Poll: Do you know your IQ? What is it?

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Mine was 150 or so last time I had it tested...which was 8 years ago. I don't know if its lowered or risen since then, so I can't really give you an adequate answer. Could you add a "I haven't checked in a long time" option?

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I took mine when I was about 12, and I can't remember what it was, and considering all the "FREE IQ TESTS" online end up trying to make me pay money, I won't find out what it is for a while.
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The only proper way to have your IQ tested is with a psychologist. The scores I've gotten from standard IQ tests over the past year have ranged from 80 to 190. The only somewhat accurate IQ test I've ever gotten was when I was 6 years old. I was given a mandatory IQ test by this school's psychologist because the minimum IQ level to get accepted was 145 (they've raised it to 148 since then). When asked my IQ, I usually say it's around 150, although it could be higher. Anything higher than 145 really. Of course, I could have gotten dumber since then so I'm not entirely sure.
 
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IQ's are Pointless, I don't need a test to measure someones intellegance. Last time I took a IQ test is when my parents forced me too around six years ago and I measured somewhere around like...150-180 or somthing, All I know is I'm damn right Stupid at all subjects cept History Math and Science, They don't test Literacy, Reading, English I don't think because I bet Shakespear would have done horrible but he was one of the Greatist Literary minds and one of the most creative basterds around!
 
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101194 said:
IQ's are Pointless, I don't need a test to measure someones intellegance. Last time I took a IQ test is when my parents forced me too around six years ago and I measured somewhere around like...150-180 or somthing, All I know is I'm damn right Stupid at all subjects cept History Math and Science, They don't test Literacy, Reading, English I don't think because I bet Shakespear would have done horrible but he was one of the Greatist Literary minds and one of the most creative basterds around!
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Something I'd completely agree with, society puts too much emphasis on intelligence, and not enough on the nature of one's character.
 
Mariena

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Even though I don't really *believe* in IQ, my last score on the "official" national IQ test was 132!

This is impossible, as I'm a dumb, ditzy blonde who is only interested in chocolate, waffles and sex.
 
Vortigar

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I've scored from 111 to 135 on various versions of IQ tests. The 128 one is the one I put most stock in as it was actually on paper.

The thing is a bit bogus though, if you do a few you know the angle of many of the questions that will be coming at you and thus you can improve your score. So the whole point of an 'objective' intelligence can't really be tested this way if you ask me. But its as good a standard as any I guess.
 
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139. Had it tested last year, so it's up to date. I even qualified to join MENSA (didn't feel like paying the annual fee, so I didn't actually sign up).

I still occasionally forget what I wanted to look up on the internet five seconds after thinking about it, so take that as you will. ^_^
 
TheCheryl

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Through the numerous tests (No, I wouldn't remember what they were called because I only took them, I didn't get told their names. Students rarely care enough to know anyways.) my education system put me through, national testing, psychological professionals, and so forth did (I'll mention why later). I was 92% superior to the nation [America]. In what way? Aptitude, scoring, whatever (It was years ago before I even tried to care). It was, with me sleep deprived and on a caffeine downer 130 on one of the major ones. I've been put through way more tests than I care to remember. -__-

It's funny as snot. IQ means nothing. Trust me. How you apply that IQ is everything. If I wasn't a lazy, procrastinating, bordering on apathetic individual I may've actually done really darn good in school. I had a B-C average, irony is delicious. Yet there's out there who have an average IQ on the same tests, they were the honor roll whelps because they worked for it. Don't let a number fool you. Also, not everyone shows their intelligence. Remember that. I act like a complete moron well over half the time. I have some friends who think I'm the stupidest person they've ever met. I don't discourage it because I can half-ass things easier that way.

Lol, I love being an Art Major. Hooray for wasted potential. (I'll cry myself to sleep one of these days over this.)

Now for the joys as to why I was put through the testing I was: I'm nuts and had social issues at school back in ye olden, the "geniuses" decided to fix my socializing issue by putting me into special ed. The dumb kind, not the "prodigy" kind. Joy of joys it only made things worse, making my grades plummet as I couldn't conjure up even the remotest of give a shits. They had to figure out where I was mentally, hence the tests.

Go figure, I managed to fix things on my own by making friends, raising my grades as my give a damn regrew and getting out of the Special ED classes. I won that school Scholastic Art Awards in my sculpting that I taught myself to avoid painting in painting class. I graduated with honors. College sucked and Art Majors have to deal with more BS than it's worth, life goes on, there ya go.
 
Stakhanov

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I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here but those of you with outrageously high scores should be aware that many IQ tests are meaningless for adults? IQ tests were designed to identify potentially retarded children, and to measure FUTURE academic potential, and they measure performance against a designated 'average' score that has been sorted by age group. These age ranges only run up to 18!

So, if you do your first IQ test at age 25 online and score 180 you are either: a savant-like intuitive intellect able to speed-read perfectly and visualize protein folding and play Bach while reciting pi or you have successfully defeated a standardised test aimed at identifying autism in 12 year-olds.
Seriously though, a classic IQ test score for a 25 year-old of 150 indicates that you are 80% smarter than the median average for an 18 year-old taker. What scale is being used? No way to tell... Internet-based IQ tests have NO validity, meaning or frame of reference. Ignore.

Unless you score really well and can use it to establish the moral high-ground in arguments. That's still useful.
 
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Stakhanov said:
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here but those of you with outrageously high scores should be aware that many IQ tests are meaningless for adults? IQ tests were designed to identify potentially retarded children, and to measure FUTURE academic potential, and they measure performance against a designated 'average' score that has been sorted by age group. These age ranges only run up to 18!

So, if you do your first IQ test at age 25 online and score 180 you are either: a savant-like intuitive intellect able to speed-read perfectly and visualize protein folding and play Bach while reciting pi or you have successfully defeated a standardised test aimed at identifying autism in 12 year-olds.
Seriously though, a classic IQ test score for a 25 year-old of 150 indicates that you are 80% smarter than the median average for an 18 year-old taker. What scale is being used? No way to tell... Internet-based IQ tests have NO validity, meaning or frame of reference. Ignore.

Unless you score really well and can use it to establish the moral high-ground in arguments. That's still useful.
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I'm sensing some hostility here...

Like I said, I have an IQ of 139 as of last year. I had it tested by a clinical psychology I was seeing in order to evaluate how much validity was in the argument that I had trouble associating with people my own age as a kid. It's legit enough...and it's also mostly worthless info.

I'm still a B student in college, and even if you consider that it's because I can't be arsed to put effort in these meaningless classes I have to take to graduate, my GPA is lower than would be expected of a 'genius'. I have an above-average vocabulary, I'm capable of pontificating with people on philosophical topics without too much brain strain, and I still do that thing where I walk into the kitchen to get a bottle of water from the fridge, but forget why I went into the kitchen five seconds later with the cold bottle of water in my hand.

Of course IQ isn't the be-all, end-all of intelligence! Most anyone with a an IQ above 115 could tell you that - how many of you out there do something relatively stupid on a regular basis? I'd bet money that most of us are aware that IQ doesn't mean a whole lot. It's just fun to compare numbers.

So please, chill out. This is just a fun discussion topic. No need to hate on the genius, brah. ^_^
 
li-ion

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I never did an IQ test. Not interested in finding out how stupid I'm either ;-)
 
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