Are there any true geniuses here? (IQ over 155)

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That's not a bad thing to say in front of children. Our government used to make us crawl under our desks once a week or so to prepare for the big bomb to drop and vaporize everything in sight so many of us have grown up with this vivid image in our minds. In between bomb drills we'd get shown films of poor Japenese kids with their flesh flaiing off their arms and the desolation of cities flattened to the ground and then pictures of happy smiling men carrying gieger counters wearing the bright yellow CD helments. It was just a normal part of post world war life in America and a few other countries.

As I said. This type of exposure to atomic war was a normal part of growing up for many of us and the programs were designed by our govenrment and our educational system. I haven't seen any educators call the programs abnormal or socialopathic.

Here's a couple links to some of the milder types of movies we were shown in grade school. Mass destruction on a global scale was no big deal to post war children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHj15wVXec&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V47Qs9Eyus

Garyww, I am not going to muddle things like so many do on the internetz, but it's a fact...sociopaths do not care what happens. They are selfish, only care about themselves. They don't like their own lives much, are self loathing, so they say, "I'm fine with genocide, wars, tear gas, murders" It's sociopathic. It's plain to see to anyone who isn't a sociopath.

Its ok. I learned about ti in school. Well with wars and genocide and stuff.

I didn't mean to give you the impression that I agree with the government of school system. I do think both institutions are very sick and routinely mistreat the general public I just meant to show you that we were trained to accept these horrors as being a normal part of daily living.

Since the most used IQ test around here (and elsewhere?) is the Wechsler's that has a ceiling score of 145, there won't be any geniuses of 155+ tested with that prominent IQ test.

0% geniuses.

I also think it's absolutely pointless to ask as if IQ scores beyond 130 meant anything.

Samples of pretty much all modern IQ tests for those with a higher score than 130 are too small to validate IQ scores of above 130.

It was horrific to see the photographs of people who had been electrocuted when trying to cross train tracks, i saw that at school. Im scared of train tracks i stay well away from them.
Ignorance is a bad thing i try explain in detail anything my son asks about that way he can make good choices in the future or help other peoples.
He knows about global warming it frightening but he has a scientific mind, hes already making inventions and ideas.

I entirely agree with those who have said that IQ tests are a good way of measuring the ability of people who are good at IQ tests.

I joined Mensa about 30 years ago, at the time when I was going through the rigmarole of finding "out of school activities" to put on university application forms when I didn't actually do anything aside from schoolwork and researching what were then my special interests. I got a really great score, in the top few percent of Mensa members, but I've singularly failed to go on and change the world. I've also only ever managed to go to two Mensa meetings...