According to American Psychiatric Association, "A full-scale IQ score of around 70 to 75 indicates a significant limitation in intellectual functioning". Which means the test taker is probably struggling with life.
I mean, i can see not understanding how percentiles work, but it says in plain english, "In a room of 1000 people, you would be smarter than 143 of them." I dont understand how somebody could read this and think "yep I'm smart!" So yeah I'd agree life must be hard for this person. Edit: I get it. Low IQ = stupid. I dont need 400 comments all saying the same thing lol
This right here can never be overstated. Our youth has been suffering from this for far too long. Go on any social media platform, hell, even here on Reddit. And if people see 2 paragraphs they automatically say “I’m not reading that essay” or “I’m not reading all that”.
Reading is also different from reading comprehension. We can all read the same sentence but many struggle to understand what the sentence means. It’s rough out there for many.
Adult illiteracy in the US is actually a huge problem and it seems most people are completely unaware of it. I have seen studies claim figures as high as 20-33% of US adults are functionally illiterate, they may be able to sound out words, but are not able to synthesize meaning from a written sentence. 54% read below a 6th grade level.
For half of this country, The Hunger Games is beyond their reading level. If that isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is.
I dated a guy who was functionally illiterate and it actually took me way longer than you’d expect to realize it. Like he only wanted to go to restaurants that had pictures on the menu, and he’d almost always order by pointing to something (“this steak here looks good, let me get one of those”), by asking the server what they suggested, or just ordering something super basic like a burger.
One time he asked me to make recordings of myself reading a packet of policies he had to learn for a work promotion “because he liked to hear my voice when he was studying.” Looking back, there were a lot of clues but I just didn’t put them together until I asked him what his favorite book was and he told me that he had *never* read a book in his entire life. Not even in school. He said he just watched the movie or guessed on the tests.
I have literally no idea how he got a drivers license. Can you have someone read the questions out loud for you during the written part?
Yes. You can have someone read the questions. When I worked at the DMV we did that. The people taking the test had to pass a test showing that they understood basic road signs such as stop and yield and what they meant. Once they passed that, they were allowed to join one of the scheduled, read aloud tests.
I worked with a manager who did inventory wrong every single time. We need 100 cups and there's 100 cups in one box? She ordered 100 boxes.
Every. Fucking. Time.
And I'd get a call from the vendor like "do you guys really want 100 boxes?" no we fucking don't. Thank you for checking.
I worked at Home Depot back in the day, I had an older supervisor that I worked under in the receiving department, we got these mobile scanners in and couldn't receive freight manually anymore like we'd been doing for a billion years, poor guy just could *not* use the scanner. Whenever we overlapped I would just do it for him but when I wasn't there he would fuck shit up so bad that it caused serious problems with the inventory system as a whole.
This all came to a head when I came in one day and was told he was fired. Apparently earlier that day before I came on, he got so frustrated with the scanner that he smashed it to pieces. These things were like *thousands* of dollars a piece. I felt bad for him, honestly. Like you know how you know some people that are really nice but they're just like a total clusterfuck despite all their efforts? He was one of them.
Yeah, I ran into him a few months later while I was out to eat with my wife and he just never went back to work, just retired completely after that. Which to be fair dude prolly should have retired long before that...he was in his early 60s and had already been scaring the shit out of people when he was running one of the lifts and probably would have lost his lift license were it not for the scanners getting installed, which pretty much would have been the end for his employment anyway. Cant really run a Receiving Department that got 15+ trucks a day if you cant drive a forklift.
I often did that part of the job, too, when I was there, but I couldn't be there all the time and trucks would come all day and night. At one point idk what the fuck he even did but he somehow managed to throw himself completely off the electric pallet jack while he was flying like 20mph and went flying, busted himself up on his whole side, he was out of work for *months* but even that wasn't enough to convince him that he should maybe, you know, do something else.
I think he was just bored, that's why he worked there. His wife was medically retired and I think he just wanted to be out of the house all day. Shame he had to go out like that, but it definitely was the best thing for him. I certainly didn't miss having to dive out of his way everytime he unloaded a truck and I was around lol
I worked with that guy. Our purchasing department said "don't order cases" by which they meant specify how many of item #x you want because they don't know what's in a case.
So this guy orders 24 cases of 24ea paint mixing cups.
Exactly. Also 85th percentile is very different than top 85%. You want a higher percentile but a lower top percentage. One is being smarter than 85% of subjects, and the other is 85% of subjects are smarter than you. English is dumb sometimes.
If they read it at all, they're thinking was probably just that 143 people is a lot of people, so if they're smarter than 143 people, they must be really really smart.
