I have a 160, according to WAIS and a 153 on the MAT (miller analogies test) and a 163 on WISC-R as a child.
Interestingly though, I have a personality disorder that makes me a huge deviant--love practical jokes, manipulating, semi-goth etc...
I want to find a group that is not losers (I'm in med school btw) and has common interests.
2007-07-07 05:09:42 · 8 answers · asked by Voltaire's book Candide 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
*I have a 160, according to WAIS and a 153 on the MAT (miller analogies test) and a 163 on WISC-R as a child.
IQ indices available to us as yet are very limited in capacity and best are rough estimates of a person's intelligence or emotional quotient.
A multitude of intelligence type cannot be measured by design of default no matter how accurate the test be.
Social demeanour , social empathy , conductance of self and interaction fall into it in my opinion.
So yeah...don't take the scores as everything they purport you to be.
*"I have a personality disorder" .."a huge deviant".
From what i'm reading your thinking isn't based on expert psychiatric opinion (IQ tests perhaps?).
Personality disorders in most of their majority have a severe* impact on the person's life.A "deviant" huge as it may be to you does not make you psychologically inept or abnormal.
*"love practical jokes, manipulating, semi-goth etc"...
All this sounds neither deviant or disordered nor does it seem.It just makes you a young person willing to experience and discover hitherto unknown parts of your psyche.
Congratulations on being an open experimentative person.Hold pride for being so - most people are bland and want a new taste of anything.You'll go far in life and you'll know yourself better.
*"I want to find a group that is not losers (I'm in med school btw) and has common interests".
1)I'm in med-school.
2)I always or most usually test genius or close it.
3)I probably the most oddest-one-out in my year.
By the end of my 2nd year i started feeling same as you : no group was interesting enough for me to fit in or hang out with.
So after much trial tribulation i decided to be amongst people i liked elsewhere* ... outside the school or in different years , while being good or regular buds with people in my own class ( as much as a strain as it gets on my nerves sometimes).
Mensa or 999 or "Uber sharp deviant meds" and such might give you the feeling of social acceptance...but you yourself have to spend most of your time with yourself - alone or otherwise.
If any event you find cant find the appropriate group - make one yourself - nothing beats having something made right down to the hilt to very own needs.
Have fun =)
2007-07-08 16:31:17 · answer #1 · answered by phoenixphire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mensa is very prestigious, it is a sign of great intelligence, high IQ is only an indication of what you know not what you are capable of. I would like to be smart enough to be in Mensa. Go to the sight and take some of the tests if they have them.
2016-05-20 22:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Member of Mensa myself, I am sorry to read your pre-conceived ideas about the members of Mensa. Out of the more than 50,000 members in the USA alone, you will find people of every personality you would find in the general population.
If you have convinced yourself that only "losers" are members of Mensa, with no evidence, you are cutting yourself off from a possible answer for no reason. Why would you want to do that?
There are special interest groups within the club, and one of them is for people just like yourself. Remember one person out of every 50 you meet is eligible for Mensa.
2007-07-10 08:17:45 · answer #3 · answered by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many persons of your particular complexion have found their way int prison. Hackers, Thieves etc. quest for ways to exercise (exorcise) their talents and creativity. My initial idea was that you would thrive as a computer game programmer but I doubt it would sate the 'bad boy' aspect of your dilemma. Too, there is a lot of room for playfulness and deception in art. You may be someone who can push on the boundaries of "art' I mean - create your own.
Hold the inquiry earnestly - let it work in you and keep your eyes open. I believe you can trust yourself to gravitate toward fulfilling interests which may be on the fringe.
Finally, take care to not abdicate responsibility for your gifts by or through some device that will deprive you of the freedom to explore them. Best wishes fellow traveler.
2007-07-07 05:42:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, sounds exactly like me, im in the genius level on any iq test ive ever taken, got better scores on my sat's when i took it in 6th grade than the majority of the high schoolers who were taking it, and always tested well in every subject. i had a bit of a struggle with math here and there but other than that, straight a's....but im like you too because i was always the practical joker, into subcultures, never really anything trendy....if you find a group like this, let me know.
2007-07-09 10:42:16 · answer #5 · answered by Ashley M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going to a science fiction convention or a horror convention. you will find many people like yourself.
2007-07-07 05:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the Legion of Doom.
2007-07-07 05:15:00 · answer #7 · answered by unholycricket 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure there are.
2007-07-07 06:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