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13 Feb 2007, 1:50 am

Here's the code that Tickle.com uses to determin your IQ score:

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int nIQ = 100 + rand()%41;

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13 Feb 2007, 2:13 am

So if I got quite a bit higher than 140, does that make me a Super Gifted Genius?

Let's see...in junior high school I was subjected to an entire battery of tests to determine what was wrong with me since I obviously had a lot of brains, just no grades to prove it --too bad AS was relatively new then or I could have been saved years of frustration -- and completely wowed the psychologist administering the test. I had to take another one since I maxed out the ceiling on whatever the original test was -- pretty sure it was the WISC -- and don't remember what I got, just that it was apparently very good.

Took another test a few years ago that reaffirmed by apparent arrogance concering my intelligence. IQ 153 sd15-- that puts me in the 99.98th percentile.

Doesn't mean a thing to me. I am still a "terrible" student, and anyone looking at my grades would assume I was a complete idiot. Little do they know I have them right where I want them, content in their assumptions, allowing me the time and space with which to implement my plan to take over the world. [insert diabolical laugh]

Edited to reveal my true genius: I clicked the top option, which was "gifted," rather than the second option, which was "genius," 'cause I got all sorts of confused. I figured it was a descending poll, with the top option being the highest and so on. My bad. See, IQ tests are lame...

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13 Feb 2007, 2:40 am

I don't know. My IQ changes all the time... It depends on when i'm tested and such things and i guess it has nothing to do with my intelligence. Someone should add this answer

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13 Feb 2007, 4:36 am

Mine have varried from 100s to the 140s.

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13 Feb 2007, 10:42 am

dexkaden wrote:

Edited to reveal my true genius: I clicked the top option, which was "gifted," rather than the second option, which was "genius," 'cause I got all sorts of confused. I figured it was a descending poll, with the top option being the highest and so on. My bad. See, IQ tests are lame...

Sorry. I noticed it as well, but didn't want to spend 25 minutes on my dialup-speed connection redoing the poll in the correct order, lol.

ahayes, that I was ROFL when I saw that code! But Tickle.com really does use psychologists I think. Not to say they won't gyp you.

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13 Feb 2007, 6:54 pm

Alaric wrote:

Right. Ultimately, what IQ tests measure is ... the ability to do IQ tests. (Full neuropsychological testing covers a lot more, by the way.)

Exactly. Just as the SAT measures... how well you can answer SAT-style questions - not nesecarily your true intelligence.

I remember telling the psychologist who administered my last set of testing that I had gone through so much testing in my earlier years that I knew all the tricks that are comonly used in those tests. To which she agreed... there are patterns in all those tests, where if you've taken one, you can easily know what's coming.

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13 Feb 2007, 9:45 pm

It's been proven many times that IQ tests don't mean anything. I think especially for people with AS, they might score exceptionally high in one area of intelligence (logic, verbal reasoning, math etc) and score low or average in other areas. Also many of these tests are culturally biased, and may give different results based on where the person being tested is from.

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13 Feb 2007, 10:18 pm

Space wrote:

This is true. Still, if the majority of people hold on to the erroneous belief, the higher the IQ, the more likely certain personality quirks are explained, evn accepted, and the more likely the "quirky" individual is respected. Most people also equate "smart" with knowledgeable, which is like using velocity to define distance: that one requires the other doesn't mean they are the same thing. Being "smart" means it is easier to learn information, while "knowledgeable" means you know information, just like the higher your velocity, the faster you're going to cover a given distance. This is why people say things like, "but you're so smart, why don't you know that?" and think the sentence makes sense.

Or it could, and I am just crazy...

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13 Feb 2007, 10:36 pm

I have a fairly average IQ score (from Tickle so.....). However, I am pretty gifted at figuring out lighting, video, and sound equipment. I just "get" how everything in even the most complex systems are supposed to interact with everything else in the system. On the other hand, I am dumb as a brick when it comes to trying to learn math or foreign languages. Also my rote memorization skills are totally non-existent.

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13 Feb 2007, 11:44 pm

I've been tested around 135-140

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15 Feb 2007, 8:57 am

I took an IQ test for my IEP and I got 146 in Reading Comprehension, 132 in Vocabulary, and a 71 in General Number Relations.

One-sided? Yes, I think so!

I also took a WISC-III and scored 18 out of 19.

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15 Feb 2007, 11:31 am

Alaric wrote:

When I went through the neuropsychological test battery last September, the psychologist had the assistant who was actually testing me add extra tests because I was going through the ones they had so fast. She told me then, even before scoring the results, that I had the highest cognitive scores she had ever seen in thirty years of neuropsychological testing.

When I got the test results back in October, she told me that most of the cognitive scores had to be regarded as minimums. They couldn't accurately measure me, because I'd pegged the tests -- I was off the top of the scale. She repeatedly used the phrase "unbelievably brilliant".

One of the reasons I'd wanted to get tested was to see if I really did have AS, which I'd come to strongly suspect over the last few years. The other reason was I was concerned that my memory wasn't functioning right, wasn't working as I had come to expect it to work. I was forgetting things I knew I should remember, and unable to retrieve information I knew I knew.

The test scores did show a memory hole. But it was only a relative hole, compared to the other scores; I was "merely" in the average-to-high range for males of my age and educational background.

And oh hell, yeah, was it EVER positive for Asperger's.

They should've then given you the Standford-Binet after they gave you the Wechsler. The S-B has a MUCH higher ceiling and a lower floor so it's more accurate when testing gifted people or people who have MR.

Actually, I read a journal article once that proposed that anyone who is tested on the Wechsler and is near the ceiling on two/three subtests or more really needs to be given the S-B. That test is good for more accurately testing the extreme while the Wechsler is more accurate for people who consistently fall in the average ranges on the various subtests.

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15 Feb 2007, 4:50 pm

When I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome the doctor who diagnosed me I forgot his official title also officially said I was gifted and had an IQ around 120.

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16 Feb 2007, 5:50 pm

I think the last time I got my IQ tested, it came out as 138. So that puts me on the higher end of gifted.

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17 Feb 2007, 2:06 am

my parents like to say that i'm 'gifted'

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19 Feb 2007, 10:54 am

When I was a little kid I tested out at 127 but I think it is probably a bit higher then that... course my mom never lets me forget that her's is 131! Grrrrrrrrrr lol.

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