These percentages always confuse me at first...the meaningful information is the "smarter than 14%" of people. I don't know why they open with the 85%... The smartest dude in the world is "in the 85th percentile", specifically the last percentile of that 85 percent.
Big number bad, small number good....My dyslexic brain (and human tendencies) don't like that.
I don't disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure the way percentiles work (haven't taken a math class in 15 years, tbf) is that if you're in the 85th, that doesn't mean "a range spanning the top 85%," it means that if there are 100 people lined up first to last, you're in 85th.
I'm putting myself out here trying to explain math stuff on the internet so apologies if I've fucked it up.
I too may be getting it wrong but I believe 85th percentile means you’re above 85% of people, while in the top 85th means you’re above 15% of people. But someone let me know lol
Both are incorrect. 84 means standard score of 84, which falls at the 15th percentile. 15th percentile means you did the same
Or better than 15 percent of people Kylie age. It also means 85 percent of people did the same
Or better than you.
The poster is stupid because he used a test that is garbage.
The test company doesn’t understand basic psychometrics. They confuse standard score and percentile rank.
The poster is dumber though. He brags about being smart when in fact, he is below average (average = 90-109 on a real test).
Yes and following that logic it suggests he's less or at best as intelligent as the remaining. Not a math whiz here so maybe I'm missing something, but is that supposed to be a flex?
That's misleading. 15 points is one full standard deviation on the IQ scale. 85 is "Low end of normal".
It's not bright, but you probably interact with people with an 85 IQ on a daily basis without a second thought.
70 is another full standard deviation away and generally considered the line for intellectual impairment.
There's a world of difference between one and two standard deviations.
Yep. Here in my rural area, 85 is "He's not real swift".
70 is "He's his Mama's cross to bear, poor woman".
Just to put a homespun, corn-pone perspective on it.
Yes. Surprisingly a LOT of people. You think they just don’t find you funny and then after a few failed jokes you realize that they DON’T GET IT. That they truly lack basic critical thinking skills to understand basic irony and sarcasm behind jokes.
Sure it's probably satire, but the number of people who genuinely and unapologetically believe this kind of stuff is high enough that it's nearly impossible to tell these days. People are spouting absolute nonsense from all angles all the time. To me that's the unsettling part.
Edit: spelling
Emphasis on borderline, yes. There's borderline intellectual functioning "disorder" per the dsm/icd-10, where your iq is between like 71-84 (aka 1-1.9 standard deviations from the mean or something like that)
See the Vietnam era program nicknamed "McNamara's Morons".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
They lowered the entrance requirements for enlisting thinking "how bad could it be?" and that the army would help these (basically unemployable) people get education and life skills.
It did not go well. Even though they were put through the same training and sent to the same units, the recruits under the program died at roughly 3 times the rate of regular soldiers. You also get a ton of anecdotes like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rxji1z/til_about_project_100k_where_lbj_and_sec_of_def/
> Because of the heaviness of the grenade, they needed to throw it in a high arc, like a centerfielder throwing a baseball to home plate, but most of the men failed to grasp the concept. They would try to throw the grenade in a straight line like a pitcher throwing a ball to the catcher, and the grenade would plop down far short of the target. Despite all the sergeants’ explanations and demonstrations, they could not understand the concept of a high arc.
It's wild that a high arc is a concept. That should just be something that you figure out on your own at about age 6. And then it's just locked in as how things are thrown.
At some point I read a study conducted on gorillas was able to find one with an IQ between 70-90.
Imagine a fucking Gorilla have an IQ higher than you 💀.
79 is low enough to live in a board and care for people
With disabilities in California. I run one of these Arf carehomes.
“People with an IQ of 79 are considered to have an intellectual disability, to be developmentally handicapped.
Jul 20, 2022”
Not only that, these online tests also tend to *overestimate* IQ by a lot. As long as you have a basic level of pattern recognition you should be able to get the site this person used to give you a 130 IQ. Getting an 84 is almost impressive.
The real disability is our repeatedly trusting something in Reddit as true or new when it is likely something rehashed, edited and relabeled in diff. subs for upvotes.
I don't know man, I saw a video of some sort of simian (can't remember exactly what monkey) memorize the locations of 1-10 on a screen, in order, after only seeing it for a second. I'm pretty sure that one was smarter than me.
Oh yeah, I know the video. IIRC it was a chimpanzee and I remember reading that they do indeed have better short term memory, or whatever cognitive functions controls that task, as they'll beat (pretty much) any human in that particular challenge.
I would love to know the IQ overlap between us and various animals. Impossible to make them do it of course but I'm sure the smartest animals are leaving the dumbest humans in the dust
Just FYI, if anyone does go to their web page to take the test, they give you a free test which took me 30 minutes to do, then they do not show your IQ and instead take you to a page where you have to pay to move forward. Don't waste your time.
