whats a IQ?

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pretty sure this goes with cognitive or something and learning.

IQ means "Intelligence Quotient."

It is a supposed measure of intelligence. It's not quite accurate, though it can be used as a baseline.

If a person has a 100 IQ, it means the person is exactly "average" in intelligence, according to the results of the test.

It's a measurement of intelligence.

Here's a Wikipedia page;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

The others are right that it is a measure of intelligence, but it is a measure of your natural intelligence, rather than learned intelligence (history, maths, science for example). There is some argument that you can train and improve you IQ, which is true to a certain extent. You can get used to the style of question, which means you are more prepared to answer them, but you still need the natural ability to answer the questions.

In a true IQ test there are no direct math questions. There are no region specific questions, meaning anyone from anywhere in the world could take the test and understand the question without having to have prior knowledge of a specific subject. It is all about your brains ability to analyze, its like a measure of your natural brain power. Most "IQ" test on the internet are not official IQ tests, of which there are several variants. Your average internet "IQ" test has a lot of straight maths in it or things like "Sam has 6 apple and gives 4 to Jane" etc.

It has gone up 5 points since I was 20 when I first did one to now at 31, this could have been due to being quite stressed out when I first did it. I have quite a high IQ but my math ability is very low. I got very low results at school and my mind just goes blank with anything more than basic addition or subtraction.

There are plenty of people that are very low academic achievers but have high IQ's.

IQ just means how much you have the ability to do abstract thinking, problem solve, how fast you can learn new things, and your ability to reason.


But this can be confusing because there are people out there who are not so quick to learn things but may be quicker in learning other things and we tend to have troubles with abstract thinking and we may have academic issues so would that mean we have lower IQ's. Which is probably why IQ scores are not always accurate for us. Also what about normies out there you can't reason with and conservatives, are they dumb? I did ready a study online about people with low IQs tend to have more prejudiced beliefs and tend to be more conservative and be racist. Google 'people with low IQs are more likely to be prejudiced.' Gee I wonder if my ex boyfriend was dumb.