I am a 23 year old female with a IQ of 76. Ask me anything
How is your memory or recall? Do you feel like you to write stuff down a lot?
It takes me a long time to get used to patterns. If I don’t completely focus on one thing I forget about it. I get information mixed up easily and I forgot the little details about things. Sometimes I forget what I’m doing all together and I get overwhelmed easily.
Luckily I use my phone a lot to write things down which helps and if I don’t do that I just write things down on my body.
For what it’s worth, free IQ tests are notoriously bad for evaluating general intellectual capacity, and tend to evaluate visual pattern recognition.
On top of that, you can learn how IQ tests are evaluated and score higher on them in a matter of seconds.
For example:
The answers are in the diagonals.
For this example, on the diagonals are the number of dots.
For this example, on the diagonals are the arrow directions.
Having this knowledge can easily boost your IQ score by 10.
In any case, intellect has many different facets; memory retention, memory recall speed, emotional intelligence, motivation, visual/spacial, verbal, etc.
There are people who are Mensa certified geniuses who can’t hold a conversation to save their lives, or boast to others about their score, which is… really dumb.
Know what you’re talking about. There’s a guy on YouTube who’s in a similar situation to me called Mark Malloy. He talks a lot about IQ maxxing shall we say.
What do you do for work? What level of education have you completed? Were the results a surprise? And most importantly, has it affected your self-esteem at all, or do you know how little an IQ test actually means? (As an example, I’ve taken a few for fun and got about double your score each time, but I haven’t finished college and was a B- student at best).
“What do you do for work?”
I’m a burger flipper at Burger King.
“What level of education have you completed?”
I was a super senior at high school graduating at age 20 and I never went to university or college although I would like to.
“Were the results a surprise?”
Yes they were.
“And most importantly, has it affected your self-esteem at all”
I’m not capable of low self esteem. It’s more like I feel shame and anger for it.
“or do you know how little an IQ test actually means?”
I hate people saying this. It’s like if you were blind and everyone who could see told you that vision doesn’t mean anything. I have seen first hand how IQ affects you. I remember how different I was to the other kids in my school. The way they could just learn things I couldn’t. I’ve experienced how my IQ has singled me out from everyone else. Do you know what it’s like to come to terms with the fact that no matter how hard you try you’ll always be slower then everyone else? Do you know what it’s like to come to terms with the fact that you’ll never be a nurse, programmer or go to university/college no matter how hard you try? Do you know what it’s like to come to terms with the fact that you’ll never develop over the mental age of a teenager? No, you won’t so fuck off with this corny bullshit about trying your hardest. Real life is not some cheesy sports movie where you really put your mind to something and overcome all the odds. That doesn’t happen in the real world. Kid.
Do you read any books/novels?
If you do, Which ones? How’s the reading experience for you?
I don’t read books that often. I find reading hard and there hard to follow.
Have you given audiobooks a try? You can also start with books with simple words, slowly understand it over the weeks with a dictionary by the side maybe.
Some books are fun! Try them if you can, at your own pace :)
It’s never really crossed my mind and yes I went to school I did read books with simple words in them but the problem is I never slowly understood them and a dictionary is the pinnacle of a book I can’t read.
Know some books can be fun like coffee table books.
what kind of iq test did you take? was it recent and have you only taken the one?
“kind”? Isn’t it just one IQ test that everyone takes? It was 5 years ago when I was 19. I did another one when I was 14 and I scored 73 on that one.
There’s a bunch of different ways to test IQ, and most if not all tests are known to be pretty flawed. The concept of intelligence being something that can be compared on a single numeric scale is in itself pretty much bullshit - there are different types of intelligence, and the tests tend to focus on random things like pattern matching.
A bunch of “high IQ” people are barely functional on a day to day basis. Basically low scores on an IQ test indicates that you lack the skills to do that exact test - I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Edit: Read another comment where you elaborate and don’t want to come across as dismissing your experience at all, I can see that it’s frustrating when people keep insisting it doesn’t matter. But having completed my PhD and having met a lot of people that would do incredibly well in IQ tests, I can safely say many of them too face significant challenges in lives deriving from their lack of situational awareness and understanding of for example social situations.
