What are your credentials and what's your IQ?

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Straight forward question.

At best the OP gets some data that doesn't help on his/her journey. At worst, people take the opportunity to brag about their IQs.

Personally, I wasn't bragging so much as pooing all over the original poster's silly and useless question in the most polite and substantive way possible. :D

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I am really enjoying these responses so I thank the OP for posting the question.

:D:lol2:

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My husband is a psychologist and he gave me an IQ test a long time ago. I didn't trust his scoring so I went back and found out he had made a mistake. The mistake I corrected ended up increasing my score by 2 points and pushed me up into the next intelligence bracket, LOL! I joke with him all the time about how I had to correct his IQ test scoring :jester: and then give him grief for "now who's the smartest person in the house?" :yeah:

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My IQ is 7 1/2.... oh wait, that's my shoe size.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.
My IQ is 7 1/2.... oh wait, that's my shoe size.

At least you know THAT!:D

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Specializes in Hospice.
this is the same member who started the thread, 're: iq of a bsn', which is in the gen'l nsg forum if you want to read it. (it's a short thread.:cool:)

leslie

Nah ... thanks, but this original post is looking SDN-ish and I'd just as soon stay out of trouble.

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.
this is the same member who started the thread, 're: iq of a bsn', which is in the gen'l nsg forum if you want to read it. (it's a short thread.:cool:)leslie

Nah ... thanks, but this original post is looking SDN-ish and I'd just as soon stay out of trouble.

I was getting the feel that this was a little troll-like. The thumbs-down icon marking the start of this thread is contemptuous...I gave him benefit of the doubt and tried to address the focus of what was being asked in all his posts. There doesn't seem to be much participation after he starts a thread so I'm a little skeptical.

We'll see I guess...

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Really? This again? There is a whole other thread about the IQ of a BSN that the OP started. There are 30+ replies there...much like the replies here. So I'm wondering...are you not getting the responses you want on the other thread so you started the same thread again?

Here's your definitive answer: It doesn't matter!!! My grandmother was a genius...had a genius IQ, but could not handle the stresses of college and dropped out. My cousin barely graduated highschool and is working on his masters degree. IQ does not necessarily correlate to success...

How hard you are willing to work DOES.

So, how hard are you willing to work? I really think you are focusing on the wrong aspects of a career in nursing. Look up program requirements and see if you think you can do the work.

If IQ mattered, every college program in the country would require you to inform them of yours. They don't care...they only care about the results you can produce.

I have 2 bachelors degrees and have no idea of my IQ. I do, however, know my shoe size if that would help. It's just as arbitrary....

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Plain old, very old, Diploma nurse. IQ tested in 7th or 8th grade. That would be maybe 1964 or 65. So if it was in the 130's then, what does it really matter? Both of my boys tested in the 160's. One was a National Merit Scholarship winner and did very well in HS and college. The other has ADD, and barely made it through HS, and then flunked out of college in his first semester.

BTW - I was known as a 'party girl' in nursing school, but did very well all through, and got really good grades on my 'boards' as it was known then. Mostly in the 600's.

But what does it really matter???

Nursing is much more than just smarts; it is learning to trust your instincts, develop rapport with total strangers in a matter of moments, putting together puzzles without all of the pieces, and yes, sometimes it is doing the math!!!

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Specializes in Cardiology and ER Nursing.

I have an IQ of 0 and a Doctorate from Clown University: School of Hard Knocks.

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Plain old, very old, Diploma nurse. IQ tested in 7th or 8th grade. That would be maybe 1964 or 65. So if it was in the 130's then, what does it really matter? Both of my boys tested in the 160's. One was a National Merit Scholarship winner and did very well in HS and college. The other has ADD, and barely made it through HS, and then flunked out of college in his first semester.

BTW - I was known as a 'party girl' in nursing school, but did very well all through, and got really good grades on my 'boards' as it was known then. Mostly in the 600's.

But what does it really matter???

Nursing is much more than just smarts; it is learning to trust your instincts, develop rapport with total strangers in a matter of moments, putting together puzzles without all of the pieces, and yes, sometimes it is doing the math!!!

The odds of two people in one house both having IQs of over 160 seems almost impossible - I kind of question the testing. If it is true I am guessing you are harassed by researchers wanting to study your kids. An IQ of 156 is in the 99.991st percentile and an IQ of 170 is in the 99.999th percentile so the 160s fall in there. To have both your kids test higher than 99.995% of the population is pretty rare

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.
I have an IQ of 0 and a Doctorate from Clown University: School of Hard Knocks.

:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah:

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