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By Jean King

Sure, a quality IQ test will leave you boasting to your friends about how smart you are, and there's nothing to test your IQ like, well, a test -- but is a high intelligence quotient always useful in practical, day-to-day situations? We looked at 5 different ways that it might not save your life.

#5: How to Tip.

Sure, you might be the smartest guy in the world, but can you calculate your portion of a tip when you need to split the bill 8 ways, and you ordered two extra drinks because they went so well with your steak? Maybe not. However, the fact that you're having a good, expensive dinner probably means you did pretty well on your IQ test, so -- congratulations.

#4: How to Save Money Regularly.

You've heard of those systems where your bank or employer takes a little percentage of your paycheque and puts it aside in order to help you automatically save, right? No matter how high your IQ score, you probably are gonna need some of that help one of these days. Savings and intelligence don't correlate.

#3: How to Not Mess Up Giving Change.

Sure, you can do math in your head to make sure you give perfect change to the cashier who doesn't want to accept your $50, but the pressure of standing there, trying to figure it all out in your head while they're getting impatient -- that can throw off even the smartest.

#2: Matters of the Heart.

Over-explaining matters of the heart is a terrible idea. Over-thinking them isn't much smarter either, but geniuses all around the world do it all the time, and then watch the less intelligent of us get the girl and leave them in the dust. IQ and love don't always mix.

#1: How Smart a Person You Really Are.

In the end, an online IQ Test is an arbitrary measurement of how smart you are, ranked against other people who have taken the exact same test. No one IQ test is going to tell you how much capacity your brain has for "smart" thinking, mainly because there's no way to truly measure that, consistently. But hey -- it's still pretty damn satisfying to pull out those high IQ test results and lord over your friends with them, no?

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