Do you know your IQ?

[ria 75]

I've only taken online tests, and not even those for some time, but I gone anywhere from the 120s to the 150s. Of course IQ tests examine both intelligence and knowledge. This makes them inherently biased, often culturally.

I don't remember any being based on knowledge...

I think that's what's wrong with online IQ tests.

Anyway, I'm proud to say that taking IQ tests (or any kind of standardized tests, for that matter, even multiple choice tests - although that's a different matter) is not at all part of the culture or educational system I grew up in.
Less competitive, probably.

 

[nevermore]

Several schools I attended utilized IQ tests as a primary basis for determining eligibility for admission, so yes I do know my numbers.

 

[Trippy]

Having been in 'remedial' classes myself (I had to take an IQ test to get out of this class in grade 5 and no, it wasn't released to me, but I did get out of that class!), and taught in Special Education, those tests are highly subjective. If the student is having an off day, it will affect the result.

When I was in university, my psychology prof. had us take three different intellegence tests including the WISC the S-B, which are the most common tests that you'd get from a phychometrist. I scored differently on all of them, ranging from 120-150. It just showed us that results are dependent on mood (we took them throughout the course), physical sensations (cold, hunger, pain etc) and so on.

In the end, all a standardized test tests is the ability to take tests.

 

[cultcross]

Several schools I attended utilized IQ tests as a primary basis for determining eligibility for admission, so yes I do know my numbers.

Same here.

Btw, either this board is woefully unrepresentative of normal people, or there is some heavy bullshitting going on in this thread. Most IQ tests aren't written to test with any accuracy above 140 and yet in this thread so far, 140 would be a below average score.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've never tested my IQ. Can't be that high.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Smart or dumb, I'm the guy holding the gun.

That's all that matters.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Having been in 'remedial' classes myself (I had to take an IQ test to get out of this class in grade 5 and no, it wasn't released to me, but I did get out of that class!), and taught in Special Education, those tests are highly subjective. If the student is having an off day, it will affect the result.

Indeed, read my experiences earlier in the thread. I managed to screw up 3 separate IQ tests due to lack of attention span, as a child!

When I was in university, my psychology prof. had us take three different intellegence tests including the WISC the S-B, which are the most common tests that you'd get from a phychometrist. I scored differently on all of them, ranging from 120-150. It just showed us that results are dependent on mood (we took them throughout the course), physical sensations (cold, hunger, pain etc) and so on.

In the end, all a standardized test tests is the ability to take tests.

There is some truth to that, but I think it depends on the test. If you're taking something like the SATs or an AP exam, there's definitely a knowledge element to it.

Part of ANY test, as I learned--whether standardized or not--is strategy. That's something I've always been good at. In part it was a defense mechanism...I grew up in a time where ADHD received no special accommodations; therefore I had to develop means to make sure that I could perform according to my level in the time allotted. In the end, I would say it's actually been beneficial (and part of why I think there should be less medicating of ADHD kids and more focusing on coping mechanisms).

 

[AJBryant]

Yes.

I was in the Gifted Program in high school, and it required 125 to get in the program. One day I saw a sheet on our teacher's desk with the numbers of the students for the next year's program, and I wasn't supposed to have seen it or known about it. So I blackmailed him (heh) into showing me my score. More as a joke than anything else -- I really didn't care about Cammy Schwartz' IQ.

But I *did* find out mine. Second highest in the school.

 

[TGTheodore]

Wisom: 1. good sense: the ability to make sensible decisions and judgments based on personal knowledge and experience.

WAY too many jokes to make with this one ...

--Ted (I.Q., therefore I am)

 

[TGTheodore]

Smart or dumb, I'm the guy holding the gun.

That's all that matters.

Yes, but you're holding it backward again ...

--Ted

 

[Neopeius]

But I *did* find out mine. Second highest in the school.

Ahhhh. So *you* were the competition.

 

[Neopeius]

Tested at age 10 with a reading level 6 years ahead of my then-current grade level.

I can't imagine that was a very difficult feat!

I think you either know how to read at an early age or you don't read unless you have to. I remember reading the Berman/Goldstein Space Flight Chronology at the age of 6 (and yet I still couldn't wipe my butt reliably).

Somewhere in the 300's. And my penis is 14 inches long.

Man. I'm sorry.

 

[Emher]

Nope. Think it's above average, but I don't know by how much. I don't have much academic intelligence, I suck at math but I'm pretty good at how things work mechanically, I've got an ear for languages, and my brain is loaded with useful and useless facts.

 

[Niorah]

Niorah, is your new avatar Alain Delon? Very nice.

Yep, he sure is.

One of the most handsome men ever to grace this planet, if I may say so.

 

[Guartho]

Most IQ tests aren't written to test with any accuracy above 140 and yet in this thread so far, 140 would be a below average score.

Of course only people who are posting their scores are people who know them. I would imagine that most people who know their score know because the testing was part of a gifted program admission process. That's how I know mine and I noticed it's been mentioned by plenty of other people too.

Also, I would accept it as a given that Trekkies are more likely to have a higher IQ than a lower one.

 

[RoJoHen]

I was in the Gifted Programs in school, but my IQ never came into the picture (or if it did, nobody told me). The just used the results from the standardized tests that everybody took.

 

[Guartho]

Mine wasn't told to me as a matter of "You can enter the gifted program because you scored well on tests X,Y and Z." In fact, I don't think they even told us what we were being tested for. I don't think I even realized that not everyone was taken out for testing until later.

What happened was that I learned that my mother knew my IQ and I nagged her until she finally told me. As I said, I don't tell people IRL, but I just couldn't stand knowing that she knew something about me that I didn't.

 

[K'riq Sa]

starting in the seventh grade i was enrolled in a special program called gifted students foundation (gsf). the program brought together the students who scored in the top 1% in the nation, on a combo SAT and another special test once you qualified. i am still in the program....



in the 6th grade they tested us and me and my best friend had a similar score, but he was not admitted or even asked about the program. the program was held at the campus of SMU in dallas, and they even allowed us to take college for future credit. man that was fun, 100 super brainy kids running amuck on campus, and throughout the city. the foundation footed the bill on everything, and when they did an article on us we kind of gain celebrty status in the city, and it seemed like everyone knew us and came up to say hi and congrats....

hell, we even had a barbque at the LBJ ranch with ladybird.

looking back it was very surreal, and very brittney-ish...





k'riq the uninsolvable

 

[RoJoHen]

^See, we didn't have separate testing for the gifted programs or anything. They just used the state's standardized tests that everybody has to take anyway.

 

[K'riq Sa]

yeah, but this was almost 45 years ago, when you were considered weird to be smart, and somewhat of a stigmata....




k'riq the uninsmartable