5 NON LIFTING facts about YOU

[cauthen96]

I believe IQ tests are considered obsolete and have been for quite some time.

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IQ tests 'do not reflect intelligence' - Telegraph

 

[michael0077]

I believe IQ tests are considered obsolete and have been for quite some time.

Im over at scientology and we take one {along with a bunch of other tests} every couple of months..my wife always scores about 20 points higher than me, but there is some sort of 10 point deal ..so I think she cheats..lol

 

[Big A]

I just want to see his helicopter?????????? lol

It's only a Raven II as I'm not qualified to fly turbine.

I don't have photos of me flying it, but here's a photo of me piloting a flying school Raven with floats and an assessor next to me getting my water landing certification.

 

[Pharm_Fed]

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IQ tests 'do not reflect intelligence' - Telegraph

That just explains that more than one test is needed to accurately place a value on intelligence, which is true.

When they were testing me back when I was in school for advanced classes I went through a multitude of tests for many different things. It's not like you sit down, take a 100 question test, and they score it and say, "OK, your IQ is 125."

 

[cauthen96]

I just got my dictionary out and looked up BALLING..

It had a picture of BIG A

 

[cauthen96]

That just explains that more than one test is needed to accurately place a value on intelligence, which is true.

When they were testing me back when I was in school for advanced classes I went through a multitude of tests for many different things. It's not like you sit down, take a 100 question test, and they score it and say, "OK, your IQ is 125."

I agree.. I read a great book years ago on race and IQ.. It was explaining and discussing why blacks typically score lower and asians normally score higher etc.. There are SO MANY variables when it comes to intelligence and like has been said before its definitely not just a 100 ? test and you get a score..

 

[michael0077]

It's only a Raven II as I'm not qualified to fly turbine.

I don't have photos of me flying it, but here's a photo of me piloting a flying school Raven with floats and an assessor next to me getting my water landing certification.

WE can see your bicep.lol not...awesome...ok ok fine u win..but is your wife nice to you?

 

[flexdurden]

1. I like to draw and paint, black and white, pen and pencil, ink and watercolor.
2. I played basketball and skateboarded in HS and was actually good at both, now I can't do either a fucking lick!
3. I wear some ripped up ass tattered underwear, I don't give a fuck, Im the only one who sees them.
4. My dog is the only thing I can say I truly love ( I know fucked up right ).
5. My father is almost 20 years older than my mother.

I nominate

GS
Forklift
Concreteguy
Giants 83
Cauthen 96
Mentaflex
Cerburus777

Sorry, just saw this thread...

1. I have an MBA and have had a 3.9 GPA or higher from high school through grad school

2. I flat lined when I was a few weeks old due to loss of blood when a tumor on my leg ruptured. 7 blood transfusions and loads of medicine later, I pulled through

3. I'm getting married to my best friend and training partner this May (yes, she is a female) and one member from this forum will be in my wedding party

4. I jam out to Taylor Swift in my car and have no shame singing along.

5. My fiance and i are starting dance lessons in Feb.

BONUS
6. I can't reach the top shelf in the grocery store
7. I still struggle with insecurity from the abuse of my father as a child
9. I was once clinically obese
10. We chose our honeymoon location based on suggestions from this forum
11. Met my fiance on eharmony, where my mom also met her fiance...

 

[Big A]

Either everything I have been told is wrong, or you are much smarter than you think you are. I looked up Stephen Hawking's IQ on 5 websites and all said he was 160. Albert Einstein is believed to have been about 160, although some Einstein lovers argue he could have been anywhere between 160-190. The point here is that 160 is normally considered to be about right.

If you were only in the top 0.1 percentile, that means for every 1,001 kids, one of them would exceed 183. No way. My son is a genius (148), so we have been inundated with information on this subject for years from teachers and a whole bunch of other people involved in the educational filed from the federal level to the high school level.

