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Is there a way to add IQ testing to the politics section user profiles? How challenging can it be to create a small application that either runs on the same server that tests general IQ of a tester and post the scores as stars against a username, or on a separate server which tags results against usernames and profiles?
For instance, top scores, 5-4 stars; medium scores, 3-2 stars; low scores, 1-0 star.


How does it help Nairaland?

It helps to ensure that posters are known by their IQ scores BEFORE a poster can decide to engage them in argument or any exchange. This is important because this site has lost a lot of smart posters to illogical posters. I even believe that some government officials must have come across this site and left because of some extreme low IQ folks who reduce the quality of exchange here.

I would want folks to avoid me if I score low.


How easy can it be?

I don't know much about web applications because I am more interested in embedded systems (low level machine language stuff). Beaf might have an idea.

Nairaland will improve in image and clout if we have a user ranking system based on IQ results.

My brother One_Naira, your umunna needs you. Please contact me when you can. Thanks.

My brother One_Naira, your umunna needs you. Please contact me when you can. Thanks.

odumchi: Eze, nsogbu adighi.

I will respond to your email shortly. Although I won't be present for/able to participate in the drafting of the constitution, I can't wait to see it when I return.

We shall begin the process first. When you return, you will join it. The whole process will continue until we get a near perfect constitution.

So, here I exit the thread.

Signing off,

Yours truly,

Onlytruth, ndu di n'eziokwu 1 of Igboland, Eze Ndigbo Nairaland.

logica: Dude, I'm speaking English here. I am answering your question about billions of dollars in the hands of Nigerians. Who said anything about clean or dirty money? I am simply telling you, those with the billions are not the same people with innovative ideas or technical knowledge; and those billions are therefore not available as the money-miss-road will not fund your projects.

Dude, it is perhaps time I leave the thread until intelligent folks show up. You have lost the argument, now you are resorting to insult. The second bolded was from YOUR OWN post below:

logica: So you are saying the people with billions (stolen money mostly) are the ones with brilliant ideas? I don't understand what your point is. Will the geniuses with technical marvels point guns at the heads of bankers and money-miss-roads to get their projects funded? FYI, it mostly happens that money and brilliant ideas are not found on the same person. It usually requires meetings (sometimes by chance) to connect both.

I make it a point NEVER to argue with folks with low IQ.

nice.one:
congrats prof.
@ Only Truth have you had of prof. Ndubuise Ekekwe He is a practical prof. who is abreast with edge-cutting technology and innovation. he founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd (Fasmicro) - Africa's first integrated circuit design house. I think he is one of our finest. below is a precise of his pro

Ndubuisi Ekekwe holds two doctoral and four master's degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria, all completed by March 2009. He graduated in August 1998, from FUT Owerri, Nigeria as his class's best student. He founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd (Fasmicro) - Africa's first integrated circuit design house. [/b]Ekekwe is also the Founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology and a full professor of engineering with Babcock University Nigeria. He last held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Lagos.
Professor Ekekwe is an inventor - [b]he holds a US Patent on a microchip used in minimally invasive surgical robots and has authored breakthrough papers, including a roadmap on African single currency which he presented in an AU congress. He has spoken at Harvard University, the UN Summit, African Union Congress, Wharton Business School and Brown University amongst others. Ekekwe's book on nanotechnology and microelectronics won IGI Global 2010 "Book of the Year" award. He lives in Boston and was in the team that created the XL sensor inside the iPhone and iPod. He authored Nigeria's Vision 2020 Microelectronics thematic area and is the recipient of more than 17 academic
fellowships and scholarships.

I think we need more engrs. like this

I just highlighted all the relevant statements. lol

logica: So you are saying [b]the people with billions (stolen money mostly) [/b]are the ones with brilliant ideas? I don't understand what your point is. Will the geniuses with technical marvels point guns at the heads of bankers and money-miss-roads to get their projects funded? FYI, it mostly happens that money and brilliant ideas are not found on the same person. It usually requires meetings (sometimes by chance) to connect both.

So, you think all the money in "venture capitalists" hands are clean money? lol
The difference between the black man and everybody else is that the black man somehow fails to connect things properly.
Money is money. It can be used for good or evil. Whatever you choose to do with it says how intelligent or dumb you are. Simple and short.

logica: Yes, you are very wrong. Even Google started off from $100,000 from a venture capitalist. Then they went ahead (as they grew bigger) to raise $1,000,000 from various venture capitalists. The guys had no cash, but they had a working idea and some smart dudes bought into it. They are all rich now (including the Google kids who didn't even have $100,000 to start with).

