(Maybe I was just being too conservative. Those are lower bounds I was confident betting on.)
I scored higher than the LW/SSC median on the IQ test that was linked (a Mensa Denmark one IIRC) in one of the surveys (SSC I think, I joined LW in 2017).
As I understand it, the online IQ test correlated with actual scores.
I may have been underestimating:
I had the highest scores in my IGCSEs of all my classmates
I found myself exceptional even in my undergraduate CS class (a population of over a hundred), etc.
I don’t honestly believe that I’m below the LW median. At least, I won’t willingly take such a bet.
(I haven’t taken an official test yet, boasting about IQ is gauche and doubly so for imaginary IQ, I’m conservative when betting, etc.)
FWIW, I originally wrote this for the EA Forum (whose norms around this I’m less familiar with, so I defaulted to conservativeness in bragging about intelligence) and didn’t edit it for LessWrong. Maybe I’d have been less hesitant to boast if I was directing it at a LW audience.
To me claiming to be 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 10 million overall seems like a pretty boasty claim with a higher boastiness than claiming 140 IQ or something on that order.
Actually, I think your comment about strong positive correlation between those traits is something that I may have insufficiently appreciated enough when writing the post.
(Maybe I was just being too conservative. Those are lower bounds I was confident betting on.)
I scored higher than the LW/SSC median on the IQ test that was linked (a Mensa Denmark one IIRC) in one of the surveys (SSC I think, I joined LW in 2017).
As I understand it, the online IQ test correlated with actual scores.
I may have been underestimating:
I had the highest scores in my IGCSEs of all my classmates
I found myself exceptional even in my undergraduate CS class (a population of over a hundred), etc.
I don’t honestly believe that I’m below the LW median. At least, I won’t willingly take such a bet.
(I haven’t taken an official test yet, boasting about IQ is gauche and doubly so for imaginary IQ, I’m conservative when betting, etc.)
FWIW, I originally wrote this for the EA Forum (whose norms around this I’m less familiar with, so I defaulted to conservativeness in bragging about intelligence) and didn’t edit it for LessWrong. Maybe I’d have been less hesitant to boast if I was directing it at a LW audience.
To me claiming to be 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 10 million overall seems like a pretty boasty claim with a higher boastiness than claiming 140 IQ or something on that order.
Actually, I think your comment about strong positive correlation between those traits is something that I may have insufficiently appreciated enough when writing the post.
I’ll just strip that segment out I think.