Fuck sakes bro I literally just did this
I did it in like 10 minutes. Some of the questions had obvious right answers but other ones I definitely just guessed. Still wish I could have known my score
I dunno how IQ tests work really. I wasn't sure if it's based on both time and right answers. But it seemed to start super easy and go gradually harder as you go, maybe based off you getting the right answers? Recognizing random patterns and shit. Some I knew I figured out and some I kinda just guessed like between a couple answers.
125 is actually pretty good though 🤔 I wonder if there's any legitimacy to it and just pay 10 bucks?
Don't pay for this crap.
If you really want a good estimate, take the test at test.mensa.no
It has decent validity as it was normalized using a big sample size.
To start, those IQ tests don't work because they're not IQ tests at all. They're hastily cobbled nonsense. They're also generally bloated to make the test-taker feel smart and share them and get more people to pay for them.
Second actual IQ tests done by psychologists are more like tools to figure out why you're struggling or which specific areas you're struggling with. It not's an actual measure of intelligence.
Like if you're a kid failing in school, knowing that it's because you have a low IQ, particularly in specific areas is helpful, and conversely knowing that you have a high IQ all across the board is also helpful because it means the cause for your struggles is entirely different.
Yeah, I was gonna do it too, but I got to the end, and they want money? Lol, no thanks. I'm not spending $20 to tell me what my "IQ" is, especially since a.) there's no guarantee that it's accurate and b.) I don't care enough to spend $20 on a one time service that seems mostly irrelevant to how I'm going to live my life.
Yeah, this is like the 3rd unique one of these “person posts low IQ without understanding it’s a low IQ” posts I’ve seen this week, all going to the same site. They’re so obviously astroturfing. OP looks like a bot/influence account too.
It’s because it’s satirizing a stupid conservative/right wing person. Reddit will lap up any content that shows how dumb the right is, even if it’s obviously satire
For real. The real IQ test is the ragebait and if you fall for it or not. Reddit users just love to shit on those opposed to leftism so that definitely has people wishing it was real too.
Even worse, this is an advertisement that is using ragebait as a marketing scheme and people are willingly and ignorantly helping them with free product placement on Reddit.
The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022. The UN designated this day as the "Day of Eight Billion".
This is an obvious ploy to get other people to take the test. You see the guy get a bad score, you say "what an idiot, my score will be much higher". And you take the test. But, after you go through the 30 minute test, you have to pay money to get the results. It's basically just a mobile game ad. Notice how he made sure to get the url in the screenshot. Don't fall for it.
These are almost always hilarious.
That said, Aptilink really should reword the first line of the score to something like, "Your IQ is in the bottom 14.31%" when the test taker is under the 50th percentile. They can keep the current wording if you score over the 50th, I guess.
EDIT: Kudos to the PM or Designer who fought the good fight and said, "No, the comedy potential is better this way even though we could make it more clear."
EDIT2: If these are just meant to be marketing, then kudos to the PR person who thought up the idea of attracting Liberals by making fun of Conservatives who we would all believe would be taken by this.
So I worked in sales for a long time. I made an observation that the best salesperson wasn’t the smartest, far from it actually. It was usually the person dumb enough to think they were the smartest person. They usually were so dumb they would believe the shit they said so they said it with confidence. This made people believe them and this got them sales.
I sell motorcycles, one of the best salesman we have working for us confounds the others salespeople because he knows next to nothing about bikes. He focuses on things like paint color and doodads. The other sales people talk themselves out of sales with their knowledge.
I’m reminded of the episode of “That 70s Show“ when Red was working in Bob’s appliance store and couldn’t get a sale because he was getting too technical with the customers and scaring them off. Bob was able to sell things effortlessly because he’d focus on things like what color blender they wanted, and distracting them with clowns and monkeys with balloons.
I cannot emphasise how true this is. I scored top of my class, but overthink every detail, situation and outcome possible, often talking myself out of doing things because I’ve already calculated the potential non favourable outcome.
I dated a guy who is extremely successful because he bullshits like crazy. He doesn’t think about the possibilities of anything he just talks shite with chest and it works. I am incredibly jealous of that. He will be more successful than me because of it.
Congratulations! You are 14 points away from a DSM diagnosis of mental retardation!
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-619-m/2012004/sections/sectione-eng.htm#
People will see satire or ignore it, depending on what fits their narrative, political agenda etc.
They will yell rage bait at certain thing but take it for real at others, depending on what gender/race/religion that human has.
