What's your IQ?

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Why do you ask questions like this? You know the average internet user is at least 40 IQ points smarter than the average human, just like the average penis length of male internet users is between 10 and 15 inches.

I totally disapprove of any and all attempts to tell me what my "real" IQ is. An IQ is a test result, not a trait inside a person. I scored somewhat low on a standard test because I genuinely have pretty extreme "holes" in my cognitive abilities that happen to coincide with the last test I took. Acting like those holes don't exist is just as offensive as acting like my abilities don't exist. I'm sick to death of people telling me the score I got must be "wrong" in some way just because they have illusions in their heads about cognitive abilities in general and mine in particular. On the real test I had two scores above average (block design and matrix reasoning) and the rest weren't. An IQ score accurately represents the ability to take the test in question. It says nothing about abilities that aren't tested.

And saying that a person's score is "too low" if they have (or seem to have) a talent, is insulting to people who score low (who can be just as talented as anyone else -- unless every talented person who scores low is systematically given a higher score... which is circular reasoning). I've spent half my life around people who score about my range and below. It's obvious a lot of people here either haven't, or haven't gotten to know people very well. Otherwise they wouldn't say prejudiced things like "you seem too smart for that score".

Low IQ doesn't mean stupid, it's just a test score. What it does mean is that the person has significant differences from usual in sensory, cognitive, motor, class, prior schooling, or cultural areas. Which is true of me in three of those areas. I actually had to do really well in a couple areas to pull my score as high as it was, as my lowest subscale scores were quite low. I scored higher in very young childhood because I could read at an age where most kids can't. But I've been tested twice since, doing my best each time, and never tested Anythibg close to that range again. (Which is why I suspect my score is even lower now -- it's been going in that direction a long time now because my developmental trajectory doesn't even remotely resemble a typical one. I am getting better and better at skills that aren't on the tests, and the tradeoff is I'm losing testable skills.)

Anyway I am always wary of giving out scores because it hurts to be told that I'm somehow not "supposed to" test that way, or that ANY score is my "real" score.

I have fifteen years old and I have Asperger's; the MENSA test claimed my Intelligence Quotient to be 145. However, I have taken a couple of other tests that have placed me between 130-150. I just guess that mine is approximately between 135-145. It is, though, just a number. It surely doesn't determine much about your existence. I'm not making all 100s on everything... in fact, my grades in mathematics are between average and below-average. As anbuend stated above me, as people with ASDs, we all have different strengths and weaknesses than most people do (not to mention that we all have different strengths and weaknesses among people with ASDs), so IQ isn't a really good measurement of intelligence. In fact, the concept developed in the early 1900s and it was used to determine the intelligence of little French schoolchildren. People take it way too seriously nowadays. What really pisses me off is when they tie certain IQ scores to people who never took the test (ex. Einstein, Newton)... Oh well.

@anbuend: Sorry then

It's okay. It happens a lot. I'm used to it. I just like to say something about it.

My official IQ is 111. When I sought my diagnosis in 2008 as an adult, many things were going through my mind. My main concern was that whatever diagnosis I got would be as accurate as professionally possible. As a gifted intervention specialist, I knew that people identified as gifted (IQ of approximately 126 and up) can be confused with someone with Asperger's---and vice versa. It is astonishing to look at the similarities in people with Asperger's and people who are gifted. They look very similar, but yet actually so different. My official IQ had been taken while I was still in school years ago, and I made arrangements to get my IQ test. And I discovered my IQ at 111. This made me realize that my professional diagnosis of Asperger's was correct (according to the criteria). I have looked at things that can be confused for Asperger's, and on my road of self-discovery, I have been able to rule out everything but Asperger's. For those with IQs in the gifted range (approximately 126 and up), you may want to look at the traits of the gifted and see how similar they are to Asperger's. Could you actually be gifted? People who are both gifted and have Asperger's are called twice-gifted.

It doesn't bother me at all, Jonsi. I was just confused.

I like MENSA as it's like a "mind gym".

My last controlled test (last year) gave me a reading of 143, so on the RHS of the distribution.

Many arguments against IQ testing as a whole but, if, like me, you're doing it for giggles, I can't see anything with it.

back in highschool my i q was tested as

Verbal Comprehension (VCI) was 108
Perceptual Reasoning (PRI) was 100
Working Memory (WMI) was : 97
Processing Speed (PSI) was: 56

my full scale was: 90

I got tested before my diagnosis, at around... ten or eleven. It was 141.