Climbers and Intelligence

[EWolfe]

I have long suspected that committed climbers are a wicked smart bunch of people, and being a regular on this board has helped confirm my suspicions.

It seems that there are a combination of elements. The experiential intelligence finds seat in climbing, as well as the enjoyment and challenge of complexity and risk found in higher-thinkers.

 

How smart are climbers?

here's a test

 

 

How do you compare?

here's the chart

 

Discuss.

[Paul_detrick]

Don't flatter yourshelf. You can't be intelligent and climb, and if your a iceclimber, forget it, can you say caveman.

[catbirdseat]

This Tickle test came up some time ago and a bunch of people took it. Dru claimed some outrageously high score that few could believe. What was it Dru? I took the test a month ago and got a 133. Supposedly I did particularly well in geometric and spatial problems.

 

After the test was done they tried to sell me a special report for $15. What a surprise.

[iain]

Dru lied his ass off. And those tests are lame!

[catbirdseat]

Dru would never lie. He's a climber. We depend on a climber's honesty when when he claims a first ascent and his camera doesn't work.

[AlpineK]

I remember that test. That was the final straw for old Tomcat. He blew a fuse when the test said everyone was smarter than him, then he got banned for good

 

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[scrambler]

Yeah I read that second link concerning the use of IQ as a measure of intelligence. I think using IQ as the sole measure of intelligence is old school and unfairly categories a number of people as essentially worthless. I think the article mentioned that some people have such low IQ that they are permanent wards of the state, i.e., welfare whores.

 

A much better assessment was put forth by Martin Gardner who proposed the idea of the existence of multiple intelligences that can be broken down into: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. A climber can have one or more of these separate types of intelligence, e.g., as seen on this board a particular climber may have bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and spatial intelligence but he or she could be seriously lacking the linguistic.

 

howard gardner, multiple intelligences and education

 

Now, morality that's another story...

[DPS]

My wife has said that the posts she reads on this board are moronic and has concluded all climbers are idiots. She scored a 180 on that internet IQ test. She's really, really good at math.

[Doug]

This test is even more indicitive of the typical cc.com'er:

 

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/general/2002/cool_test.htm

[Bronco]

I scored 201. Is that good?

[DPS]

Bronco,

 

That is freakin' amazing! That means you are especially good at taking internet IQ tests! Maybe you should get a job taking internet IQ tests. I hear there is big money in competitive internet IQ test taking.

[scott_harpell]

whad y'all get? i am a 'visionary philosopher' 138. either we are all geniuses or these tests dont mean jack shit! (I think the latter of the two)

[catbirdseat]

Take the test again under a pseudonym and deliberately try to flunk, or else answer at random and see what you get.

[plexus]

or else answer at random and see what you get.

 

Dude!! That's exactly how I took my SATs and ACTs!!! How did you guess?

 

I remember coming out of high school, I got accepted to Northwestern, Kansas, Illinois, CU and offered a partial scholarship to SW Missouri, yet I wasn't qualified for WWU ...such high level of learning up there. I wound up transfering to WWU and I hated that school . Didn't learn a god-damn thing except how to mtn bike on Galbraith.

[sk]

I have to say I did way better than I thought I got a 120. Nomatter how lame the test is it made me feel good

[Dru]

you can't score higher than 140-something on that tickle test

[willstrickland]

I took 4 different tests (2 of them were very similar) this morning, you can maybe guess which was before the coffee:

 

Tickle 138, Danish one 112, Belarus one 146, British one 137.

 

Actually Dru, if you were an 18 year old and answered them all right, I believe you could score over 140. Age is factored in when computing the score.

[sk]

you can't score higher than 140-something on that tickle test

dru is an intelectual SNOB

[Dru]

so if i answer all the same questions in the same way at 12 and at 40, does that mean i'm stupider at 40? cause i'm no longer a precocious imp?

[sk]

so if i answer all the same questions in the same way at 12 and at 40, does that mean i'm stupider at 40? cause i'm no longer a precocious imp?

yep

[Bronco]

Bronco,

 

That is freakin' amazing! That means you are especially good at taking internet IQ tests! Maybe you should get a job taking internet IQ tests. I hear there is big money in competitive internet IQ test taking.

 

Good deal! I just put in my two week notice so I can dedicate my career to taking internet IQ tests!

 

Wait a minute, I just got my confirmation email and it said I only scored 21. I guess the only answer I got right was entering my email address correctly. Oh well, back to the grindstone.

[ken4ord]

you can't score higher than 140-something on that tickle test

 

From the looks of the chart looks like you can't score higher than 200.

[Dru]

it's the same test as the last test and my answers are all the same, but I think it may be a different organization offering it? in any case, they are doing it for the email addresses.

[glacier]

135, visionary philosopher - I'm off to philosophize under a tree and get me some followers.

[chelle]

I want to know more about this intrapersonal intelligence thing... Does that mean that you are completely self aware, or just self centered? The later fits most of the climbers I know.