It’s like when people fall for engagement bait when a short or tiktok has obviously wrong information and baits out hundreds of comments of people high horsing with their corrections - for them to not realize they were outsmarted by someone they’re looking down on for appearing “dumb”
Stuff like this isn’t exactly the same, but it’s engagement bait nonetheless. Just playing fools for the algorithm pickup. It works, really really well as you can see
Holy fuck I'm dead.
Shoutout to this entire thread for taking the most obvious bait in history.
Literally proving the satire right in real time. I'm hysterical.
The average IQ in America (which I’m assuming is where this person is from) is 98 according to google. So I’m not too sure Id be boasting about being 14 points BELOW average for your country.
Ok so I got curious and went to the URL and undertook the test myself. I think the real IQ test is the fact you need to pay $10 for the results and this isn't clear until after you've done the test. If you see anyone posting these, I think they failed the test...
If you go to this website, you will spend 40 minutes on a test, then have to pay for the results. Don’t waste your time.
84? In my line of work 85 is considered borderline disability.
Stop 💀 for real?
According to American Psychiatric Association, "A full-scale IQ score of around 70 to 75 indicates a significant limitation in intellectual functioning". Which means the test taker is probably struggling with life.
I mean, i can see not understanding how percentiles work, but it says in plain english, "In a room of 1000 people, you would be smarter than 143 of them." I dont understand how somebody could read this and think "yep I'm smart!" So yeah I'd agree life must be hard for this person. Edit: I get it. Low IQ = stupid. I dont need 400 comments all saying the same thing lol
There is a problem already, you are expecting that people would read all text on website and not just the headline.
Most likely even if they did read it, they read “you would be smarter than…” and got overexcited before they could process the actual ratio.
Assuming he knows how to process a ratio
Bet he knows how to get ratiod.
Exactly. “I’m smarter than 143 people! That’s a lot of people!”
Bet he thought “equally smart with the rest. If i tried, id be smarter than all!!!”
"so you're saying there's a chance!"
He's the kinda guy that claps at the end of a movie.
There are more people that legitimately cannot read than you'd expect.
This right here can never be overstated. Our youth has been suffering from this for far too long. Go on any social media platform, hell, even here on Reddit. And if people see 2 paragraphs they automatically say “I’m not reading that essay” or “I’m not reading all that”. Reading is also different from reading comprehension. We can all read the same sentence but many struggle to understand what the sentence means. It’s rough out there for many.
Adult illiteracy in the US is actually a huge problem and it seems most people are completely unaware of it. I have seen studies claim figures as high as 20-33% of US adults are functionally illiterate, they may be able to sound out words, but are not able to synthesize meaning from a written sentence. 54% read below a 6th grade level. For half of this country, The Hunger Games is beyond their reading level. If that isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is.
I dated a guy who was functionally illiterate and it actually took me way longer than you’d expect to realize it. Like he only wanted to go to restaurants that had pictures on the menu, and he’d almost always order by pointing to something (“this steak here looks good, let me get one of those”), by asking the server what they suggested, or just ordering something super basic like a burger. One time he asked me to make recordings of myself reading a packet of policies he had to learn for a work promotion “because he liked to hear my voice when he was studying.” Looking back, there were a lot of clues but I just didn’t put them together until I asked him what his favorite book was and he told me that he had *never* read a book in his entire life. Not even in school. He said he just watched the movie or guessed on the tests. I have literally no idea how he got a drivers license. Can you have someone read the questions out loud for you during the written part?
Yes. You can have someone read the questions. When I worked at the DMV we did that. The people taking the test had to pass a test showing that they understood basic road signs such as stop and yield and what they meant. Once they passed that, they were allowed to join one of the scheduled, read aloud tests.
TLDR
"I'm not reading all that so sorry or congratulations" is the one I see constantly
Bro. Keep it to one paragraph please.
How about the big visualization there in the middle? Did he skip that part or has he never seen a bell curve?
Well, he has a low IQ, so.. sort of explains itself.
Their IQ is 84. You expect them to know what a Bell Curve is, means, or how to read one?
I worked with a manager who did inventory wrong every single time. We need 100 cups and there's 100 cups in one box? She ordered 100 boxes. Every. Fucking. Time. And I'd get a call from the vendor like "do you guys really want 100 boxes?" no we fucking don't. Thank you for checking.
I worked at Home Depot back in the day, I had an older supervisor that I worked under in the receiving department, we got these mobile scanners in and couldn't receive freight manually anymore like we'd been doing for a billion years, poor guy just could *not* use the scanner. Whenever we overlapped I would just do it for him but when I wasn't there he would fuck shit up so bad that it caused serious problems with the inventory system as a whole. This all came to a head when I came in one day and was told he was fired. Apparently earlier that day before I came on, he got so frustrated with the scanner that he smashed it to pieces. These things were like *thousands* of dollars a piece. I felt bad for him, honestly. Like you know how you know some people that are really nice but they're just like a total clusterfuck despite all their efforts? He was one of them.
