Do you know your IQ?
 

http://www.highiqsociety.org/noflash...rs/iqtests.htm

I took the test on this site, and I scored 127 :(

It gave me a load of junk that this was high enough to join their "high IQ" club, but well, yeah,,, it would be wouldnt it?

I dont know much about them and what a standard score is, I think 127 probably below average, its pretty depressing!

I don't take those tests. One I took said I had an IQ of 147, another one said I had one of 128, another one said 134. I know I'm relatively smart, that's all I care about. If I can make Dean's List at college every semester without caring then it has to be up there I guess :)

Bah. I've had everything from 120 to 150 on those damn things.


They're about as accurate as throwing darts at a board.

me too... though I still like taking them.

Never ever took one of those before, maybe tonight when I have more time I will do it and see what I get

1.5 million scoville units, I'm one hot pepper!

IQ tests are more, I think, of an indication of how well you reason in a specific environment, namely the test. I don't think it's a real world expectation of how well someone will be able to reason and extrapolate from given information.

I'm affraid you'll have to answer a basic math skills test before you can take the test...................sorry:(

It's suspicious how everyone who takes these kinds of tests gets at least 110, although the real versions of the test say that half the population should be under 100 (by definition).

The "legitimite" IQ tests are meant to be delivered orally by a psychologist, and the responses are not multiple choice. A friend of mine who is a psychologist said that IQ tests are not reliable for testing intelligence, but tend to be an excellent way of diagnosing mental illnesses (the results aren't just a number).

HAHAAHAHAHA very funny..but i better check the laws here..but i am sure its only for contests with prizes

All I know is that I'm smarter then y'all.

Average is 100. Course this is an internet test and I ussually get between 140 and 190 on these bad boys. I took this one a while back and got somehting in the mid 130s. That was on the 'Ultimate' test, not the High IQ test. I lack the attention for that one.

I usually get a 5. All I can manage to do is sign my name and barely tie my shoe laces.

Seriously, I know I am resonably intelligent. There a quite a few people smarter than me and vice versa. I have no need for these tests to affirm what i already know.

I do not know my IQ, but I do know that IQ scores predict a lot.
IQ is strongly related, probably more so than any other measurable human trait, to many educational, occupational, economic, and social outcomes.
It may be because the online tests are not valid, but it may also be because the average IQ of a person online is higher than the population average.

You are right. The IQ tests administered online are probably not legitimate, reliable, or properly validated. However, there are legitimate IQ tests that are administered on paper (not orally).

Intelligence tests are not reliable for testing intelligence? I'm not sure that your firend knows what s/he is talking about.

I took one in high school to see if I could get into the "gifted" class. They never told me the score but told me it was enough to get in, and I think you had to have a 125.

My senior year of high school I was in the counselor's office doing something and she had my file open on her desk. She wasn't paying attention because she was on the phone so I peaked and saw I had a 128.

IQ tests, SATs, ACTs, GREs they all mean jack and squat. I have a tun of friends who scored well above me on these tests but I run laps around in classes. It isn't because i study hard either. I usually end up tutoring these guys who have 30+ on their ACTs 150+ on the IQ test ect. I'm not trying to brag here at all but there is a lot more to intellengece and success then these tests can measure. For instance work ethics and motivation are two of the biggest factors of success. These tests measure neither. As a buisness owner i'd rather higher someone of average intellegnce that did the work of 3 men then a genious who hardly worked at all.

You see, nearly everyone who replied says how smart they are... I know Im NOT smart at all... I have hardly any original idea's... I have only one real talent, which is understanding things and I have a good memory - it meant I did well in school, and university, but in the real world I'm just a junior accounts guy... I used to think I was undersold, but as I get older, I am more and more accepted I'm just not that bright a person, Im not saying I'm an idiot, Im just a person with pretty average intellect and skills.

