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So, if I go above the average in this test, does this make me a super special human being that is smarter than the masses? One test cannot measure one's complete intelligence. If anyone holds real value in these scores their self esteem must be very low if that gives them a feeling of superiority.

In one IQ test, just my language IQ was 99 and in another IQ test it was in the gifted range.

In math I had the same. In one IQ test it showed I am below average in math and in another IQ test it showed that I'm mathematically giftet.



All diagnosed from different psychiatrists.
So officially I asume that I'm all that combined.

Well, maybe you had a bad day when you took the test?
Or what if you generally dont like tests?
Then you can just put the IQ value directly to the trash, because it doesnt mean anything.

You are so right it doesnt much depend on the result of a test how you perform in society.

BTW. Would be interesting to know what happens if you fill out an IQ test randomly. What would be the average IQ you get by that?

(Maybe that is considered already smarter than average, because of good tactics, hehe)

It most probably means you have manipulated the test.

Well done.

It means you are probably the most intelligent person on the planet, but you should already know that, since you are the most intelligent person on the planet and all.

You can get really huge scores if you take adult IQ tests as a child. I think the highest score recorded was gotten that way--a child maxed out the possible score on an adult test. When you do that they add a certain amount to the adult test score to adjust for your age. But those scores can't really be placed on the normal curve. Precocious children are so atypical anyway--I doubt the IQ tests are valid for them. Once you know they're really far ahead of their peers, I don't think you really have to worry about measuring their IQ. Just take your prodigy home, make sure they have plenty to learn, and leave them to it.

It was a test done by a french schools psiciatrist.

Then I believe you must have misunderstood or he miscommunicated. Or perhaps he is new to the field and not very well-informed. Or he could just be a quack.

Otherwise, I am sure we would have heard news that there is a new "smartest person on the planet," don't you think?

I mean, I am not arguing that you are not intelligent, but to be that much more intelligent than others is highly unlikely.

Perhaps you could return to the psychologist and share that you have since learned that an IQ of 240 would make you the smartest person ever and ask for an explanation.

Intelligent tests were even first designed to test intelligence in french school children so far I'm informed.

To the beginning it was like this:
Asuming the child is 10 years old and has a typical intelligence for a 10 year old than his IQ is 100. But if he, with 10, has the intelligence of an 11 year old than his IQ is 110 and so on.
So accourding to the original system when someone with 10 has the IQ of 240, it would mean that he has the intelligence with 10 of an 24 year old.

Today it is messured a bit different, but there are still some differences in the countries.

Where are you guys getting the numbers? Some sort of online test or did you actually go somewhere to take a test?

I don't think any intelligence tests are scored that way anymore. Now they set the mean score at 100 and use a SD of 15 (for most of them, anyway). Regardless of the country, I do not think anyone would just accept a "240" at face value and assume the person is the smartest person on record. The administrator of the test should have done a double-take, shook his head a few times, blinked his eyes, re-scored the test, and then turned to a more experienced colleague to figure out where he went wrong.

Or, the OP could be the smartest person on record. Though if he was, I would assume at the age of 16, he should have a detailed enough understanding of statistics to surmise what 240 means, or at least be able to google it, or even to realize that it is highly improbable.

it is high-average, mine was 130 something and im high average, it means you have some skills/gifts, but may not be gifted in all areas. Good luck!

Well at least you didn't pay for it.

Just saying, I have only taken 2 IQ tests in my life and I scored 142.

I take this lightly, because my grades didn't meet my parent's standards. (As and Bs; they wanted just As.)

I hate being seen as a smart person. It's only a logical answer when I answer someone; why is that such a big deal?!

Example:
"Hey, Matt, what do you think about the collapse of the Soviet Union?"
"They were going to go down eventually."
<questioner bursts into laughter>
This was a question that I was asked in sixth grade, but this is mainly what happened when I answered something controversial/was controversial. Even when I try not seem smart, my OCDness makes me want to perfect. <groan>

Exposure and retention is what is measured. The tests base accumulated knowledge against age. Even reassembling solids out of the flat sides requires experience.

An eidetic memory and strong patterning ability combined with reading the entire Encyclopaedia Americana when 8 renders the IQ tests a total joke. Scores above 200 were met with scepticism and retests were given with different configurations.

Sure enough, I am not a genius or even close. The tests apply to the set of people in the center of average. Some forms of autism put us so far from the mean tests become meaningless as comparisons to the average.

I cannot correct a cashier giving the wrong change, how genius is that?

I score 129