There is no (and I mean NONE AT ALL) technology company that hopes to be big and successful that will not benefit from venture capitalists.

Okay, I see you don't get the point I'm making because I did not mention the "venture capitalists" specifically.

Let me ask you a question; what are Nigerians doing with BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in PRIVATE hands?

You are right about venture capitalists, but are they GOVERNMENT?
Answer these questions and meet the truth face to face.

What stops ordinary Nigerians from starting small engineering companies that make specific parts for Nigeria.
Zinox computers was made for Nigeria (though I don't know how much of it is manufactured locally), but you get the point.
Why not start a company that makes special tropical boots/military kits for Nigerian soldiers for instance; a kit for soldiers working in jungles and swamps? When you start that, hustle for government contracts the normal Nigerian way and go from there.
But Nigerians would rather stash the cash somewhere or even dash it to their girlfriends.
This reminds me of the article where the racist Botha was saying that all we blacks care about is women and merry making.

When you come to Nigeria, you see people spending hundreds of thousands DAILY in 5 star hotels where they maintain suites for years on.

Abeg quit blaming brain drain.

logica: That is all I needed to pick from your post. Invention cannot survive in isolation. Where are the venture capitalists? Do you think all the innovations in the US would have seen the light of day without financiers that believe in their commercial value? Where are our venture capitalists? Do you think I can take my idea to any bank or individual and get financing (except of course if I'm a dealer in Oil & Gas and they know the Oil Minister is my buddy)?

And as pointed out, the brain-drain is still fully in effect. Most of the best are out their slugging it out in the US trying to make names for themselves; even as they mostly remain obscure.

I have worked for A LOT of SMALL businesses here in the US. Let me tell you, the only support they get is in tax reliefs. The only companies that get big financial support are the big ones like Boeing or GE and Lockheed Martin (unless I'm wrong). The rest are HUSTLING. It is not easy for them, but they WORK HARD, like Innoson.
All the waiting for government to wipe your a.s.s won't help Nigeria.

lagcity: It is not the Professors, stupid. [b]Blame [/b]lack of govt and corporate funding.

It is the lazy lots like you that celebrate paper.
Did Innoson blame the government before starting his company?
Empty headed fo.o.l.
Your type is the curse of the black man.

2CatWoman: My post crossed your last post. Were you yourself not originally from Nigeria?

Of course I'm from Nigeria, which is why I'm very passionate about this thing. How can the top black country on earth be a full time importer of engineered products? How can that country survive the 21st century?
Folks will simply stride in and colonize the place again. Black people just make me cry.

2CatWoman: One of the reasons Nigeria dosen't have much technical innovation is because most of the best engineers are now living outside the country. Couple this with the fact that it's easier to make money importing goods and you see the problem.

At least you did not say ALL of them. As I type this, there are almost 100/polytechnics universities in Nigeria, most with engineering departments; what are they doing? What are they inventing/developing? I don't want to hear about that cassava harvester/peeler. I want to see ROBOTS or automated systems. Okay, let me even see Nigerian made aircraft, even manned. Let me see Nigerian designed main battle tank, you know, something to make me feel that we understand what we need to be doing. Until I see those, I remain very skeptical.

logica: There, you should lay the blame on the European and American owners of this companies. Has it occurred to you that the best and brightest are lured away from this country, and they mostly end up frustrated and do not usually reach their potentials abroad, while the same people luring them away are sending their own to this country as expatriates? How can we have brain-drain and simultaneously have a high count of expatriates? You answer the question and you figure out the problem.

For how long will you blame people who have worked so hard to organize their countries, making them functional and competitive? Did they stop you from spending billions of dollars in science/engineering education (like they do yearly)?
Your government spends billions on women every year; whose fault is that?

BTW who lured Innoson away? Last time I checked, he is still there at Nnewi. Ghana tried unsuccessfully.
My point is that I will start that engineering/invention company and do my best to make it survive.
I haven't seen much of that in Nigeria. I know that Nigeria kills companies and talents, but we have 160 million human beings in that country. I once told my friend that if Nigeria were a white country, ordinary citizens would be generating their own electricity from cheap sources, making the government irrelevant. Do you think that a white person will live in darkness just because his government is inefficient? The private sector drives the government in Europe and America. The opposite is the case in Nigeria. Go figure.

