# Let's boast about our IQ **URL:** \ **Category:** Not Thrive\ **Created:** [August 4, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201 "2022-08-04T15:52:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/ill_try_at_least/32/14820_2.png) [@Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Ill_try_at_least)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/171 "2025-08-22T11:20:29Z")
Yes, thrive is actually an iq test to determine how good you are at making a species > [@aah31415](#): > > Is it hidden in the game? What scores did it give you? no it’s not real i was just joking ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/172 "2025-08-22T11:21:58Z")
Is it hidden in the game? What scores did it give you? ---
**Author:** ![Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/ill_try_at_least/32/14820_2.png) [@Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Ill_try_at_least)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/173 "2025-08-22T11:23:21Z")
It gives you scores based on how well your creature does ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/174 "2025-08-22T11:25:12Z")
What is the highest score you’ve got? ---
**Author:** ![hhyyrylainen](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/hhyyrylainen/32/32_2.png) [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/175 "2025-08-22T11:25:59Z")
The IQ test is just downloading and playing Thrive, because if you enjoy Thrive then you clearly must have a very high IQ. ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/176 "2025-08-22T11:30:31Z")
I suppose as the development goes on and more stuff there is for people to enjoy, the bar would lower? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/178 "2025-09-01T18:27:04Z")
Maybe consider removing the first two images, the mods might not like them… ---
**Author:** ![AnthropocenianAge](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/anthropocenianage/32/16095_2.png) [@AnthropocenianAge](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/AnthropocenianAge)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/179 "2025-09-01T18:53:27Z")
Was your inputted text taken from the Grand Galaxy of Darkrest? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/180 "2025-09-01T18:54:47Z")
It’s an exact carbon copy so the answer is obvious ---
**Author:** ![hhyyrylainen](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/hhyyrylainen/32/32_2.png) [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/181 "2025-09-01T19:05:34Z")
I deleted a post here as this thread’s quality is somehow getting even worse than it was before… ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/182 "2025-09-01T19:24:36Z")
I told Ill\_try to delete the most offending images of that post but they were too late to the site… ---
**Author:** ![Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/ill_try_at_least/32/14820_2.png) [@Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Ill_try_at_least)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/183 "2025-09-01T20:31:57Z")
Yeah sorry, should I repost my iq score though? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/184 "2025-09-01T20:47:51Z")
Hhyyrylainen seems to not like such low-effort tests, like the one of yours which was a copy-paste. Better be safe than sorry. ---
**Author:** ![TheForumGameMaster](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/theforumgamemaster/32/14212_2.png) [@TheForumGameMaster](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/TheForumGameMaster)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/185 "2025-10-30T00:08:07Z")
I’m going to assume that none of you know about Kim Young-Hoon, who is basically a guy who claims to have an IQ of 276 (SD = 24, so ~210 on the SD = 15 scale most people in the West are familiar with). When I first found out about him, I happened to have just recently deconverted from Christianity after months of relapsed religious OCD (I did have religious OCD a few years ago because I converted in a fear spiral, but it dissipated when I eventually thought about religion less and less), so he sort of put me into a crisis because I first found about him after seeing a YouTube video he made where he defends the resurrection (he’s a conservative and more fundamentalist Christian who believes in just the sort of thing I had been trying to free myself from for months). I went down a rabbit hole to resolve my crisis, but I kept on obsessive-compulsively worrying that he might actually be one of the smartest people in the world and have actual proof of his religious beliefs, so I was glad to find this a couple weeks ago: [The ‘World's Smartest Man’ Absolutely Hates Me](https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-smartest-man-iq-276-younghoon-kim/) YoungHoon Kim tries to debunk this article on his own website, but he not only fails to fully address this investigator’s claims (which are also linked), but his own claims seem watery. He repeatedly has said that IQ supposedly can be measure up to around 210 (SD = 15) in spite of the lack of data points at such a level of intelligence, so what do we make of that claim in particular? As far as I know, in spite of what he says about [this paper](https://www.pearsonassessments.com/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-v/wisc-v-technical-report-6-extended-norms.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOorH8A7NYtjEgC_9v6NZerpdVk4ILsZ2LgdgsqYcfMMoaggsKYI1), the paper only provides extended norms and explains how they are obtained without justifying extended norms. ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/186 "2025-10-30T06:31:29Z")
> [@TheForumGameMaster](#): > > He repeatedly has said that IQ supposedly can be measure up to around 210 > [@TheForumGameMaster](#): > > guy who claims to have an IQ of 276 So did he retract from the 276 claim? ---
**Author:** ![Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/ill_try_at_least/32/14820_2.png) [@Ill\_try\_at\_least](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Ill_try_at_least)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/187 "2025-10-30T19:47:15Z")
> [@aah31415](#): > > So did he retract from the 276 claim? Or he just thinks he’s superhuman ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/188 "2025-10-30T19:50:00Z")
If he thinks so he is probably much less intelligent than he thinks… ---
**Author:** ![TheForumGameMaster](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/theforumgamemaster/32/14212_2.png) [@TheForumGameMaster](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/TheForumGameMaster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/189 "2025-10-31T00:10:07Z")
He claimed IQ can be measure up to 210 (SD = 15, what were familiar with), and his 276 IQ (SD = 24) is approximately 210 (SD = 15) ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/190 "2025-10-31T06:11:42Z")
Ah so he isn’t this much of a hypocrite as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Animalia](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/animalia/32/14398_2.png) [@Animalia](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Animalia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201/191 "2025-11-01T12:04:13Z")
I do wonder if people who play life simulation games on average have a higher IQ than people who play other games (Oh yeah my iq is 144.. Allegedly..) [Previous page](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201.md?page=8) [Next page](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-boast-about-our-iq/5201.md?page=10)