I did one once and got a 130 which is the lowest score to qualify as GENIUS! But most internet ones are just scams.

enough to be a MENSA member... but alas, I didn't want to pay for a membership.

then again.. Asia Carrera is a member....

A good memory helps a lot. I have been blessed with a great memory (almost photographic) when it comes to school and horrible memory when it comes to anything else. At least it makes classes easy. But again i'm going to stress how unimportant these tests are especially the internet ones where everyone is a genious.

I didn't bother with it. When I was young (5, maybe 6,) I took the WISC-III and scored close to the upper limit (~150) I was given an unofficial Stanford-Binet by a member of the Psych department at my school (this means I didn't pay, so I don't get the neat little certificate) and ended up with a 189. To bad that IQ doesn't equal achievements.

I'm a sooper jeneus.

I got into Mensa based on my GRE scores, and it was boooo-ring. The people in the chapter may have been smart, but they were no more interesting than my regular group of friends, who are all pretty damn smart anyhow.

You should check out a book called "multiple intelligences." I can't remember who wrote it, but it debunks classical intelligence theory. The gist is "what is 'smart'"? I'm a fair musician, but I can balance a $4.6 billion budget to within a couple hundred dollars. I'm pretty good at strategy, but not very good at directing an organization. I'm very creative with three-dimensional media, but I can't draw to save my life. I kick ass at Trivial Pursuit but I still have to carry the digits to do subtraction on paper, and forget about doing math in my head! There's more to being intelligent that test scores and knowing facts.

When I said that my friend claimed that IQ doesn't mean much for intelligence, he meant the opposite of what you just said. I've never looked up any data on it myself, so maybe he's wrong. It would be surprising, though, since it's his job to know about these sorts of things.

While its probably true that the average person taking online tests is relatively smart, scores of 135 and up are supposed to occur in less than 1% of the population (on the Stanford-Binet test at least). These scores are very common on these novelty tests. Then everyone claims they're a genius, which obviously isn't true.

i feel this about how i am right now as well. In grade school i was one of the "smart kids" which was just like sheets of 100 simple division problems timed to see how fast you could do them. Most of it was and is memory and just having things click.
In 11th grade My Marine Biology teacher preached studying like crazy, study study study he would say until your brain was a file cabinet that when asked a question you just open up the drawer and retrieve the information.
I never studyed and did better most the class, i just tribute it to my memory that i felt i learned it while writing it down and listening.

I took one in high school, and I was in the 98th percentile of my graduating class... Not sure that means much.

Never taken one of these online.... maybe I will, just for fun, when I've had more than 2 hours sleep in the past 48...

IQ test was administered by a psychologist to me when I was in the 6th grade. It was exhausting. The number came back at 154.

IQ means nothing. it is how you use what intelligence you have that means something.

i did one when i was about to apply to my high school; can't remember why. got a 190 or something. probably alot lower now that i'm older... we only get dumber

edit: pss just took it and yeah i did get stupider.. 150 now a days

i don't tend to take the online ones but i did take one at High school, part of our transcript for people in the top 10% i know what i scored and it was very good but they told me i was pretty low for other validictorians.

i love how nonchalant everyone in here is about their responses

"yeah... i'm 98th percentile... no big deal... i GUESS i'm smart"

haha... I know i'm extrapolating what they said... but it made me chuckle

I have no idea what my IQ is... i don't really care enough to find out. I'm in university, so I must have done something right.

No. I've taken a few online tests just for fun, and the results are all over the map. All tests really measure is your ability to take tests created by English-speaking members of Western Civilization (and poorly paid ones, at that).

agreed. english being my second langauge is in a sense a disavantage. i have no fricken clue what those idioms meant -_- i still scored a 760 on my SAT verbal so i don't feel ii'm in any way inept but those damn adage.. no clue what they mean :crazy:

I took three seperate IQ tests prior to sixth grade (three elementary schools requiring them for placement in the upper-echelon classes...WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!) and scored a mean of 163 on two paper and one oral IQ tests. I took the ASVAB for the Army along with the DLAB (Armed Services Vocational Assessment Battery and Defense Language Assessment Battery, respectively), and I found their format to be roughly similar to the IQ tests. I maxed both the ASVAB and DLAB. The key to all these tests is that they assess your ability to ingest, decode, organize, and assess raw data--in short your ability to learn. They're all focused on pattern recognitions of various types. The DLAB was administered at 0600 at MEPS the morning I took it, and it fucked my head up as I'd had 2 hours of sleep the night before. The thing that saved me was my ability to learn, encode, and decode patterns--which happens to be exactly like learning a language, mathematics, or any other basic area of study. You learn the rules, you apply the rules, and formulate responses.

True IQ tests are classified as 130+ as genius. The key to genius is not the quantity of data inside a person's head, but rather their ability to receive it, process it and apply it to the world as we know it.

The other key to life is that little thing "common sense." My father raised me to be practical, and as I became more worldly, I found my common sense increased as things became habit and thinking ahead became natural--but I found my success in the classroom diminishing as I was surrounded by intellectuals in my classes who lived in worlds of pure ideals, black and white situations, and none of the gray areas that define life would sink in with them. Frustration ensued, and I began to tune out professors and peers alike as I gravitated towards people that could survive in the real world on their own.

The irony was also that many of my classes had people who weren't intelligent in an educational sense. I'll always remember discussing the thrust stage we were building for our musical my junior year of high school with my theatre teacher. I was weighing the merits of freehand sawing a length of 4x4 or mitre-sawing it, and was explaining to him why we needed to be "flush" with the floor on each corner and on each support. Then some broad in my class goes "don't you think you're so hot using all those big words?" I blinked, did a double-take and asked "What, using flush as intended for carpentry?" Hands on her hips, indignant set to her jaw, "Yeah, you think you're so smart." ... Blinked again, and said "Flush has five fucking letters in it. That's one more letter than 'Dumb' and the same amount of letters as 'Bitch', both of which apply to you currently." I don't know if I've ever been dumbfounded by that degree of stupidity ever again...

I don't trust most of them. I normally get 130+ on the online ones. So I don't know my real IQ. I just know that I'm studying rocket science in college, and that I've had a lot of friends consider me a genius. Yeah, I may be smart, but there are those that are a lot smarter. I've ran into some extrodanary people and I normally feel extremely stupid in comparison. But it's not the IQ that matters. What really matters is how you use what intellegence you have, and the state of the heart you're in at the time. Use what you have with a kind heart and you'll go much further in life than the lazy, cold hearted, super genius...

...unless the super genius is set on world domination...*insert evil laugh here*:lol:

Just like Wile-E-Cayote, right?:lol:j/k

Never done a test in my own language, doing one in English wouldn't measure my IQ correctly.

Got me one o' them Mensa memberships. I reckon I'm doing OK. :)

Re: Do you know your IQ?
 

I SCORED BELOW 70 ON EVERY IQ OR APTITUDE TEST I'VE EVER TAKEN, and I went through life just fine,

After that question, my head exploded.

I've never taken a real IQ test before, only those ones on the net, which are a load of nonsense; all they do is massage your ego by telling you how much a genius you are, so as to butter you up for shelling money out for something, such as a "professional in-depth analysis of your intelligence".
Pah!

I scored a 252.

I mean it.

For real.

...

I needed Advil by the second question.

im a tard i scored 101 I hate those what does this 423428938290 sided object look like unfolded... uhhhhh i dunno... i guessed on 70 percent of the questions...

i don't know what my IQ is. i've done so many of these online tests and i've gotten anywhere from 70 to 140 to 135 to 90 to 128 to 110 to knowing that the whole thing is plain bullshit.

these tests piss me off. because I can be anywhere from 98 (as the 12 minute test suggested on that brain site) to 128 on most other test and 111 on some emode type site.

Ditto for me.
So are Bill Clinton, and some other people it would be cool to be a club with. What are the real benefits though?

