HOW SMART IS SMART - WHAT IS AN ALIEN'S IQ LEVEL?
How about if our visitors were kicking a 500 level IQ in the butt
on average?
By, Greg Boone
I'm fortunate to be able to dialogue with scientists about intelligence, the new techniques in education and the levels of intelligence of ourselves and the creatures of the wild.
We've discovered recently that some animals can perform mental tasks better than we can. So that brought me to ask how smart might our UFO visitors be?
Some state on average using IQ tests that our genius levels begin at 136 on the scale. Some say higher around 165. Stil others claim IQs in the low 200 range. It's a highly debatable realm and even our smartest people on Earth have problems with their computers sometimes or trying to put together that complicated Christmas toy for their kids.
Since toilet paper wasn't invented until the mid to late 1800s after tens of thousands of years of human civilization - I could never figure out how the Egyptians could design the great pyramids but not the toilet and toilet paper - I would assume we're not the brightest tools in the shed. Are we so preoccupied with the violent survival of our world that such advances as air conditioning and pocket lighters could have emerged earlier or are we just inherently mentally challenged in lieu of our hormones?
How smart? How about if our visitors were kicking a 500 level IQ in the butt on average? How much control, powers of deception could they possess and engage in? Our meager attempts at communication and contact might be akin to some unfortunate dullard of the town fool fame. We need to pack our arrogance up and realize we may not be anywhere near the neighborhood of intelligence of other life forms out here that we theorize are visiting us and to the abductees not theory but fact.
Let your imaginations soar on this one. It might explain some phenomena associated with UFOs. Mind you, super intelligence doesn't mean perfection or sanity. It means problem solving on levels that minimize risk and loss. What those risks and losses are, are relative but to each his own.
Me, I gauge intelligence on how much crap one doesn't step in and if one does
how fast do you get rid of the stink.
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I don't think it's that simple to quantify (intelligence). I find IQ tests to be flawed. They do not, in any way show us the probable genius of someone who has poor math skills but can paint a masterpiece. In the same vein, since we can never fully equate human intelligence with a test score, how can we claim to do so in comparison to other intelligences? Perhaps extraterrestrials, should they exist, don't see intelligence the way we do. That coupled with the probability that biology may make their kind of intelligence highly incomparable to ours is something to think about. Egypt has not been fully excavated so we have no idea if they invented toilet paper seeing as they would have had to invent the machines to produce toilet paper as well. That's not to say some ancient egyptian engineer didn't jot down specs in his/her journal. I can just as readily use a leaf like any other person which makes toilet paper a convenience and highly insignificant when you contend with the great pyramid.
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IQ is not an appropriate scale for measuring intelligence. IQ only measures the rarity of a particular score on a particular test in a particular population. (Different tests and populations are pretty well correlated, though.) IQ assumes a Gaussian "bell curve" distribution of scores and arbitrarily assigns a mean of 100 to the population and a standard deviation of 15 points. This means that about 2/3 of the population will score between 85 and 115. All this is assumed from the beginning, not observed. Since the IQ score only measures the assumed frequency that scores occur in the population, an IQ point is not a unit of intelligence, it is a statistical unit equivalent to 1/15 of a standard deviation. The distribution of raw scores in the population does not conform to the bell curve - there are more high scores than one would expect according to the predictions of the bell curve, therefore the difference between 100 and 110 IQ represents less of a difference in intelligence than between 140 and 150 IQ. IQ is a "rubber ruler" - the marks on the IQ ruler are close together around 100 and more widely spaced the further out you go. For example: an IQ of 140 means 1 in 261 will score at least that high; 150 means 1 in 2,330; 160 means 1 in 31,560; 170 means 1 in 652,598.
To properly measure intelligence, Rasch measures are needed. These are based on the idea that the likelihood of correctly answering a question depends on the the difficulty of the question times the ability of the person answering it. This type of measure is used as an additional score on the Stanford-Binet 5th revision (the current version of a famous IQ test).
This "change sensitive score" or CSS is set so that an average 10 year-old would score 500. That is the only choice in setting up the scale. Everything else is determined by testing out a large pool of questions on a large population.
On the CSS scale an average 2.25 year old scores 435; age 16 and up scores average 510. The scale seems rather compressed and scores level off quickly with age, but this is just the reality of human intelligence.
Unlike IQ, each point on the CSS scale is the same size. Also CSS has a meaningful zero point - it is an absolute measure, like the Kelvin measure of temperature which has an absolute zero. Only on such a scale can one say that one person is twice as intelligent as another.
The highest CSS seen in the norming sample for the SB5 was 592 (= IQ of ~150-160.)
You could say the high scorer is only about 15% smarter than the average person, but on the other hand, you could say that the difference in scores is greater between the high scorer and the average person than between
the average person and a 2 year-old.
[Source: "SB5 Assessment Service Bulletin #3" Deborah Ruf / Riverside Publishing]
Aliens with the technology to visit earth could have CSS scores well over 600- there is no theoretical limit- perhaps they could even be twice as intelligent on an absolute scale.
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