We have been shown the IQ statistics for the entire country (only school-age kids) and the percentile of kids above 180 in the US is so exceedingly small you couldn't even see them represented on the pie chart--at all. We were told it is one in "millions" by educational specialists that came to speak to the gifted kids. There's not a single kid in my son's entire 3,000 kid high school who comes anywhere close to a 183...and we know because our son, along with all the other advanced students in the school have their IQ tested every 1-2 years. The highest IQ in the school is 158...and his high school may still be considered the best in the state--at least it was a few years ago.

Here is some other information I sourced. Apparently, a group known as the Pars Society, which requires an IQ of 180, only has 37 members world wide. Another group, known as the Olympic Society, also requires a score of 180 and has only 12 members worldwide. Both groups claim this IQ is within 99.99997% percentile. Lastly, another group, known as the Giga Society, has an IQ requirement of 196. They have only 7 members. The percentile is 99.9999999%.

On the IQ percentile and rarity chart, it lists a 183 IQ as being in the 99.9999984250% percentile. On the 15sd scale, no one can test higher than 195 because there are not enough people in the world for comparison.

Another website says only one in 18+ million people has an IQ if 180+. Basically, everything I have ever read or heard all comes back to the same thing--that an IQ is 180+ is so rare that only one in millions of people have it. In fact, all the standardized IQ tests in the U.S max out at 160, last I heard...and even a 160 is very rare. A 183 IQ is so exceedingly high that standard IQ tests can NOT accurately test it. It needs to be assessed in other ways.

I think you are smarter than you think you are.

Thanks for the compliment, but my ego is so high, there's no way that I am even better than what I think I am!

Rather, there must be different assessing scores over here. I got the 184 score 20 years ago. The paperwork that came with it from Mensa included all the stats I posted, as much as I remember them. Hawking was way over 200 in those stats. While I understand everything perfectly well that Hawking writes/talks about, I have no illusions of being smarter than him or even close.
I think it's just a matter of varying assessment methods/scores here or 20 years ago or a combination of all.

Some more interesting facts about me, in relation to intelligence, keeping the theme of this thread:

1. When I was 18 I applied to be a flight controller. I scored higher in all their assessing tests than anyone in their history. I decided not to go ahead with it as I thought the $60k/year in 1992 wasn't enough money. They kept hounding me for years after that offering me jobs.

2. When I was 19, Prince Charles had a program for young adults under 25, where they would be taught everything there was to know about running a business, plus financial support in order to start. Over 3,000 people applied for the 14 positions. After the 2 weeks of full time assessments, I was one of the 14 chosen. Then for 6 months we were taught business by the business and financial leaders at the time. It was fantastic.

3. At 25 I was arrested and charged with $40mil international corporate fraud. I was ratted by a partner that had ulterior motives. For 5 years (25-30) I was on bail and reporting at the local cop shop while the cops prepared for trial and tried to find more info. I was sentenced to 2 years prison. A lot of people on the forums thought it was for steroids.

4. Due to 3., I fired my lawyers and I taught myself law in prison. 7 months later I appeared in front of the full bench of the Supreme Court, arguing law for one and a half hours with three Supreme Court Judges, one of them being the Chief Justice. At the end of it, I won, freed myself and set a new precedent that has been used since by the Supreme Court when they hand down judgements. The court clerks told me afterwards that they never heard any barrister argue as well as I did.

5. As part of Family Court proceeding, I had to undergo a psychological assessment in 2010, which included an abbreviated IQ test. After a 10 hour flight and only 3 hours sleep, I scored 168. The psychological test threw them off so much, they had to get a panel of experts from here and abroad to analyse it as it was unlike anything they ever came across before. It was funny to read the final report. It inflated my ego even more

 

[pesty4077]

Thanks for the compliment, but my ego is so high, there's no way that I am even better than what I think I am!

Rather, there must be different assessing scores over here. I got the 184 score 20 years ago. The paperwork that came with it from Mensa included all the stats I posted, as much as I remember them. Hawking was way over 200 in those stats. While I understand everything perfectly well that Hawking writes/talks about, I have no illusions of being smarter than him or even close.
I think it's just a matter of varying assessment methods/scores here or 20 years ago or a combination of all.

