re: #26 sagehen

I have only the vaguest memory of the IQ tests I was given in 2nd grade; but ISTR there was a lot of vocabulary/reading comprehension/math. Results were mostly about the quality of the schooling you’d had so far, rather than innate potential.

the only kind-of iq test i ever took was ASVAB in high-school, where I just remember much of the test being how good I was at rotating “3-dimensional” shapes on the page and recognizing how the final shape would be oriented at the end of, say, being flipped upside down and then other weird shit being done to it. The Army wanted me bad after that. Recruiters making special trips, blah blah blah. Dad had been in Vietnam as a chaplain. He and Mom were basically “under no circumstances will you join the fucking Army.” He’d seen enough of war—shit he never talked about, even when he got more mellow about it in later years—to know that no son of his was getting into that.