Whats your IQ? (NOT a 'OMG, I'm smarter than you thread!')

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On online tests at first I scored in the 140's, now I get rediculous high scores on them because, well, I have a very good memory ...

I scored 2243 fist time and 2304 on official SATs. This while the test was in english and I'm belgian/Dutch.

Official IQ tests gave me 153, 162 and 159, all tests rated as having a 10 point error potential. Considering those scores a chronological, I guess the best is to average the score at 158 with an error margin of 10 points. This gives me an effective score floating between 148 and 168.

AFK my IQ is only usefull in the fields I can focus on though. I'm a ret*d when it comes to economics and of course a complete nincompoop eggplant concerning anything social.
My focus lies in just about everything IT. Except programming, which bores the crap out of me.

A High IQ is worthless if its hard or in some cases impossible to exploit your savvy.

I also have a semi official EQ score of 14 btw. It was setup and done as part of my diagnosis.

On the test that the dutch Mensa gives I scored 138, which is also the lowest score I've ever got. The whole experience of doing this test was quite overwhelming.

Yeah, thats why they told me it would be best to do the test multiple times.

Aspi's tend to get massive anxiety in new/unknown situtations and that skews the score greatly.

For me it was only 9 points, which falls under the error margin, but I was much more at ease 2nd time around.
I went way to early, hung around the building and forced myself to talked to whoever would talk to me, which lifted alot of anxiety.

The 3de score was a bit lower, I was even more at ease and relaxed for the 3de test and got really bored about half way trough.

One of the people supervising the tests told me he thinks my 3de score would be even higher then the 2nd one if I hadn't gotten bored. And that its a common problem testing people with anxiety problems and people with high IQ's. Its hard to find the true sweetspot for a low error margin score when the moment between the subject being scared out of their mind and being bored with the entire situation is so narrow.

136

Took an IQ test and was accused of cheating due to (a disproportional score)

Second go around two days later, I scored 2 points higher

First time, the score was 139

This was at age 17

Now I'm 45

IQ too

If we are comparing IQ scores, we also have to name the tests and even the countries. For example, the types of tests people commonly do on the internet tend to be very much easier, so you are much more likely to be a genius and be so delighted that you purchase the more detailed report. If you live in Australia you will find that one test has been renormed, so that if you do the same test in the USA you might come out four points higher.

The other point is that many autistics score 20 or more points higher on some aspects of testing than others. If you have done that, it means that you will not be give an IQ score because it will not reflect anything meaningful. Most people score in a relatively narrow range, so an average IQ does give meaningful information about the tests completed.

The other thing to keep in mind is that IQ only measures what is asked of the individual. there is still a lot of research to be done in the area and there are aspects of intelligence that are not measured in the commonly used tests.

Another issue is cultural bias. There are tests which do not have culturally significant material in them but they are not widely used.

Good Point

Mine was performed by the U.S. Army

I took some rather painfully long in person IQ test when I was 13, and scored 168 overall. That was in the US. Was having issues in school, and my parents where worried about my intellectual capacity. Silly teachers wanted to hold me back a grade.

That lead to entirely too much coersion from my parents to be what they wanted, and their seeming blindness to the fact I had other issues >.<

I've taken a handful of internet tests since, with scores between 148 and 160

Yeah, that parental expectation thing can be a real bastard.

I did fairly well at pencil and paper tests as a kid in England in the 1950s. Well enough that my failures to participate verbally and to socialise went unnoticed.

My dad - being aspie as well but buried even deeper in the "if I practice till I get it right then things will be OK" sort of idiom - changed jobs with some frequency. That led to sufficiently frequent changes of schools for anything more serious than continued high scores and skipped years to continue unnoticed.

IQ scores back then, before a lifetime of gritted teeth and disappointment wore me down, were around the 168 sort of mark, depending a bit on what skills the test focussed on.

In Australia, having been admitted to university at sixteen, failed miserably, survived a year or two as a dropout (poet, musician, fast mover: hell, it was the sixties. No, seventies...) and then lined up once again at the university entrance gates, I joined Mensa. As I recall it, I made it through only one meeting before abandoning the concept.

I went to college at 16 too! And then proceeded to drop out as well....for a little while. Clep'd an assosiates degree, except public speaking...couldn't speak into the recorder to save my life.

I've considered the mensa thing, now that I am actually going full time towards my original goal in genetics. Not sure if it is worth the hastle.

I scored 178 on a Mensa administered test in the UK when I was 15, but I have no idea about the name of the particular test and I can't say it has any practical use....it's just a number.

Has anyone else ever suffered a precipitous drop in their IQ? I'm still way above average, but I'm over twenty points less than I was ten years ago.

Three test results: 6th grade 125
three years ago: 138
recently: 145

Maybe it's all the trivia and classes I had in college and books I've read since 6th grade, but it seems to be going up over time, or I have become more mature/better at test taking.......

OR it's just a natural phenomenon and I will be the next Einstein in approximately 175years!! !

I think the Americans have another type of IQ test than the rest of us. They seem to be able to score like 160 like it's nothing, and they can be a lot dumber than me (score 135). I guess it's the same effect that make American kids be able to be "straight A students", when our tests are made so very few can reach an A.

122,5, last time i took it. It was right after i got 16

My IQ is 143...