You can have a high IQ as a 5 year old, but most highschoolers with a lower IQ will be smarter. So IQ doesn't tell how smart you are, it tells how smart you can be if you apply yourself.
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Crudely speaking, I think it measures pattern recognition without misrecognition (ex: excluding superstition). Highest IQ people might be social failures, or have mediocre jobs like Marilyn vos Savant (highest recorded person on the planet but just with very pathetic job of writing magazine articles), but they're excellent at recognizing real patterns.
Most IQ test divede the resulting point by age, thats why the score gets down as you get older.
And if the IQ test is well made it measures problem solving abilities, which can't be improved, trained, learned... at least thats the definition of intelligence most test use.
Yeah and babies are dumb as shit.
I can beat the shit out of a baby in trivia.
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Actual IQ is different from potential IQ, there was a wiki that explained that well but it doesn't exist anymore.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018085745/https://hmolpedia.com/page/Inflated_IQ
There are plenty of MENSA members that are underachievers. Also the Fortune 500 companies always give a little biography about the CEO and there are hardly any that came from Ivy League colleges.
It really explains your reasoning ability.
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