Do you know your IQ?

[Guartho]

In my school I think that was a key factor in determining if you'd be pulled out for further testing. I think teacher recommendation was the other important part.

K'rik Sa, My college hosted a program similar to the one you describe starting my freshmen year. Some of those kids did some impressive stuff, but I only met one that wasn't unduly impressed with himself.

 

[RoJoHen]

Our school district also didn't have Gifted programs past 6th grade. After 6th grade, you basically took just took honors classes, but there was no separate program. You just kinda stopped being gifted.

Oh well.

 

[K'riq Sa]

back then, you were considered the "short bus" kinda special when you exhibited higher than normal intelligence, and became the butt of every practical joke....

luckily for me, being smarter, i usually ended up reversing the joke back on them, which made them ever angrier.







k'riq the uninterruptable

 

[Guartho]

Mine ended in 6th grade too! Tell me Salt Truck... does the name Mrs. Nichols mean anything to you?

 

[anais]

I know which interval my IQ lies in, in terms of standard deviations. Took a test as a part of a hiring process a few years ago (HR needed to justify their existence, no doubt). I was shown the result as a red line on a bell curve. Could have asked for the number, didn't bother.

 

[Jadzia]

I'm very skeptical when it comes to the IQ test, itself, for reasons stated elsewhere in this thread (the difficulty in measuring - heck, even defining - intelligence). Additionally, many of us present differently, neurobiologically - who's to say that easy pattern recognition is a sign of higher intelligence, or whether that same ability to recognize patterns can obscure thinking in a more abstract manner, and the ability to abstract is the true measure of intelligence?

I agree a lot with that.

IQ measures the conformity of our spontaneous thought reactions.

That is, conformity to a tester-defined ideology of what our thoughts and interpretations should be.

Many questions in IQ tests are ambiguous with various answers being possible.

For example, what comes next: 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, ??

Which is the odd one out: Carrot, Potato, Beetroot, Cabbage

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Mine's about 140. My boyfriend is hugely intelligent but also away with the fairies half the time. I would say I'm a quicker thinker than him as he analyses everything, maybe that's a good thing, whereas I'm more impulsive. I think a very high IQ must be a burden, you must get easily bored and frustrated? Be interested to hear opinions?

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." Oscar Levant

 

[Cali]

Last time I tested, it was around 135.

 

[May 20]

Yes, I know mine, hubby's, and DD's. DS hasn't been tested yet, but I am pretty sure I could give it a fairly accurate guess if I had to.

 

[Amaris]

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.

Yep. My official one was part of my entrance into a gifted program (for music).

It's probably outdated now, but I still remembers it like it was yesterday! [/grampa]

J.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

Do you mind sharing?

6,000,000,000

I'm reminded of all the time's Holly's IQ was mentioned on Red Dwarf. "Well, it does have a 6 in it."

 

[Amaris]

Our school district also didn't have Gifted programs past 6th grade. After 6th grade, you basically took just took honors classes, but there was no separate program. You just kinda stopped being gifted.

Oh well.

Same here. Actually, there was an issue when I finished my last day in our gifted classes and went back to my school. My teacher gives me my work I need to make up and I go to sit down. She stops me for a second and tells me she loves my work, and I do very well, but she's concerned with my attendance. I asked, "what do you mean?" She said that for the past year I've missed every Wednesday and Friday and she was wondering why. I was a little shocked. I mean, this had gone on for 3 years! Surely she'd have figured it out by then, particularly with the whole "Mr. Allen is in a gifted music class and misses part of his school week", but she apparently missed that memo. So I filled her in. She was so surprised, that she gave me a hundred extra credit points (good for 5 'A's). She had thought I was a slacker!

J.

 

[Michael Chris]

Not really, no. I was tested to get into highschool, but they didn't even finish it once they figured I was ok for the level. I figure it's probably about 140 or so. My dad's is about 140 and my brother is 150, so I'm guessing mine is similar.

