How much do you score on this IQ test?

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Satellite
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27 Mar 2008, 1:37 am

Brandon-J wrote:

I got the email and it said I got 107. But it doesn't tell you whether it's normal, above average or below. But im assuming it's pretty much average.

EDIT:: ok a found a scale online that tells you

Over 140 - Genius or near genius
120 - 140 - Very superior intelligence
110 - 119 - Superior intelligence
90 - 109 - Normal or average intelligence
80 - 89 - Dullness
70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency
Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness

SO I was 3 points away from having superior intelligence. For those that 149 i think you should check your email cuz it was a sample iq results that came up when I clicked on the link and I first thought I had 149 too.

The test site also has its own comparison chart. On the right there reads "What does my score mean?" Below that you can find links for the info pages.

Your 107 is in the average range.

Here's the comparison chart:

Intelligence Interval Cognitive Designation
40 - 54 Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers)
55 - 69 Challenged (2.3% of test takers)
70 - 84 Below average
85 - 114 Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 129 Above average
130 - 144 Gifted (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 159 Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)
160 - 175 Extraordinary genius

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27 Mar 2008, 1:39 am

Satellite wrote:

Brandon-J wrote:

oh s**t I didn't even pay attention to the stuff on the right. I thought they were google ads lol.

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27 Mar 2008, 2:10 am

I realized something as I was taking this test...

There are some people in the world who have never taken a geometry class and might not even know what a hexagon is, for instance... Some poor kids who never had a chance to go to school because of abuse or neglect may not even know what an odd or even number actually is... I'm wondering how much innate ability I.Q. tests really measure, since they are so standardized.. Real I.Q. tests should be more customized to allow for different backgrounds that people may have been raised in.. I.Q. tests are supposed to measure true aptitude not necessarily acquired knowledge.. Math is actually a learned skill in many ways... Once a person has those basic skills mastered, then it could be used as a measure of intelligence.. For some, it would not reflect there true intelligence if they had not had the privilege of receiving education in math. I also saw where the ability to "think in pictures" for that test was very helpful. Some people find thinking in pictures difficult... Autistics would often excel at that.

Before you start the test, be sure your have enlarged the view of the Print if needed, so that you don't waste time having to do that after the test starts... as I had to do.. I wasted time doing that and know that my score would have been a bit higher if that hadn't happened..

I got a 134.

Does anyone have the link to that other online test someone mentioned on this thread?

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27 Mar 2008, 2:41 am

I got 143 at IQtest.com.

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27 Mar 2008, 2:42 am

Did that test on 3/13 and still had the "general IQ" result of 139 in my inbox, heh...
On school standardized tests, always scored 97-99th percentile.

Anyone else done the Wonderlic? 38
ASVAB /AFQT? 249

This ego-stroking madness is all good, but realistically... I live with my mom and I work in a warehouse.

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27 Mar 2008, 3:03 am

MusicMaker1 wrote:

That's why IQ tests are a very limited tool. They can give a standardized comparison of certain aspects of intelligence, but they are not perfect.

Not even all "real" IQ tests are culture fair or language fair, WAIS being an example... Those tests that are culture- and language-fair, at least to a point, may give valid results for more people, but the area of intelligence they measure is more limited. Of course, the tests can be customized to different cultures and languages. Designing a true culture-free test is extremely hard, nearly impossible. Culture-fair tests are a common compromise.

The test situation also influences the score, so it's possible to score much lower and then have people label you as "stupid". It can lead to a self-fulfilling prophesy, if a child doesn't do that well in an IQ test and the teachers place too much weight on the IQ score.

There are also issues with standard IQ tests administered to autistics. Michelle Dawson et al. have conducted research on autistic intelligence, the research report titled The Level and Nature of Autistic
Intelligence. In the Wired article about Amanda Baggs (The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know) they talk about this study:

Quote:

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Last summer, the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science published a study titled "The Level and Nature of Autistic Intelligence." The lead author was Michelle Dawson. The paper argues that autistic smarts have been underestimated because the tools for assessing intelligence depend on techniques ill-suited to autistics. The researchers administered two different intelligence tests to 51 children and adults diagnosed with autism and to 43 non-autistic children and adults.

The first test, known as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale, has helped solidify the notion of peaks of ability amid otherwise pervasive mental retardation among autistics. The other test is Raven's Progressive Matrices, which requires neither a race against the clock nor a proctor breathing down your neck. The Raven is considered as reliable as the Wechsler, but the Wechsler is far more commonly used. Perhaps that's because it requires less effort for the average test taker. Raven measures abstract reasoning — "effortful" operations like spotting patterns or solving geometric puzzles. In contrast, much of the Wechsler assesses crystallized skills like acquired vocabulary, making correct change, or knowing that milk goes in the fridge and cereal in the cupboard — learned information that most people intuit or recall almost automatically.