If it isn’t intelligence and what is it then? It’s undeniable that some people are better mentally than others. Like obviously someone with down syndrome is going to have less knowledge then someone without down syndrome. Right?
Do you ask what is happening in a movie before the movie explains what is happening?
I don’t know what you mean? Can I follow a plot? Yeah it’s difficult for me as I have ADHD but I can do it.
It is more of a reference to the trope of someone asking a question about a movie plot point that hasn’t been explained yet.
Like asking why Bruce Willis’s character can see ghosts in The Sixth Sense halfway through the movie.
So cinema sins then? Nope, no way lol
Not a cinema sin, the aspect of the story is explained later but the person asking the question asks the question that is meant to linger until it is answered.
Watching a murder mystery and asking aloud who killed someone just after they were killed, long before the murderer is revealed is what I am getting at.
Oh, I thought you ment like “how has Daffy Duck been shot in the face and not died” type thing.
Example from my mom- who is that guy with the beard?
In the first scene the guy is shown.
We’re both watching the movie for the first time.
By the way thanks for posting, you have raw courage and I respect that.
Isn’t just how everyone watches movies? I have those questions but I don’t ask the other people around me. Also thank you but how do I have “raw courage”?
How did you find out about Lemmy? It seems it’s mostly a niche place for tech nerds and commies and you don’t seem to be either? Also what keeps you here? Wouldn’t the NPD push you towards more popular platforms?
Sorry for asking so many questions - your experience sounds very unique and you actually seem very eloquent and thoughtful.
“How did you find out about Lemmy?”
I looked up Reddit alternatives and it came up. Reddit has a bad reputation and it’s got too many rules. It’s impossible to post anywhere cuz you never have enough karma.
“It seems it’s mostly a niche place for tech nerds and commies and you don’t seem to be either?”
Well, I was pretty interested in programming a few years ago because of game modding.
“Also what keeps you here?”
Same things that keep me anywhere. Interacting with others and the interesting communities.
“Wouldn’t the NPD push you towards more popular platforms?”
It has been proven that people with NPD use social media more. I’m no exception I have accounts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, twitter and SnapChat.
“Sorry for asking so many questions”
It’s no problem that’s what I’m here for.
“your experience sounds very unique and you actually seem very eloquent and thoughtful.”
Isn’t everyone’s? And thank you I’ve worked on words and spelling for a while now.
What is your hobby?
Don’t really have one. I play video games, shitpost on the web and watch Futurama/movies a lot.
Still a hobby i reckon. Not a balanced one but still a hobby. Try jogging once in awhile. That always perks me up after jogging.
What kind video games genre do you play?
I know what you mean by ‘jogging’ working out but I already do that and to me it’s more of a chore if anything
“What kind video games genre do you play?”
I love world building games like Minecraft, Star Bound and civilizations. I love GTA with a passion. I have a soft spot for shoot 'em ups like Halo or Doom and all it’s mods.
Futurama has a lot of “smart” jokes. Which are usually just references to other things considered “smart”.
Why do you like it? I love it myself even the new ones.
The character Fry really speaks to me and I like all the over lovable characters. Bender is my spirit animal and I love the fast pasted writing.
I’ve videos breaking down the jokes in Futurama. They’re pretty interesting
That’s some hobby, alrite :)
What is?
Are you happy?
That’s a tough question. It depends on what time
Right now is a good time 😊
Rn I’m neutral
Do you notice your low IQ in daily life? Like, when grocery shopping or when just being at home, being with a partner, or doing chores?
Yeah, I use my card more because I suck at maths and I need to use my voice to text feature on my phone to write things down. My memory isn’t that good and I get overwhelmed by information easily
Do you want to be friends? 🪻
Well that came out of no where. Sure but why did you ask?
What is your perception of the world? Like does it seem complex?
Well, there’s a countless amount of people on the earth so of course its complex
I mean what’s your perception on how your world?
That’s a very broad question. Do you mean? Do you mean politically? Religiously? If you want to know my politics when I’m a left leaning centrist
