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I suppose it depends on the test, but mine did drop much with age. At 12 I scored at 165 and now have leveled out at 150 from the 3 I've taken as an adult. There was one strange one administered by a state agency with a maximum score of 130, but that is a long confusing situation when I was a med zombie and I do not remember it well at all.

With pretty hardcore learning disabilities I'm far from a genius, but highly gifted. I don't think you can take too much stake in such tests as it's what you choose to do with your brain's power.

http://psychology.about.com/od/psycholo ... scores.htm

This link sites the score range I'm most use to hearing concerning high IQs although I have heard in recent years more modern tests max out at like 125, but that is the equal of what use to be 180+

I like to think I am smart sometimes I feel stupid.

However I am going to avoid those tests.

IQ tests aren't very accurate for people on the autism spectrum, so you may very well be a genius in certain areas, but for NT, 113 is high average.

Incorrect. This depends on where you live.
For adults in the USA the current average is 92 and shrinking 10 points on average 30 years (sad!)
Above 96 is considered above average, genius would start likely around 130 ish.

Personally I am 142 if I recall correctly, but I can barely live with 1 other person and can't work nor do I have a drive
to achieve anything, mainly as I haven't found "that thing" worth working on or toward.

The average IQ in Australia (the lowest average in the world winner) was like 86 or something, can't recall the actual number, but only that Australia has the lowest IQ average in the world. I've heard of stories coming from there that would support that lol. I'm not saying everyone there is stupid mind you, just showing an interesting fact and explaining that IQ average varies based on regions of the world.

Whats sad is China, India are in the top IQ averages as well as Japan, but we all knew Japan is up there, lol.
South Korea is not far behind. America has one of the lowest averages.

Its above average mine is 110

Also IQ is not everything! So many people get fixated on the whole IQ thing.
And that right there goes to show it well, some people with ASD tend to have a high IQ but their abilities are only in a specif area or two.

I was given an official test at 7 and maxed out on the score (135). I haven't taken any as an adult, but I don't really need to since I know I'm more intelligent than the majority of people anyway and don't need a number to wave my dick around. Intelligence is difficult to measure quantitatively; IQ is really not that useful beyond using it to get into certain organizations.

I think you hit the nail on the head. It's dick size that is important, not IQ.

But... but I don't have a dick! Oh, no, that must mean I'm not important at all!

My son's is 165, and I know that is considered highly gifted. I wish mine was that high! lol Yours is certainly above average.

My IQ was 120 (for an average of very variable subtests), but I took the test on a large dose of klonopin and a completely empty stomach, due to anxiety, ha! I felt like my brain was literally crawling so I was absolutely shocked I scored anything above average. After I realized the test was no big deal, I was pretty furious at myself for losing my cool. I have a statistical obsession, so needless to say, I would have liked a higher number for the sake of a higher number. Anyway, 113 is great and from what my brother and sister tell me about their current middle school's learning standards, if you teleported back to 7th grade, you'd actually be a genius.

huh!

Its ok when I was 5 I was at 111 I dont know what mine is now though but Ive been able to comprehend and understand peoples thought processes who have iqs of 170 and outsmarted an arrogant student in jr high who claimed to have a 140 iq.

William james sidis had an iq of 250-300 to all the people saying the highest is 203 or 220.

on topic, 113 is above average according to standard tests. however I highly caution extreme reliance for an aspie on iq scores. einstein's iq was 160 yet benjamin netanyahu was 180. but look at who is more successful.

Still not changing my story on that one. His IQ would have been measured as a ratio IQ, because he was a child prodigy, which means they were probably using adult tests to test a child. That changes everything. If a child of 5 is performing as well as a 15-year-old, then that would be 300. But that was before modern IQ testing. Prodigies have highly atypical development, and the IQ test presumes typical development. A child prodigy with an IQ of 200 at the age of five may end up with an IQ of only 150 at age 25. Compare that to the possibility that someone with an IQ of 100 at age five may score 50 at 25. That generally doesn't happen unless there's a brain injury.

Modern IQ tests do not use ratios; they use standard deviations. A few standard deviations above the average, and you simply can't get enough people to norm the test on, because scores that high are just too rare. Say you want to norm a test that goes up to 200--well, good luck finding the one in 70 billion people who can be expected to score that high. Oh, and you'll need at least thirty such people, though preferably several hundred of them.

The usual procedure to test somebody is to use items of gradually increasing difficulty until they can't do the item anymore. To design such a test, you gather a big group of people and test them until they can no longer complete a problem; at that difficulty, you set the last item on the test. If you later test somebody who can complete that last item (called "hitting a ceiling"), you can only conclude that this person is doing better than your test group. You have no idea how much better, and you can never know unless you get a much bigger test group. Statistically, to get an IQ test that would measure an IQ of around 190, your test group would have to include everyone in the world. Since you can't get everyone in the world, or even a large portion of everyone in the world, your IQ test can only measure IQs lower than that--probably a good bit lower. The result of all of this is that once you get to about 145 or so, IQ tests stop being useful.

As for child prodigies: Yes, you can use an adult IQ test to test a child; and yes, you can juggle some mathy stuff to give them an IQ score higher than the 170s. But chances are that the test simply doesn't apply to them, because their development is highly atypical. An IQ test normed on typically developing people loses more and more meaning as the test taker becomes more atypical. By the time you get to prodigies, the test is best used to amuse oneself by making paper airplanes out of the scoring pages.

Maths: 139
Verbal skills: 150+ (the scale of the test I used ended at 150, and I had everything correct)

I did some other tests but don't remember the results. Most were somewhere around 140 though.

The sad thing is that I'm not really using this high IQ for anything. I'm lazy, disinterested in academic success and don't have a special interest I could use it for.