IQ Tests

[RhombusHatesYou]

My results, regardless of the test, invariably come back as some form of 'scary fucking smart', leaving the departmental psych who ordered the test to blather on about wasted potential and other such bollocks before concluding that combined with my list of psychiatric problems they should just leave to me my own devices.

 

[laol1999]

i got 115 on one but it was just a random one online that was mostly word association

 

[Brendan Cain]

IQ Tests are irrelavent, they claim that how intelligent you are is determined at birth, the very idea of this is flawed however is they are testing a set of skills which can be dramatically improved by doing any mensa problems. Therefore if your test score can be improved then its not predetermined level of ability.
Should a person actually be SIGNIFICANTLY smarter then the mean then an IQ test will give the ability to show that, however assume that whatever your answer is, if its on an ACTUAL IQ test, your actual supposed IQ would be 20 points either way of what answer you get. Ignore anything you get on the internet as its all just flattery to sell itself.

 

[ZephrC]

Firstly, IQ only tests knowledge, spatial reasoning and logical reasoning, and most people agree that's only a tiny fraction of intelligence. Second, I very much doubt most tests have an average of 100, and so they don't really measure IQ since that's one of its definitions.

Most importantly, a true IQ test arranges its scores on a bell curve, and because of the decreasing sample sizes the further you get from the average, scores outside the 85-115 range become increasingly unreliable, and for most tests scores outside of the 70-130 range are absolute garbage nonsense. And that's for the official tests. If you got a score of over 130 on an online test, that means less than nothing.

 

[Tharwen]

I got 156 on mine, but I've since read all sorts of nasty things about IQ tests and don't trust it any more.

 

[The Infinite]

Yes but it varies so damn much that it's just not very accurate. Usually I end up with things between 120-140 and who is really arsed about taking them seriously anywhoos?

 

[syndicated44]

Have you ever taken an IQ test? If so where do you go to take one usually and what is your IQ?

I have never taken one but I really would like to just to know. However I have no idea where one would go to do this.

http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/iqtest.swf

this I.Q. test is quite good. I think it is sponsored by some university.

Thank you I will give it a go later today.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I figure they're all bullcrap, testing a very specific skill set. Not having this skill set (non-verbal reasoning/mathematical ability, for the most part) doesn't make you stupid!

[sub][sub]Oh, and I get between 144 and 148 depending on which test I take. No, I can't remember which ones. I just don't want people to think that the only reason I bash IQ tests is because they claim that I'm stupid[/sub][/sub]

 

[Sir Kemper]

I took one once, A real one.


Apperantly I have an IQ of 142.

Which apperantly counts as gifted.

Go figure.

142 in a real iq test is above average not gifted. 160+ is gifted

Gifted in the sense that it's above average, not gifted in the way your refering too.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

who is really arsed about taking them seriously anywhoos?

People who feel validated by numbers, especially large ones.


I propose we create a series of tests to determine a person's (arbitrarily quantified) Validation Quotient and then people who take their VQ seriously can be beaten to death with bricks. Okay, so we don't tell them about the bricks part. It would spoil the surprise, anyway.

 

[Danpascooch]

I took one once, it was meant to be for people over 18, I was 14, but it was the best I could find.

I got 120-something.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I've taken a few of the random Internet IQ tests and have always come out slightly above average. Of course they were all internet tests so I doubt their credibility on the whole.

 

[meowman]

Yes and I've determined that IQ tests are bullshit.

All they do is tell you how good you are at taking IQ tests. That's it.

So true. On various ones I've recieved scores of 146, 134 and 129 - substantially above average. While I am in top maths, chemistry and history classes (still in school) I am hopeless at languages and physics constantly has me in a muddle. I have a friend with a supposed IQ of 89, and yet he's in top of all but biology and history. Taking IQ tests is just another skill, and (in my experience at least) doesn't really reflect your aptitude at other skills.

 

[000Ronald]

I took the Stanford-Binet once, in fifth grade. They were trying to put me in a special needs class. I scored a 142. Take from that what you will.

'pologies.

I think that the "special needs" class you were put into doesn't mean retarded kids, but like gifted kids.

No, they were trying to put me in a special needs class. I was doing below average in most of my classes, although that was more because my parents were in the middle of a divorce, my grandmother was physichally and emotionally abusing me, my teachers treated me like crap (My P.E. teacher punched me more than once), my schoolmates treated me like crap, too, and the meds the school was making me take were seriously fucking me up.

And no one but my father believed it. They wanted to make me take it again, buy father called bullshit and told them to fuck themselves. I'm told that he said it quite literally.

Long story short, if I meant "Gifted", I would have said "Gifted". My childhood was not a happy one.

...I'm sorry if I come off as beligerent. I do apreciate your optimism, but I always say what I mean.

 

[Professor M]

I got 147 on an official mensa one ... I was about 8 at the time ...

Apparently that puts me in the top 1% of the population. Go figure.

 

[Cornish]

I ended up somewhere around 130 on the test, but I personally don't buy them; too unreliable in my honest opinion.