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*Shrug* mine was off by more than 20%. I dont think those are terribly accurate

Why would you divide 115 by 120?

You would divide 5 by 120 and say the estimate is off by -4.17%.

Both of you profess to be engineers. Perhaps you should agree to use (measured value - theoretical value)/theoretical value *100%, since that's the formula for determining a margin of error that we all would have learned in our first physics class, and then used throughout the rest of our Bachelor's.

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1 - 115/120 = 0.04167 which is not 5%. So 5 IQ points translates to 4.2% here.




Why would you use this formula? It has too many arguments.

Because it's one both of you have seen before and used.

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The lowest I tested on IQ was 119, the highest was 154. There were over ten years in between those two tests. I don't think it changed that much, just how much I cared about taking the test changed.

When I cared a lot I got the 119.
When I didn't care much at all I just put the first thing down that popped into my head without trying to figure anything out, I got 154 - real test, not internet.

I scored 1260 on my SAT. I should have done better but again, I was trying too hard and out thinking myself.

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Hmm, now that it's being discussed, I wonder if the Internet has any good IQ tests. I know a few I took many years ago were absolute rubbish designed to make the tester feel good (and indirectly probably refer it to friends for more hits, or something like that.) I've pretty much ignored them entirely ever since.

IQ has little to do with anything, though. No one pays me for being pretty good at figuring out number sequence problems or, especially, those spatial puzzles with shapes to manipulate in your head. I can see those skills being marginally useful in certain professions, but it's not useful on a resume or in any interviews or pre-interview tests I've been involved with.

Certainly not applicable to political policy. :p

I have a feeling that most presidents are intelligent in a certain sense. I have a feeling I fall in line more or less with Khross on this one.

Again, it depends on what you are trying to show. If you're trying to show the % off the measured value, then that does not show what you are trying to show. You need to use the measured value as the base instead of the theoretical value.

But, the formula you use above is the exact one I was using, only using the correct arguments, so.... pay attention!