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How can you have a pre-defined standard deviation? I thought that standard deviation was determined by the statistical range of scores. The common standard deviation for IQ is around 15, but it varies based on the statistics that are obtained by that particular test. To say that test 1 has a standard deviation of sigma1 and test 2 has a standard deviation of sigma2 and state that these are incompatable because they have different measures would be actual proof that the IQ number really doesn't mean anything because then there is no true measure. Unless a particular test has a standard deviation of 1.75*sigma or greater of another test then I wouldn't really consider that to be so much different. In other words, unless the particular scale has a standard deviation greater than 25 or less than 4 then the two scales are compatible within about 95%.

Ok youve all just confused me more lol. I have troble processing that amount of information

No intention to confuse. I have a degree in physics -- statistics is a big deal to me.

lol

In general, I think the IQ measurement is pretty meaningless.

But just for fun:

I.Q. = Intelligence Quotient = Mental Age / Chronological Age * 100

Now, I am about to turn 44 (my chronological age), yet I feel about 22 (my mental age), thus my I.Q. is roughly 50!

I won't tell you what I "tested" at as a child, but I did get a degree in Mathematics and I'm pretty good at it.

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LF

I'm not a statitition, and I have no degrees (yet ). Looking at it, you're quite right, the difference between S-B and other test scores is very minor and in terms of the poll results is surely less than the margin of error introduced by the small sample size.

You'll get one. It just takes some work for people like us sometimes. I actually dropped out and then went back after a few years. I'm glad I went back, though.

I think my IQ is about 120-ish, but I can't remember.

I don't do very well on tests, but most of the time I soar on my assignments in school. I remember taking an IQ test on the internet and getting in the 120-125 range or something; it probably wasn't a formal IQ test. I am not a total firm believer in a single test determining one's mark of intelligence, however, because I believe in multiple intelligence, a type of intelligence that isn't purely acedemic or intellectual (like cooking or being an outdoors person). I don't think that only math, english, verbal, and critical thinking should be the only factors of one's intelligence. Look at someone like Einstein or Walt Disney, for example. Both of those geniuses soared in their fields however much different they were. But, they didn't soar in the classroom, where their teachers labled them as unintelligent people; then later in life, they obviously proved them wrong.

I have taken a couple informal tests, and my IQ has ranged from 108 to the high 130s. I voted 115-130.

Just think how low we'd all score if EQ testing were included on the standardized IQ tests! LOL... oh, I'm guessing I'd be around the high ret*d range. Oi.

I took an EQ test that I think was mentioned in the news section on this site. The average was 40-50 for normal empathy. I scored 13...

But I beat the average on the Systemic Quotient, so I'm happy.

I think that's Baron-Cohen's you took. But I believe there's a lot of different EQ tests online... I wonder how I would score on those. (I think on EQ for B-C I scored 9. Geeze.)

Thing is with a little logical reasoning you could cheat on most parts of an EQ test, the test askes if seeing someone cry makes you sad, then say it does if you want a high score. You can't cheat on an IQ test, either you know the answer or you don't. If an EQ test was included in IQ tests, I think I would cheat and get the same score I have now.

Hopfully I will, for now the main reason I don't have one is that I'm only sixteen years of age. I'm hoping to become an electrical engineer.

Engineer?!? No!! !! !! ! One time one of the physics students was arguing with an engineering student (this is true, I was there):

Engineer: You know, there are some good engineers.
Physics: Yeah, the kind that drive trains.

Then we got out into the working world. Engineers had jobs, physics did not. There's actually a symbiotic relationship between engineers and scientists: scientists discover things, engineers figure out how to make that discovery useful, and then develop things that help the scientists discover more things. Electrical engineering is a good field. It was more the Mechies (Mechanical Engineers) that we made fun of.

I tested at 150 as a little kid, but I think that's probably too high.