If you score below 145 on an IQ test, you really shouldn't be in STEM

>The MEDIAN score was 152, and that's AFTER excluding the physical scientists from the math portion on the basis that it would be too easy for them.

math master race

!!! STOP REPEATING THE FEYNMAN 125 NONSENSE !!!

Everyone always talks about Feynman's modest grade school IQ score of 124. To understand this score we have to remember that typical IQ tests (e.g., administered to public school children) tend to have low ceilings. They are not of the kind that Roe used in her study.

One can imagine that the ceiling on Feynman's exam was roughly 135 (say, 99th percentile). If Feynman received the highest score on the mathematical portion, and a modest score of 115 on the verbal, we can easily understand the resulting average of 124.

However, it is well known that Feynman was extremely strong mathematically. He was asked on short notice to take the Putnam exam for MIT as a senior, and received the top score in the country that year! On Roe's test Feynman's math score would presumably have been > 190, with a correspondingly higher composite IQ.

Also, the fact that everyone ALWAYS brings up ONE PHYSICIST'S IQ as evidence of a supposedly lower IQ threshold in physics should be a big fucking red flag.

It doesn't fucking matter. 1 in 1,000 is still 1 in 1,000, regardless of the generation. The market hasn't changed that much that suddenly 1 in 10 (corresponding to an IQ of 120) can become scientists. It just doesn't work that way. If anything the threshold is higher because of international competition.

Hypothesis here.

Most preeminent scientists have inflated egos to match. I have to imagine that these men would either prepare on practice IQ tests (which invalidates the resulting IQ score fyi), or refuse to allow their IQ score to be used in the study if they thought they scored poorly.

>math major
>middle of the pack in classes
>35 math act, 780 math sat

tfw think i may be intelligent but too scared to take an IQ test and be let down

Practicing for IQ tests only lowers your score about 2 to 4 points, unless you study the exact questions that are on the tests. Most such tests are designed to be uncoachable. People spend hours studying for the SAT, but their score increases asymptote after about 60 points.

only increases your score*

Yep

i got both a 97th percentile score and a 99th percentile score on two different mensa tests, do i have to drop my major bcus i'm not in the .01%? rip.