We already have the stupidity one
The Darwin awards.

High IQ tests , are knowledge tests , not common sense tests . Basically , the one and only thing most Mensa / Intel people have in common , is that we are voracious readers , so can answer lots of questions . Common sense , is not a part of the program , although , due to a lot of reading , we are likely to score better in those areas as well . We are much less likely to be into team sports , charismatic extroverts . drug addicts , or alcoholics , because we'd rather be at home alone reading a great book , or more likely a whold stack of them , then trying to deal with drama queens , fighting for time in the spot light .

I fully agree. My religious friend is still trying to view world events through his knowledge of the book of Revelation. Sorry. America and Britian are not in there. Neither is Russia.

I think what we really need is a test for common sense. My sister and brother-in-law, both of whom were eminent consultant physicians, when they were young parents...not once but twice, forgot to have a child added to their passports and were unable to catch overseas flights!

I know plenty of University professors who don't know how to boil water or tie their own shoelaces. An IQ test doesn't mean much look who is the president in the US, prime minister in Australia or prime minister in UK. All buffoons. Good at lying, cheating and being generally very bad people.

IQ tests don't even do a good job of telling how smart you are. It's like asking a master electrician a question about plumbing. Yes, I know some know both. Here is a real life example.

I don't know what her IQ is, but here we go... My former room mate's girlfriend was asked to make a frozen pizza while we were moving stuff around. A few minutes later she asked how to make it. He said to read the back of the box! Then a few minutes later she asked how to turn on the oven! Maybe half an hour later we smelled something burning. She said "I didn't know you needed to check it". Last time I talked to her was on video chat on FB. Somehow we were talking about laws. She would name off the top of her head statutes and the law itself! I almost shit in my pants!

Agree.

The reality of these so-called intelligence tests is they are culturally and economically based!!!

Asian, Africans, Latin Americans, or Europeans all have different cultural, religious, economic, and educational experiences!!!!

All of which can change how, when, and where these so-called intelligence test actually test learning, religious, and cultural differences!!!

I thought America already had such a test, 'The Trump Test.' LOL.

Not really sure if testing either helps to avoid people like this

How do you gauge stupidity? That would seem like a subjective assessment.

I think there are ways of being intelligent that are not addressed by IQ tests. We are smart in different ways.

Well, everyone is very intelligent for a few things and hopeless at others so the results might be interesting...

So how exactly would that work? Instead of a bunch of questions that have one right answer, you ask questions with multiple correct answers and one wrong one, and see how many people fall for the incorrect answers?

I think I.Q can be a relatively bias thing in some way. Before I wrote this comment, I spent a moment searching for something I had come across long time Back, but couldn't find it. What I had read before explained that sports players, professional especially, would be a type of genius based on their physical abilities. People obviously have to do some thinking to use their body in physical ways like Michael Jordon flying thru the air to dunk a basketball as compared to short fat man.

A polymath is a person who knows a lot about a lot of subjects. If your friend is not only a brilliant physics student but has also published a poetry collection and won prizes at political debates, you can describe her as a polymath. [vocabulary.com]

Most I.Q. test that I am aware of are just written intellectual test but do not so much cover physical capabilities.

There is a genius to thr American education system. It gives a foundational basis for all subjects including physical education class.

Can a person be smart or capable in 1 or a few areas but be very bad in other areas, yes. Savant or often called idiot savant is a person who has a mental or learning disability but is extremely gifted in a particular way, such as the performing of feats of memory or calculation. (Oxfort)

So, to sort of follow with your question, to test, or really make a documentary analysis of ALL a person's capabilities in every possible area could be a means to show by documentation how stupid a person isnt in various different areas.

Trial by fire should be one of the events...

I believe it would just be an effort in futility.
What is common sense to one person is not necessarily common sense to a person from a different culture not everybody is good at everything.
That being said there are those who choose to excel at being stupid no matter your point of view.

There should be a test to measure one's ability to put all that into practical use.

Same thing.
The smarter you are, the stupider you are not.
Most dangerous: people like me: stupid, but equipped with a college-level vocabulary, which creates the illusion of intelligence.

I think stupid people are happier.

It appears the comments answer this conundrum...

It appears to me to be the same. It seems to be worded that way. With that wording even the scale could be the same. Odd statement.
Edit. Oh i see we in the silly area...lol

Intelligence is over rated. Common sense will get you through more things

Intelligence is much more complex than most tests measure. Most tests concentrate on such areas as vocabulary, reading comprehension, math, spatial reasoning, and conceptual problem solving. Those who grew up in homes & went to schools where that had a chance to learn these abilities & practice these skills have a natural advantage over others.(See Herrenstein, The Bell Shaped Curve). There are some efforts to develop non verbal intelligence tests.

As Gardner & many other researchers have pointed out, many other abilities may count as "intelligence". These include such things as mechanical or athletic ability, musical proficiency., & many others. A person might be a genius on standard intelligence tests & a complete klutz on the athletic field. Intelligence is area specific.

Many include emotional intelligence, the ability to sense the preceptions & feelings of others & respond accordingly. Research has shown emotional intelligence is more important to success in life than the skills measured on intelligence tests.

The concept of measuring how stupid someone isn't seems problematic. We have a cultural taboo, especially among more educated people, to comparing the relative intellectual candle power of individuals. It seems snotty & elitist.

But more than that, nature abhors a vacuum. How do you measure the absence of intelligence without measuring intelligence. This concept seems a violation of Occam's razor & a unnecessary double negative.

Members of Mensa & the other organizations for people of even higher intelligence spend a great deal of their time reading, doing math & puzzles. These activities build up the skills they need to perform well on intelligence tests. Actually it is fairly easy to get into Mensa, which accepts people in the top 2% of the population in intelligence. This means you only have to do better on intelligence tests than 49 other people, which is not too hard if you have some basic ability, given the general stupidity & ignorance of the population

A full neuro payche evaluation is super interesting. It's a really I depth "IQ test" that's used to help evaluate the status of people with cognitive disorders, be it dementia or a brain injury or something inborn. Maybe I'll go to school for a zillion years so I can do those