Submitted 7 hours ago by cynar@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
°F Vs °C
IQ has been discredited as a measure of capacity for intelligence anyway. The real insult is having a serious belief in that pseudoscientific bullcrap (as opposed to just the colloquial use).
Sincerely, A >175 IQ former MENSA member from England.
I would think a room temperature IQ in °C would mean virtually unable to function, much less take an IQ test.
I sometimes wonder what the kids iq would be… He is 12 physically but I would put at 3 max mentally. Not saying anything negative but being honest.
He can use the bathroom but can’t put his underwear on. He knocks on the door till someone comes put his underwear back on.
Eating a bowl of cereal is 50/50 if he can do it himself.
He likes watching blues clues, Thomas and friends, paw patrol. He yells the answer to most questions but I don’t know if he knows the answer or just knows they say this so I should say that.
He is severely autistic and epileptic among other problems. He is sweet and loving but how to measure what his actual intelligence I have no idea.
looked it up and an IQ below 50 means you probably can’t ever live independently, and below 25 means you’re pretty much a vegetable.
Nah man, not even close…
Besides, at the extremes if either side of the scale the overall number becomes pretty meaningless because the individual scores are going to have high variance.
I did an internship working with people with learning disabilities from “passable” to me having to change adult diapers for clients who were completely nonverbal and thought it was game.
I don’t know where you looked it up, but you’re way off.
But for this:
much less take an IQ test.
A normal test only covers 3 standard deviations. So if you’re over 145 or below 65, on a normal you take a specialized test if you want to actually know. There’s just not enough outliers to make the normal test able to cover everyone
It seems to me like if you got 25, you were able to answer some questions at all, some of which you actually got correct
So not vegetative, I don’t think.
But I suppose I’m not exactly an expert on how the tests are administered, so maybe just showing up is enough to get 25.
IQ tests don’t define IQ, they’re a tool to measure IQ. Standard tests have a “floor” (say 70 or 50) below which they don’t give an accurate number, just a general “below the floor” indication. Similarly, they would have a ceiling.
A professionally administered test can maybe identify a more specific IQ at low levels, and would be used for someone who maybe can’t function at the level of taking a standard test.
Casuals, I measure in K.
300 iq moment!
Not only because of the units
"You've got a room temperature IQ."
"Yeah, so do you, but mine is in Kelvin and yours is in Celsius."
“I don’t think an IQ approaching absolute zero is the brag you think it is”
"You might want to look up what room temperature actually is in Kelvin bud, couple dozen standard deviations above average when you translate it to IQ scoring on something like a WISC test. What do I know though? I use Fahrenheit."
true but murican measurements are an overall bigger insult to humanity
Thats assuming you are applying IQ messurement on the american system and not using AIQ (american intelligence quotient) which is basically the same as IQ, just multiplied by 3.6
AIQ = IQx3.6
But yes, your joke is funny, assuming you used IQ as the messurement and not AIQ
“American intelligence quotient” does not exist, unless this comment is a joke I’m too room temp to understand.
This does not make sense since around 20 would be a vegetable.
And a corner is much hotter.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
Unless it’s -40