Some more interesting facts about me, in relation to intelligence, keeping the theme of this thread:

1. When I was 18 I applied to be a flight controller. I scored higher in all their assessing tests than anyone in their history. I decided not to go ahead with it as I thought the $60k/year in 1992 wasn't enough money. They kept hounding me for years after that offering me jobs.

2. When I was 19, Prince Charles had a program for young adults under 25, where they would be taught everything there was to know about running a business, plus financial support in order to start. Over 3,000 people applied for the 14 positions. After the 2 weeks of full time assessments, I was one of the 14 chosen. Then for 6 months we were taught business by the business and financial leaders at the time. It was fantastic.

3. At 25 I was arrested and charged with $40mil international corporate fraud. I was ratted by a partner that had ulterior motives. For 5 years (25-30) I was on bail and reporting at the local cop shop while the cops prepared for trial and tried to find more info. I was sentenced to 2 years prison. A lot of people on the forums thought it was for steroids.

4. Due to 3., I fired my lawyers and I taught myself law in prison. 7 months later I appeared in front of the full bench of the Supreme Court, arguing law for one and a half hours with three Supreme Court Judges, one of them being the Chief Justice. At the end of it, I won, freed myself and set a new precedent that has been used since by the Supreme Court when they hand down judgements. The court clerks told me afterwards that they never heard any barrister argue as well as I did.

5. As part of Family Court proceeding, I had to undergo a psychological assessment in 2010, which included an abbreviated IQ test. After a 10 hour flight and only 3 hours sleep, I scored 168. The psychological test threw them off so much, they had to get a panel of experts from here and abroad to analyse it as it was unlike anything they ever came across before. It was funny to read the final report. It inflated my ego even more

Funny you mention that. I applied for Air Traffic controller and scored top 2%. I was 30 at the time and Reagan fired some. My age was what the called the breaking point for hiring at that time. I got a letter stating they weren't hiring instead of saying I was too old.

By the way, thanks for sharing all that. Interesting to see your personal side.

 

[cauthen96]

Thanks for the compliment, but my ego is so high, there's no way that I am even better than what I think I am!

Rather, there must be different assessing scores over here. I got the 184 score 20 years ago. The paperwork that came with it from Mensa included all the stats I posted, as much as I remember them. Hawking was way over 200 in those stats. While I understand everything perfectly well that Hawking writes/talks about, I have no illusions of being smarter than him or even close.
I think it's just a matter of varying assessment methods/scores here or 20 years ago or a combination of all.

Some more interesting facts about me, in relation to intelligence, keeping the theme of this thread:

1. When I was 18 I applied to be a flight controller. I scored higher in all their assessing tests than anyone in their history. I decided not to go ahead with it as I thought the $60k/year in 1992 wasn't enough money. They kept hounding me for years after that offering me jobs.

2. When I was 19, Prince Charles had a program for young adults under 25, where they would be taught everything there was to know about running a business, plus financial support in order to start. Over 3,000 people applied for the 14 positions. After the 2 weeks of full time assessments, I was one of the 14 chosen. Then for 6 months we were taught business by the business and financial leaders at the time. It was fantastic.

3. At 25 I was arrested and charged with $40mil international corporate fraud. I was ratted by a partner that had ulterior motives. For 5 years (25-30) I was on bail and reporting at the local cop shop while the cops prepared for trial and tried to find more info. I was sentenced to 2 years prison. A lot of people on the forums thought it was for steroids.

4. Due to 3., I fired my lawyers and I taught myself law in prison. 7 months later I appeared in front of the full bench of the Supreme Court, arguing law for one and a half hours with three Supreme Court Judges, one of them being the Chief Justice. At the end of it, I won, freed myself and set a new precedent that has been used since by the Supreme Court when they hand down judgements. The court clerks told me afterwards that they never heard any barrister argue as well as I did.

