Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:22     Subject: Re:Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea of IQ and jobs. Plenty of great jobs with IQ <100.




When I remodeled my kitchen I had to renew all electrical wiring. The electrician ( an engineer with Masters) was so dumb that half of his work had to be redone - he hooked up the ovens and a dw together and tried to prove to me that it's the code that I can't use it at the same time. I think IQ is very fluid and can't really be measured, especially by profession.


there is almost zero overlap between the skill set of electricians and electrical engineers. now sure why an engineer was wiring your house.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:07     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Most of the parents of the AAP kids at my son's school easily have IQs under 100.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:06     Subject: Re:Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea of IQ and jobs. Plenty of great jobs with IQ <100.




When I remodeled my kitchen I had to renew all electrical wiring. The electrician ( an engineer with Masters) was so dumb that half of his work had to be redone - he hooked up the ovens and a dw together and tried to prove to me that it's the code that I can't use it at the same time. I think IQ is very fluid and can't really be measured, especially by profession.


As the daughter of an electrician (although not sure what is meant by "related professions" although low voltage cable work is unlicensed in quite a few states) but I take issue with electricians averaging lower than police officers or cleaners or clerical people.

Why would the electrician have been an engineer with a master's degree? The training for a licensed electrician is quite different, and I was told once (by an EE student) they don't even get to play with a soldering gun until junior year. Do you actually mean that the overs and dw have the same breaker???
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:02     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used to be 129 but I'm certain that's gone down.



Age does that to you.


Not only that but test taking skills go down (since I don't take tests anymore), lack of math practice, etc. Just for fun I just took a couple of tests, I scored 125 on the one that had more vocabulary and spacial sequencing and I scored 98 on the one that was mostly find the next number in the sequence. I was going to take a third but I ran out of time.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 11:01     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Technically half the population has an iq under 100, but whenever you hear anyone mention their iq it's always considerably well above 100. 90-100 is still considered the average range. There must be some posters on DCUM who meet this profile. If so, what is your job and what was school like for you?


Me thinks you’ve not an idea of the difference between mean and median. . . Sub 90 for you?


Long time since probability theory but I suspect the median for IQ scores is pretty much the same as the mean. You get those big discrepancies with very discontinuous probability distributions, like the difference between the mean and median incomes in a population consisting of the coal miners and the coal mine owner.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:59     Subject: Re:Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea of IQ and jobs. Plenty of great jobs with IQ <100.




When I remodeled my kitchen I had to renew all electrical wiring. The electrician ( an engineer with Masters) was so dumb that half of his work had to be redone - he hooked up the ovens and a dw together and tried to prove to me that it's the code that I can't use it at the same time. I think IQ is very fluid and can't really be measured, especially by profession.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:55     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
We all live in Lake Woebegone. Where all the children are above average...
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:25     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
The occupant of the White House.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:07     Subject: Re:Anyone have an iq less than 100?
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/24/11723182/iq-test-intelligence

3) IQ is correlated with career success and wealth, but not necessarily happiness



Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 10:01     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:My IQ when tested to get into the Air Force was 97. After four years, I left and started a pretty successful company.




Thank you for admitting this. What was school like for you? Were you in advanced classes? Did school seem difficult to you?
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 09:57     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:I used to be 129 but I'm certain that's gone down.



Age does that to you.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 09:54     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
My child's IQ is in the 130s, yet they are struggling in school. IQ is only one piece of it.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 09:54     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
I used to be 129 but I'm certain that's gone down.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 09:49     Subject: Anyone have an iq less than 100?
I... but I can still function in society and am a frequent contributor on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2019 09:46     Subject: Re:Anyone have an iq less than 100?
Anonymous wrote:I use to be a social worker and worked for various adult protective services. A large segment of the impoverished communities are in the 75 to 90 range if I had to guess. They function fine in their own puzzle piece but it explains why "getting out" is really not a reality for them. Social services does a much better job helping these individuals when we teach them how to enhance small parts of their daily life and not try and sell them the american middle class dream that really doesnt exists anymore. Getting 1/6 of my clients enrolled in a community college isn't a success. Getting 5/6 to learn how the apply the bus schedule to their daily life/maximize all routes and put in place a distress plan if they miss = a success.




I used to work for a public defenders office and a large portion of our clients had iqs in this range as well.