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Originally posted by Kashai
reply to post by UmbraSumus
Actually 180+ could be considered Genius level.
140 to 160 fits in more with Doctors, Lawyers and so on...
160 is up there but people like for example Albert Einstein would fall into the category of 180 or above. As I stated the subjects in this experiment were all people who had the potential to gain a Doctorate and that is documented.
Further reading
Any thoughts?
A score over 160 is considered by many to be a genius IQ score
A Breakdown of IQ Scores
Now that you understand these key terms, we can talk a bit more about how we interpret IQ scores. The average score on an IQ test is 100. Sixty-eight percent of IQ scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean. So that means that the majority of people have an IQ score between 85 and 115.
•1 to 24 - Profound mental disability
•25 to 39 - Severe mental disability
•40 to 54 - Moderate mental disability
•55 to 69 - Mild mental disability
•70 to 84 - Borderline mental disability
•85 to 114 - Average intelligence
•115 to 129 - Above average; bright
•130 to 144 - Moderately gifted
•145 to 159 - Highly gifted
•160 to 179 - Exceptionally gifted
•180 and up - Profoundly gifted
Originally posted by twfau
Are you talking about the 'learned helplessness experiments', where they electrocuted dogs without allowing them an escape to ascertain how animals react in situations no hope?
Psychology doesn't have the proudest of pasts...
Originally posted by dianashay
People not standing up to abuses of any areas such as Guantanamo Bay (or of the like) is on a larger scale akin to the Stanford PE in my opinon.
Torture tolerating is no worse than being the toturer.
Experiments like this (as well as the Brown Eyed/Blue Eyed Ex) are now academically banned for being unethical but who needs em anymore when we do them publicly--on the evening news.
Originally posted by Kashai
reply to post by twfau
There is a potentially relevant rumor that the Experiment was stoped when a female "prisoner," offered sex to a male "guard, if he helped her escape.
The problem is that all these subjects/human beings, in no way signed any document. That suggested, if they were abused they could not receive the money they were promised. Despite that fact they was a whole range of behavior that offered all concerned treated this experiment as it was something real; not an experiment where they could opt out, with a "safe word."
Any thoughts?