If you could, would you sell your IQ points?

[Coelho]

But eating having sex and shitting are all part of instinct, which i don't think is too closely tied with your IQ considering some creatures without brains perform these tasks on some level. Although giving up all those IQ points would probably cause a loss in the human ability to reason, which would suck balls.

I know... i was just teasing him

[fenderninja]

wow, what an interesting topic.

I would have to say no. I wouldnt sell my intelligence. I mean, after all that could potentially make me far richer than selling it in the first place. And even if not, i would just hate going through life knowing i could be smarter.

[Mississippi Steve]

Here are the old IQ Range Classification terms, no longer used:

70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot

So, if you start out with an IQ of 119, you could make 100,000 if you are willing to become an idiot.

Seems that there are a lot of people with IQ's of 119 and above that already ARE "idiots". :thumbsup:

I could sell 50 points and be "borderline deficiant", any more than that an I would be a democrat.

[Esoteric416]

No way! I need them both!

That is just too great LMFAO:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Esoteric416]

I don't think id sell any points at only 1k a point, but maybe at 10k+ just a few. That meand id have to sell like 4 or 5 to pay off my student loans. Damn. So at this rate by the time i got a nice house and a sweet car id be too stupid to drive or know what the house key is for. I guess Rebgirl has it right the price would need to be pretty high, at least a few hundred thousand per point.

[cashflow]

maybe if I got more than $1000 a point, otherwise if others were selling them that cheap i would buy em up, eventually our world would be idiots and geniuses, lol

[eggrole1]

eventually our world would be idiots and geniuses, lol

So nothing would change?

"UT Austin philosophy professor Louis Mackey argues that the gap between the average person and Plato is greater than the gap between the average person and chimpanzees. True genius, he argues, is rarely achieved, largely because of human laziness."

[TurnyBright]

It would depend on whether someone else would be getting them. I would never sell them if someone was just paying me to destroy my IQ, but I would definitely sell some to a really dumb person to smarten them up.

There could be intelligence drives for the mentally disabled where thousands of people each donate or sell a single one and then all of those could be used to sharpen minds in need.

It would be sweet.

[GreenDestiny]

There's many things to help exercise our brains to operate more efficiently, which in turn can increase our IQ. It's such a relative thing anyways which can fluctuate a bit, so I assume that selling any points will not be permanent.

I'd devise a plan to follow for increasing my IQ before I sell any points. Once the points have been sold, I'll just work towards slowly building up my intelligence.

They'd have to go to someone in much need of increased intelligence.

I think of it this like.... hey, you wouldn't dare to cut off a part of your precious weed plant. But if you do, it can heal and grow back... and that part you cut off can be planted to grow into another healthy plant. We can always breed to make seeds/babies but not every seed will be just like its parents... but those cloned genetics/IQ points will spread the same good stuff to everyone that needs it. or something like that...

anyways, $1,000 isn't much money per point, and $10k is too much. $5,000 sounds reasonable to me for one point. And I'd definitely only sell them one point at a time. Assuming I still have at least 140-150 to start with, it's no problem. I'm afraid to take another test to see if I've naturally gotten any dumber over the years!