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Have you ever met an actual dumb person?
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Does anyone know anyone who has ever admitted to getting below 100 on an IQ test?
I'm guessing the answer is no. In which case, presumably none of us can know whether or not we have. You would need to have to know someone who both scored below 100 and was willing to admit that to know for sure.
I have.
I have doubts about the veracity of the test however, I got something like a 30 because they changed the numbering on the answer sheet and apparently noticing that is part of the test...
A 30 would mean you have profound disability, could not take care of yourself. Possibly need assistance just to feed yourself, etc.
That's true. Everyone thinks they are smarter than average as well, because each person feel like they are.
There is research that the smartest people doubt themselves the most, and the dumbest feel the most confident in how smart they are.
Obviously because smart people recognize all their own flaws and feel very insecure about those.
I always say that I'm not as smart as I think I am, but I'm definitely smarter than others think I am.
I watch Jeopardy regularly, and I know I could hold my own, and they don't have dummies on that show. My biggest strength is that I know my strengths and weaknesses.
Of course I've known less intelligent people, some even officially handicapped, but intelligence is fairly low on the list of my priorities for friendship. I wouldn't hire a lot of them, but I value their camaraderie, humor, trust, respect, morality, etc. All of those are more important in a friend than intelligence.
Yes but even that research is a generalized average, there are still dumb people who are very self doubting and smart people who are over confident.
I have never had an iq test that I know of. It test general intelligence so the ideal time to take it is kinda as you finishing your gen eds in college but have not started the real intensive high level stuff. Either that or when you take the ged wich is kind of a general intelligence test. Most people just have things like sat and shoot. honestly I forgot what the other one was called.