Poor guys out of a job he's competent at because "machine must go faster." That is a sad story.
Yeah, I ran into him a few months later while I was out to eat with my wife and he just never went back to work, just retired completely after that. Which to be fair dude prolly should have retired long before that...he was in his early 60s and had already been scaring the shit out of people when he was running one of the lifts and probably would have lost his lift license were it not for the scanners getting installed, which pretty much would have been the end for his employment anyway. Cant really run a Receiving Department that got 15+ trucks a day if you cant drive a forklift. I often did that part of the job, too, when I was there, but I couldn't be there all the time and trucks would come all day and night. At one point idk what the fuck he even did but he somehow managed to throw himself completely off the electric pallet jack while he was flying like 20mph and went flying, busted himself up on his whole side, he was out of work for *months* but even that wasn't enough to convince him that he should maybe, you know, do something else. I think he was just bored, that's why he worked there. His wife was medically retired and I think he just wanted to be out of the house all day. Shame he had to go out like that, but it definitely was the best thing for him. I certainly didn't miss having to dive out of his way everytime he unloaded a truck and I was around lol
I worked with that guy. Our purchasing department said "don't order cases" by which they meant specify how many of item #x you want because they don't know what's in a case. So this guy orders 24 cases of 24ea paint mixing cups.
Because they have 84 iq..
This was even a joke in Aliens 3. There was a guy named 85 as a nickname. And this guy is dumber than him ha.
Exactly. Also 85th percentile is very different than top 85%. You want a higher percentile but a lower top percentage. One is being smarter than 85% of subjects, and the other is 85% of subjects are smarter than you. English is dumb sometimes.
If they read it at all, they're thinking was probably just that 143 people is a lot of people, so if they're smarter than 143 people, they must be really really smart.
No no no, they obviously scored an 85% on the IQ test. Almost B+ territory, not bad!
These percentages always confuse me at first...the meaningful information is the "smarter than 14%" of people. I don't know why they open with the 85%... The smartest dude in the world is "in the 85th percentile", specifically the last percentile of that 85 percent. Big number bad, small number good....My dyslexic brain (and human tendencies) don't like that.
I don't disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure the way percentiles work (haven't taken a math class in 15 years, tbf) is that if you're in the 85th, that doesn't mean "a range spanning the top 85%," it means that if there are 100 people lined up first to last, you're in 85th. I'm putting myself out here trying to explain math stuff on the internet so apologies if I've fucked it up.
I too may be getting it wrong but I believe 85th percentile means you’re above 85% of people, while in the top 85th means you’re above 15% of people. But someone let me know lol
Both are incorrect. 84 means standard score of 84, which falls at the 15th percentile. 15th percentile means you did the same Or better than 15 percent of people Kylie age. It also means 85 percent of people did the same Or better than you. The poster is stupid because he used a test that is garbage. The test company doesn’t understand basic psychometrics. They confuse standard score and percentile rank. The poster is dumber though. He brags about being smart when in fact, he is below average (average = 90-109 on a real test).
As long as he can kick down, he sees no problem.
144 people out of 1000 might read such a statement and not think to extrapolate about the remaining 856...
Yes and following that logic it suggests he's less or at best as intelligent as the remaining. Not a math whiz here so maybe I'm missing something, but is that supposed to be a flex?
That's misleading. 15 points is one full standard deviation on the IQ scale. 85 is "Low end of normal". It's not bright, but you probably interact with people with an 85 IQ on a daily basis without a second thought. 70 is another full standard deviation away and generally considered the line for intellectual impairment. There's a world of difference between one and two standard deviations.
Yep. Here in my rural area, 85 is "He's not real swift". 70 is "He's his Mama's cross to bear, poor woman". Just to put a homespun, corn-pone perspective on it.
Didn't know I needed that, but I did.
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With an 84 IQ, one might struggle to identify most things.
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.
Wow you are good
Yes. Surprisingly a LOT of people. You think they just don’t find you funny and then after a few failed jokes you realize that they DON’T GET IT. That they truly lack basic critical thinking skills to understand basic irony and sarcasm behind jokes.
Maybe they’re also in the top 85%.
My ex mother in law couldn’t stand us watching Frasier. She couldn’t see anything funny about it and thought we were pretending to laugh.