What the researchers found was that while non-autistic subjects scored just about the same — a little above average — on both tests, the autistic group scored much better on the Raven. Two individuals' scores swung from the mentally ret*d range to the 94th percentile. More significantly, the subset of autistic children in the study scored roughly 30 percentile points higher on the Raven than they did on the more language-dependent Wechsler, pulling all but a couple of them out of the range for mental retardation.

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I've also heard it said that if an Australian aboriginal designed an IQ test, most of us would flunk it, just because of the cultural differences.

Online tests are just for entertainment purposes. They're fun, but their accuracy and reliability is nearly always questionable, and the reliability level varies a great deal. Would you say that a good IQ test included, say the Fibonacci sequence? At least one (maybe more) test I've encountered does.

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27 Mar 2008, 3:09 am

MusicMaker1 wrote:

Does anyone have the link to that other online test someone mentioned on this thread?

The Tickle one? It's here (at least I think that was the one). There was also another test mentioned in this thread, but the poster gave the link.

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27 Mar 2008, 3:49 am

Mine came back as 147. Supposedly in the genius range yet I still can't remember to get a bottle of milk from the shop if we've run out!

As for the reliability of IQ tests the cultural bias is huge. The prevailing thought for a considerable part of the 20th entury was that black people had lower IQs than white people because they scored lower on tests. However, the IQ distribution among both populations is shown to be be identical when tests are adjusted to make allowances for cultural differences.

Raven's progressive matrices are probably a better measure of 'raw' intelligence as they are designed to test fluid intelligence, the ability to analyze and make deductions. As they use patterns rather than words or general knowledge to test intelligence they should in theory be less susceptible to cultural bias. There's an online test mimicking these (I'll try and post the link when I get time but you can get it through wikipedia links from the RPM page). I got 122 on this one.

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27 Mar 2008, 4:01 am

I seem to get around 91 on IQ tests... Am I the only one who gets below 100? Im beginning to feel like I should purchase a Dunce Hat.

I kind of like Dunce Hats anyway, they look a bit like wizard hats, only with a D on them.

I think a lot of this is to do with my executive function problems. The other day, I had small coins I was putting into groups of 10 cents.

When I counted the groups again they were all wrong. I realised it was because, halfway through counting the coins and doing the maths, I kept forgetting I was counting. How weird is that?

Im kind of like an Aspie Bridget Jones.

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27 Mar 2008, 4:29 am

SuedeIII wrote:

lol, I hear ya. I had one properly administered through my psych and got well above genius. Yet I work as a laborer (outdoors at least) and still live with my mum even though I'm 27. I just spend my time fixing mistakes made by engineers and architects. It's all fun, but what's a socially awkward Autistic gonna do... stim about it?

So much for being smart!

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27 Mar 2008, 5:26 am

zen_mistress wrote:

I seem to get around 91 on IQ tests... Am I the only one who gets below 100?

Nope, I scored 98 on that test.

Although I have had my IQ officially tested this year which was 138.

I don't really care though...a number can't determine what someone can and cant do.

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27 Mar 2008, 8:15 am

Brittany2907 wrote:

zen_mistress wrote:

I seem to get around 91 on IQ tests... Am I the only one who gets below 100?

Nope, I scored 98 on that test.

Although I have had my IQ officially tested this year which was 138.

I don't really care though...a number can't determine what someone can and cant do.

It looks like you have a high IQ anyway, if you got 138 on the official test... so this is a good thing.

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27 Mar 2008, 8:45 am

That's an all verbal test. Horrible, urgh.

I scored 133.

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27 Mar 2008, 9:13 am

Don't you all be discouraged.

There is an age factor in calculation of IQ score. As you get older your IQ score decreases.
IQ (intelligence quotient) = (Mental Age / Chronological Age) x 100

When I was in 5th grade my IQ was 146.
Now at age 26 I took the tickle IQ test and I scored 129.

I guess I can say that I matured early :tongue:

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27 Mar 2008, 9:42 am

I got a 126, which I am fine with, but I don't think it correctly measures my intelligence because of my learning disabilities. It was a timed test, and I am slow at processing information.

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27 Mar 2008, 11:48 am

If 5 + 11 is not equal to 13, maybe I shouldn't take the test right now.

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