BTW, I took a real IQ test in college and find that the internet ones have always given me a higher score. I think you start to learn how to take these tests to some degree. Then again, some people will never do well on them and can be quite bright. I don't think they are altogether bullshit, but certainly a grain of salt never hurts.

i've had one admistered by a registered psych, and i think i came out to be about 135-137, i cant recall exactly. was 16 at the time.

but as we discussed - you can be book-smart, and then you can be intelligent. you can nail every test known, but they will never accurate how intelligent one is - only how good they are at taking IQ tests.

I love lamp.

me three.

i usually score consistently in the 130's. although like redjake says, i know i am smart and that is all that counts.

diddo, the one I took was really stupid. All the questions it gave me seemed real easy, and logical. it said I had an IQ of 131 which I know should be high. I think they're full of crap. I've actually thought about going to take a real IQ test, but dunno where???

:confused:

any suggestions?

The one that made my brain rattle was the one about The day after two days before the day before yesterday before tomorrow. Or something. I was likeWTF?! But eventually I got it. :cool:

Im in the 160's

always got a 140+-5

I don't have to be smart- I get paid to stand around and look beautiful! j/k :p

I think I'm above average intelligence in that I can think ahead and solve real life problems. I also did fairly well in college and HS. There are many who are very school smart but lack all common sense, and those are the people that I feel sorry for. I don't know what my IQ is but I've never really thought it was that important.

I dont know what i scored last time i took one of these, but i do know the online ones are always high because they want you to feel special and pay to be in their "special people club."

The only IQ tests that are really accurate are the ones made for young children. Experience "raises" your IQ scores since it teaches you how to figure out questions. The more of that type of question that you run into the more easily you can come up with an answer. Coming to a test clean from much experience as a young child may do is a better indicator of inherent IQ.

It's actually a better tool in diagnosing learning disabilities and mental retardation than anything. I personally have never had the patience to answer finish any of those. Took one test back in elementary school but my mom never told me my score. Not sure why - maybe I flunked it. :p She always says I'm quite intelligent so what can I say.

As long as I know where my weaknesses lie then I don't think it's a big deal.

Seconded. I find the online tests to be useful only for entertainment purposes. Who knows how much they fudge the end result so they can sell you an "in-depth analysis."

I think the most important thing is just being comfortable with yourself. Easier said than done, of course--but I don't think these tests work toward that goal. As soon as you start ranking how good your brain is on a number scale, it can cause all kinds of discomfort and self-consciousness. That energy is better spent reading a book, hanging out with people, watching a movie, cooking, working on your car, etc.

That's an EXTREMELY low score on the grand scale... That's equal to about a 6th grade educatability level..

i took a honest to got IQ test when i was in High school administered by the school head shrinker (tryign to figure out why i was getting F's in ALL of my classes :P ) i belive the score was 129, 98th percent. And i got an 80 combined score on my ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Assesment Battery) witch is apprently fairly high. enough to get me a submarine computer job in the navy. One of the hardest feilds to get in to next to nuclear propultion. I just wish i woudl have taken it in HIgh schoool. All of the math is highschool level and being out for 2 years did not help me when it came to reducing fractions and shit.

im just glad they didnt test my spellign otherwise i woudl have gotten a 4 :)


the IQ test and the ASVAB are entirely diffrent the ASVAB is more reallife knowlage ware as the IQ test is more, how well you figure things out .

I took it and it said my i.q. was 1-800-mix-a-lot. WTF?!?!? Does that mean i'm smart or what?!?!?

I just read the Jessica Simpson has an IQ of 160.

So what does that tell you about IQ tests?

Oh yeah, I have had from 150 to 170 on all the IQ tests I have taken.

I've had a real test administered to me by a psychologist once... It was while I was still a kid and my parents were just curious. I never heard the actual score, but they told me I was smarter than average. I don't think I'm a genious or anything though.

