EWolfe Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_detrick Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Don't flatter yourshelf. You can't be intelligent and climb, and if your a iceclimber, forget it, can you say caveman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Dru lied his ass off. And those tests are lame! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrambler Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 This test is even more indicitive of the typical cc.com'er: http://www.sailinganarchy.com/general/2002/cool_test.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I scored 201. Is that good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_harpell Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Take the test again under a pseudonym and deliberately try to flunk, or else answer at random and see what you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plexus Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 you can't score higher than 140-something on that tickle test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 you can't score higher than 140-something on that tickle test dru is an intelectual SNOB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacier Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 135, visionary philosopher - I'm off to philosophize under a tree and get me some followers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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