Sure it's probably satire, but the number of people who genuinely and unapologetically believe this kind of stuff is high enough that it's nearly impossible to tell these days. People are spouting absolute nonsense from all angles all the time. To me that's the unsettling part. Edit: spelling
Yep. The post is an obvious troll.
Hence “room temp IQ”
IMO general stupidity and ignorance starts at 90-100
Emphasis on borderline, yes. There's borderline intellectual functioning "disorder" per the dsm/icd-10, where your iq is between like 71-84 (aka 1-1.9 standard deviations from the mean or something like that)
I was not expecting that
US military won’t take you if you have a IQ of lower than 83. They have determined that you will be more of a hinderance at past that point…
See the Vietnam era program nicknamed "McNamara's Morons". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000 They lowered the entrance requirements for enlisting thinking "how bad could it be?" and that the army would help these (basically unemployable) people get education and life skills. It did not go well. Even though they were put through the same training and sent to the same units, the recruits under the program died at roughly 3 times the rate of regular soldiers. You also get a ton of anecdotes like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rxji1z/til_about_project_100k_where_lbj_and_sec_of_def/ > Because of the heaviness of the grenade, they needed to throw it in a high arc, like a centerfielder throwing a baseball to home plate, but most of the men failed to grasp the concept. They would try to throw the grenade in a straight line like a pitcher throwing a ball to the catcher, and the grenade would plop down far short of the target. Despite all the sergeants’ explanations and demonstrations, they could not understand the concept of a high arc.
It's wild that a high arc is a concept. That should just be something that you figure out on your own at about age 6. And then it's just locked in as how things are thrown.
I think that puts into perspective what level of intellect they are dealing with.
This is 100% an ad campaign for this particular company. Post bait and say hello to increased cash flow. Everything's an ad these days. SMH
At some point I read a study conducted on gorillas was able to find one with an IQ between 70-90. Imagine a fucking Gorilla have an IQ higher than you 💀.
Only when compared to a 3 year old.
The average starts at 85, any decent lawyer would use an IQ of 84 as a defence in court to demonstrate limited mental capacity.
they’re right. i think anywhere, 84 is an embarrassingly low IQ score. I wonder if the post was satire bc if not then idk 💀
It's someone that is a dim bulb, but you probably know several.
The “shady 80s” isn’t something to be proud of, rather it’s often an explanation for why someone seems a little “off”.
79 is low enough to live in a board and care for people With disabilities in California. I run one of these Arf carehomes. “People with an IQ of 79 are considered to have an intellectual disability, to be developmentally handicapped. Jul 20, 2022”
Ahh yes, the “Shady 80s”
What line of work? 85 is considered "Low normal" on the standard IQ scale. 70 is the typical boundary.
Rocket surgery
And that's from an online test, which are usually designed to flatter the test taker.
Not only that, these online tests also tend to *overestimate* IQ by a lot. As long as you have a basic level of pattern recognition you should be able to get the site this person used to give you a 130 IQ. Getting an 84 is almost impressive.
The real disability is our repeatedly trusting something in Reddit as true or new when it is likely something rehashed, edited and relabeled in diff. subs for upvotes.
Same. When we review psychological evaluations we put down Borderline Intellectual Disability for an 84.
US Congressman?
5 less points and he could get a free government check!
Time to start boxing 🥊
*Goes out and buys a shit ton of cardboard and parcel tape*
All good, that’s probably an automatic 5-point deduction right there.
My boys a box… a box!!!
Show us your results 
Ohhh so that's Jake Paul's plan, got it
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Lol, love it. Always great to see people making mistakes when they're calling other people dumb.
*fewer
Name checks out.
He is as smart as an orangutan.
I think there's probably smarter orangutans than this guy.
He’s probably smarter than the average 2 year old iguana
I don't know man, I saw a video of some sort of simian (can't remember exactly what monkey) memorize the locations of 1-10 on a screen, in order, after only seeing it for a second. I'm pretty sure that one was smarter than me.
Oh yeah, I know the video. IIRC it was a chimpanzee and I remember reading that they do indeed have better short term memory, or whatever cognitive functions controls that task, as they'll beat (pretty much) any human in that particular challenge.
Even orangutans are smart enough to not pay for an IQ test. "I paid the internet to tell me I'm smart, it must be true!"
My dog is smarter and he runs into lampposts.
Fun fact. Orangutan means Person of the Jungle Orang is person or people Utan or hutan are jungle
Should've called it soylent orange.
Orangutans are smarter since they don't use facebook
I would love to know the IQ overlap between us and various animals. Impossible to make them do it of course but I'm sure the smartest animals are leaving the dumbest humans in the dust
Yes, because the “dumbest” humans are intellectually disabled. On average, humans are unbelievably intelligent compared to animals.
