well you must be right, cuz i got a 135......and i'm also, coincidentally, worth my weight in dead slugs. ( that's a lot of slugs, btw)

and that might even be without considering the graphs which show the dramatic increase in average IQ scores over the past 100 years.

(edit: toned down... hehehe)

hey, gotta a link to those graphs? what's the explanatoin for it? better education? diet? information technology?

It's called the Flynn Effect.

I think that class and rising standards of living + education might be part of it; but I don't really know.

http://www.sciam.com/media/inline/00...EF21_arch3.gif

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Linked to in Wikipedia:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/FLYNNEFF.html

SciAm article:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...mber=2&catID=2

An explanation attempt:
http://www.fairtest.org/examarts/Winter%2001-02/IQ.html

A humorous religious correlation:
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001527.html?entry=1527

What a fantastic coincidence that this is posted in a thread of Riddles!

this bit is interesting:
no wonder all my teachers were such idiots.

and i can look forward to dealing with a bunch of smart-ass kids.

HP rocks ... he got the cabin one ... "The plane crashed" is the answer.

No - but this should be discussed in a different thread.


I met my sister Jenny on London Bridge; I broke her neck and drank her blood and left her out to dry.

140:rolleyes:

I posed this question to my roommate.

His quick response was: "That'd be really easy! You rig up a servo and attach it to a computer and program it to turn the lights on one by one. It turns on one light at the beginning, at ten seconds it turns on a second light, and at twenty seconds it turns on the third light."

Riddle me this: what is his occupation?

Is Jenny a wierd name for a liquor?

I'm still trying to figure out the sister part, maybe its some silly British colloquialism or something.

wow. i think that makes you a genius.

I'm a "facts curator". Interestingly enough the score is lower than what I got in 6th grade when I was tested by a psychologist. Don't know if that's due to differences in the test, or me--not that I'll lie awake worrying about it. (I also am not very convinced of the value of such tests.)

Look forward to??? I don't know about you, but I'm already there! :cool:

I'm sticking to my 6th grade score because it indicated that I was a fucking genius and I would be really really saddened if a subsequent test told me that I was not.

That's the actual score, "fucking genius".

I have never found it to have any worth whatsoever in the real world. Most people value what you actually do, not what you're capable of, and rightly so. (If you can find someone who values you based on what you're capable of, hang onto them with both hands.)

I must have drank too much at some point. As a youth I scored a 181, but now it is 154.