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Does anyone know anyone who has ever admitted to getting below 100 on an IQ test?
I'm guessing the answer is no. In which case, presumably none of us can know whether or not we have. You would need to have to know someone who both scored below 100 and was willing to admit that to know for sure.
I have never had an iq test that I know of. It test general intelligence so the ideal time to take it is kinda as you finishing your gen eds in college but have not started the real intensive high level stuff. Either that or when you take the ged wich is kind of a general intelligence test. Most people just have things like sat and shoot. honestly I forgot what the other one was called.
I mean, it's not like they carry a sign. Some actual mental handicaps can sort of get through the day with some supports. So, maybe you're just not looking hard enough. If you're going IQ you should use <85 or something, too, since <100 is literally half of the population.
On top of that, it's really hard to tell between weird behavior because they're dumb, they're not really paying attention or they're neuroatypical/mentally ill. I have better stories about supposedly intelligent people missing obvious things. (I star in many)
i grew up in a 3rd world country, in some rural parts people get very short or no schooling at all, they would do terrible on IQ test's verbal and math sections, and possibly the other sections too. i just keep conversations simple.
I've worked with a couple people who were slow learners and didn't seem to think very well. Everyone I've known like that thought they were smarter than everyone else and never stopped talking about how stupid other people are.
What part of tech are you in? If you interact with end-users ever, they're everywhere.
I didnt, no. It was devops, building infrastructure for stuff the company wanted to do. End users would just connect to databases and use sql for their analytics.
So yeah not public tech support, more like building tech environments for analytics.
I'm in a similar boat as you, as an M365, Azure, etc. Consultant, where most of the people I work with are CIOs, other IT people, and like, director level and above.
Even in those cohorts where you would think intelligence is generally above average you get a few.
I started out in help desk though, and occasionally run training classes. They're at all levels.
I have a few.
They arent necessarily hostile or mean. but there is a definite laziness to their intellect where they get super insecure if even minor challenged and refuse to admit to any learning disability or any level disability (and look down on those with a disability) and they believe because they are older = know everything.
One took it upon herself to explain walking poles to me....and i didnt even ask. Mainly because she requires to be explained to how to use basic functions of a toaster. So she believes she is at the intellect of everyone else around her by asserting herself to explain how to use even most basic of things only a very young child would struggle with and entirely gives up if the task entirely if it has any complexity. Such as just checking oil in the car. A stick in a hole. this is too hard apparently.
At first i thought she was just acting stupid like some women famously do this where they dampen their intellect around others but living around this person ive come to suspect a learning disability she refuses to accept about herself.
A true dunning kreuger if i ever saw one.
Meanwhile she would give you the shirt off her back.
met a lot of these type in a conservative country town but occassionally i will run into one in the city.
i think the trouble comes from them thinking if having a learning disability means inlovable. which is in many ways sad and just really mean against those who have owned it and worked on their's.