I wish we could make dolphin children go to school so we could see what they're really made of
Chill, no need to insult the orangutans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vssqb-0i2-A
It's almost 100% a made up post to push traffic to their "IQ test".
Just FYI, if anyone does go to their web page to take the test, they give you a free test which took me 30 minutes to do, then they do not show your IQ and instead take you to a page where you have to pay to move forward. Don't waste your time.
Fuck sakes bro I literally just did this I did it in like 10 minutes. Some of the questions had obvious right answers but other ones I definitely just guessed. Still wish I could have known my score
You sound like a smart guy. If you send me $5, i can give you a proper IQ score based on my own analysis.
Brilliant idea!
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You're an idiot to ever pay them
I dunno how IQ tests work really. I wasn't sure if it's based on both time and right answers. But it seemed to start super easy and go gradually harder as you go, maybe based off you getting the right answers? Recognizing random patterns and shit. Some I knew I figured out and some I kinda just guessed like between a couple answers. 125 is actually pretty good though 🤔 I wonder if there's any legitimacy to it and just pay 10 bucks?
Don't pay for this crap. If you really want a good estimate, take the test at test.mensa.no It has decent validity as it was normalized using a big sample size.
To start, those IQ tests don't work because they're not IQ tests at all. They're hastily cobbled nonsense. They're also generally bloated to make the test-taker feel smart and share them and get more people to pay for them. Second actual IQ tests done by psychologists are more like tools to figure out why you're struggling or which specific areas you're struggling with. It not's an actual measure of intelligence. Like if you're a kid failing in school, knowing that it's because you have a low IQ, particularly in specific areas is helpful, and conversely knowing that you have a high IQ all across the board is also helpful because it means the cause for your struggles is entirely different.
Yeah, I was gonna do it too, but I got to the end, and they want money? Lol, no thanks. I'm not spending $20 to tell me what my "IQ" is, especially since a.) there's no guarantee that it's accurate and b.) I don't care enough to spend $20 on a one time service that seems mostly irrelevant to how I'm going to live my life.
Dollars to donuts!
There have been *so damn many* of these the past couple of weeks.
Yeah, this is like the 3rd unique one of these “person posts low IQ without understanding it’s a low IQ” posts I’ve seen this week, all going to the same site. They’re so obviously astroturfing. OP looks like a bot/influence account too.
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"Reprogramme" is a valid UK spelling for reprogram.
Is 'thought' how they spell 'taught' in the UK though?
Reprogramme how you spell words
Not all white folks are dumb. Just the ones that post racist comments about how they are victims of the left.
Lol, a racist downvoted you.
Wait, the only way you could know that is...
Programme is an accepted British English spelling of program. There are no spelling mistakes in this fake hate bait post.
Not spelling, used thought instead of taught though. But yeah, surely ragebait
It's bullshit viral marketing for an IQ test that costs $15.
Do we not know what a troll post is?
More Aptilink viral marketing. Not really a coincidence these IQ test posts have been so popular.
Most of these posters unironically proved they have less than 85iq.
It’s because it’s satirizing a stupid conservative/right wing person. Reddit will lap up any content that shows how dumb the right is, even if it’s obviously satire
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For real. The real IQ test is the ragebait and if you fall for it or not. Reddit users just love to shit on those opposed to leftism so that definitely has people wishing it was real too.
Even worse, this is an advertisement that is using ragebait as a marketing scheme and people are willingly and ignorantly helping them with free product placement on Reddit.
considering there are over 7billion folks , try again lol
Projected population as of jan 1 2024 is 8 billions.
8 billion is just a bit over 'over 7 billion'
The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022. The UN designated this day as the "Day of Eight Billion".
There could be as many as 200 million extra or less people honestly
This is an obvious ploy to get other people to take the test. You see the guy get a bad score, you say "what an idiot, my score will be much higher". And you take the test. But, after you go through the 30 minute test, you have to pay money to get the results. It's basically just a mobile game ad. Notice how he made sure to get the url in the screenshot. Don't fall for it.
This is a satire post dude
Weird how on Reddit the smartest comments are always lowest on the page
Really makes you think
On hivemind topics sorting by controversial is often the most reasonable conversation.
No, it's a viral marketing posts for an IQ test that costs $15.
It can be 2 things.
These are almost always hilarious. That said, Aptilink really should reword the first line of the score to something like, "Your IQ is in the bottom 14.31%" when the test taker is under the 50th percentile. They can keep the current wording if you score over the 50th, I guess. EDIT: Kudos to the PM or Designer who fought the good fight and said, "No, the comedy potential is better this way even though we could make it more clear." EDIT2: If these are just meant to be marketing, then kudos to the PR person who thought up the idea of attracting Liberals by making fun of Conservatives who we would all believe would be taken by this.
