Poll: Do you think your I.Q. is higher or lower than the average person.
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I've taken multiple tests at various points in my life, all of which placed me in the top 1%.
The lowest score I've gotten has been 120 while the highest being 138.
The army's IQ test placed me at the very top, being the only person who answered every question correctly.
If you're above it, you're smarter.
Also, 130 isn't genius level.
It's uncommonly smart, but genius level is on a whole different league.
Online tests just like to stroke your ego so you'll brag advertise through word of mouth.
The average person is just stupid.
The lowest score I've gotten has been 120 while the highest being 138.
The army's IQ test placed me at the very top, being the only person who answered every question correctly.
It works by tabulating the results of hundreds of past tests, making the average score 100.Valdus said:
If you're above it, you're smarter.
Also, 130 isn't genius level.
It's uncommonly smart, but genius level is on a whole different league.
Online tests just like to stroke your ego so you'll brag advertise through word of mouth.
The average person is just stupid.
I'm pretty sure higher.
I was reading at a college junior level in 3rd grade and got a 27 on my ACT when I was in 8th grade.
I was reading at a college junior level in 3rd grade and got a 27 on my ACT when I was in 8th grade.
Technically, the exact average is always 100, they constantly adjust it so that the peak of the bell curve is scored as 100 points.xplosive59 said:
OT: I'm quite intelligent, both based on personal observation in terms of how quickly I grasp new concepts compared to others, and based on official tests I've taken. Not including the incredibly inaccurate online IQ tests, one of which declared me mentally impaired, while another said I was in the low 200s range (actual value is quite far from both extremes, I will not list it here).
I can tell you from personal experience that IQ alone is far from enough. I'm introverted, passive, and lack personal drive, while my younger brother is passionate, extroverted and driven. We have close to the same ability to learn and apply knowledge, he's actually just a little bit slower than I am. However, I'm struggling to move beyond physical labor jobs, while he just graduated from college as a commissioned officer in the Navy's nuclear engineering program. He'll be serving on board a nuclear powered submarine within the year, with a starting paycheck that blows nearly all other professions out of the water.
One analogy for the condition of my mind I've used from time to time is to compare it to a top of the line powerhouse of a computer, that someone decided to install an unpatched version of Windows Millennium onto.
Mensa tells me my IQ is 154, so... yeah.
Of course, as many of you have said:
Of course, as many of you have said:
You wouldn't believe just how smugly superior some of the people at those Mensa meetings act.
I've yet to do an official IQ test.
Of course I've done 'IQ tests' online that approach pattern recognition. I find this sort of thing pretty easy, though I imagine IQ tests in their fully realised sense are far more faceted than the pattern tests that I've done.
Based on just those online tests, my 'IQ' is around the 120-130 mark. A quick wiki search places me within the top ~10% of IQ test scorers if the online test is to be believed.
I'd imagine my IQ, regardless of the online tests, to be in the region of 110-130. Somewhere between that area sound like it'll fit.
Though, honestly, I don't feel that IQ tests incorporate much of what it means to be human. I mean, pattern recognition and mathematical intuition is one thing, but being creative and able to communicate easily to other people is just as important (if not more so) (I don't want it to be more so because I'm bad at it.)
Of course I've done 'IQ tests' online that approach pattern recognition. I find this sort of thing pretty easy, though I imagine IQ tests in their fully realised sense are far more faceted than the pattern tests that I've done.
Based on just those online tests, my 'IQ' is around the 120-130 mark. A quick wiki search places me within the top ~10% of IQ test scorers if the online test is to be believed.
I'd imagine my IQ, regardless of the online tests, to be in the region of 110-130. Somewhere between that area sound like it'll fit.
Though, honestly, I don't feel that IQ tests incorporate much of what it means to be human. I mean, pattern recognition and mathematical intuition is one thing, but being creative and able to communicate easily to other people is just as important (if not more so) (I don't want it to be more so because I'm bad at it.)
Not ONLY how good you are at IQ tests. Sure, they're limited, I dpn't deny that. BNut as I always point out, a person who gets thirty as his I.Q. in a test can't be all that clever otherwise either.Daystar Clarion said:
I took the Mensa test. I got 117.
i seriously laughed out loud at this.malestrithe said:
troll +1
cause as everyone in psychology and psychiatry knows, psychosis and extreme intelligence go hand in hand. just like autism and high intelligence, amirite?!
edit: my captcha was "bookworm" -- oddly appropriate given the thread. hmmmm ... ?
So 85% of people think their I.Q. is higher than average. That obviously can't be true, people underestimate other people's intelligence. I know it isn't fair when this is just for people in the escapist community but some of that 85% must be lower than average
That depends. If the average IQ is 100, like it's supposed to be, then higher. If average IQ is between 110 and 120 (which it actually appears to be), then I'm average.