I found out yesterday that apparently I have become less intelligent over the course of the past 11 years.
A little background for that statement follows:
When I was fifteen I was forced to take an intelligence test to determine which advanced classes, if any I was to take in my remaining years of Primary Education. I scored a 155 on that test. For some perspective most IQ scales are laid out in the following manner:
- Average: 85 - 115
- Above average: 116 - 125
- Gifted Borderline Genius: 126 - 135
- Highly gifted and appearing to be a Genius to most others: 136 - 145
- Genius: 146 - 165
- High Genius: 166 - 180
- Highest Genius: 181 - 200
- Beyond being measurable Genius: Over 200
Yesterday I scored 130 on the same IQ test. You can see from whence my discomfort originates… It appears that I have lost 25 points of intelligence since the age of fifteen! That is just depressing. I would like to believe the sage words of Simeon’s Wife Ashley, that the original score was artificially inflated due to my advancement at that age but I somehow can’t. I have been thinking alot lately that I don’t have the ease with words or the quick wit that I used too in those bygone days.
I can only blame it on having lived in Kentucky for the past 5 years.
Stroll on over and visit Mr. Hibbity Gibbity
March 1, 2007
Mmmm, words of Yoda speak you. : )
Stroll on over and visit Simeon
March 1, 2007
Storm with 70 mile per hour winds coming this way.
Oh boy.
Anyway, I read your blog here Chris, it made me think of a “Farside” cartoon. It shows to characters at a gameshow like Jeopardy. One is a regular joe, the other is God. The host says, “Well, it seems God has a 1000 points, and Joe you still stand a 0.” Regular joe is looking at God in disdain. Anyway, I thought I would share it with you.
Stroll on over and visit James
March 1, 2007
How could you! At least our mascot makes sense. :-P What is a hoosier anyway? Is that an animal? “Oh no, I got mauled by a rabid hoosier.” Yeah, okay. Maybe it’s a way to measure corn — “I will sell you 25 hoosiers of corn for $30 a piece.” Maybe it’s a secret martial arts superhero team. “Oh no, I’ve been kunk-fu chopped by the teenage mutant ninja hoosiers again”
Oy!
Stroll on over and visit Mr. Hibbity Gibbity
March 1, 2007
Actually … isn’t a ‘hoosier’ a derivative of ‘huskers’? Maybe I made that up.