Is a 120 IQ good?

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What I don't get about Mensa is that if your IQ is high, you realise that paying them a load of membership money for some kind of status badge that no one really cares about is pretty lame and so you don't bother ;-)

I actually think mine has dropped since school as it was over 150 but is now 143 (well a couple of years ago...it could be negative now).

If mine is 120 then for a fact some of you guys have IQ's in the 200's.
haha, I doubt anyone here is near 200, anything over 160 is pretty darn rare.

Anyway I wonder if the usual "IQ test is not valid" debate will rage on. Just in case, I'll state that I believe it's a useful test because it tells you "something" even though it's flawed in many ways. Given a choice, I'd probably rather hire a person with a 120 IQ instead of someone with 80, that is providing that they had a half decent EQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence_tests as well.