How's your IQ?

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by ismu, Mar 14, 2002.

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IQ please? (average)

  1. < 100

    14 vote(s)
    5.9%
  2. 100 - 109

    4 vote(s)
    1.7%
  3. 110 - 119

    16 vote(s)
    6.7%
  4. 120 - 130

    50 vote(s)
    21.0%
  5. > 130

    154 vote(s)
    64.7%
  1. Paladin165 Registered Member

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    Jinoda,

    IQ's aren't subjective measurements, they measure a narrow, scientific definition of intelligence. This is very different from what is popularly meant by "intelligence", which can be almost anything. There are plenty of people who think the only "intelligent" thing to do in life is to be a X, do a Y, worship a Z, etc. A better word for this is "wisdom" or doing what is "wise".

    If you took a halfway decent test then your score is telling you something real about your basic cognitive abilities. Therefore if you don't feel you are performing "intelligently" in life, its due to other factors than simple thinking ability.
     
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  3. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    I've never had the patience to do a single IQ test. They're always too long.
     
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  5. I took an online test that said i was 151.
    No idea how accurate it was, i should probably do a proper test.
     
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  7. Jinoda Registered Senior Member

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    Oh no, I know I am performing "intelligently" in life, my previous post was simply a lame attempt at humbleness (that sounds weird...).
     
  8. SoLiDUS OMGWTFBBQ Registered Senior Member

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    126 and then 142 ? I think the second was on a 24point deviation because when
    you convert it to a 15point, it comes to 126... which would make some sense. If
    not, which one is it so I can have a good score too ?

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  9. bob-bobby Born Again ;) Registered Senior Member

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    any one with some good online IQ test , havent done it before !!!
     
  10. Jinoda Registered Senior Member

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    Heh I'm not sure. I don't know much about IQ tests, so I probably couldn't tell you. I was just curious one day and asked one of the student advisors at my college where I would have to go to take one. She sent me to one of the other local Universities where I would be admitted to take it.

    Both tests I took were at the same place, just about a year apart, so I'm not sure if and when the University changes formats or anything. I'll probably try it again in a few years, but if your solution is correct, I may not need to.
     
  11. tatyanna Registered Member

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    I just took an IQ test yesterday for admissions into an educational program and I scored a 142. I have not been in school for several years, never taken an IQ test before this one.
     
  12. SoLiDUS OMGWTFBBQ Registered Senior Member

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    Wouldn't matter if it was because your potential stabilizes and remains the same for the
    rest of your life around the age of 16. Also, a proper IQ test doesn't require any specific
    knowledge to be taken, otherwise what would be the point ? Ph. D.'s would laugh all the
    way through

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  13. Paladin165 Registered Member

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    I beleive the stabilization point is more like 20-30 years of age.
    Also, IQ's over 120 or so should be taken with a cupful of salt. As people increase in IQ (general factor), the second order factors decorrelate. This is know as differentiation (Garrett, 1938, 1946, 1980). Therefore if you are in the 120+ range and wish to know more about your specific cognitive abilities it would be wise to take a modern test like the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery Revised (WJ-R). This test is "the most comprehensive battery of cognitive processing tests available to researchers" (Brand, 2003). Differentiation hasn't been studied in too much detail, but the abilites that are least correlated in high-IQ subjects are Crystallized Intelligence (knowledge base), and Short-Term Memory (Working Memory).

    In short, IQ is most meaningful when talking about lower ability individuals. Once you get to even moderately high ability individuals it is better to talk about verbal ability, math ability, knowledge base, spatial abilities, auditory, speed, etc and forget IQ.
     
  14. SaPhZ Registered Senior Member

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    iqtest.com - IQ = 167
    I am Kinesiology Pre-Med, accomplished pianist

    Don't know how accurate that test is though, I am 20, and when I was 16 I took a probably more accurate IQ test and scored 148, which seems to be considerably less.
     
  15. jfkldjfkdjsfjhdfdjfk Registered Member

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    I don't know my IQ
     
  16. s0meguy Worship me or suffer eternally Valued Senior Member

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    2,5 Years ago I had an IQ of 131 (a test taken by school). About half a year ago I tried an American IQ test at www.tickle.com and it got me 143. I am good at math, language and I have an interest for history. That only covers some of an IQtest. Really, I'm not that good at learning stuff fast.

    I don't think IQtests are worth much. There is an organisation in the Netherlands at which you have to do an IQtest to enter. My uncle is a member of it but he keeps bragging about it. I guess having a high IQ doesn't necessarily mean you are intelligent.
     
  17. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    Tested everywhere from 140 to ~180. Real tests, not the online kind.
     
  18. Paladin165 Registered Member

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    For those who are confused about the difference between the older ratio scores and newer standardized scores, here's an excerpt from the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition Assessment Service Bulletin Number 3, which is about assessing gifted individuals.


    ""Extended IQ (EXIQ) scores may be available for those who achieve FSIQ scores
    above 150. Chapter 2 of the Interpretive Manual (Roid, 2003d) explains how to
    calculate extended scores. The two highest categories of IQ Scores shown in Table 1
    are available only through EXIQ. The normative sample included at least a few
    individuals whose Form L-M scores (completed separately from the standardization
    project) were above 200, but none of them scored beyond 148 on the SB5
    Standardization Edition. This does not mean that the individuals tested do not
    have extremely high abilities; it only suggests that in terms of standard score IQs,
    their scores are within three or, at most, four standard deviations of the mean.
    Just because the SB5 offers extended IQ (EXIQ) scores, practitioners should not
    expect to see a large number of test scores above 160. Table 1 also shows the two
    hypothetical intellectual categories, available only through use of the EXIQ, for
    scores between 161 and 225. Theoretically, the people who require an extended
    score calculation are exceptionally rare. The assumptions of the normal curve,
    combined with the population of the United States, suggest that there would be
    only approximately 933 individuals in the entire nation (across all ages) with an
    IQ above 160. Assuming that this number is evenly distributed across all ages, at
    any given time there would be roughly 11 to 15 individuals in any given grade
    level across the entire nation able to obtain an EXIQ above 160. The EXIQ is an
    experimental scoring device intended to reduce the range-constraining effects of
    standardization and normalized scoring, but among the specialists in the field of
    high-level giftedness who use the SB5, early experience confirms that there will
    indeed be very few examinees whose scores qualify them to use the EXIQ score.
    These preliminary results, therefore, suggest that clinicians and specialists should
    not hold their breath waiting to test an individual above 160 IQ, but should
    instead be alert to other indications of intelligence and aptitude among the high
    ability individuals they assess. Such information could complement the
    information provided through assessment using the SB5.""
     
  19. A Canadian Why talk? When you can listen? Registered Senior Member

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    When I was younger my IQ was said to be 138....

    When I take random online tests, It is said to be around 110-180

    My brain has decayed into a little peanut in only a matter of years... I have extream smarts in some areas.... and I be very, very slow and/or stupid in others..... but no IQ test can prove that.....

    Who are we kidden, I am a god damn idiot...

    I cannot remember what happened to me last week....

    Yet... some of the shit I do or think up.......

    ...

    I.Q. has no right to even be called a word..... there is no such thing.
     
  20. el-half Registered Senior Member

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    You shouldn't take crap tests that aren't properly normed.
    There are very little trustworthy online tests, the best probably International High IQ society's ultimate IQ test.

    I have yet to meet a person with a relatively low IQ who is not an idiot.
     
  21. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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  22. el-half Registered Senior Member

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    Me too.
     
  23. bob-bobby Born Again ;) Registered Senior Member

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    is 120 bad ??

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