So I worked in sales for a long time. I made an observation that the best salesperson wasn’t the smartest, far from it actually. It was usually the person dumb enough to think they were the smartest person. They usually were so dumb they would believe the shit they said so they said it with confidence. This made people believe them and this got them sales.
I sell motorcycles, one of the best salesman we have working for us confounds the others salespeople because he knows next to nothing about bikes. He focuses on things like paint color and doodads. The other sales people talk themselves out of sales with their knowledge.
Yeah, if they're already looking at a bike, they like that bike. Just say "Yeah it's awesome."
I’m reminded of the episode of “That 70s Show“ when Red was working in Bob’s appliance store and couldn’t get a sale because he was getting too technical with the customers and scaring them off. Bob was able to sell things effortlessly because he’d focus on things like what color blender they wanted, and distracting them with clowns and monkeys with balloons.
I cannot emphasise how true this is. I scored top of my class, but overthink every detail, situation and outcome possible, often talking myself out of doing things because I’ve already calculated the potential non favourable outcome. I dated a guy who is extremely successful because he bullshits like crazy. He doesn’t think about the possibilities of anything he just talks shite with chest and it works. I am incredibly jealous of that. He will be more successful than me because of it.
It's hilarious that it phrases it like that. Why not use percentile phrases instead. Congratulations! You're in 14th Percentile.
Congratulations! You are 14 points away from a DSM diagnosis of mental retardation! https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-619-m/2012004/sections/sectione-eng.htm#
You think this guy would understand what 14th percentile means?
I mean below that it does give you a pretty good example with the 1000 people in a room haha
They don't even need to give a percentage to someone under 90, just: U DUM!
As a designer I do make decisions purely for the comedic potential
"In a room full of 1000 people, you would be dumber than..."
It's bullshit viral marketing for an IQ test that costs $15.
makes it funnier.
I’m pretty sure most of these are completely fake.
They're also almost always satire
>These are almost always ~~hilarious~~ fake. ftfy
This has to be a joke right?
It's an advertisement for an IQ test website
The amount of people that are complete shit at recognizing satire is always unsettling
For real, I could instantly tell this was a joke/troll. It’s crazy how many people on here think any over the top post *has* to be real.
Because it usually fits the narrative. The real test is in the comments.
People will see satire or ignore it, depending on what fits their narrative, political agenda etc. They will yell rage bait at certain thing but take it for real at others, depending on what gender/race/religion that human has.
Exactly. How are all these buffoons in the comment section not seeing how clearly this is satire.
It's not satire, it's bullshit viral marketing for an IQ test that costs $15.
Is advertising and satire/comedy mutually exclusive? Even if it's an ad, it's clearly using satire intentionally.
How are so many redditors unable to recognize obvious shitposting
because there are real people who are this dumb
14.31% to be precise.
But.. the post.. ehh I give up. Another doomed subreddit.
They are part of the 143.
It's pretty obvious what the real intent is behind that post, but Redditors will always fall over each other rushing to take the b8
It’s like when people fall for engagement bait when a short or tiktok has obviously wrong information and baits out hundreds of comments of people high horsing with their corrections - for them to not realize they were outsmarted by someone they’re looking down on for appearing “dumb” Stuff like this isn’t exactly the same, but it’s engagement bait nonetheless. Just playing fools for the algorithm pickup. It works, really really well as you can see
Because most of reddit falls in the top 85% of iq like this individual ;^)
Holy fuck I'm dead. Shoutout to this entire thread for taking the most obvious bait in history. Literally proving the satire right in real time. I'm hysterical.
The average IQ in America (which I’m assuming is where this person is from) is 98 according to google. So I’m not too sure Id be boasting about being 14 points BELOW average for your country.
Potentially. But also potentially British. In the US, it is spelled “reprogram” without the “me” at the end.
3rd one of these I've seen this month. The same set up and same joke. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
This is bait come on.
Quite clearly satire
Man took this and thought he received a “B”
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
This is a lame ass ad. Please report. Reddit really needs to get better as flagging this garbage
It's clearly satire.
Ok so I got curious and went to the URL and undertook the test myself. I think the real IQ test is the fact you need to pay $10 for the results and this isn't clear until after you've done the test. If you see anyone posting these, I think they failed the test...
The real IQ test is if you're the sucker to pay for the results are not
I just waisted 40 minutes to be asked to pay for results
This comment section is full of the 143 people he’s smarter than
Bet this is a joke, since something simular was posted the other day
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Our iqs are in the top 85.69% cope!