What is your IQ?

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By SZ do you mean schizophrenia, or do you mean something else? I haven't seen this particular abbreviation too many times.

^ Yes,schizophrenia.The dx has gone back and forth recently between schizophrenia and schizoaffective.

I don't know what my IQ is. I'd like to find out, but I don't trust IQ tests because I've heard that they're sexist and racist. They make the tests so that women and minorities won't relate to the questions as well and end up with a lower score, or they will think I'm a major dummy because of my math issues even if I score high in other subjects. Supposedly only people who are really good at math are smart.

Schizophrenia doesn't imply low IQ. So I am not sure why you are assuming it would make you low functioning.

I test significantly above average according to both online and professionally administered IQ tests, I'm not particularly good at math.

I feel like the main thing scoring high on IQ tests shows is that one is good at scoring high on IQ tests.

So do you score high on math section too, or is it just your verbal section that drives your score up?

One score is one standard deviation above average, the other is 3.

I don't struggle with simple math and I'm good with fuzzy, intuitive math, but advanced math (including trying to explain my estimations) tends to give me a lot of problems.

Which score is 1 standard deviation above average, and which is 3?

Math vs. language respectively, if that's the two categories. My understanding is that the first category also includes logic and spatial reasoning and isn't strictly math.

There are ,of course,exceptions , but the premorbid IQ of those later dxed with schizophrenia tends to be lower than those without schizophrenia. Intellectual decline in schizophrenia.

I don't regard myself as either high or low functioning re ASD. I'm not unintelligent. I have scores listed here and here . I even joined this because technically I could. A memberof that society. Another member of that society. I soon bailed out . However I do struggle with daily manual/practical/technical tasks and get a fair amount of support from my (s)daughter and granddaughters because of it. It's that that makes me reluctant to regard myself as 'high functioning'

I tested at 113 (Wechsler), but with considerable spread. My perceptual reasoning and verbal comprehension were both above 90th percentile, which I would never have guessed. Unfortunately I'm held back by below average working memory. I had a hard time with digit span and doing arithmetic in my head.

The concept of general intelligence is about as well-validated as a psychological construct can possible be. Its existence is empirically beyond any question, and it does seem that g crosses over to real-world contexts. But while IQ is a good predictor at the population level, it carries less weight at the individual level. Hence exceptions such as yours truly, who did rather poorly in school despite an above average IQ.

^ My academic performance was decidedly mediocre, i.e far more b to c- than a+ to b+. I hear of so many people with a similar, or even slighter lower,IQ to me who skipped grades. That wasn't the case with me.

I actually took the MENSA IQ test and scored in the 99th percentile, which would be around 140+ (they only provided a percentage, not the actual score).

But when I took an IQ test with the psychologist who diagnosed me with ASD, I scored 122. Presumable the difference was because of the verbal component of the second IQ test, and my scoring lower on verbal comprehension and attention/memory than I did on logic/reasoning and processing speed. The MENSA test was all written and was just analogies and math.

Also just for the sake of interest my subscores were:
Verbal comprehension: 121
Logic/reasoning: 132
Memory/attention: 121
Processing speed: 142

Apparently the gaps between scores that are nearly identical in NTs was what helped the doctor come to a decision on my diagnosis.

It's funny how in the poll options, at least 60% of people have an IQ of 130 and above thus are considered "gifted" which by the way, only 2% of the population is supposed to have a 130+ IQ.


Either some of you haven't taken an official test (online tests don't count) or are lying out of your ass.

In third grade, my class was tested for intelligence. I was found to be borderline between highly and exceptionally gifted. At the time, my reading comprehension was at a high school graduate level. The school was confused on what to do with me. I got a lot of unwanted attention placed upon me by others. I spent my afternoons in a gifted class whereby I could pick what I wanted to work on. In two years, I finished all of their projects that they had on hand for me. My reading compression grew to a college graduate by that time. I tend to absorb knowledge at a very rapid pace.

Unfortunately, we moved out of state and the new school had no gifted program for someone like me. I had to hide my intellectual talents from my classmates. The school had me tested during my second year there, but did not keep the results private. What was a “gift” became a nightmare for me instead. My world spiraled downward for a long time. It only got better when we moved away. The damage was done already though. It took a very long time to get the thirst of revenge out of my head.

I eventually earned my PhD in synthetic chemistry. It was important to me to do so as a means to rebuild my devastated self worth. It may not make much sense to anyone else, but I had to follow this path. Sometimes you do not control your own destiny, it controls you. I try to use my gifts for the better good when I can, but have been known to go to the other side when it is needed.

Indeed, we have a bunch of cerebral folks on this Site!

I pale in comparison. Consistently in the 110s full-scale according to Wechsler. But I scored a 131 when I was 15.

Last time, it was 120 verbal, 104 performance, 114 full-scale. Could have been higher verbal—but I messed up on the word “pariah.”