On October 21 2007 23:28 aRod wrote:
IQ 141, first test administered by Defiance Ohio School board when I was 5.
IQ 138, second test administered by Orange County Ohio school board when I was 8.

Average IQ is scaled to 100 and the standard deviation is scaled to 15. Internet sites, even Mensa's don't do this. Below 60 is classified as retarded. Most tests administered by schools don't offer scaling above 150.

My mom is a school psychologist. She actually administers IQ tests almost daily. If you play with blocks a lot or have your multiplication and addition tables memorized you do a lot better on IQ tests taken when you are young. IQ has also been found to correlate with an individuals level of education.

I'd say having your multiplication and addition tables memorized does make a huge difference when your young. My parents had me memorize all of mine at a very young age.. 3rd or 4th grade and I tested in the 150's as a kid. According to a couple of online iq tests im usually 120-130. Of course I guess like everyone is saying these might not be accurate though. I wonder where I actually am because I still get high test scores on other things.

Chef

10810 Posts

October 22 2007 05:31 GMT

#204

"My parents had me memorize all of mine at a very young age.. 3rd or 4th grade and I tested in the 150's as a kid."

When you study for an IQ test, it sorta means absolutely nothing (even more nothing than it usually means). IQ tests don't even measure the most useful forms of intelligence, like decision making, and situation analysis. It just says whether you've gone to school and paid attention or not.

Alventenie

United States2147 Posts

October 22 2007 06:15 GMT

#205

Not entirely true PsycHOTemplar, IQ tests are normally meant to test your knowledge with math, problem solving, and patterns, all of which are someone taught in school, but most of these subjects are a "it clicks or it doesn't" type subject.

You can study patterns all you want and go look at one you haven't seen and not find the pattern because people told you the pattern, or used simple patterns to test you. If you find a pattern you've never seen before, you will either get it after a while, or not.

Also, I've memorized my multiplication tables up to like 25 or something in my head, but thats just basic math and repetition, however my ability to do long thought out problems in my head due to memory and the thought process to continue that problem to the end with correct answers means I would do fairly well on problems people told me, or showed me. I wouldn't say that memorizing helps you do that, or paying attention in school (6 out of the 8 people in my AP calc class used calculators and paper for everything, me and one other guy used our heads a majority of the time)

IQ is just a test of how well you can learn, or your capacity to learn knowledge, education, etc., not so much how much you can memorize, because while i can recite multiplication tables, memorizing them doesn't particularly mean that I have a high IQ.

I haven't taken an IQ test in a while, but the last one I took last year in the spring before I left high school (I'm 19 currently), I scored 135 on the mensa site. I'm really good at problem solving, patterns, and math in my head, but I suck at english -.-, like really bad.

ps. 157 votes (people) said they had higher IQ than 130, which, is much, much less than 2% of the world =/

fig_newbie

749 Posts

October 22 2007 06:33 GMT

#206

126 on the mensa one and 135 (er..) on Physician's. The mensa one actually hurt my damn head...I thought I was going to get a 80 or something.

Who cares if the poll is skewed?

I think we should just rejoice that everyones so fucking smart here. Apparently tl.net owns life just as hard as internet voting. Cheers, fellow geniuses!

btw incontrol lol i didnt see the hq >_<

unknown.sam

Philippines2701 Posts

October 22 2007 06:39 GMT

#207

i've taken numerous iq tests online...they were in the range of 120 - 130+...so i guess that puts me in the 120-129 category...i think...
btw, where can i take a legit iq test??

Skew

United States1019 Posts

October 22 2007 06:45 GMT

#208

On October 22 2007 13:08 Hot_Bid wrote:

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Offer to eStro doesn't exist! (*looks around for Skew at eStro house*)

Actually...

LaSt)ChAnCe

United States2179 Posts

October 22 2007 06:48 GMT

#209

over nine thousand

edit - i tested mid 160's when they gave me one during school, gifted program etc

sprawlers

Norway439 Posts

October 22 2007 07:38 GMT

#210

jeejee I think you actually might be one of the few guys here underestimating himself if you really did all but the last 3 in 10 mins. It took me like 30 to get to the last 5/6 or something at which time i "hit the wall" and didn't really come very much further. But I'd agree that the mensa one probably oveerstates your IQ too, but i guess it would be accurate if you detract like 5/10points. It is by far better than the other one posted.. Oh and I don't see how you can claim the test is to kind because you guessed the last 3 and got 130something. There were 40 questions after all.

LaSt)ChAnCe

United States2179 Posts

October 22 2007 07:40 GMT

#211

if mensa gave accurate readings of iq, their site traffic would drastically decrease

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Smurg

Australia3818 Posts

October 22 2007 07:41 GMT

#212

Estimated 200, but I'm always above estimates. I'd say 215-220.

I'm a polymath, I was friends with von Goethe - I invented a way to preserve my youth and live forever...

ChApFoU

France2983 Posts

October 22 2007 08:00 GMT

#213

I took an online test once which told me I was 137 but I guess it was at the very least unscientifical and porbably some commercial bullshit to make you buy some IQ enhancing program or something like that.

Sky

Jordan812 Posts

October 22 2007 08:09 GMT

#214

One of my friends was given the status of genius intelligence back in his high school, but presently he spends most of his days smoking pot and making hemp bracelets. The weekends he likes to binge drink and watch prime-time movies with no goal set for his future. He didn't dumb himself down, because you could practically talk to him about any subject and he'll have some basic or complex knowledge of it, but he doesn't seem to be going anywhere. It just feels like the iq tests are just a masked dick-measuring contest.

Why not just judge yourself by what you do with your head instead of what's crammed in it?

EDIT: My sig is not my iq.

Beyonder

Netherlands15103 Posts

October 22 2007 08:28 GMT

#215

It's an estimation of succes in school/work. It's no guarantee.

Smurg

Australia3818 Posts

October 22 2007 09:00 GMT

#216

My IQ is as big as the number of posts in this thread - and counting.

ParasitJonte

Sweden1768 Posts

October 22 2007 09:10 GMT

#217

I got 124 on the mensa one. Though that only tests visual recognition ability. Which is extremely boring.

Beyonder

Netherlands15103 Posts

October 22 2007 09:17 GMT

#218

oh tee hee external attribution

yunicyarblejellythou

United States77 Posts

October 22 2007 09:45 GMT

#219

When I was young around 10 it was estimated in the 150's. Seemed low to me.

MoltkeWarding

5195 Posts

October 22 2007 11:25 GMT

#220

Given the amount of random BS in this thread, I am going to arbitrarily designate you all with IQs according to my intuition and respecting the 100 average benchmark.

yunicyarblejellythou- 87
Beyonder- 101
Parasitjonte- 110
Smurg- 104
hot_bid- 75
Manablue- 112
Charliemurphy- 91
TheOvermind- 80
Overtheunder- 119
Incontrol- 99
Locked- 94
Gatsu- 111
Frits- 107
Deadvessel- 76
Cambium- 100
decafchicken- 90
Cow- 71
Chobopeon- 112
Nony- 118
DrainX- 104

P.S. If I can solve every mensa puzzle but cannot cook a good fried egg, where does that put my IQ?