What is your IQ?

[TJ in Oregon]

I took the IQ test when I was a kid and my Mom refused to tell me what my score was.

However, I did a quick online search of correllations between GRE scores, SAT scores, and IQ's. The resulting estimate from that is what I voted on.

[TJ in Oregon]

I can see my SAT/GRE score conversion idea has taken a bit of fire, and deservedly so. Of course there are serious problems with it, including:
1. Those tests' inability to accurately measure values more than a standard deviation away from the mean
2. The total joke the math sections tend to be. I don't know how these are supposed to tell anything about one's intelligence. I spent four years in chemical engineering school and on the GRE, they're testing me in what? The Pythagorean Theorem?
3. The reality that people actually study for those. Am I smarter if I go home tonight and start memorizing the dictionary?

I also think it's very hard to tell how smart someone is based on a political forum like this one becuase we:
1. Don't interact with each other in person. It's much easier to write intelligent things when you have the whole internet in front of you and no time limit that it is to say them on the fly.
2. Have absolutely no clue how good anyone here is at math. The ability to think logically in a quantitative sense is missing from this kind of verbal communication, especially since we're discussing politics. Some of the smartest people I know, who are conducting great research, would sound like total morons here.

And one last thought: "genius" is supposedly defined as an IQ over 140, which will occur in one of every 263 people. If we have about that number of total posters and it is a random sample (which I think we skew better than random), we should have one genius.