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What is Your IQ?

What is Your IQ?

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Kandahar said:
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.
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It's self reporting. What do you expect?

I voted <80 for kicks and giggles.

Purely looking at the quality of the content here, I'll bet the farm, the boat, the house and the vacation time share that virtually everyone who posted aside from the obvious joke-sters are posting fake numbers either intentionally or unintentionally.
 

Perhaps a lot of these people, as the OP suggested, took some internet "IQ test", and don't realize it's not the real mcdeal.

(several of these folk- Bodhi and Rivr come to mind- have mentioned having astronomically high IQ scores in the past; they've mentioned it a number of times over the past couple of years. This is not the first time IQ has been discussed. So if it's a "joke", it's one of the long-running kind).
 
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My test was taken in 8th grade. Online tests also put me in that range or higher.

As Jallman said, those tests aren't the be all, end all of someone's intelligence.
 
.....scored 130, on the Stanford-Binet test, three decades ago. Mensa cutoff is reported to be 132, or 98th percentile, and above.
 
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Most of those internet tests I've seen have an average IQ of 125 and they don't tell the standard deviation. I usually see numbers 160+ when I take them.

On all the professional tests I've taken, I've hovered around the second standard deviation. (~130)

Unfortunately, my borderline genius fails to make up for the fact that I'm much stupider than average. I'd be much happier with fewer brains and more common sense...anyone want to trade?
 
The online tests are, obviously, not taken in a test taking environment. I work with people who give IQ test for a living. They tell me that the online tests, most of them, inflate one's IQ score by 15%-20% because of the environment, controls, and the standards set from the official tests, themselves. I know that when I have taken the online tests, I have come out in the upper 160's (168 to be exact). When I was tested in school, under a standardized, test-taking environment, my IQ was measured at 147.
 
The only way to get an accurate reading is if everyone takes the same IQ test and reports the results. Online and Mensa tests are not the same and will produce different results. I also highly doubt the same thing that Kandahar pointed out.
 
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The only way to get an accurate reading is if everyone takes the same IQ test and reports the results. Online and Mensa tests are not the same and will produce different results. I also highly doubt the same thing that Kandahar pointed out.
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Excellent point. I took three online test to get my result and used the average. The results varied by nearly 40 points.
 
I've done so many online tests- they're close to worthless unless someone reliable like Mensa provides them. My official IQ was measured at 148, but that was in kindergarten and I certainly wasn't using my test-taking skills at the time.
 
shuamort said:
Mensa and the Church of Scientology. Of course, if your IQ registered, you would have known that already.
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Thank you for that. They were not professionally administered, which makes them worthless.
 
American said:
Thank you for that. They were not professionally administered, which makes them worthless.
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Apparently you're not aware of Mensa's test taking then. As for scientology, I put as much faith in their test as I do their "religion".

Is there some reason you feel you need to attack me?
 
Kandahar said:
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.
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you're right. I've done it once (a free one) but it gave me something like 135 :shock:

To me it's just BS (even the "real" tests). It is not possible to "scan" the intelligence of somebody (who may have read dozens of books, know thousands of things...)..with 40 or 100 multiple-choice questions.
 
shuamort said:
Apparently you're not aware of Mensa's test taking then. As for scientology, I put as much faith in their test as I do their "religion".

Is there some reason you feel you need to attack me?
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Attack you? Why don't you read up on "IQ" testing and find out how ridiculous it really is? It's got so many problems that the people deeply involved in it can't agree on what it really means. I'm not attacking YOU. I was actually joking with you in my first post.
 
Many people lie about their IQ scores.

I have tested this on another website where I picked a specific test with a certain score range tha will not change.

I asked people ot post their scores. Amazingly a goodly proportion of those who responded said they scored above 145, 148, 160 etc.

Unfortunately, for this particular test, that was 100% impossible because 143 is the maximum score. I posted the link that proved this afterwards.

It's fun to screw with liars.




P.S. My IQ is still what I posted here... 3 under par.
 
I think it's between 120-130. I feel dumb with all these egg heads in here.
 

I'll agree it's very limited in its scope.

I remember being in "honors" classes in junior high and high school. One of my best friends was at the opposite end of the spectrum. He took remedial English and math and struggled with those. We both had muscle cars, I had a 71 Chevelle and he had a 74 Nova SS. I could do basic stuff, oil change, valve cover gaskets, etc. When it came to rebuilding the carb, he knew what to do and didn't need to follow instructions. He was "dumb" when it came to IQ tests but a genius when it came to practical applications and therein lies the worthlessness of IQ tests. They're great if you want to measure one's ability to solve those types of problems, but they're far from conclusive.
 
Hatuey said:
I think it's between 120-130. I feel dumb with all these egg heads in here.
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bah, you must have passed a more difficult test, and as TC said many people aren't very honest about their IQ.

If the average IQ on DP was so high we would not have conservatives anymore :mrgreen:
 
My parents had me tested. 145-150. All that IQ must have gone into my specific skill set which I use to make a living, cause I certainly don't feel that bright.

I did take a couple online tests as well. One was 145, other 90. That's right. 90. Apparently the people who made that one believed that math was the only valid measure of a person's intelligence. And when it comes to math, I'm truly dumber than a box of rocks.
 
The answers in here appear to be surprisingly honest (more or less). Usually when a "what's your IQ?" question pops up in a group of people, the unspoken rule is to wait as long as you possibly can and then say the highest number.
 
Cardinal said:
Apparently the people who made that one believed that math was the only valid measure of a person's intelligence. And when it comes to math, I'm truly dumber than a box of rocks.
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I'm pretty good at math.

23 + 2 = Watermelon Jolly Ranchers




See?
 
I was given the Stanford-Binet test to see if I was eligible for the first "gifted" classes in our area and scored 165. I never knew the score until I had already messed up my life pretty badly, but in the end, I turned out to be just fine.

I love my job, have a great family and really enjoy life, although I do lack some common sense occasionally. So what if I never became a nuclear physicist?:rofl
 
Just look at the results of the poll. The average IQ is 100, and nearly everybody here would be above 120 or 130.
 
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