Well, now I think I've seen everything on DU.

[trotsky]

A person claiming, in all seriousness, to be a space alien with a 180 IQ, is dispensing flu advice and doesn't even know what the word "homeopathic" means.

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

1. Oh my!

:rofl:

[salvorhardin]

2. I love people who say they have IQs that high

It immediately tells me they have no grasp of statistics (certainly not standard deviations or z-scores), or IQ testing. By my back of the envelope calculations there should at most three people alive in the U.S. right this day who have an IQ of 180. I'm pretty darn confident that person isn't one of them. About 99.999999% confident in fact.

[trotsky]

3. See there's the flaw in your calculations.

He isn't a person. He's an alien. Freaking DUH! How many *aliens* in the U.S. today have IQs of 180? Huh, bub??!? I'd wager a guess that it's ALL OF THEM, so suck on that 100% stat you pitiful human! :P

[LeftishBrit]

9. Moreover, just for that reason, the standardized IQ tests do not reliably give IQs over 180...

*Children* could conceivably get that sort of IQ on the old Stanford Binet, which used the method of dividing mental age by chronological age. But most tests now use the normal distribution, with an IQ of 100 representing the mean, and 15 points for every standard deviation above or below the mean (e.g. one standard deviation above = IQ 115; one standard deviation below = 85. They simply do not allow for IQ scores of 180 (5.33 standard deviations above the mean).

Thus anyone, especially an adult, who has genuinely obtained an IQ of 180, must have been using a dubious test; very possibly one on the Internet which had never undergone standardization.

[salvorhardin]

12. Exactly!

That's where I got my 8 nines number from. It's ridiculous to assume any IQ tests are reliable enough to measure out beyond the 5th SD.

I asked our alien friend what he thought the statistical probability of there being anyone with a 180 IQ among DU's ~151,000 registered users but alas the thread was locked before he could demonstrate his ignorance

[charlie]

4. Is it the one who came back from the dead?

The prophet who knows God's first name and talks to Him regularly? Who insists human sacrifice is a constitutionally protected religious right?

If it is, his IQ has dropped by 40 points since the last time he mentioned it.

If it isn't, we've got TWO of them here. We should get them to meet. It would be glorious.

[trotsky]

5. Oh goodness, he didn't say anything about speaking to god.

This could be a different one. I agree, a meeting between them would be a sight to behold.

[TZ]

6. He's a dummy compared to some!

I have it on good authority that a certain poster has an IQ of 220!!! :rofl:
IQ is the internet equivalent of bragging about the size of a certain piece of genitalia if you ask me...:evilgrin:

[charlie]

7. Aha! It IS a different one

(see above)

This is an embarrassment of riches for DU, more than we deserve.

[charlie]

8. I just found him

I wasn't looking for him -- he's in GD baiting the mods and pretty much insulting everyone else with contempt masked as sorrow. One unhappy, wounded camper.

[HuckleB]

10. I don't know about that alien.

Is he a freeper troll? Or just a regular troll? Or in need of a mental health professional? Well, ok, probably at least two of those three are affirmative.

[trotsky]

11. Well he just got tombstoned, so that is that.

How unfortunate I'm the one that ruined our attempt at learning from an advanced alien civilization.

:rofl:

[Warpy]

13. He did put a lot of useful links in another thread

but yeah, he needs to stop telling us how smart he is (it's like trying to tell people how rich or pious you are) and he definitely needs to realize health care isn't his field.

Poor bastard.

[uppityperson]

14. He's gone back to his planet. Checked and he is gone. RIP alien supergenious.

bookmarked the thread though

[SidDithers]

15. If you really want a laugh, check out his youtube videos...

http://www.youtube.com/user/prometheuspan#p/u/19/k6cK5C2btzI

It's about what you have expected.

Sid

[trotsky]

16. Holy. Fucking. Koresh.

He's even more f'ed up than I imagined.

Thanks (I think) for the link! LMAO

[SidDithers]

17. The "singing" was particularly ear-splitting...

I didn't have the stomach to watch any after the first one. :hi:

Sid