Could it be possible for most Cubers to have a high IQ?

[Filipe Teixeira]

Is this a true statement made by Stephen Hawking?

You could verify this by yourself by using a quick search

Stephen Hawking: People Who Care About IQ Are Losers

Renowned physicist has died at the age of 76.

www.newsweek.com

 

[KubikPanda]

I got 128, but im 12 yr. I don't really think that's true (sure I'm usually the smartest in my grade but still lol)

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

I was reading 'Cubed' - a semi-autobiographical book about Ernő Rubik's life and the cube. I noticed this-





Ernő Rubik himself affirmed that IQ has no place being associated with intelligence, and certainly not cubing.

 

[Curunír]

I was reading 'Cubed' - a semi-autobiographical book about Ernő Rubik's life and the cube. I noticed this-

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Ernő Rubik himself affirmed that IQ has no place being associated with intelligence, and certainly not cubing.

I looooove that book (though sometimes it can be a bit confusing to read)

 

[Lord_Oscar]

IQ measures a person's reasoning ability.
I would argue that IQ isn't directly correlated in any way to ability to solve a Rubik's Cube, which is obviously just pattern recognition and muscle memory.

I agree with this.

I don’t know much about the measurement of Intelligence Quotient, but I am aware that some people think that IQ is a totally arbitrary measurement of intelligence.

I also don’t approve of the poll - getting people to put their IQ out there, to be taken as an absolute, unchallengeable measurement of their intelligence isn’t a great idea IMO.

 

[THE_V01DL0RD]

Couldn't it be possible for anyone to have a high IQ?

 

[Thomas.Caleb]

My official IQ is 118 im dumb lol

 

[qwr]

As a 2000+ IQ individual, I use 5% of my brainpower at rest to mine crypto

 

[That0newe1rdo]

My official IQ is 118 im dumb lol

Are you sure.

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

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As a 2000+ IQ individual, I use 5% of my brainpower at rest to mine crypto

 

[Clock_Enthusiast]

My official IQ is 118 im dumb lol

I'm a firm believer that IQ scores only measure certain analytical strongsuits, rather than acting as a holistic indicator of overall intelligence. I don't think you should be concerned with any score you get, but if it makes you feel better, scoring 118 puts you more than one full standard deviation above the average score (100 points).

IQ should never be used to quantify one's self-worth, potential for success, or even general intellectual ability. I think it's easy to internalize an IQ score in a community that's highly focused on puzzles and memorization, but it really means nothing.

 

[efattah]

If you can tell when the government, a bank, the media or a pharma company is lying to you, then you have a high IQ. If not, then low IQ.
If you think that we live in a benevolent world, where the above four entities have your best interests in mind, then you have a low IQ.

 

[pTr]

I’m not sure if picking up on social cues directly relates with ones intelligence.

 

[TyRoJo]

Would it be a viable possibility to say that high IQ people are more likely to get into Rubik's cubes in the first place? Unlike something such as, gardening, let's say, where anyone and everyone can garden, perhaps cubing attracts people on the higher-IQ spectrum.

 

[TyRoJo]

I’m not sure if picking up on social cues directly relates with ones intelligence.

Double post but this is where emotional intelligence comes in. Just as important as IQ

 

[xyzzy]

If you can tell when the government, a bank, the media or a pharma company is lying to you, then you have a high IQ. If not, then low IQ.
If you think that we live in a benevolent world, where the above four entities have your best interests in mind, then you have a low IQ.

I like how, given your recent posting history (including your one deleted post in this very thread), it's nearly impossible to tell whether you mean this seriously.

Trust and gullibility are not directly related to intelligence (*); they depend on a combination of possessing a theory of mind and an accurate estimate of how adversarial the other party/parties is/are. Otherwise-intelligent people can be completely lacking on these two fronts, which I guess you could argue makes them less intelligent in a way that isn't measured by typical IQ tests, but then that no longer has anything to do with IQ anymore.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is, lol stop trying to peddle your off-topic conspiracy theories. (this part is an official moderator warning)

(*) There's also a separate debate on whether IQ (as measured by IQ tests?) is a good measure of general intelligence, but that's not what I'm talking about. Intelligence may be too nebulous a concept to meaningfully collapse into a single dimension, anyway.

 

[SpeedCubingLord]

Watch the Veritasium video about IQ. It is actually not very reliable and does not really determine how smart or intelligent.