Never trust an IQ test administered over the internet.

And semantically speaking, you can’t have an “IQ” (intelligence quotient), but you can have an IQ score.

According to Dr. Einstein, I have a IQ score of 178 :-p.

I'm amazed at how many people in this thread have claimed to have these outrageously high IQ scores yet cannot spell correctly. Shame.

im stupid im pretty sure and i got a 134

I’ve attempted a few IQ test, but I always loose interest after the first three exercises. Besides, the result would probably say I’m as daft as a doorknob. Maybe some day I’ll take a shot.

I have both taken and administered IQ tests as part of my training. The one thing I realized is that each test measures how you do on a particular test on a particular day compared to a normative sample. If you really want to do well in school, organize yourself and work on your study skills. If you want to do well at work, hone the skills and acquire the knowledge you need to succeed. Don't be a slave to a number even if it is from the Internet and we all know that there are no scams on the Internet or do we?

Ya'll can't count high enough to understand my score.


Just kidding, but I simply can't believe this test is very accurate based on the scores everyone is reporting. I would expect all high scores because being on the TFP selects out people with computer skills and certain motivations and abilities. Still, I think these tests that are easy to take and self score tend to be designed stroke our egos. A real test should be admininstered by someone who is properly trained and would include many more questions.

Still, an IQ test only measures one kind of intelligence. What difference does it make what your score is unless you are being placed in special education classes or are trying to get out of an execution (somewhere other than Texas)?

It seems that there are not enough people getting 90-100 IQ.
Has anyone taken the test to see how low of a score they can acheave. I would but I am too lazy well I am kinda curious maybe I will check it out myself later.

I think you nailed it with this answer.

I did well in school, I'm doing well now, but I've met some people in my life that are one hell of a lot smarter than I.

I've also known some dumbasses who make a ton of money, if that counts for anything. Seems to boil down to hard work and how interested they are in their work.

I've taken online IQ tests and gotten anywhere from 130-160. When I was in 5th grade, I was given an oral test to see if I was "gifted" and I scored somewhere around 126.

I haven't done an IQ test in a long time. I really don't believe in them though.

The concept of IQ is a bunch of malarkey (unless you are trying to identify young children with learning disabilities - the original intention), and the vast majority of IQ tests are very poor implementations of this malarkey.

For the record, I've taken a bunch over the years (including the more "proffesional" ones in school), scoring anywhere between 145 and 170, I've gotten near-perfect scores on most standardized tests, but never got good grades because I'm a lazy git. Oh, and my penis is really small.

Now, here's an aptitude test worth taking.

Hang on a minute, are you telling me that people that have some sort of involvement with day-to-day operation of nuclear submarines have trouble reducing fractions?

For some reason, that doesn't make me feel good.

All I know is that I'm smart enough to decline taking tests that try and tell me how smart I am.

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I have:

+49 Strength
+44 Agility
+63 Stamina
+37 Spirit
986 Armor

but only +23 Intelligence

I was given a test 5 years ago when it was discovered I was bi-polar. I'd had a manic episode and was in the hospital. The doc said he had good news/bad news. I had a high IQ at 158, but I'm mental. I'm like....duh. :D

Regards

Here is the one truth I have figured out in life. The people who think they know everything actually know very little anyone who knows a lot realizes how little he/she actually knows.

That is throughout life the more I have learned the more I realize I do not know. Maybe this is a side effect of working in the sciences where it is impossible to know everything well, instead you grab one small subset and learn that well and realize you know nothing about everything else.

I'd rather not know my IQ, that's how I like it :)

i took a test when i was 6 years old. scored a 145. haven't taken another since, though people seem to claim that IQ maxes out somehwere around 8-10 years old.

