ONLY FOR ASPIES: What's your IQ?

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Can someone explain why certain online IQ tests are actually plain stupid?

Which of the following states is NOT adjacent to Nebraska?

What does that question has to do with any form of intelligence? Didnt they consider a person living in the US might have a better chance to know the answer, even thought he might not be smarter than anyone else? Furthermore, someone living in Nebraska could be considered a gifted genius!

HECK, even the MENSA test has pretty dumb questions. Frankly, I am FINE with questions that can be figured out logically. Most IQ tests have a question that requires pythagoreans theorem to figure out EXACTLY, but the variables are integer and the answers are selected such that a guess will likely be wrong, but the correct answer is OBVIOUS given a modicum of logic and effort. Using common words, even if common in rather advanced literature, is fine. An approximation of pi, and its application to circles is fine. Asking what constellation the big dipper is in, the atomic number of einsteinium, or what the former name of myanmar was, just doesn't make sense. And defining a sequence where you have to complete it, but not having it long enough for a unique enough answer, is DUMB! HECK, even questions like slutaiara is what, is debatable, although pattern recognition on known data IS a meaningful test.

Okay, I'm not really sure if this counts or not. I was originally diagnosed with AS back in 2003 but I was re-diagnosed with NVLD just a few months ago instead of AS. I don't want to screw up the poll or anything. But if anyone's wondering, I'm at 138. When I took the same test two years back (I was sixteen at the time), I scored 132.

f**k IQ tests. When they do one that I don't have to read or at least one that takes in my dyslexia and god knows what else, then I might consider doing one again. And then I don't even hear the spoken correctly sometimes. The things wouldn't be very accurate now would they be. The one I did as a kid it was high, too damn high and if I had known what it was going to set up, I'd have not done it. They set you up for the bullying bull s**t, the damn cliques. Don't score high and you're a ret*d, score high and you're something else. In my case I flunked my way through school and caught hell for it. 12 miserable years of hell. Elitist crap, when they really make them fair, come get me. Then I'll be open to debate about their value. Yeah tell the idiots that make them up to come get me and I'll help them get their heads out of their asses. f**k IQ tests. Any questions? Detect any rage in that? You passed. You have a brain and you win a cigar.

By removing two letters from the word "scout", a word that is the opposite of "in" can be formed. True or false?

Hmmm... me thinking, but me cant find the answer...

Most online IQ tests seem to be made real easy to provide some kind of ego-trip to an average person. Just like those "how bright is aura" tests from tickles.com.

The best test I found yet is this one from Mensa : http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php

Its not pretentious enough to give you an IQ score, yet it evaluates different forms of intelligence. The questions are also made up so that not everybody can give the correct answer, and you do feel kinda smart when you know it. I scored 28/30... the two questions I missed were the ones you have to create a word using 8 random letters or so. Im not too good at that, and english is not my primary language.

By the way, Simon and Binnet first developped IQ tests to evaluate either retardation or giftness in children, and only children. The actual formula to calculate IQ was mental age / actual age x 100. So a 10 years old kid that could score like an average 15 years old would have an IQ of 150 (15 / 10 x 100 = 150). As psychologists extended IQ tests to adults, most of them concluded that high IQ doesnt necessarly mean genius. There might be a few hundreds/thousands persons that have an IQ greater than that of a genius, yet never achieve anything of great importance. Simon and Binnet concluded that in the saying : "The only thing that an IQ test can really measure in adults is how they will score on an IQ test."

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I'm a difficult calculation with IQ testing. I score insanely high on verbal intelligence, but struggle when it gets into anything remotely mathematical. I came out 127 on a professional IQ test in 2000. The online ones have scored me anywhere from 118 to 138 so they can't be all crap.

I was diagnosed with AS when I was 12. Do I count?

My IQ has kept changing over the years when I was in elementary school. I have scored a 96, 117, 110, and my psychiatrist said my IQ was above average and he said it was 12something but my parents don't remember. My parents have always known I was very smart and bright. I dunno how they could tell but everyone says I am very smart and very few say I am average.


The online IQ tests are bull because they are not accurate and they don't mean anything. Only the doctors have the real IQ tests and they also have to test you based on how your brain works. If you're a concrete thinker, you will score low on the abstract test, give a abstract thinker a IQ test that is in concrete, don't you think they will score low on it too? They be thinking so hard and out of the box they won't realize the questions are in exactly what they say they are trying to see what isn't there.
I don't even take the online ones but when I do, it's just for fun and I tend to score low. I don't mean below average in the mental retardation range.

I am a self-dx aspie, plus, my iq is not professionally measured. i got an online iq test and the result is 104.

I'm smarter than my teachers, I don't need to take a test to find that out. I'm also a complete mess, without any form of "street-smart" quality, and I don't need a test to find that out, either.

I'm inclined to think that the Mensa online IQ test also yields inflated scores. The higher people score, the more likely they'll be to pay to take the paper and pencil Mensa IQ exam.

my iq is 86, but verbally im shure its much higher

Uh, I think it's about 146. As a younger kid, about 138.

I'm too scared to take one lol.

The Wechsler tests also have a knowledge portion of the test (forget what the subtest is called). How does knowing the speed of light or what Madame Curie discovered make me any smarter than someone who does not know that information? Actually, I think the subtest might have been called "Information." I always thought that was kind of BS.

No.

An actual IQ test will have very strict controls, and part of it is the time taken to answer certain sections.

Back to the topic, 138.

Different tests have different standard deviations and criteria, so different tests can't be compared to each other with absolute certainty. But... for internet's sake, it's close enough.

I believe I am at a 125 level of IQ but I am not sure.