Day: December 11, 2010

So says Dr Daniel Goleman. More of that later. Intelligence has been the subject of hot debates. Each time some psychologist tried to settle the debate by designing a defining test that showed how to check for intelligence, there would be another wave of research that showed how flawed the test was. What is then a good measure of intelligence? Ask Mensa – the  high Intelligence Quotient society. Membership of Mensa is open to persons who have attained a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test that has been properly administered and supervised. If you are curious to know the kind of questions that Mensa uses to test for intelligence, you can take a workout – not the actual test on their site just to see if you can crack those 30 questions in 30 minutes (try the Mensa workout). If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages in six minutes? Is the answer 3, 4, 6, 12 or 36? The average person’s IQ is 100, college grads usually fare better at 120 and the Mensa candidates usually have their IQ at 130+. The highest ever recorded IQ is 195 for Chris Langan – a score that only 1 in 100 million humans have that score. Chris never finished college and worked as a bar bouncer in New York. (more…)