How to Think Like a Genius 52-Dog
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/07/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It’s like a pin with a tight leash for the dog and you’re the dog.
Rick Rosner: It’s like a pin with a dog in an enclosure. If you get a 128 on IQ test, your true IQ, not that there even is such a thing, might range anywhere from 120 to 136, and its kind of the same thing for the high end tests, and all sorts of weirdnesses that creep into tests. There are weirdnesses that are specific to high end tests, which is how crazy do you want to go on a test. I’ve been working on a test for something like 38 months.
I have scores in the 190s. There’s no point in me doing a half-assed job and scoring 158, which I’ve done — ’cause I got, I don’t know, uppity, arrogant, I though yea, yea, I could just dash this off, and no, I couldn’t. For me to get a score that’s in the range where I can maybe kick up my maximum score or highest ever score, I have to find a test that goes that high and that test might require hundreds of hours of thinking about stuff or hundreds of hours for me.
There are always people who go online that they solved the Mega or the Titan and got a really good score in like 2.5 hrs. Those people are lying. Or they looked around online and found answers, or there bullshitting in some way. So, when you get to these high-end, super crushing tests, how willing are you to take that big a chunk of your life to mess with an IQ test? That kind of persistence is not really indicative of IQ, but of weirdness or OCD.
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