LafayetteLady
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The reason I'm asking is because while I think I'm smarter than your average bear, according to the IQ tests I took a few years back I'm supposed to be really, REALLY seriously smart, but I question that. So basically I'm wondering; if they are irrelevant, no big deal, but if they are relevant, then did I fluke out when I took them, or am I just not making full use of my potential.
Reasonably, you are still young, so your potential has not been reached. Are you not making use of it? This is where the real intelligence comes into play....
You took a test that says you are really really smart. Are you happy with where you are in the world at the moment? Happy with what you are doing with your life, planning where you are going? Because if you answer yes to those questions, then you are also making use of your potential.
Look around at some of the people here who need to constantly mention how smart they have "tested," or how much they know. I don't mean the people who offer their opinions based on experience and how things have worked for them, that is a totally different issue. I'm talking about those posters who have an almost neurotic need to mention somewhere in their post how they are so smart and have such high IQs. Do you take them more seriously? Or do you kind of chuckle because they tend to be blowhards who seem to enjoy looking at their own words in type?
But back to the tests....there are very smart people who just will never do well on standardized testing. Doesn't matter how hard they study, doesn't matter how much they know about the subject. Something in their head tells them it's a test and they freeze. Other people, don't need to study at all, might not even know a damn thing about the subject matter, but they know how to rationalize the answers and do well on tests. Who is actually smarter? More importantly does it matter?
Most standardized tests are multiple choice. Logically, you have a one in four or five chance of getting the right answer. That fifth answer is usually "none of the above" or "all of the above." People who don't over stress on the test look at the other four and if they see one answer that could be correct, they know "none of the above" won't fit or "all of the above" might. Likewise when there is only four answers, usually one is so far off that it can be immediately crossed off as a non option. You just improved your odds to one in three. Most people who are good test takers can make these rational deductions to either the right answer or a 50/50 shot at the right one.
Does that mean I am saying that maybe you aren't as smart as you tested or as smart as you think you are? I've conversed on the other side with you and Hannah and I know you are a smart cookie (and Hannah is smarter than she thinks too). But I bet one of you stresses over tests more than the other, and obviously based on Hannah's reply, you just absorb information at a different rate than Hannah and explain it in ways that are easier for her to understand. So what does that mean? First, you are well suited to each other, which you both already know. Second, you each have intelligence but process information differently. Not that one is better than the other, just different. It makes for a complementary, and successful relationship (but you guys figured that out already, right?).
Essentially, intelligence is meaningless without happiness. Self esteem is often connected with intellligence, but wrongly so. When one needs to regularly "announce" their intelligence, self esteem is obviously lacking. When one has the confidence to state their opinion (even when it may be unpopular or unconventional), and not worry what everyone is going think, that is self esteem. Now obviously, we also have those around here who are either dumb as a stump and still state their opinion as though it is gospel, and others who are just so woefully misinformed or live under a rock. But the smartest people around here seem to be the people who speak from experience and from their heart, and who are also never afraid to admit that they are unfamiliar with a particular subject.
So in the end, what does that tell YOU about these tests you have taken? I'm guessing you already know what I think it says about the tests you took.
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