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If you could, would you sell your IQ points?
This is a debate several severs at my job have been discussing.
If it was possible to sell an IQ point would you? lets say they will give you $1000 per point.
How many would you sell?
And yes everyone has different IQs so some people could obviously afford to get rid of more before becomming an idiot, but still.
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Mar-21-2008, 23:33
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Of course NOT! Being intelligent is priceless!
Would you sell your hands, your eyes, or your legs for any amount of money?
But... if anyone were interested in selling me their IQ points, maybe we can get a deal... even cause someone dumb enough to sell IQ would be very easy to fool...
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No way! I need them both! 
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Here are the old IQ Range Classification terms, no longer used:
70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot
So, if you start out with an IQ of 119, you could make 100,000 if you are willing to become an idiot.
Seems that there are a lot of people with IQ's of 119 and above that already ARE "idiots". 
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I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.
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I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.
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We already knew that. 
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Mar-24-2008, 14:28
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Ahh the fine line between self-deprecating humor and insults seems to fall somewhere past about that 130 mark...
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Ahhhhhhh it was a joke was it! I didn't pick up on that one, probably since as i say I don't use my lower IQ points so much. 
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If the price was 100k per point, I might sell a couple, but not under that.
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no, straight up lol
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I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.
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Well... most people has an IQ lower than 130, and does almost everything with it, like eating, driving, having sex, talking, working, etc etc...
So, if you sold your IQ points below it, the only things you would be able to do are the ones which use the IQ points higher than this, like playing chess, doing some heavy math, maybe computer programming... and nothing else... not even shitting...
Are you sure you still would sell it? 
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Hmmm I don't think so. I like learning and I value my intelligence.
But maybe if you make the price much, MUCH higher per IQ point. Like 3,000,000 per point. Then I'd sell one or two IQ points. But no more than that.
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Blahaha
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I was gonna say I need the last one but that was good
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Not a single one!
I work at a school and my brain is my livelihood! I match wits with kids every day! I can't afford to lose a single point!
Also, IQ is only one measure of "intelligence". There is "book smart", "street smart" and "social skills" smart, to name a few. Most of us are either "math people" or "language people"- in other words, more intelligent in one area than in another.
And there's "Earth wise"- able to make use of what is around you without destroying things. And many of us know that "heart wise" person- the one everyone talks to because they always make us feel better.
There are the "idiot savants"/ child prodigies- people who are brilliant in one narrow area while being normal to low IQ in all others. "Intelligence" is a "slippery fish" of a concept.
My brother defines (our) excessively high IQ as a form of mental illness- and in some ways, he is right. It does warp you. I was the precocious 10 year old who felt more comfortable talking with adults, preferably, well educated adults. One of the main reasons I was initially interested in my husband was that he knew who Utnapishtem was and had heard of genetic crossover.  (Yeah, I was THAT geeky!)
We all have our strengths and weaknesses in all of the many facets of intelligence...however you define it. Ideally, we should all be both teachers and students, since none of us knows it all! - Granny  (well medicated tonight!)
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I'd happily sell mine, though I don't know what I would spend my $500 on.
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See I agree w/ storm crow here in the sense that its only a measure of smarts and not actual smarts. For only $1000/point I probably wouldn't sell any but if you offer me 10k/point I would instantly sell two of them and pay off all my student loans. That sounds like a pretty smart idea to me, I hope I don't forget it after I sell my point
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Would you donate some of your IQ points to George W Bush if you thought it might make the bastard see sense?
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sell IQ points
Ya mean BOTH of them?!
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I would give away 10-20 if I could. A little at a time until I foudn a sweet spot. I have trouble talking to people and get frustrated when they don't understand me. From what I have learned, once you have a large enough gap communication becomes a problem b/c the people don't grapple with ideas in the same way.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coelho
Well... most people has an IQ lower than 130, and does almost everything with it, like eating, driving, having sex, talking, working, etc etc...
So, if you sold your IQ points below it, the only things you would be able to do are the ones which use the IQ points higher than this, like playing chess, doing some heavy math, maybe computer programming... and nothing else... not even shitting...
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But eating having sex and shitting are all part of instinct, which i don't think is too closely tied with your IQ considering some creatures without brains perform these tasks on some level. Although giving up all those IQ points would probably cause a loss in the human ability to reason, which would suck balls.
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