Aspie IQ

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There must be many Aspies who did the 'Test the Nation' IQ test on TV last weekend and I wondered how we all got on.

I managed 135, a bit lower than the last one 2 years ago - maybe old age is beginning to set in!!

both me and mork did it too and we got pretty average s cores.. i got 113 him 109.... but i dont have brilliant eye sight and recken i could do better with pen and paper rather than looking at the television.

i did well in some sections more than others if i can remember... lol
im a female of 22 years...
i got all of the ones right about the ompass and the road, and the ones with the blocks and the guy standing and you had to say what the bloks looked like from his point of view.
also all right on the paper folding
i didnt do so well with the observation rounds... i felt like my head was going to overload with information.

I did a couple online a few years ago and got 120-130, if I remember correctly. Of course they may have been pure quacko, especially since one of them was from this "world's top IQs" club, so it might've said I qualified just to get me to join them.
Still, the scores aren't bad at all, considering they're aimed at adults with English as their 1st language.

Didn't see it. I'm guessing there's no online version?

I went to the site and it said the IQ tests had been removed.

Devonmike lives in England, where attention spans are longer, allowing an IQ test to actually be offered via television.

As far as I am concerned, don't dare telling me about my IQ when I could bw watching a Real World marathon instead! [/sarcasm]

Didn't see the show. I would question the accuracy of that kind of testing however. There's plenty of IQ tests online and some I've seen are highly questionable. I was tested in school and have IQ of 165.

Any IQ test conducted on TV is absolute rubbish, and your result means very little. It is only entertainment, not a real test.

Also, IQ tests do not test intelligence. They test how good at doing IQ tests you are. Note that a person can improve their IQ by doing more IQ tests.

This is why Mensa says on their website:



Truck drivers and laborers. Having a high IQ does not necessarily mean you are very intelligent or have high real-world intelligence. It just means you are good at IQ tests.

As for my IQ, I don't know, I have never done a real IQ test. I have never bothered because I have no interest in learning how good at doing IQ tests I am -- ability or inability to do IQ tests is quite irrelevant to the real world.

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I didn't see it but I tested high enough to get into the gifted program and then tested again in a different school district. I think gifted program requires 135 but that sounds kinda of high. Maybe I'm mistaken. My spatial understanding is very good so that thing about the guy looking at blocks sounds easy. I was a natural at geometry because I can pictures 3D objects in my head well and such and I can naturally draw well with something to look at for reference.

Hey, truck drivers can be very smart; I think that was a very prejudiced thing to say.
For one thing, they might be aspies who couldn't work with other people and had to end up driving trucks for a living.

Yeah I remember a news story on 20/20 in the US of the man with the highest known
IQ (I think 210 or so). Anyway he was a bouncer at a bar!

Hey truck driver is a good job in the US. At the low end it pays more than the average
public school teacher. On the high end I have heard of $110,000 for car transport
carriers.

Perhaps you are referring to Rick Rosner, a bouncer and nude model, and a contestant on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". He taught himself how to ace IQ tests.

Yes, this is another demonstration that being very good at IQ tests does not necessarily mean you are very intelligent in the real world or very good at solving real-world problems. There are thousands of scientists who have proven their intelligence in the real world, yet score much lower on IQ tests than Mr Rosner the bouncer. IQ and real-world intelligence are 2 different things.


I never said it was a bad job.

To say people like laborers and truck drivers couldn't possibly be smart is very heute-teute.

However, a lot of people can be laborers and truck drivers, but only a few have the brains to do such things as genetic research or differential equations or professional writing--skills that are not necessarily better, but are very sorely needed in a society that faces more complex problems with each passing day.

I got into my school's gifted program on the basis of an IQ test of some kind. I don't know what my score on it was, however. I'll have to do a web search for what the minimum requirements were at that time.

I usually have around 130. But I think my "real life" intelligence is far above that, though I haven't found a niche where I could make use of it. I had a friend with an IQ of 180. We had a discussion about logics. He said some of my theories where wrong. Then I read a book of Wittgenstein. According to him, my theory was right...

I got to question 5 and then got bored s**tless.

On the Wechsler I tend to score between 132-140. On online tests, it's a couple points higher, 135-143.

Unless of course it's the online version of the Raven, for which I most recently scored 115, which is very close to my Wechsler Performance IQ of 117.