Does anyone know their IQ?

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One thing to keep in mind with IQ scores is standard deviation. Mensa uses 24 as one deviation and that would put "148" at two deviations.

148 by the Cattel (Mensa test) is IQ130 or 98% cut off for them.

Most testing is done with 15 for one deviation. The old Stanford-binet used 16.

138 as child

1.7 high school gpa

680/660 on SAT

My IQ test was in the early 1970s in elementary school. I wasn't diagnosed until an adult in 2008. I just re-read my post and have to edit it (I worded it wrong)---thanks for pointing out my error in wording .

keerawa wrote
I think I scored 145 back in the dark ages. But, honestly, they pretty much are just testing you on ... how well you take IQ tests.

Thats so true, can't agree more

Mensa test( 165 )but it is of no practical use in real life, so I don't think it is valid for anything.

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When I was last tested, I got a 155.

That is understandable when you think about it.

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I'm not a fan of IQ tests but I am considering doing a MENSA test. Last time I did a proper one was when I was 8 and my IQ clocked in at 145.
IQ tests don't generally measure the areas where I happen to be intelligent in. Most of the ones that I did cover patterns and maths, which I'm lousy at.

people with high IQ's i would think should realize that it is futile to state them on an internet forum.

threads like this are mainly stages for "revelations" that are not paid attention to by many people. people like to state their IQ, but may not be as interested in the IQ's of anyone else.

when i read a post that states the poster has an IQ of say.. 160, i think "if you were that smart, why would you even bother to quote a number rather than demonstrate by example, the quality of your mind in everything you otherwise post"

i would think most people with IQ's of 160+ would not be interested in parading their score on a forum because they would receive ample reinforcement every day from people in real life who react with "admiration" (for want of a better word) to their contributions, no matter how scant, and so they would not want for any scaffolding to reinforce the support of their self esteem.

i was never told the results of my childhood IQ tests. my doctor told me that the reason that people are not told their scores is that it is a very dangerous thing for someone to learn.

some people who learn that they are merely "average" (90-110) may have their self identities founded upon a base that includes the idea that they are gifted in some way. these people may suffer an identity collapse if they learn that they are not as "good" as they deeply thought.

obviously people with low IQ's do not need the nails in their coffin of their suspicions of inadequacy to be hammered down tightly by scientific endorsement. they need hope.

people who are gifted (if they learn of their IQ score) may decide that they need not listen to the words of others because they are reinforced to think that all other thoughts than their own are inferior.
they may become an unwilling stowaway on a ship headed toward isolation.

that is why people were not told what their IQ scores were in australia when i was a child.

Heh, the MENSA test apparently focuses big on math, in the stereotypical belief that smart people are good at math. Silly MENSA. Well, some smart people are good at math, but some people are smart at other things...

But I guess that the MENSA test is probably a decent way for you to get your IQ tested without a big financial investment, if you're really that curious. Back when you were eight, if you were ahead in your development, you could have gotten the 145 by just performing about as well as a twelve-year-old... if you're an adult, you have to be in the top half-percent or so. Very different things, developmentally; it's not at all unusual for autistics to develop at a different speed from NTs. So you could, as an adult, test significantly higher or lower (though at 145 you'd be hitting the ceilings of adult tests and you wouldn't know how much higher).

I'd suggest, as an alternative, to look at your percentile on the ACT or SAT instead; the first is an academic achievement test and the second is more of an IQ-test-style thing. If you're not in the US, there are likely other national "academic potential" tests that correlate pretty well with the IQ test. Should give you a pretty accurate conversion.

That's the problem though. They approximate it by assuming that IQ has meaning. It's possible that Einstein would have gotten an IQ of 90 for all we know. IQ is a score on a test, nothing more, nothing less. You cannot approximate an IQ by someone's intellectual achievements, because that would mean that IQ actually correlated with that, which it mostly doesn't.

b9 wrote

people with high IQ's i would think should realize that it is futile to state them on an internet forum.

oh crap banished from the forum by a low brow bigoted elitist again!'

I declare my rights as a individual to proclaim my 160 plusness.

I like individuals with IQ'S less than 160 their so cute!

I was not speaking about myself but a friend just in case you thought I meant me. The friend in question definitely does not hang out on forums lol. He is on the spectrum and I asked him to join here but he would simply rather focus on other things.

143, am still kind of slow, just know a lot about certain subjects

It was 146 at 12 years of age.... I'm sure I've killed some of my brain cells since then... LOL
Although, when it comes to common sense, I'm a complete idiot.... Go figure. I could read at a 13 year college level at 10, but couldn't hold a civilized conversation with my best friend Go me.