Aspies and IQ Tests: splinter iqs.

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Spose you've heard that most aspies have a normal IQ range. Well welcome to the world of splinter iqs. I tested out as really really high in verbal (of course), space and of all things analysis (oh that attention to parts to make a whole). BUT significantly below the population in logical reasoning (low processing speed). So you would have to make up that gap in analytical. I did well in the educational setting. So I guess it all adds up to a normal range which makes me functionally dysfunctional. Sounds like, "How can someone so bright stuff something up that's so simple?"

An average person would have scores across the test that wouldn't be too widely apart.


WOuldn't it be great to create a home for the divergently iq'd aspie? Go the splinter iqs.

Whats the link? I can't seem to find this place by doing a search.

Some links on how aspies perform on iq tests tho I think you'd have to be really really interested to wade through it all: basically it just says asp should be identified as a deficit between verbal and performance scores that is significant. Aspergers is defined as higher language than performance skills and high functioning autism as higher performance skills than language.

Now why is that a problem, well you're bright in language, normal overall and severely underfunctioning somewhere...bright, normal or not....thats a helluva range to live with.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/n ... lbert.html

http://home.att.net/~ascaris1/defining.html

http://www.nldontheweb.org/Dinklage_1.htm

http://www.maapservices.org/MAAP_Sub_Fi ... rticle.htm

Google search: high differences between verbal and performance scores aspergers.

Timed IQ tests are BS. They do not accurately test your real-world intelligence. In a timed IQ test, you may be expected to solve a problem in a few minutes, and that is wildly unrepresentative of the real world where experts may spend weeks or months solving a problem.

Note that how FAST you are and how INTELLIGENT you are are 2 entirely different things. The makers of timed IQ tests do not understand this.

IQ tests only tell you how good you are at completing IQ tests. Not how intelligent you are. Also, the more IQ tests you do, the more your IQ score increases.

I personally think IQ tests are a load of crap.

Some people panic on tests for instance, and thus will score lower. As said above, timed IQ tests are not relative to the real world, and the more of them you do, the better you will get at them.

I personally think they are a waste of time, and are used as a way for doctor's to avoid actually having to monitor a patient or child, since throwing a piece of paper at them and making a diagnosis or forming an opinion based on an answer key is easier.

That's just my opinion though. My school records concur.