kronk said:
I think overall your statement is accurate. However, you are mistaken if you say that anyone who says this is full of shit.
At 5 I tested 157, at 14 I tested 152, and at 23 I tested 156. All were professional tests. The first two when I was young had to do with my parents divorce and other things with school, I was tested at a professional facility. The one I took in law school, I took for other reasons. I wanted to make sure all that pot I smoked, did make me stooooopid.
Kronk, those are awesome scores. You're definitely the creme de la creme.
Here's something for you to think about that might shock you a little about the deterioration of your intelligence quotient. At age five, you probably took the Stanford-Binet test. That test is kind of the benchmark for child intelligence testing. That is/was probably your true IQ.
Now, David Wechsler sought to remove some of the linguistic and cultural biases of that test and thus was born the Wechsler Adult Intelliegence Scale, and the Wechlser Intelligence Scale for Children.
Now, in law school, you weren't given the Stanford Binet, you were probably given the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, on which you scored a still impressive 156. However, the WAIS is criticized for producing inflated scores, or rather scores that produce an inaccurate and non "apples-to-apples" comparison with the Stanford-Binet.
One reason that IQ scores of adults can't be accurately compared to those of children is that the three year difference in IQ from age 27-30 is totally different from the three year difference in IQ between ages 7-10.
So, it stands to reason that you should have scored higher (perhaps significantly) as an adult taking the Wechsler than you would have as a child taking the Stanford-Binet.
So, to make a long story short, the weed (or some other factor) has made you stupid over the years.