Thank you for the answers. I got hung up trying different prefixes, a 3 letter word didn't even occur to me. I usually do good playing Jeopardy. I like to shout out the answers, if it's on, in the house I'm working in. We could have some sort of Jeopardy tournament here to see who is the top dog.

But "three-letter word" was in the instructions. You score zero for reading comprehension!! :)

I was tested twice. The first time for admittance into a gifted school/program in 3rd grade. I was accepted but didn't attend. The second time I was tested because I had filed for disability when I was REALLY, really sick, and when I got better the govt. provided career counseling and a formal IQ test was part of the evaluation.

I must be a genius then, Einstein, or some other famous, really smart guy was like that.

Do they?? Some of those guys have impressive spare tires on them.

hey look what Neatorama recently posted.

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images...ccupations.jpg

That's a very interesting graph Rex.

Interesting. It's a little hard to tell, but it looks like salesmen and security guards (i.e. "protection services excluding policemen") have the biggest range, while clerical workers and doctors have the smallest range. So feel free to stereotype your secretary, but maybe drop some literary references around your building's security guard to find out if he's one of the smart ones.

If you're really interested in that graph Rex posted, here's a 92 page pdf that explains it.

where are all the 170's people working?

They're "too smart" to actually work.

see....i should have known that. :smack:

They're too busy hating everyone else.

I'm too smart to work.....

There are a ton of factors that make an IQ test unfair and inconsistent. There's no way to judge a person's complete intelligence.