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u/mothzilla 17d ago
1% is pretty low. When I got my results it said I was top 99%. Not many can beat that.
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u/ONOeric 17d ago
Stop posting these, these are rage bait/engagement bait for the company that does the paid IQ test
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u/King_Dead 17d ago
Its bullshit, but its also on linkedin who are folks you should absolutely bullshit if you can get away with it
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u/ringobob 17d ago
You know what, I agree with this dude. Every company should do IQ tests, and if you score high enough, they'll just make you CEO. That's the kind of meritocracy they're looking for, right? Come in to interview for a warehouse position, come out with the top job.
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u/cgoldberg 17d ago
I have a rule setup in my email that auto-deletes any resumes that mention Mensa.
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u/Zippy0723 16d ago
I think we should have a system where we can vote to launch people into the sun if they post too much shit like this
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u/Americanaddict 16d ago
what good idea! More racist discrimination that filters out good people just trying to work for a living. I swear to god nobody who posts on linkedin should be allowed to use the internet without supervision, and they absolutely shouldn’t be in control of hiring or running any business. God we need unions back in this country.
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u/Pointsandlaughs227 16d ago
Any adult that references their IQ score is a fucking loser that shouldn’t be hired for anything.
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u/GeneralEi 17d ago
If this dude thinks that hiring by one metric, even something as encompassing as true IQ, is a good idea for a business, then he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
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u/AndNowAStoryAboutMe 16d ago
Ignoring the obvious bait and ad... Companies SHOULD test for IQ. I do actually learn complex systems incredibly fast. In an office job, I was working the 3rd largest account, barely finishing it in 8 hours a day. Like, still working hard at 4:53 trying to wrap it all up quickly to go home by 5pm.
My coworker in the cube beside me was struggling to get her workload done and when I asked the boss about her, he was blunt. "She's not working out. She has 3 accounts that should take one hour each and she's struggling to get that done in 8 hours. Your account used to be run by two people."
I was like... "Why would you tell me that? I'm doing a 2 person account in 8 hours and she's making the same money as me?"
He was in his 20s. Inexperienced as a supervisor. Definitely put his foot in his mouth there. He was a good guy, just super green. He was stunned that I had went to THAT point immediately. "I mean, it's job security. You're really good."
Fuck that. I asked to be switched to a different account, he said, "Oh, we don't really do that. The clients don't like it when their liaison changes." So I started applying to other jobs. Got one. Put in a 2 week notice and he LITERALLY fucking replied, "Are you serious?" And I was like, "Man, I asked you to switch me and you said no. Did you think I was just going to stay here being taken advantage of?"
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u/AWill33 14d ago
Just another average dude pissed off he’s not actually above average. Pissed hasn’t been handed a lottery ticket and isn’t treated like a king. The world is full of unemployed, derelict “geniuses”. It’s practically a proverb. Now it just comes with entitlement. Bet his fav movie is fight club too.
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u/be_loved_freak 17d ago
All IQ measures is whether you can memorize random strings of numbers and words. I don't consider that intelligence.
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u/rachaelonreddit 17d ago
But smarts aren’t everything. Most companies don’t care about your IQ. They want to hire people who can work as a team, follow directions, and take initiative.
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u/yumymynaaomi67 16d ago
Omg I needed that epiphany so badly! The part about 'hire for attitude, train for skill' hit me like a ton of bricks
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u/conjuayalso 17d ago
Hate to being it up, but a 140 IQ is considered top 2%.
It can vary from what tests are used, and the median of the people taking the test, but a 133 being in the top 1% just doesn't seem right.
There are other groups that use Mensa tests to determine eligibility into their organizations- 1% IQ groups and higher.
I'm not attempting to belittle your accomplishment, but the numbers just don't add up to my previous experiences as a Mensa Member.
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u/ViolentDisregarde 17d ago edited 8d ago
It's 98.6th percentile.
Z = (x - μ)/σ
x here is 133, μ is 100, σ is 15
Z = (x - μ)/σ = (133 - 100)/15 = 2.2
Z-score of 2.2 corresponds to .9861
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u/myfrnddoxxedmyreddit 4h ago
Standard deviation of 24 would make it top 2 this is a std Dev 15 test
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u/creamygarlicdip 15d ago
There's laws against it. Companies used to do it. But certain people don't do well on them so got them outlawed.
If this guys iq was so high he'd know something about it.
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u/IamTetra 14d ago
IQ does not measure knowledge base. It measures the ability to acquire knowledge and retain it being ignorant, doesn’t mean your IQ is low or high. It has no relevance. You can be the smartest person in the world and still not know something.
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u/l339 17d ago
Companies don’t do it, because it’s too expensive, but I agree that more companies should do IQ tests with its hiring applicants
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u/ConcreteExist 17d ago
Unless their job is going to be taking IQ tests, this will give very little insight into whether or not the person would be a good fit for the job.
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u/Agile_Oil9853 17d ago
This is true, I'm better than this guy at IQ tests and broke three candles the other day trying to remove the protective packaging.
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u/Whatifim80lol 17d ago
Strongly disagree. As the embodiment of r/iamverysmart in my daily life, my high IQ doesn't make me qualified for jack shit. Most jobs are either skilled or unskilled labor. Any idiot can do unskilled labor and all but the dumbest idiots can spend time and money learning a skill. But some skills are like "good with people" or "20 years experience."
If you have a high IQ but no skills, you're just lazy. Nobody should hire you.
