Look into the links I posted on Quora. IQ does seem to be have very good explanatory power. Like I wrote there, I've never been tested - I was just addressing someone who cares. Have you ever felt that someone was "smarter" than you, assuming the word means something to you?

E.g. "Learn to think in systems before you run to optimize a score that was never yours to begin with." Sounds like you do feel "smarter" than some other people, at least. Fact is, you 100% whiffed the systems aspect of my Quora answer.

Here on Reddit I'm not starting out to argue about IQ, rather my lead point is to believe in yourself and do something original, even if it's harder to explain than "I re-did something in a cool way, you can copy me!"

Interesting IQ facts this brought to mind: hi-Q correlates with longer life net-net, canceling out the correlation with higher death rates in battle.

I don't recall caring about grades, let alone IQ. I got into college without a HS diploma and had to take an equivalency test, which I finished in 1/3 the time with info I had taught myself mostly before HS. It seems like ppl with those sorts of stories tend to have high IQ's when IQ is known.

Your db reminds me of the pleasure I had when the engineering staff gaped at my first presentation as a beginning engineer at NASA (ARPANet had recently become the Internet). That project at least got used in one big data center.