Just curious, How often? what the subject? Where did you pick up the habit? Also, what would you characterise your IQ as. I've always (since 3rd grade) loved to read, far more than watch TV. I read on average 3 novels a week, usually science fiction. I used to also read a lot of fantasy but I've lost my taste for it in the last 10 years. When I ran out of things to read I've even starting reading the encyclopedia (I made it to "Ge" before I went to the library) I believe it came from my mother giving me a book called "Tell me why" when I was very young. I would characterize my IQ as fairly above average.
Due to the internet, I don't read books as often as I used to. Reason being that I can do all that reading online due to numerous historical and educational websites and e-books. I still read a good book every now and then although I tend to do so in spurts. Sometimes I can read just one book a month, sometimes I can read none, and others I can read four or five. When I was a kid, I used to read fantasy novels about wizards, dragons, and all that jazz. Now I tend to stick with non-fiction -- mainly ancient history -- as if I'm going to read something, it may as well be informational. If I want fiction, I can just watch a movie. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy has given me hope of movies being equal or sometimes better than a fictional book. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Currently I'm reading 1984 again, for obvious reasons, as well as The Secrets of Judas which is about the recent findings of the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. As for my IQ, uh, I've no idea. I'll just say that I'm "aware", and that's all that really matters to me, especially at this point in time. - N
Usually a math book or a thought-provoking book on human psychology. I picked up the math book thing by finding out in 8th grade I was not actually stupid in math (which I thought was the case in the past). I was fueled by fellow students that were impressed with my abilities but after years of it I became tired of people only wanted to talk to me when they wanted help with math. A friend of mine decided just to pay me to do his calculus homework because he knew I would not bother teaching him. I even had a roommate that offered to pay me 300$ to take a course for him in college. I turned it down because it was just an algebra class and I told him I am sure the professors will recognize me from their other courses. Verbal... 105.. math/logic/spatial.. 145. Enough "home testing" and considerations of the inaccuracy of doing so (reading characteristics of those within certain ranges) lead to believe this is the case. I threw out scores that said I was 150-160 that weights in verbal/non-verbal together... those together I am 127 or so. I tried to read the encyclopedia once when I was 11 or so.. I stopped after B because I found it boring... nothing but facts. Facts bore me... I guess that is because I am INTP Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
not as much these days, due to work. I read roughly 1 fantasy/sci fi/horror novel every 5 months I used to read one a week. My parents encouraged reading. the official tests I have taken show an average 156. HOWEVER, IQ tests are heavily biased towards your society and education. So a high IQ is often more a measure of your level of western education. There are some tests designed to be a test of your pattern recorgnition and deduction abilities - they are seeing more common usage, thankfully. I like "Tell Me Why". Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/08...f=pd_bbs_1/104-9053819-7261532?_encoding=UTF8 If your mother is still around, be sure to thank her.
Sci fi, fantasy, historical fiction, daily newspaper, libertarian-oriented magazines. I do almost all of my reading while on public transportation including airliners. Besides the paper I read about one book and three magazines a month. My IQ is around 140.
I wish I was into fictional books... my abilities to visualize amaze me.. everything I read I automatically form a vivid picture. I guess this would be great for things like sci-fi but I am just plain not interested Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! My brain is going to waste Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Hey another INTP! cool, not many of us around. Even though I'm almost perfectly balanced between ISTP and INTP. BTW, outside of this forum why is it so hard to find somebody to talk to about things? Couple weeks ago I tried to start up a conversation in the smokers pit at work about collapsed matter, everybody looked at me like I was growing a third eye on my forehead and I quickly dropped it. seems every time I try to talk about things that are of interest to me that happens, how about you? I've got a really good spatial visualizing ability too, when I'm bored I stare at a wall and build cities and their subsystems in my head.
I read almost every day. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever interests me. Right now it happens to be The Sot-weed factor by John Barth. I almost always give a book twenty five million second chances and try to go through it til the end; one of the very few I had to give up on was Possession by Byatt, it was just unbearably boring. I'm not sure about the relation between books and IQ. I know people who don't read much but are pretty sharp and considered intelligent. I think one might gain knowledge from reading books but knowledge is not intelligence.
I don't see how that could be considering that most tests are done in childhood...and the fact that orientals (on average) do better on western designed tests than westerners. As for the question: I don't read too many novels, but I like H.P. Lovecraft's short stories and letters. I read mostly news, tech info and history books. I have no idea what my IQ is.
lol i feel the exactly the same. i can see the world the author paints perfectly, as though i'm there, but fiction in general tends to bore me. and sci fi, forget it. never been a sci fi/fantasy fan. charles bukowski is one i can get on board with for fiction. i've enjoyed his books. other than that, i try to read classics if i find the plot somewhat interesting (i.e. really enjoyed dante's inferno). mostly i read nonfiction. i've read a lot of true crime and psyhology. lately i don't read as much because i have a concentration issue. i pick up a book and end up staring at the wall lost in my head somewhere lol i am working through two books right now (rather slowly): the moral animal and the bio of watson and crick by watson. and i have a pile of books on animals and cognition (i.e. apes, dolphins) that i can't wait to get to. as far as iq...i don't believe in it. sure some people have higher capacities for mental functioning (those not suffering from brain injuries or born with a disorder of some sort), but in general i believe everyone is above average or near genius at the things that interest them, and everyone has difficulties with grasping some material. quantum physics doesn't come easy for me, but i have no doubt that if i work at it, i can wrap my brain around it. not all of it lol i think you're only as intelligent as you think you are or trust yourself to be.
I had a friend tell me to NOT visualize Einstein riding a beam of light. Before I fully comprehended his sentence, I say Einstein riding a rocket that glided across the light beam, waves and all. Stars, planets, his weird hair.. everything. I would not doubt the IQ tests all together. I a sure we can all agree that they measure SOMETHING that deals with intelligence. Try to find me an example of a slight mentally challenged guy that can score at least 120.
If an "Oriental" is taking a Western-designed test, then they have likely spent most of their education obsessively studying European/American literature, philosophy, poetry, etc etc. And that alone does not make them intelligent, so you see the point being made.
No, these subjects don't form a huge part of Japanese or Korean education. Besides, most tests are taken in childhood, before high school.
