I did a MENSA IQ Test

And now I'll share with you what it was all like, and how Very Smart, I Am!

[yannik]

Can't wait for the "Going low in IQ" series.

[noiz]

"This group is for smart people"
"Ooh like me!"
"No, it's for really smart people"
Rosted and toased by none other than his own mum

[MattyFez]

IQ? Usless. The key factor in intelligence is CSGO k/d ratio, of course.

[VadelmahilloVideotuotanto]

"The Idiot of MENSA" could be a great movie

[Vitoreo]

I now want a full season of Going low in real life. Phillip Plz do.

[mennims]

Reddit is so hive minded I have to remind myself it's not actually me going crazy

[Klblaz]

I'm glad I've watched this video in 4K.

[Calloffish]

still absolutely love this series, great to watch while eating or just to relax to. also, i feel like you’re very neutral and objective about most issues, which i really enjoy. i swear, most people just choose one side on an issue and never ever want to challenge it, or admit they might be wrong. you always strike me as actually forming opinions for yourself, and that’s really refreshing!!

[robertstegmann]

The design of reddit is the perfect site for echo chambers. Upvotes and downvotes are great for moderating content, but also elevating a particular opinion. People who disagree will be targeted, and then they won't bother sharing their views again. Subreddits are perfect places for echo chambers, and the views they hold can shift overtime, making long time users of a subreddit uncomfortable and leaving, accelerating the process. There are certian topics that result in more divisive, so they become more have an echo chamber. The only way to avoid becoming an echo chamber is to be a subreddit that has a subject that you can't have an opinion on, like pictures of birds with arms, and also be small enough to avoid large off topic discussions. Any subreddit that claims to not be an echo chamber is an echo chamber.

As for IQ scores, I feel that they are flawed. There are numerous reasons for this, but I think one problem is that often people treat it as a singular score that is the end all and be all. I don't think IQ scores are without merit, but I feel they are insufficient measures of intelligence.

[lavalamp]

For anyone wondering why a higher IQ score is somehow not as good, it's because the tests use different values for the standard deviation. The average for both is 100, but the s.d. for the Cattell B test is 24 points, where the s.d. for the Culture Fair test is 16 points.

Mensa require a score 2 standard deviations above the mean for entry (approx top 2%, or 1 in 50 people), so the scores required would be 148 and 132 respectively on these tests. I believe most IQ tests use 15 or 16 points for their standard deviation, so 24 points is unusually high.

[secondblackjack]

"3kliksstein isn't real, he can't-"

3kliksstein:

[vicvance]

I've only taken an IQ test which consisted of geometric shapes, I scored 140 something. All it has ever done for me is allowing myself to be exceptionally lazy, as I've managed to get through school and university with very little effort. I've later had to work on being more productive as it had started to hurt my daily life, it has been very difficult to correct. The worst part is that 7 year old me was very productive in school, I would finish entire exercise books for fun, and read books regularly, but I was never rewarded at school, so soon I found something else to focus on.

[Zacolian]

this series having music, and moving images helps me keep focus on it a lot more. I find the other 5 minutes with phil videos a lot, but it's hard to keep focus even on the interesting ones. The music is a very welcome addition!

[RetroBreak]

Hope you told your mum that you are clever enough for MENSA! :D

[satturatedphat]

You people that take...this seriously bless you hearts

[thomas]

Yeah, but I'm 6'1, which is importanter!

[EverythingPSPro]

The way you cropped your head on Hermoine freaked me out 😆

[LEDmatrix]

Your videos have always given me the impression that you know really well how to express yourself, bring ideas across and insert some smart jokes here and there. I think your test result just shows how right my perception was. There is more behind the IQ score than just a number. Congratulations!

[LAKster]

A friend of mine got in to Mensa, according to him it was basically a swingers club for people with a high IQ. He quickly stopped responding to invites to 'gatherings'.

[Oodelally]

I thought IQ tests were meant to be really hard and long affairs, but from the sound of it, they sound like the first page of a maths test you’d do in Primary school where you’d have to do 10 questions that the teacher reads out and have 5 minutes to do.