What do you think about IQ tests?I'm too scared to take one in real life, I need to find some print of an official MENSA test online.So far only ripoff sites.

I believe IQ test shows how much a person is good at IQ tests =P

Intelligence is overrated. It will just make you realize how bad and suboptimal everything is.

Being able to exploit and opress is what makes human successful.

Of course I'm not serious. Or?

What do you think about IQ tests?I'm too scared to take one in real life, I need to find some print of an official MENSA test online.So far only ripoff sites.

You know, in all honesty, I think your whole perspective is just wrong. It is telling, I think, that, as an example of someone very intelligent that you admire/are "jealous" of, you didn't mention someone like, say, Richard Feynman or Alan Turing...but this guy Sidis, who I've never heard before, and whose rather short Wikipedia page deals mostly with claims his family made about how he scored on IQ tests or how many dozen languages he spoke. Who cares! There are guys that can memorize 30,000 digits of pi and read a 400-page book in a few minutes, and there are guys that can't possibly do that, but can change our view about science, life and the world in general. So yeah, Turing was really, really good at inventing the Turing machine and fathering the fields of computer science and AI, Feynman was really, really good at inventing Feynman diagrams, advancing quantum electrodynamics and getting a nice shiny nobel prize for those, and Sidis was really, really good at...taking IQ tests. Well, I guess everyone has his own unique talent

Furthermore, some of your other statements are pretty childish(which is ok though, since you're still only 19)

The only intelligence type I respect is the mathematical/logical one and it's the one I'm lacking in.I learned all of high school math in 3 weeks(which Sidis would have learned in 1 day) and vector calculus in about 30 hours(which he would learn just by knowing the basics of calculus and vectors and deriving the rest on his own)

Seriously now? You're stamping your feet and get all mad because it took you 3 whole weeks to learn all highschool math and 30 whole hours to learn vector calculus, while this guy Sidis(again) would do all that in a couple of days? I'm sorry, but did your parents/teachers/peers told you that you are gifted, or that you're a member of the Q continuum? Because if you did those things you claimed, then you're clearly extremely gifted, you're just not god on earth and we won't drop on our knees to worship you just yet (but hey, if you cure cancer or solve P=NP, we might!).

In sort, relax! You're *only* 19, your academic career is just starting. If you truly are gifted and fall into depression because your IQ(whatever that means) is 150 instead of 380, now that would truly be an extremely stupid thing to do indeed!

Hey Sock5, I really like "3 Skins Without Men". Clearly, you have something unique going on in your head -- IQ tests and comparisons to other people won't show the value of that.

What do you think about IQ tests?I'm too scared to take one in real life, I need to find some print of an official MENSA test online.So far only ripoff sites.

As others have said IQ tests are awesome for measuring your ability to take IQ tests and IMHO Mensa is just intellectual collective masturbation.

Seriously, stop worrying about how smart you are or aren't. Go do something. You're on this site so you are clearly interested in game development, what games have you made lately?

What do you think about IQ tests?I'm too scared to take one in real life, I need to find some print of an official MENSA test online.So far only ripoff sites.

As others have said IQ tests are awesome for measuring your ability to take IQ tests and IMHO Mensa is just intellectual collective masturbation.

Seriously, stop worrying about how smart you are or aren't. Go do something. You're on this site so you are clearly interested in game development, what games have you made lately?

working on a game engine with a friend for some time now, it's going great, thanks

Seriously, stop worrying about how smart you are or aren't. Go do something. You're on this site so you are clearly interested in game development, what games have you made lately?

This, pretty much. IQ means nothing, and knowledge is wasted unless you produce something - anything - with it. And there's always going to be someone that's better than you at something (possibly even everything). Deal with it. If you give up every time you see that someone has surpassed you in some way you may as well never go outside because you're gonna meet plenty of them. Furthermore, most people never produce anything of truly lasting value to humankind, and still consider their lives a success. Maybe that's really what you're afraid of.

Oh, and by the way, on a fundamental level, nobody likes to discover they actually suck at what they thought they were really good at. I don't think anyone in their right mind would be told the news and exclaim "wow, I'm so happy, for a moment I thought I was actually good at something". But what matters is how you go from there: do you try something else, persevere and try to prove you can do cool stuff anyway, or succumb to peer pressure and disappear off the face of the earth? That's ultimately how people will remember you and your achievements, not your IQ or school grades or how fast you can learn vector calculus, unless you make a big deal out of it and become the next Sidis (if that's what you want - personally if I had the abilities to become the smartest guy in the world, I probably wouldn't care for all the media attention, especially in this day and age).

I don't think anyone in their right mind would be told the news and exclaim "wow, I'm so happy, for a moment I thought I was actually good at something".

True, but there is another way to look at it. It's not so much finding out that you suck at something, it's finding out how much better it's possible to be.

I've had my eyes opened several times in my life when I stupidly and naively assumed I had "mastered" a skill, and then I watched someone truly good at it. It's initially disheartening, but it's also inspiring.

Like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis

Wow, that guy seems like he lived a miserable life.