Why i had only 95 IQ

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Does i'm moron:(

I took iq test at
http://www.free-iqtest.net/

And i;m displeased with my score, i had only 95, i heard that loots of aspies are smart, so why not me?
I had problem with math part.

118.

I see you're from Poland. That might interfere with your score, not being a native speaker of English.

Maybe, but i think it also had with this number questions, which number fit the rest, or not fit.
I always had problem with math.

149. thanks for the link. will have my hubby take it, too.

95 is average, not dumb. if you factor in the language barrier, you're looking pretty good.

You would get a more accurate reading if you were to take the Raven's Progressive Matrices test. It is all symbolic, and designed to be non-cultural, to take ammunition away from those who claim that IQ tests are culturally and linguistically biased.

As another poster said, 95 isn't that low anyway. It's within average range, which is 100. In any case, it's a matter of living with it. You can't do anything more to raise your IQ than you can to make yourself taller or change the length of your fingers. It doesn't mean you can't study and use what innate intelligence you possess.

Good luck.

Untrue. People do have a level of innate intelligence but they can increase/maximize it through environmental means.

The whole idea of basing your intelligence level on an online IQ test is ridiculous anyway - even properly validated and administered IQ tests can only be used as correlational measures to predict success in certain life areas such as likely academic success or getting a good job. Plus as these relationships are correlational, causation cannot be assumed - for example, experts have argued that IQ tests only really measure an individuals ability to do well in academic testing situations (thus why they are correlated with academic success in school, and job outcomes - as entry to university degrees and thus better jobs is based on academic grades, and thus the ability to do well in academic testing situations). Do IQ tests measure actual intelligence independent from ability to do well in testing situations? As far as I'm aware there is no way to separate the two.

As far as taking IQ tests online goes, it's a complete waste of time as they won't tell you anything useful due to unreliability and lack of proper testing conditions.

Let's start off with your claim that IQ can be boosted as an adult. I would imagine you want that to be true, but that hardly makes it true. So, where did you get your information?

I took some professional IQ tests by psychiatrists in my life. Some claimed I had a high language IQ, others that my language IQ is in the lower normal range. Some claimed I had a high mathematical IQ and others that my mathematical intelligence actually sucks.
Over the years I figured out that this is actually because of my autism and that my intelligence is just different.
I also get different scores on different tests.

I really wouldn't worry too much about the scores in IQ tests. So far I know, Donna Williams, an autistic woman, officially has an IQ I think it was somewere between 70 and 80, but actually she is quite smart and also wrote many well written books.
Autistic intelligence is different than NT intelligence, but those IQ tests are developed to test NTs.

And how others have already said, IQ of 95 is average and the test was also in a different language.

Also keep in mind that this is not a valid professional IQ test, but just a random test on the internet with 20 questions. So nothing to take too serious.

Last edited by Raziel on 24 Nov 2013, 3:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Holy s**t, Batman - I got 147. I am NOT that smart. I think the test must be wrong. I wouldn't put any faith in it.

On the Raven test, I score about 131. You should take that test for a more accurate result.

125, I guess it's not much compared to some... Though I guess you can't trust a random test on internet.

I am French and I got 136.
This is pretty consistent with all the tests in English that I have taken so far (137 and 142). I get higher results in French though and I agree that those internet quick IQ test are made for NTs. It is sometimes difficult to understand what they mean.

I don't reckon IQ measures much other than one's ability to take IQ tests.

Having said that, one can train oneself to get better at IQ tests.

To take a couple of examples from this test - it's easy to improve at anagram and squares recognition.

1, 4, 9, 16, 25, (?)

Replacing (?) is not a function of intelligence or even pattern recognition - it is a function of rote learning basic math.

Grrr...

Wasted 40 mins of life taking the raven test at the end of which I got asked for 20 euros

This is not like real IQ test, please disregard the results.

130

Every test Ive taken ranged from between 125 and 130
Except when I was 5 I got 100, but I don't recall trying too hard with that one, I was more concerned as to why my Mother had just abandoned me to a Children's home and walked off without me.