Ah, the great IQ discussion.
Online IQ tests are not to be taken seriously. They are fun, but the scores are usually not normed and do not culminate into anything meaningful. Individually administered IQ tests (WISC-IV, SB-V, WAIT) are given by a psychologist and take 1-3 hours.
Being a graduate student in School Psychology, I've given my fair share of IQ tests to kids and adults. I've tested about 70 kids, and the highest IQ score obtained that I have come across was 132. My supervisor has given several hundred IQ tests, and the highest obtained score he has come across was 140. Not to say anyone is lying, but I am very skeptical when people tell me their IQ score is some outrageous number. Once you get past 145, your getting into lottery odds, ok maybe not that extreme, but you get the point.
Although the correlation is weak to moderate, IQ scores are the best single predictor that we have of later academic outcomes (Satler, 2001). So, IQ scores do have some validity for assessing learning aptitude.
Also, contrary to what have been said, IQ scores tend to stabilize the older a person gets, After 18, IQ scores are very level. IQ scores obtained by kids under 6 are very unstable (Sattler, 2001).

I took an IQ test in 3rd grade and got a 165 and was put in the gifted program. It has since taken me years of drinking and drugs the fuck that up....who's the smart guy now?

i took one of those tests a couple years back. i scored a 165! shit, i didn't even know IQ scores went that high. needless to say, i didn't really consider it a very good representation intelligence. but i recently had to take another IQ test for a class i am taking, and i scored a 156. i'm kind of starting to get a little weirded out now. is it possible for someone to be smart and not know it?

My roomate enjoys two things:
1) being a douchebag
and
2) holding his 3rd grade IQ equivalent test score over my head.

Whenever I don't know something, usually just some random trivia that I ask about, his usual reply is, *in a snobby voice* "I'm a statistical genius." Which always spawns arguments about ACT scores (I whooped his fucking ass by 8 points) and who was part of my (and his) school districts talented and gifted program for 7 years (wait wait...ME!) compared to his 3rd grade IQ equivalency test...a supposed 134. So from my person experience I think IQs are only for the conceited to hold over people who are just simply ignorant of their IQ scores (me); a way for self absorbed folks to reaffirm their divine unalterable greatness, and as a psychological limit for people who don't do so well.

He argues that IQ is the standard measure of intelligence, the end all be all your-number-is-your-niche way of living. Fuck him, who got a 3.5 his first semester of college compared to his what...2.4??? Bahahahaha! ME!!!

/rant...whew! Damn guys, that felt really good. :D

Edit: After reading the second page I decided to add that my grade school through high school Iowa standardized tests were ALWAYS 99th percentile, in middle school and even younger my reading level was always put at a sophomore college reading level. Thus my question: Why are applicable intelligence scores in the form of an ACT or other standardized test always overshadowed by IQ scores? You would think they would have some sort of direct relationship.

I'd post my I.Q. test, but no one would believe me! :thumbsup:

That low eh? :p

There is a positive correlation between IQ scores and standardized academic achievement scores, although its not as high as you would think. IQ tests and academic achievement measures (ACT, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, SAT) assess different things. IQ is generally thought of as Aptitude, and Achievement measures are thought of direct measures of academic achievement at a single point in time. Intelligence is most definately related to the rate at which people can learn, but other factors get in the way of intelligence being perfectly related to Achievement (e.g., quality of education, opportunities to learn, expectaions and other stuff that we can account for)

They are the same in that they are extremely boring to administer and to take!

In my high school psychology class, everybody took an IQ test as an activity, and scored a 145+ on it. It didn't have a higher rank, and it basically had ranges for the number of questions you got right, so it wasn't a particulary good test, in my opinion. I have always done very well on standardized tests, though, and I was in the gifted/advanced classes before college.

My teacher at the time, who was a smart and knowledgeable guy, said that IQ tests for the standard population aren't really very accurate above 120 or so, and that you'd probably have to have a test designed for the above-average to get an accurate score.

I scored pretty high on several of mine in high school (a boarding school -- everyone was tested), but I know I never had the ambition and specific talents a friend of mine had, and she scored about 100. She makes the ten-figure income now, and I make about a tenth of that.