I have a special passion for engineering/invention because as far as I'm concerned, that is what makes a REAL difference to a country's survival. Any country that can't develop and produce MACHINES AND COMPUTERS AND HARDWARE cannot live free. Simple and short.
Study Europe and you will understand more.

logica: Mind you, I don't think Innoson does anything more than assemble knock-down components. If they actually do design parts let me know.

It doesn't matter. Provided that one day he will roll out the first complete Nigerian vehicle, in my book, he has achieved more than ALL Nigerian engineers combined.
I haven't seen Nigerian engineers reassemble even bicycles.
The problem with black people is that sometimes they have gaps in their mental makeup. You have engineers but you don't have steady electricity supply. What are all the engineering faculties in Nigerian universities doing?
How can we have all these engineers, yet whenever you see a major engineering work in Nigeria, they are almost always manned by foreigners? When will we start respecting the right things?

odumchi: @ Ohanaeze (Everybody),

You guys are all saying the same thing in regards to efulefu.

Biko nu, ka anyi ga na iru. Please, let's move ahead.

Heeded. Thank you Onowu Odum.

ACM10: Efulefu can also mean someone who works against his/her people interest or engages in activities that conflicts with his/her people collective interest. It can never translate to someone who is lazy, lacks drive or hopeless. Sorry, daddy is wrong on this one.

In the context of the discussion we are having here, the bolded is the intended meaning. We are talking about leaders and leadership here, not how to manage personal life. Abi na lie I talk? hehe.

I respect the Nigerian naval engineers than designed the first Nigerian made "warship" and I want to know their names.
Those are people we should start celebrating, not paper tigers.

psalmizt: You 've a point there bros. But you must also kno that there's a difference btw academic work and invention. His works 'd ve formed the basis of a whole lot of engineering designs. Like someone stated above, wat invention was Albert Einstein known for? But of course his theories ve lead to design of countless engineering designs.

Like the one that makes Nigeria the first or only country to have a fully automated submarine capable of going round the world without any crew? or an unmanned spacecraft capable of acting as satellite and space platform all in one?

Nna, I respect Innoson more than these paper engineers. I am an Igbo man. You need to show me HOW AND WHERE the engineer has put Nigeria on the world of scientific and engineering. Right now, a Ghanaian respect me more because of Innoson (stuff he and other subsaharan African countries don't have, yet) than any Nigerian engineer.
Until I start seeing Nigeria do things engineering-wise just like I see Nigerian architects designing buildings that get built, I won't respect these guys honestly.

Give me an illiterate Nigerian who would set up a company than makes minesweepers in Nigeria, and I will give him a national honor before I respect any Nigerian engineer. Msheeeeeeeeeeeew.

logica: Albert Einstein was a THEORETICIAN not an ENGINEER. But even then his theories were tested and proven using real life experiments especially by Arthur Eddington; and of course put to use in building the Atomic Bomb.

Thank you my brother. I know that few folks will understand the point I'm trying to make.

Since we currently have the problem of Boko Haram, why don't Nigerian engineers develop unmanned bomb defusing robot that would aid the security agencies in finding and defusing bombs?
I ask again, na paper we go chop? SMH.

Anyway, I'm out for now.

I have to say one thing; I almost didn't say it because the OP is not known to have a high IQ and may not understand. lol
I will say it anyway.

I have always wondered why most accomplished Nigerian engineers don't have any REAL product (eg first or top in the world product model) to their names.
Na paper we go chop for this world?

When are we going to launch our own COMPLETE LOCAL AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT.

When are Nigerian engineers going to build the first BRIDGE or TUNNEL or flyover sef?

I almost invented a very rare electric/electronic product which would have revolutionized power in Nigeria if I continued in that line at UNI. I didn't and I regret it.

Why do all these guys go about with papers while we don't have electricity?
If Barth Nnaji gives us electricity, I will start believing in Nigerian engineers.
The whole black world looks up to Nigeria to develop REAL technological products, to prove that we are not sub-homo sapien. When will that happen? Or are we going to continue to celebrate paper? Na wa o.

PhysicsQED: ^^^
He probably just posted that to bait somebody into responding so he could insult them.

lol, you are so right.

Odum, edere m gi ozi imeelu

We shall soon launch our constitution making process here so that we would design a road map document to facilitate/ease our goal achievement methodology. The document will also ensure that the Eze Ndigbo position NEVER falls into the wrong hands in the future.

Ihe anyi na eme di nnukwu mkpa. Anyi achoghi ka otu efulefu bia mebie ihe nile anyi tara ahuhu we mee.
Ndi ojoo kariri ndi ezigbo madu na ubochi ndia.

