This morning, while I was trying to avoid doing all the busy work I have piled up on my desk, I decided to click on one of those website ads and do an IQ test for the hell of it. If you want to see what test I did, I took the one at www.iqtest.com.
After a couple of minutes of trying to work out number sequences and handle palindromes I was sent an e-mail that told me I have an IQ of 139. Having had my intelligence measured by a reputable clinician I then went to another reputable source to put the figure in context: Wikipedia.
According to one measure of grouping IQ scores, my score of 139 qualifies me as 'moderately gifted':
80-114 Average Intelligence
115-129 Bright
130-144 Moderately Gifted
145-159 Highly Gifted
160-175 Exceptionally Gifted
Over 175 Profoundly Gifted
Well, 'moderately gifted' isn't very helpful. Does that mean I can come up with an average exceptional piece of work? I did a bit of further snooping and I found some interesting celebrity IQs:
Republican 2008 Nominees:
John McCain: 120 - 130.
Mike Huckabee: 110 - 125.
Mitt Romney: 122.
Democractic 2008 Nominees:
Barack Obama: 121 - 137.
Hillary Clinton: 140.
John Edwards: 124.
Past Presidents:
Bill Clinton: 137
George W Bush: 125
The fact that I'm 'smarter' than pretty much all of the major US politicians for the past decade and a half (apart from Hillary) isn't much comforting, except for the fact that the US President is surrounded by policy wonks and the fact that my IQ score from an internet site is probably wrong.
On another interesting note, I'm apparently a step behind such intellectual luminaries as Shakira, Madonna and Geena Davis, who all scored 140. But even they're not up to the level of Ms Sharon Stone, who is apparently 'highly gifted' with a score of 154. Which just goes to show that women are in fact smarter than men.
...or does it?
It's hard to tell with all this qualified, quantified, reputable information floating around.
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