What is your IQ?
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I got tested officially before starting school (when I was 7). They had me tested for IQ because I was really small (had below average height and weight x_x) and they feared I won't be able to get on with school so I had to be tested for IQ to see is it really necessary for me to lose one year. I scored 138 so I was "allowed" to start school anyway. Haven't been tested since, but IQ doesn't vary that much. I might be only 1/2 points up or down at best.
That being said, I don't think it helps in life all that much for us to be proud of being highly intelligent. I've passed my high-school with a B (mostly because I was uninterested in most subjects) and lost two years of college because some things didn't suit me very well. I don't think that number is really that important anyway. I'm sure there are "less intelligent" people than me who will achieve much more in their lives. Sometimes I wonder if highly intelligent people actually end up thinking that IQ number will get them everything they want, while the ones "less intelligent" actually move their ass and get shit done. It's all relative.
That being said, I don't think it helps in life all that much for us to be proud of being highly intelligent. I've passed my high-school with a B (mostly because I was uninterested in most subjects) and lost two years of college because some things didn't suit me very well. I don't think that number is really that important anyway. I'm sure there are "less intelligent" people than me who will achieve much more in their lives. Sometimes I wonder if highly intelligent people actually end up thinking that IQ number will get them everything they want, while the ones "less intelligent" actually move their ass and get shit done. It's all relative.
Dr Hawking says people who boast about their IQs are losers. [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12QUESTIONS.html?_r=1]
It's 123 according to the Mensa on-line test. Smarter than your avereage Joe, but far from Mensa level.
I got something like 155 when I was 8.
I never see people report they are below 100 so I question just how important these numbers really are. I can assure your based on my living conditions that having a higher IQ doesn't improve your quality of life.
I actually believe I was lied to about my numbers as a failed attempt to raise my self esteem.
I never see people report they are below 100 so I question just how important these numbers really are. I can assure your based on my living conditions that having a higher IQ doesn't improve your quality of life.
I actually believe I was lied to about my numbers as a failed attempt to raise my self esteem.
This test has at least 3 flaws. 2 of the questions are written badly. They demanded cultural knowledge - one was "Aztecs are to Mexico as Incas are to what?" The other involved knowing that Paris was a city. I got both of these questions right, but they both shouldn't be on an IQ test. They make it unfair for someone from a non-Western background who wouldn't be expected to name European capitals or Mesoamerican empires.
It's not as bad as those old IQ tests which had questions like "Christy Mathewson is famous as a:
A)writer
B)artist
C)baseball player
D)comedian
Secondly, I answered the first 28 questions right before I ran out of time. An IQ test is only as smart as the smartest person who writes it. In this instance, the test would have no way of distinguishing between me or Stephen Hawking. In fact, it might give me a higher score, because I'm younger.
Example: My General Knowledge score was 100%, which puts me on the 90th percentile. 10% of people taking this test are too smart for the test to correctly grade them in this category!
Thirdly, it was timed, which isn't fair to people like me and isn't considered proper IQ testing procedure. Intelligence quotient and processing speed are generally considered separate concepts, and should be tested in a way that separates both. According to the formal IQ test I took a few years ago (which was more than just multiple choice), my IQ is on the 99th percentile (about 150) but my processing speed is on the 22nd percentile (in IQ terms, that'd be about a 75).
It's not as bad as those old IQ tests which had questions like "Christy Mathewson is famous as a:
A)writer
B)artist
C)baseball player
D)comedian
Secondly, I answered the first 28 questions right before I ran out of time. An IQ test is only as smart as the smartest person who writes it. In this instance, the test would have no way of distinguishing between me or Stephen Hawking. In fact, it might give me a higher score, because I'm younger.
Example: My General Knowledge score was 100%, which puts me on the 90th percentile. 10% of people taking this test are too smart for the test to correctly grade them in this category!
Thirdly, it was timed, which isn't fair to people like me and isn't considered proper IQ testing procedure. Intelligence quotient and processing speed are generally considered separate concepts, and should be tested in a way that separates both. According to the formal IQ test I took a few years ago (which was more than just multiple choice), my IQ is on the 99th percentile (about 150) but my processing speed is on the 22nd percentile (in IQ terms, that'd be about a 75).
I remember a professor of mine showed us local versions of IQ tests, the australian one had questions about wombats and whatnot that would have put any non-aussie in the retarded category
Hail the Hawking!RhombusHatesYou said:
OT: Apparently this entire site is made up of either geniuses or people who are close to becoming geniuses. Either they're all lying, IQ tests are bullshit or we have an undiscovered gold mine of Einsteins.