Translated: What we are doing is very important. We don't want it to fall into the hands of one "efulefu" (lol can't translate that ), who would trash everything we struggled hard to organize. There are more bad folks than good ones these days.

Please expect that process to start by next weekend.

Signed,


Onlytruth, ndu di n'eziokwu 1 of Igboland, Eze Ndigbo Nairaland.

Obiagu1: Why a Yoruba man should be interested in the affairs of the East is still a puzzle.

No, it is not a puzzle. It is the GIST of it all. They want us to develop their corner of Nigeria and leave the East.
Watch how they almost develop heart attack anytime we start talking about the East or planning to invest there. lol

The last Igbo brother I convinced to drop his Lekki plans, I gave him ONE argument; just one - SHOW ME A YORUBA MAN NO MATTER HOW RICH OR POOR THAT IS BUYING LAND IN ONITSHA OR OWERRI OR ENUGU. If you can find them, then, it is wise to continue buying and developing land in the West. He couldn't show, so I rested my case!

Gatsby: Speech made by former S/A President P.W. Botha to his Cabinet. It was reprinted by David G. Mailu for the Sunday Times, a S/A newspaper, on 18, 1985.

....We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody & to the Blacks that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the Blacks in 1001 ways. The Republic of S/A that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expense of intelligence, sweat and blood......

We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that, Blacks look like human beings & act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings.

Hedgehogs are not porcupines & lizards are not crocodiles simply because they look alike. If God wanted us to be equal to the Blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour & intellect. But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers & the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years.

I believe that the Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being......

By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves.

Give them guns & they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives & indulging in sex.

Let us all accept that the Black man is the symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence.

Isn't it plausible? therefore that the White man is created to rule the Black man.......And here is a creature( black man) that lacks foresight....The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year..

…….. What are your thoughts?

I believe that we have seen some African and Caribbean countries make good progress over the past twenty years. For example, Ghana, Botswana and The Bahamas.

Unfortunately, there are too many examples of Black nations where progress has retrogressed!

If we get our act together, then we do not need to endure insults like the above.

God help us all! Aluta continua!

The first bolded is not true as has been demonstrated by at least Botswana.
Biafra would have been the next if it was allowed by (guess who) to be, after Ghana maybe.

@Second bolded,

He has some points here about SOME black tribes;
in fact what he says there reminds me of some Nigerian tribes. hehe.
Let us tell ourselves the truth biko.

onye_ngbu*:
Eheee.. Eze cheregodu first;

I disagree completely with you on the bolded(s)
First, being bitter doesnt automatically make one and Ngige or Uba supporter. [b]One might have been an Obi supporter and then later became bitter when Obi disappointed. I am one of such people. You cant say that one wont be bitter against Obi. As a matter of fact you can cricticize the man without being bitter. [/b]He took us like 10 years back.
Almost every anambrarian loved ngige while he lasted and when he was removed he did what other politicians dont do by asking everyone to support Obi and believe me everyone (me inclusive) did. However, everyone waited and waited for obi to continue where others stopped and we NEVER stopped waiting till today. Initially he made everyone believe it is the Ubas that is using the lawmakers to derail him and we believed him and still hoped he will bounce back while cursing the Ubas. Ubas realised that the man is riding on their back and went underground and
no one heard from them again till 2010 elections.
When Obi has ran out of excuses, he now resorted to lies and propaganda. It is all working for him but not people that live in anambra. It is there for everyone to see.

I know that governance is not easy but anambra people have tasted worse (Oderaa) and best (ngige) only to be dragged down to good or maybe bad even (Obi).

Nwanne how can I fault any of the points you raised? Nna ike gwulu.
If only Obi had put this whole thing beyond debate.
Anyi amarozi nke bu nke.

I am only waiting for 2014 so that all the debates will at least subside, hopefully.

Ileke-IdI:
You've made many plenty sweeping attacks on ALL Yorubas. . . . your point?

Are you Ijaw? SMH at this type is misapprehension.

Before dumb folks like Jason123 and Ileke-Idi misquote me, let me clarify myself.

The goat Johndoe made a sweeping attack on ALL IGBO, not one individual who may have annoyed him.
That is what I mean by that I have not seen an Igbo make such attack against ALL Ijaw.

These Ijaw folks should be very careful in Nigeria I swear. Jonathan's term ends in 2015.

jason123: You must be high on new palm wine!

And you are high on crack!