,' student. I had a psychologist administer an IQ test that I paid for roughly twenty years ago because I was curious. My IQ score was 163, as I recall, but it drops over time, I've heard. I'd guess that I'm somewhere in the high-140's, at this point. In addition to age, I've also introduced copious amounts of alcohol and a couple additional concussions since then. LOL