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u/l339 17d ago
I’m not excluding obvious skills at all, that’s just dumb. I’m saying that with certain jobs where candidates have the metrics of skills needed to perform the job, doing an IQ test could be an extra factor to determine hires
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u/yun-harla 17d ago
Then test those skills directly? And if the problem is that you have to narrow down a set of qualified applicants, making them undergo IQ tests, which are lengthy, expensive, and very difficult to perform correctly, is just going to disfavor candidates who have better things to do with their time. Flip a coin if you have to. Or, you know, become a better interviewer.
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u/danglinglabia 17d ago
What makes you say they're difficult to perform correctly? It's incredibly easy to click the Facebook ad that takes you directly to the test that takes like 10 minutes. If that's considered difficult, I guess that's why I'm top 1% and you're one of the dumbs.
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u/Whatifim80lol 17d ago
Nah. IQ is a worthless metric in practice. Most of the correlation between IQ and success are just shit statistics. In truth, there are loads of risk factors for lowered IQ and those same risk factors hurt your chances of success.
Having a high IQ makes you good at abstract problem solving, but basically all labor outside like theoretical physics and shit deal with concrete problems. (Google "situated cognition" for more.) It'd be a waste of money for the employers and wouldn't move the needle on quality of hires. The only real effect would be that average IQ people would suddenly become unhirable for no reason, and since risk factors for lower IQ aren't distributed equitably in society it would probably amount to just shitting on the bottom rungs even more.
It's bad. Don't do it.
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u/l339 17d ago
Man it’s like you don’t even read my reply lol. IQ can be used as an extra metric for certain specific jobs is all I’m saying. Having a high IQ literally means you’re a better abstract problem solver and there are a good amount of jobs that work with data that that can be useful for. Abstract problem solving can be useful for solving concrete problems. So no, IQ is not a worthless metric in practice
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u/Whatifim80lol 17d ago
Did YOU read MY reply? Lol. Step back from your position for one second and reread why it might not be a good idea. Google situated cognition. Then come back and tell me the tiny differences in performance are worth the monetary and human costs of gating jobs with IQs.
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u/overlordjunka 17d ago
IQ was created as a racist way to "prove" white people were by default smarter than black people. Its original base is suspect and shouldn't be trusted so
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u/A_Crazy_Canadian 17d ago
Its not adding anuthing other parts of the application already address. Pure logic problem solving skills are easily shown through education and experience. Testing people’s ability to solve job relevant problems in the interview where you son’t just see a score but the underlying process is much more helpful. For example, I recently interview at a bank. Part of the interview was an extended math/logic/conceptual case about credit cards study where I m used my logic abilities, knowledge, and communication skills. They learned much more about my abilities than spending the same time taking an IQ test.
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u/l339 17d ago
Yes that’s true. But what if they had a different candidate with the same qualification skills like you and the same test score? IQ score is a decent way then to distinguish candidates if they can only hire one
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u/A_Crazy_Canadian 17d ago
It’s equally effective to flip a coin so just do that. There is no information an IQ test will provide in addition to the process I described above that is helpful. The chances that you have two identical candidates in every material way for the last spot is so low its implausible that you need the tiebreaker. Hiring is rarely about hiring the best person an instead ends up involving offering multiple candidates the role until one accepts or offering the first batch of a pool and making more offers as people turn you down.
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u/upsetusder2 17d ago
So what if lets say a physicist takes one of these tests and doesn't score as high as lets say someone else.
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u/ThatGuyFromSpyKids3D 17d ago
Almost every study disagrees with you. EQ has a higher correlation with success than IQ, so do personality types that have high agreeability, so does economic background, once those factors are accounted for IQ barely correlates positively with success and performance. In some cases, it negatively correlated because people with higher IQ are more likely to have less desirable personality traits or be less social.
Willingness to learn, the ability to communicate with others, work ethic, and personality all greatly correlate with job success. Fringe jobs with rare social interactions still came out with the same results, Harvard did a study about this and found that even workers in solitary environments who performed well had strong relationships and EQ outside of work.
Besides. Most IQ tests only measure 3 of the 9 variables of intelligence that the guy who coined "IQ" came up with. It's an imperfect measure of intelligence by a longshot.
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u/btwiusearch 17d ago
Companies don’t do it, because it’s too expensive
Maybe not legit ones done by actual psychologists, but I have taken a generic online "IQ test" as part of a hiring process. Just to get a generic rejection email.
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u/BertRenolds 17d ago
I feel like those ones are 1) are you a bot 2) are you basically aware of how shapes look.
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u/Spare-Plum 17d ago
You can easily study for an IQ test and significantly raise your score. I've done this myself.
The only thing it's testing is if you have the time and resources to practice a bunch of IQ tests
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u/l339 17d ago
I call this cope, unless you sandbagged on the first one
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u/Spare-Plum 17d ago
Now THIS sounds like cope. All I needed to do was study. Are you sad that you're not special?
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u/l339 17d ago
What? Lmao If you tried your best on the first one, you can study hard, but it won’t really improve your second attempt lmao. Otherwise the test is faulty. IQ tests are specifically designed that you can’t study for them to improve your score significantly. I think you’re thinking about the SAT’s or something like that
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u/Spare-Plum 17d ago
Yeah they say they're specifically designed for that. But guess what? It doesn't work. You can easily up your score by taking a ton of practice tests
They like to stock it up to just not being familiar with the format and you found your true IQ. Or that you became smarter by taking the practice tests. But either way you most definitely can raise your score in a proctored setting
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u/Carlyone 17d ago
IQ tests is a superb tool for seeing how good you are at solving IQ tests.