Obsessed about IQ tests

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I'd baulk at saying it's a special interest but I've done a lot of them online . The vast majority have been non-verbal as most online tests are of that type. I've established that on non-verbal tests I average in the borderline/well below average range , (whereas with the few verbal tests there are I score much higher)but still obsessively(?) look out for new tests.

I guess it's better than being obsessed over mass murderers.....

Seriously, I don't find that most online IQ tests really measure "intelligence" well.

When will the results of your assessment come through?

The assessor said at my 3rd assessment she was not sure she could give the result because of the lack of early childhood info. She has booked me to do the ADOS on May 3rd, but has said she'll look through what she has more closely to see if she can give a result without the ADOS.


The 3rd assessment was on the 13th. I'm not sure how long it would take to go through the notes she's made and if possible arrive at a result.

If I have to do the ADOS I'm not sure I'll be told on the day ,or will have to wait for it to be analysed.

I wish I could, somehow, transfer my early childhood info into your early childhood. Then, it would be a slam dunk as far as autism is concerned.

I have heard mixed stories about people who were assessed while having little in the way of early childhood info due to parents and other older relatives being dead or very old. Some said it made little difference , while others said it was a major barrier.

I have a bit of an obsession over online tests in general (IQ, mental health, personality etc).

You can add the personality tests to my obsessions too. Just not as much as the IQ ones.

I gave my assessor my mums details so she could contact her and she didn't bother but my GF was present at the assessment .

I was assessed using the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders with additional elements of The Royal College of Psychiatrists Diagnostic Interview Guide for the Assessment of Adults with ASD , both were used to aid the assessor using ICD 10 and DSM IV criteria.

My stepdaughter came with me. Truth is I could never have got to the assessments without her. My sister provided a letter that was handed to the assessor. I am not sure what she's been using to assess me . I was asked a lot of questions a lot of which I struggled to answer in much detail because of my poor autobiographical memory . At the end of the first assessment she gave me some forms to fill in. She also gave my stepdaughter something to fill in.

The impression I get from having read quite a few descriptions of assessments is that how the assessments are done varies considerably .

What was the IQ test developed for?

Just wondering if you're truly obsessed with IQ test or just about taking them.

I'm definitely more obsessed with doing them. Then there's the tests labelled abstract/diagrammatic/inductive reasoning.

The first IQ tests were created to see who needed help with their education. Most people's IQ scores for non-verbal vs verbal intelligence are close together ie the gap is <10 . Some people though have gaps of >30 or more .

Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior. The purpose was to put the latter into special schools where they would receive more individual attention. In this way the disruption they caused in the education of intellectually normal children could be avoided.Swiegers, D. J., & Louw, D. A., “Intelligensie,” in D. A. Louw (ed.), Inleiding tot die Psigologie (2nd ed.), (Johannesburg: McGraw Hill, 1982), 145.

Binet stressed the limitations of the test, suggesting that intelligence is far too broad a concept to quantify with a single number. Instead, he insisted that intelligence is influenced by a number of factors, that it changes over time, and that it can only be compared to children with similar backgrounds.

If I compare myself to those from similar childhood backgrounds , ie middle class and privately educated , I'm a complete failure .

You can get higher scores on IQ test with practice



But that doesn't do anything except make you better at IQ tests

Not an IQ test but in the same area. I've been doing abstract/diagrammatic/inductive/spatial reasoning tests and working out the averages.


Abstract 6/46= 13.04
Diagrammatic 11/57= 19.30
Inductive 56/246= 22.76
Spatial 19/123 = 15.45% (From Cambridge uni psychometrics 'Discover my profile')

I think it is part of our culture in which you have shows and paparazzi who tell you are sorts of details of stuff that used to be private.