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30,000 words. Most likely below average which is to be expected from people like us.
It's over 9000!
24,200
14 200
20,800. I tried to err on the side of caution w/ those words that bring up certain images or ideas but I wasn't totally sure about. I think this is kind of a bad test for that reason...sometimes I've thought I've known the meaning of a word but was wrong.
28,900. idk.
I am fine with this result. I know how to use a thesaurus and a dictionary. :D I have been trying to pay more attention to repeating some words over and over in all my posts. Especially "I guess", "like" and "though".
Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
26,600
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i might've done this i think. I wasn't in the mood to pay careful attention.
Edit: what also makes these estimations hard is that i can't necessarily give a definition to any given word, but when i'm in the midst of conversation i find i can use words i had either forgotten or didn't realize i knew. It's more like my vocabulary is more contextual.
Edit2: retook it and paid more attention to whether i could give specific definitions or not and got 26,400 so... not that big of a difference. Whatever.
31400 much smaller than I thought
Taking this initially compelled me to expand my vocabulary, but, outside of telling people my vocabulary count or passive aggressively belittling someone by using words that they aren't likely to know, I can't think of a practical reason to do so lol. If I don't know a word, it's probably because I have never heard it, which means it is unlikely that I will ever have a use for it lol
22500 lol
83% on contra's test.
22,900
This test is kind of dumb because the harder words it asks about are words often used in fiction, especially older fiction, which I don't read. I prefer to read non-fiction anyway, and if I do read fiction it's never from the 19th century or before and tends to be very recent.
Knowing some antiquated words that are not used in conversation and are barely even used in academia is kinda pointless.
31.9k
Here is another test. It gives you a percent instead, which isn't as interesting.
http://vocabulary.ugent.be/
I got 77%
19900, I am impressed..
PS 73%
15.800
21,600...seems about right.
80% on contras
29,700
the last row was like it was just making up gibberish :rolleyes:
(and 84% on the other one)
"You said yes to 89% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 89% - 0% = 89%."
Am I the only one that took this and thought, "wtf is with all the pirate words?" Lol
And high IQ people are better equipped to adapt; it's easier to dumb yourself down than to emulate people that are above your level of intelligence. Even average IQ people are likely to have only a vague recollection of their milieu's linguistic palette, and hence stumble over some basic constructs when put on the spot, something which rarely happens to people with high verbal IQs that aren't on the autism spectrum.
Well, I would agree that intelligence relates to adaptability, but not necessarily I.Q.
Portions of I.Q. tests use Ne/Ti, which are the most common stereotypes of I.Q. and I.Q. test questions. You have portions that are Visual-Spatial, which is most likely Si/Te. The Verbal portions, if present, are most likely Fi/Ne, or at least I am inclined to think that communication skills are Fi/Ne. The verbal intelligence tests are spoken by administrators. From what I can recall, my Verbal was the lowest on my original I.Q. test, but I was partially deaf at the time (test actually lead to hearing/speech treatments) and had to use visual/emotional cues to attempt to comprehend what was being asked when I couldn't hear. Later on my behaviors inversed once hearing was corrected.
I don't think I've ever met an intelligent person who seemed like they would score low on an IQ test, although that judgment is likely colored by confirmation bias. But theoretically, assuming no legitimate extenuating circumstances, how can someone with a severely limited vocabulary and capacity for abstract reasoning, poor long-term memory, poor spatial skills and meager fluid intelligence be considered objectively intelligent?
I think I'm good at identifying savants; e.g. Kanye West is musically talented and occasionally says things that are 'deep' and 'insightful', but I consider him to be of average intelligence at best. High IQ people rarely chimp out the way he does.
No, link?
You can google Guilford's Structure of Intellect. Lots of pics too.
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/t...-intellect.png
http://www.pearsoned.ca/highered/div...ations/t24.gif
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/guilf...ster-1-638.jpg
Size of my vocabulary depends on wich English-Russian vocabulary application i'm using in this moment. :)
20,900
A few of the words I could have used in a sentence with ease, but honestly wouldn't have known what I was saying.
This guy's pretty prolix @Starfall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rI7xODbdsk
His IQ is probably 140+.
http://i.imgur.com/QONVIyz.gif?noredirect
IQ Scores & Ratings
What is a good IQ score? What is a high IQ score? What is a low IQ score? These are common questions, particularly after someone finds out their score from an IQ test.
Lewis Terman (1916) developed the original notion of IQ and proposed this scale for classifying IQ scores:
- Over 140 - Genius or near genius
- 120 - 140 - Very superior intelligence
- 110 - 119 - Superior intelligence
- 90 - 109 - Normal or average intelligence
- 80 - 89 - Dullness
- 70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency
- Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness
Normal Distribution & IQ Scores
The properties of the normal distribution apply to IQ scores:
- 50% of IQ scores fall between 90 and 110
- 70% of IQ scores fall between 85 and 115
- 95% of IQ scores fall between 70 and 130
- 99.5% of IQ scores fall between 60 and 140
Low IQ & Mental Retardation
5% of people have an IQ under 70 and this is generally considered as the benchmark for "mental retardation", a condition of limited mental ability in that it produces difficulty in adapting to the demands of life.
Severity of mental retardation can be broken into 4 levels:
- 50-70 - Mild mental retardation (85%)
- 35-50 - Moderate mental retardation (10%)
- 20-35 - Severe mental retardation (4%)
- IQ < 20 - Profound mental retardation (1%)
High IQ & Genius IQ
Genius IQ is generally considered to begin around 140 to 145, representing ~.25% of the population (1 in 400). Here's a rough guide:
- 115-124 - Above average (e.g., university students)
- 125-134 - Gifted (e.g., post-graduate students)
- 135-144 - Highly gifted (e.g., intellectuals)
- 145-154 - Genius (e.g., professors)
- 155-164 - Genius (e.g., Nobel Prize winners)
- 165-179 - High genius
- 180-200 - Highest genius
- >200 - "Unmeasurable genius"
More notes on High IQ and Genius IQ:
- Einstein was considered to "only" have an IQ of about 160.
- Mensa is a society for people with high IQ, in the top 2% (1 in 50).
- In 1926, psychologist Catherine Morris Cox published a study "of the most eminent men and women" who had lived between 1450 and 1850 to estimate what their IQs might have been.
- Go to Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses.
The 120-135 range would be ideal for me.