What is your IQ?

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When I was 22 I decided to join Mensa. To join, I went to an event at which 2 different tests were administered. On the first (Wechsler?) I tested in the 97th percentile. Then I was able to get some coffee. On the second, the California Test of Mental Maturity, I scored in the 99th percentile. The tests were calibrated differently and Mensa only deals with percentiles, so I am at a loss as to how to respond to the poll. In recent years I've become skeptical of those tests anyway.

My IQ is like the horsepower of a classic Rolls Royce: "adequate."

I feel the people with very high IQ-scores often got a tough start to their life. If it left you damaged I hope you are recovering bit by bit.

I've never taken a real test so I'm not sure. From the online tests I've had a go at ... maybe around 125? In any case, I've never been the sharpest tool in any of the boxes I've been through (school, uni, work, etc.). Never put in any classes for the gifted and never forced to redo any years. Just a bit over average, that's all.

@Muse933277 If you're saying that very many online IQ tests are crap that's fine. However to say that all tests that aren't proctored by a psychologist are crap is sheer stupidity. There are some that may not be up to the standard of a proctored test, but are far from crap.

I was one of those that chose the 140+ option I chose that based on (a)what my father had said about my pre teen IQ. Firstly-'around the 150 mark'. Secondly-'147'. That tallies with tests I've done in the last couple of years that were created and/or normed by a psychometrician. Range=141.5-152.5.

Having a high I.Q. does not guarantee success in what you do in life. In some ways, it gives quite the opposite results. Potential bosses can avoid hiring you in fear that you might replace them. Those that do hire you will try to take credit for your better ideas. I learned over time to keep them for myself. Life is frustrating when you do not get to use your full potential abilities when you should. It is like running a foot race while carrying a heavy weight, yet no one else has to.

An example of the above: I am not allowed to do research on my own at my teaching job because I will upstage the tenured coworkers in the department. Instead, I got shackled to one who is a master procrastinator. We have enough results to publish multiple papers, yet I am still waiting for him to finish writing his part of the first paper. He is going to wait so long to get it done that someone else will likely scoop us on the research. He has had that done before to him on his research, yet never seems to learn why.

Any time I bring up the writing, he gets hostile with me about it. It is almost like he cannot understand the research. To me, it is so simple. I have explained it countless times to him, but it is like it gets lost in his mind after a short period. I am at the point where I might just give up on the whole project with him. There are days in which I wish I would have never thought up that research project to begin with. It has caused me only pain.

^^ Good Stuff. When I was young, I heard the story of Einstein changing physics with one page of reasoning, and thought that's how things usually worked. After developing some great prototypes and writing up how to steal the ideas to save millions of dollars, I am convinced that what gets built is almost always the idea of the best salesman, not the best technician.
BTW, in a typical corporation, each VP will have a discretionary budget. The sales guys get a tiny one - they are kept on a very short leash. We know they are stupid about most things, but they wind up setting the course anyway.

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