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Whats you IQ with formula mean x =100, s=15
x < 70 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
x < 70 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
70<=x<85 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
70<=x<85 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
85<=x<100 2%  2%  [ 3 ]
85<=x<100 2%  2%  [ 3 ]
100<=x<115 3%  3%  [ 5 ]
100<=x<115 3%  3%  [ 5 ]
115<=x<130 8%  8%  [ 14 ]
115<=x<130 8%  8%  [ 14 ]
130<=x<145 24%  24%  [ 44 ]
130<=x<145 24%  24%  [ 44 ]
145 < x 13%  13%  [ 24 ]
145 < x 13%  13%  [ 24 ]
Total votes : 182

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08 Aug 2005, 4:33 pm

After my guidance counselor is done fixing school schedules, I'm going to ask about getting tested for my LDs,IQ,etc. My brother just had a test recently.

I did take a free online test once. I got 172, which is probably not true. It was only 50-100 or so questions, all of which were probably taken directly from a MENSA book. Boy those books are fun. Old obsession of mine I just remembered. I'm quite skilled at puzzles,etc.


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08 Aug 2005, 7:24 pm

As I said in my other post on the other IQ thread, I seem to have scored all over the place, and don't even know what my score was sometimes. And I still could score in any number of ranges depending on the day. So another "Nope, don't think the test is valid" response here, and I can't really fill out a poll answer anyway because while I think my last score was about average, I don't know what it was.


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09 Aug 2005, 1:08 am

I think the online IQ tests probably favor Verbal IQ over Performance IQ. None of the visuo-spatial and other performance tests were even similar to those Performance sections from the WAIS.


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09 Aug 2005, 1:34 am

I usually score around 90-95 on the Stanford-Binet with a doctor. That's equates to about an 80-85 on 'regular' IQ tests, as the Binet measures a wider range than others. *AND* I have a 103 average in school. Damn, why are y'all so smart? Why can't you be average like me? :P



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09 Aug 2005, 2:00 am

Sophist wrote:
I think the online IQ tests probably favor Verbal IQ over Performance IQ. None of the visuo-spatial and other performance tests were even similar to those Performance sections from the WAIS.

I once took a test that was strictly to measure my visuo-spacial abilities. I scored perfectly, but didn't feel like it tested all of my visuo-spatial abilities because I have some capacity to visualize stuff in four dimensions and the test didn't cover that.



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09 Aug 2005, 6:13 am

Sean wrote:
but didn't feel like it tested all of my visuo-spatial abilities because I have some capacity to visualize stuff in four dimensions and the test didn't cover that.


Please explain what you mean and what you experience that makes you believe that you have this capacity.


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09 Aug 2005, 6:58 am

I'm not Sean, but he probably either means:

1. That he can visualize things in his head in three dimensions plus time.

or

2. That he can visualize objects in his head as if they have a fourth spatial dimension. (Such as hypercubes.)

Or of course both.

I haven't counted the number of dimensions I can "visualize" (it's not really visual), but I know it's a lot more than the standard three. That's one reason why mapping in two or three dimensions seems fairly trivial to me. It's also why, despite having so much trouble with mathematical symbols that I could never show it on paper the usual way, I could as a teenager understand geometric concepts in minutes that take most grad students weeks.


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09 Aug 2005, 8:17 am

Tim_p wrote:
Looking at the pattern of poll choices it appears the final choice should read ">=145" and you should select that option if your IQ is exactly 145.

I have an IQ of 148 by the WISC-III, I'm told that is the 99.98th percentile.


Example to count iq:

Tim here got 148 which are only achieved by 2 in 10000 according to this info (can be a bit different with different probability values)

You have to know the standard deviation and the middle. IQ scale has by definition 100 as middle. Tim got 148 which gives (148-100)/15 =3.2 and that is very good. There are a different scale with 24 in standard deviation which would bring tim 100+3.2*24 =176(.8)

This poll has 15 as standard deviation so it will be fault to put another s IQ in this poll

I do apologize for the typ-o in the poll, I shall try and fix it.



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09 Aug 2005, 1:14 pm

My spatial skills are horrible. Even though I am primarily a visual thinker, I cannot imagine the backside of a cube! I picture things in 2-D and break them down into their component plains and visualize one (and only one) at a time. Give me a 3-D model and I'm lost. Give me a piece of paper and I'm fine.

I seem better in fragmenting 3-D objects into plains on paper. But truly, my spatial skills are horrible. However, I did excel on the WAIS Block Design Test with a 17/19 and the mean being 9/19. But that is more likely due to seeing one plain of the cube at a time and having poor visual central coherance.


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09 Aug 2005, 2:59 pm

anbuend wrote:
I'm not Sean, but he probably either means:

1. That he can visualize things in his head in three dimensions plus time.

or

2. That he can visualize objects in his head as if they have a fourth spatial dimension. (Such as hypercubes.)

Or of course both.

Yes, both. Hypercubes and 6-cells are the easiest to visualize.



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09 Aug 2005, 3:17 pm

When I was really young I had a test and scored something like 175. Since then I really haven't cared. I don't believe that the number really means anything. I think that the only section of society that really cares what your IQ number is would be an organization like MENSA, a group that I refuse to join because I consider it an elitist institution.


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09 Aug 2005, 3:20 pm

The only reason I would ever join MENSA is that it looks good on college applications.


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10 Aug 2005, 1:40 pm

That polls f***ing confusing...


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10 Aug 2005, 3:06 pm

I don't see what is so confusing, you scale your IQ score to match tests with a standard deviation of 15,
then you pick option 1 if your IQ is below 75,
option 2 if it is equal to or greater than 75 but less than 85,
option 3 if it is equal to or greater than 85 but less than 100,
option 4 if it is equal to or greater than 100 but less than 115,
option 5 if it is equal to or greater than 115 but less than 130,
option 6 if it is equal to or greater than 130 but less than 145
and option 7 if it is equal to or greater than 145.



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10 Aug 2005, 3:19 pm

I really don't see why this is so confusing. Ignore the standard deviation of 15. The average IQ is by definition 100. IQ tests are standardized if they are "official", and all have the same average and same standard deviation. The IQ scale was devised by French psychologists during the Napoleonic era as a tool to determine who could go to school and who would be stuck at home threshing wheat, and most modern psychologists do not put much stock in the number. It's just something that has been hanging around in society for so long that people still care about it.


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10 Aug 2005, 3:24 pm

PaulB wrote:
Ignore the standard deviation of 15. The average IQ is by definition 100. IQ tests are standardized if they are "official", and all have the same average and same standard deviation.


Don't ignore the standard deviation, the Stanford-Binet uses a standard deviation of 16, not all tests use the same standard deviation.