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andrewduckerA few weeks ago Julie passed on an email that was making the rounds of the psychology department, from someone looking for volunteers to have an MRI scan of their brain, which would then be compared to schizophrenics.
Having always wanted a photo of my brain, I immediately volunteered.
Last Friday I finally made it along for the pre-scan testing, where they made sure I could see in colour (yes!) check my reflexes (ok, but not great) and check my IQ - where it turns out I have an IQ of 138. Or 99th percentile on the scale they're using. I feel rather good about that.
It did leave me wondering what the average IQ is like across both LJ and fandom - my friends list seems to be full of people who are pretty smart, and while fandom is chock full of annoyingly difficult people with odd opinions, this is hardly precluded by high intelligence (if anything, the opposite is true).
Does anyone have any pointers as to whether liking is correlated to _anything_ interesting?
(Yes, I know that IQ isn't the same as "intelligence", if there even is such a thing - but it is highly correlated with all sorts of things across that area.)
Having always wanted a photo of my brain, I immediately volunteered.
Last Friday I finally made it along for the pre-scan testing, where they made sure I could see in colour (yes!) check my reflexes (ok, but not great) and check my IQ - where it turns out I have an IQ of 138. Or 99th percentile on the scale they're using. I feel rather good about that.
It did leave me wondering what the average IQ is like across both LJ and fandom - my friends list seems to be full of people who are pretty smart, and while fandom is chock full of annoyingly difficult people with odd opinions, this is hardly precluded by high intelligence (if anything, the opposite is true).
Does anyone have any pointers as to whether liking is correlated to _anything_ interesting?
(Yes, I know that IQ isn't the same as "intelligence", if there even is such a thing - but it is highly correlated with all sorts of things across that area.)
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Date: 2008-01-17 02:24 am (UTC)This one was visual pattern recognition and extrapolation. Which is a fancy way of saying we had to identify the next pattern in an evolving sequence. This wasn't easy, in that I did have to put my brain in gear as opposed to coasting. Scores ranged from 10-15 out of the twenty for the most part. Two of us got 20 and I think three were below the bell curve average range.
But that was just visual reasoning. No test of mathematical or language skills. So probably not too conclusive :)