5. As part of Family Court proceeding, I had to undergo a psychological assessment in 2010, which included an abbreviated IQ test. After a 10 hour flight and only 3 hours sleep, I scored 168. The psychological test threw them off so much, they had to get a panel of experts from here and abroad to analyse it as it was unlike anything they ever came across before. It was funny to read the final report. It inflated my ego even more

Quote of the year right there!

 

[michael0077]

I think Big A is a super hero, im thinking a smarter iron man, a richer wolverine, but definetly not the hulk..well maybe the docter guy what was his name..you know before he changed into the hulk..that dude was smart..well not that smart he jacked himself up..lol...seriously I am interested in all my PM brothers..and yes im a suck up, kiss ass....and it works for me..i know people

 

[pesty4077]

Big A, I thought I share this with you brother. Here is a list of IQ scores of famous people. You are in the elite.

**broken link removed**

IQ of Famous People - Famous IQ's - Celebrity IQ's

 

[wizim]

i left my brains for my kids. i didnt have any desire to apply myself in school. i hated being there and couldnt wait to drop out. i literally "christmas tree'd" the sat's when i was a kid. lol!
my wife is extremely smart and like others in here maintained a 4.0gpa throughout high school and college. my son was tested into the gifted program in 5th grade and is currently in pre med program at the age of 15. the school asked to have him tested earlier but we didnt want him to feel different from the other kids. when the time came to go to middle school we changed our mind. if he didnt get into the gifted program he would have to go to the F rated middle school that we are zoned for. the gifted program he entered got him into an a well known A rated school. my daughter (11) is in the process of being tested for gifted for the same reason. she will go to middle school next year. NOT an F rated one. They did the verbal testing last week. she/we are meeting with the school psychologist next week.

i always say..if the kids get my common sense and their mothers brains they will be very successful.

 

[TrinityD]

Incredible feats.
I am just happy saving lives.
Would never have the mental fortitude or capacity to go through all of those things ...damn.
Some serious props bro

 

[Pull Freak]

1 - Married for 3 years but been together for 11. Love her to death.

2 - From the south love tators and apple pie.

3 - Went to a tech school

4 - Work in maintenance for the county transportation.

5 - Proud to be raised by loving Christian parents. Without my praying mother I probably would not have woke up a few morning's.

Great thread! Some interesting people on here.

 

[cauthen96]

Without my praying mother I probably would not have woke up a few morning's.

Amen to that brother!

I feel like shit for all the stress I put that woman thru

 

[OuchThatHurts]

Amen to that brother!

I feel like shit for all the stress I put that woman thru

Agreed! With you and pull freak both! My parents are the kindest Christian people. Any one of you could walk in my parents house, grab a drink out of the refrigerator, make a sandwich, pick up the remote, change the channel on the TV (which is oddly NEVER off), and sit down and eat and watch your show. The only thing that would happen is they would whisper to each other, "Is that Jon's friend that used to live in the valley? He's a very strange boy..." (and by "boy", they just mean you're under the age of 50).

Then they'd make small talk with you and ask if you were staying for dinner.

 

[Dado5]

ill play


1- Went to Croatian Secret Service academy , continued in USA and finished it (never worked as SS as pay is low)
2- In ex-Yugoslavian war, gun was held to my head but it never went off due to faulty mechanism.
3- In late 90s fought MMA in japan , mostly underground.
4- Have dentures, due to losing all my teeth in fights.
5- My fiancé is 10 y younger than me

 

[VFW]

jeez im lame compared to some of these cool things! damn! I have had a few notable things..

1- I refueled airplanes in the air from my aircraft a KC-135a I was 18
2- Met my wife at 20 still together 27 yrs later
3- I was on a reality show last year in my sport
4- Im a silver medalist at worlds in my sport, and 3 time National champion
5- I have messed up so many many things in my life, but somehow I have been a good Dad, and my daughter is becoming a successful smart moral woman.