What's your IQ?

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I wish there were a good way to figure out whether the distribution in the poll is "autistics who use the Internet" or "autistics who answer polls about IQ".

Forum polls are not a particularly good way to get results, though. You're much more likely to have your IQ tested if you are suspected to have a high one or a low one. In the middle... not so much. And then there's all the people who got their results from improperly normed tests, often from the Internet; naturally that doesn't help much.

So yeah, you can pretty much dump the results of the poll. (Anyway, official studies tend to show that autistics get, on average, lower IQ scores than NTs, but with a much wider spread--think of the usual bell curve stretched to be wider, and shifted to the left.)

Autistic distribution looks like the green, NT like the black. 100 is at the center of the NT curve. All dimensions are exaggerated to show the detail.

But this is what happens when you try to use a test normed for NTs on autistic people... you get a screwy distribution. And not only is the test normed for NTs; it's also designed for NTs. All those subtests take some NT skills for granted, because things like recognizing an object in front of you, hearing and understanding a word, or understanding instructions are things that are extremely easy for NTs and they learn them before they learn the stuff the IQ test tests for. But autistics aren't like that in many cases--we might learn how to do a math problem before we learn how to understand the linguistic constructions used to explain the math problem to us, for example. (I remember doing this on the WAIS; the major challenge with the math section was understanding the problem, which was read out only once by the tester and with grammar that got quite complex toward the end--the calculations themselves were extremely simple.) So it's a lot like designing a test for white Americans and using it on people from a completely different culture; it just doesn't work very well.

Mines 133. It was useful for me to find out that i was intelligent in my early twenties as i hadn't considered myself clever as a teenager. It improved my confidence somewhat.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pos ... and-autism

http://autismbulletin.blogspot.com/2007 ... er-on.html

I took a home test when I was a teenager and got 130, however my mother tells me the school principal at my elementary school said the only thing that kept me from a borderline MR assessment was my drawing skills. This was for my placement test for 1st grade. I was already reading at a 5th grade level at that time. Go figure. I consider myself not very intelligent in most of the ways society deems valuable.

Respuestas correctas: 55/60
Percentil: 90
Cociente Intelectual: Superior al término medio
Rango: II+
IQ: 123

To be expected, though, right? For one of us? I can't believe I only got 55 right. I'm disappointed in myself.

I always get around 91 for my IQ. This is partly due to the fact that I find puzzles really boring and tedious, and partly due to the fact that I have problems with working memory, or whatever it is, it is like I can only keep a few numbers in my mind at a time, and if I try and fit too many in some others drop off my memory. I do well at the verbal/language part but dunce out at all the logic puzzles.

my IQ is 163, but i dont even know what intelligence is so i think the test is kind of pointless.