do pinballers have a higher iq than.....

[DeeEff]

Whats an iq? And how do you pronounce it? 'Eek', 'Ike'? ;P

"Ick"

 

[nstalkie]

This site is about pinball ?
How do I unsubscribe ?

 

[MarkItZeroSmoky]

I was told by a teenager that pinball is "for nerds". Nerds are smart, right?

My 14 year old son tells me "pinball is an old man's game." Lol...38 years old and i've reached old man status. Damn kids!

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

This site is about pinball ?
How do I unsubscribe ?

For the record, you're in the off-topic section.

 

[Matt McIrvin]

Than what?

 

[Squid]

Than what?

Sea-Monkeys.

 

[DrainoBraino]

My 14 year old son tells me "pinball is an old man's game." Lol...38 years old and i've reached old man status. Damn kids!

Yeap, we're old nerds. oh well

Than what?

Just than.....that's what.

 

[Matt McIrvin]

Reply hazy - ask again later

 

[Jeff Strong]

Abort, Retry, Fail?

 

[spoonman]

No, but we do have crazy flipper fingers

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

maybe higher blood pressure at times
If a machine has a mind of its own, does the 2 brains are better than 1 saying apply

 

[StarDust4Ever]

I think there's a distinct possibility, however mindlessly "whacking" the balls up towards the top of the table does not require great skill, intelligence, or dexterity, and I believe most players start out playing this way. Like anything else, the more you practice, the better you get at it. Well designed pinball tables have layers of complexity much like an onion.

My analytical reasoning was 154, but my verbal processing was 108. Somehow, these two scores averaged out to a conglomerate IQ of 131. Skews that large are not common since most people's scores are very close, so they diagnosed me with an uncategorized learning deficiency that never showed up with standardized tests. This is because standardized tests use a percentile ranking to compare your scores to the national average and not your own IQ. Anyway those tests were performed 14 years ago. My mind has likely developed since then since you never stop learning (and probably regressed slightly from hitting the bottle too many times - cest la vie). I need to get tested for Mensa as I may actually still have a shot at it.

Either way, I have adult ADHD an play a lot of video games, but...

Pinball is more than about being "smart". You have to react quickly. A chess grandmaster may have an extremely high IQ but may also spend hours calculating his next move. In pinball you got to be faster than that.

 

[Punisher]

Whats an iq? And how do you pronounce it? 'Eek', 'Ike'? ;P

To quote Jon Jafari, ECH.

I honestly think that we have a better eye-hand coordination, and maybe we even are better at strategizing.

 

[DrainoBraino]

I already told most of my friends, "I read on the internet that pinballers have a wway higher IQ than everybody else."

 

[Carl Spiby]

I already told most of my friends, "I read on the internet that pinballers have a wway higher IQ than everybody else."

So we're pretentious then

 

[DrainoBraino]

So we're pretentious then

It's difficult not to be with such a high IQ from pinballing.