 

[propita]

Like others here, I was tested for the "gifted" program in my school system. Problem was, there really was no program--they just identified people and then did nothing.

I'm old enough to have been tested using Stanford-Binet. I'll post it here--154--because it seems like people here understand how little the numbers actually relate to results. Other people get the wrong idea and start looking at you funny, so I don't tell people very often, just, "It's high enough to tell me I peaked when I was 6yo."

I do remember the test a little. I worked in corner of the class with the lady administering the test. I got sad when it was done. She asked why. I said, "Because the games are over." She was a bit surprised that I thought it was all fun and games.

 

[jamestyler]

Like others here, I was tested for the "gifted" program in my school system. Problem was, there really was no program--they just identified people and then did nothing.

I was pretty much the same. Though the motivations were a little insane to me...

My guidance teacher pulled me from all advanced courses because of 'bad handwriting' that and as I was 'easily distracted', despite my grades being excellent. Thankfully one teacher gave me the advanced coursework behind her, and the department heads, back. Sadly she still has her job and carried the grudge onto my younger sister.

I was assigned an additional class for problem students due to my handwriting being illegible which is where I was fist tested (then later at university). It all stemmed from an argument I had in one of her classes, since then she had wanted to make the school believe I should be held back... and it backfired.

 

[Jono]

No idea. I've done an online test at like 3AM in the morning when I couldn't sleep back on college but I can't remember what I got or where I did it.

All I know is that I'm smart enough to know how to spell my name but stupid enough that I always pull things out of the microwave with my bare hands and then bitch about them been hot.

 

[Jadzia]

Which is the odd one out: Carrot, Potato, Beetroot, Cabbage

So we might say that Cabbage is the odd one out because the others are root vegetables...

But Potato is also the odd one out because the other words all have double letters.

We're looking for solutions to this equation:
"X is the odd one out because the others have property Y and X doesn't have property Y."

These are some possible (X,Y) solutions:

Y = is a root vegetable, and X = Cabbage
Y = is a word with double letters, and X = Potato
Y = is a word with a T in it, and X = Cabbage
Y = is a word with an O in it, and X = Cabbage
Y = is a word with an A in it, and X = Beetroot
Y = doesn't stain one's fingers, and X = Beetroot

Why should one particular Y take precedence over any other? The question is ambiguous.

Y = not being a carrot. X = Carrot.

Carrot is the odd one out because all the others are not carrots.



It's supposed to be a test of logic, yet the question is logically absurd.

The tester probably wants us to think of root vegetables and not vowels here. But why should this property take precedence over any of the others? Why are we encouraged to interpret that way?

The question is really this: "Why are root vegetables more important than vowels?"

 

[jamestyler]

Thats just reminded me of an old episode of Cheers (though they're all old episodes...). Cliffs on Jeopardy and asked to find what three people have in common. His answer, that they'd never been in his kitchen, was still correct.

I've made the case for such a question before. I was told to shut up and take the question seriously. Which resulted in me drawing a picture of a worm crossing the road.

 

[Jadzia]

Thats just reminded me of an old episode of Cheers (though they're all old episodes...). Cliffs on Jeopardy and asked to find what three people have in common. His answer, that they'd never been in his kitchen, was still correct.

Yep. it's a perfectly legitimate answer.

I've never gotten into Cheers. I don't enjoy many US comedies. Hope and Faith was good, I'd say that was my favourite.

I've made the case for such a question before. I was told to shut up and take the question seriously. Which resulted in me drawing a picture of a worm crossing the road.

When people set questions, they usually form their own idea on what the correct answer is. In effect they are solving their own question and marking your answers against their answers. So the state of mind of the tester is somewhat dictatorial. So like you experienced, they don't like you straying off the road they want you to walk, and possibly finding a different answer.

So why did the worm cross the road?

 

[ITL]

Easy. Someone had stapled it to a chicken.