I know I said I would analyze commenter “Animekitty” and it would have made for a fascinating topic, however this commenter strikes me as a very nice sensitive soul who has been so incredibly open with us, and I don’t want to exploit that just to increase the readership of my blog, so there are no plans to discuss him.
Meanwhile I do have future plans to estimate the IQ of Clark Ashton Smith and I received a request to estimate the IQ of Tim Leary.
How about just a paragraph or two 🙂
Personal information excluded maybe.
I would like to be placed in a historical context.
Like in the movie “a beautiful mind.”
Or perhaps more like Daniel Tammet.
I am most interested in the phenotype expression.
The way I am now and how things could have been different.
The best case situation, where I could have benefited the most.
Mostly why so high in verbal and spacial.
It does not bother me that I have functional Holes in my brain.
But it does bother me that I do not know what that means as a potential.
P = G + E
Early Americans came from groups devoted to the Protestant work ethic.
My maternal Grandmother came from Montana. (her birth place)
(HBD) – Self selection and migration since 1620.
How about just a paragraph or two
I don’t know about a whole paragraph. Maybe a sentence. 🙂
You have good judgment Pumpkin, so I’ll go with you on this. I don’t think animekitty’s life circumstances can be fully understood thru a simple IQ analysis, to be honest.
And as a reminder to myself (especially) and everyone on here, it’s probably not good to put too much personally identifying info on here; not that any of the regular commenters here are nefarious enough to do something with the info, but it’s just good to stay private on the Internet. I know that sounds like common sense but it never hurts restating.
Anyhow, Looking forward to Ashton Smith!
May I ask you to estimate some unknown poor Ruskie’s VCI , using his performance on The WAIS III ( Information, Similarities and Vocabulary subtests)? 🙂
I say ‘estimate’ becouse his Vocabulary score is not known for sure.
because*
Okay I’m willing to do that
Thank you, PP, really…
-Mr X did one mistake on Inf,
– once he said something weird, away from the manual examples, on Sim, so it means 0 of possible 2 scores for the item, all the others were done flawless
– but if we look at Voc, the result is unknown
A 41-year-old who misses 1 raw point on Information and 2 raw points on Similarities gets scaled score of 17 and 15 respectively on the WAIS-III
The sum of these two tests is 32. Since the Verbal Comprehension index is based on 3 tests, it might be okay to prorate and estimate he would have got a sum of 48 had all 3 subtest been given.
48 equates to a verbal comprehension IQ of 136
Of course the WAIS-III is outdated, so anyone tested today on it would have their IQ inflated by old norms
Thank you, PP, really…
-Mr X did one mistake on Inf,
– once he said something weird, away from the manual examples, on Sim, so it means 0 of possible 2 scores for the item, all the others were done flawless
– but if we look at Voc, the result is unknown
his English did not let him recognize many of the words, and I know, that if we use say, on-line translators, the translation would be easier than the English original text/words – long explanations here, we would have to discuss 3-strata vs 2-strata structures of synonyms in both languages, differences in usage of Latin and Greek
morphemes etc, etc
But we know that he tend to make the same number of mistakes as he did on the Russian edition of ‘old ” WAIS ( 1 mistake on Inf, 1 fully missed item on Sim) – 3 years ago or so.
Since we know that he got 2 scores for all the words but two (1 out 2 and 1 out 2 = 2 scores minus-,on the Russian WAIS ,like D.Seligman on WAIS-R), I dare to speculate that his performance on the WAIS-III could be the same.
– he was 41 years of age at the moment
What are his scaled scores for the subtests, and , if we know the sum of those scores, what is his VCI
his English did not let him recognize many of the words, and I know, that if we use say, on-line translators, the translation would be easier than the English original text/words – long explanations here, we would have to discuss 3-strata vs 2-strata structures of synonyms in both languages, differences in usage of Latin and Greek
morphemes etc, etc
But we know that he tend to make the same number of mistakes as he did on the Russian edition of ‘old ” WAIS ( 1 mistake on Inf, 1 fully missed item on Sim) – 3 years ago or so.
Since we know that he got 2 scores for all the words but two (1 out 2 and 1 out 2 = 2 scores minus-,on the Russian WAIS ,like D.Seligman on WAIS-R), I dare to speculate that his performance on the WAIS-III could be the same.
He was 41 years of age at the moment
What are his scaled scores for the subtests, and , if we know the sum of those scores, what is his VCI
)))) Sorry, got into time loop )))
And – yes – The Wais was translated in Russian in like the 1970s, with the biggest changes in the Information subtest and stimuli for the Picture Completion subtest. We have the second revision of the Information now.This is not my fantasy or spying , PP 😉
Thank you very much, PP
I’d be interested in seeing an analysis of the IQs of the 20th century’s most influential leaders, including Mao, Stalin, Reagan and Thatcher.
Oh, and if you have the chance, an analysis of Bill Buckley would be lovely as well.
I’ll add all the people you mentioned to the very long waiting list 🙂
And that’s all I can ask. Thanks a million.