Midnite Zephyr
Platinum Member
I've checked my IQ several times throughout my lifetime. Even as a child at school I had it checked a couple times. It ranges anywhere from utter fool to genius.
Not really, Polly. I get lost all the time. I believe it's a Y-chromosome thing.
I don't know where the visuo-spacial ability would come into play. I guess I'm an above-average chess player, for a club player, anyway. Maybe there. But even so, I'm not at any really high level.
I always scored high on the math section of those aptitude tests but my math grades in school said otherwise.
I remember many years ago, reading a discussion about IQ and what it meant, in some magazine, might have been GQ. The article cited two people: Richard Feynman and Marilyn vos Savant (Mach), and compared them and what their IQ scores mean. Marilyn Vos Savant's IQ is the highest ever measured, listed as something like 228 (although there was some dispute about that) whereas Feynman's was around 135. The point was that while vos Savant's career was basically answering questions in a column in Parade magazine, Feynman was one of the most important physicists of all-time. In other words, IQ is what it is, and nothing more.