Anyone doubt their own IQ?

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I doubt mine all the time and think maybe I'm average.


Mine was above average when I last did an IQ test when I got diagnosed. My parents can't remember what it was but told me it was in the 120's above 125. I have troubles believing my IQ is actually that high. I score low on IQ tests anyway online while others score high but doctors say that's nothing and they're not real.
If my IQ is so high, I wouldn't have troubles figuring stuff out and I wouldn't be acting dumb, I would be street smart instead of street stupid. I couldn't even figure out what would a guy do with a youth bus pass. A guy stole my boyfriend's wallet when he was 14 and he found it on the next block and his bus pass had been taken out since he had no money in it. My boyfriend told me he can sell it for money, doh why didn't I think of that. If my IQ was so high, I would have known that but no I didn't. I was busy thinking what kind of idiot would steal a youth bus pass, he wouldn't be able to use it. Why would a grown up steal it instead of an adult bus pass.

I feel stupid most of the time. I wonder if the doctors messed up on the IQ tests when I was 12. Maybe they accidentally picked up the wrong IQ test someone else did and they thought it was mine and they scored it and said it's 120 something.

Considering they said I was mentally ret*d in early grade school, I definately doubt it!(I don't know what the score was)

I don't play any games with people or bet.

Niether do I, but they like to follow me around...

IQ test scores can be lowered dramatically depending on your emotional state and nutrition at the time it is taken. Perhaps when you took the test you were more relaxed and confident, thus achieving the score that you were capable of?

I just plain am not good at IQ tests. My score i get is barely average. yet I do well in standardised testing in school and I went to university and got a degree. I think I just have a slow processing speed, and small working memory bank maybe.

I feel more drawn to creative, abstract and non-mathematical things such as art, psychology, writing, etc...

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yes. I doubt my iq. If I was that smart I wouldnt be this stupid.

I doubt IQ in general. If the test gives me three totally distinct results at different times in the same life with what I consider the same amount of actual intelligence, it's not measuring anything but the biases of the test designers

Yes.
Am was classed as MR in childhood,and still come under borderline MR now.
Doesn't bother am,because am do not take it seriously neither believe in it.
Need to have a general assessment as well as IQ test to really know how the person is,it's useless on its own.

I doubt it all the time... I used to have to take IQ tests every year because each suceeding doctor didn't believe the last result. (just as an FYI.. it tested above 180) It just means I take that particular test well. It doesn't mean squat in what I know, can learn or want to learn. I'd give a large portion of that up to be able to do my own laundry or understand what people mean other than the words that they actually say.

Intelligence is relative. People are smart about different things.

I have this uncle who after I graduated college called me up to congratulate me. After the congratulations he starts talking about how I'm gifted because I'm smart. Then he starts talking about how he wishes he we're smart and gifted too. I had to stop him and say, "look, yeah I'm good at taking tests and writing essays, but that doesn't somehow make me any smarter than you." My uncle is a huge outdoorsmen. He can track and stalk deer and elk for miles, based on broken twigs and crushed grass. He can visit any river, anywhere, and tell you, just by looking at the features of the stream, where the fish are and what type of bait to use. Thats pretty smart if you ask me.

We are all good and bad at different things. True knowledge and intelligence comes from knowing what we are good and bad at and adapting accordingly.

I got accused of cheating on the Army Intelligence test, and was made to take it over. Of course I scored higher, duh!

I never wanted an IQ test because I really didn't want to know. I had exceeded in some classes and had a so much trouble in others. I was even labeled a slow learner which I now doubt. I never did like the standarized IQ tests. I did, however take a class in college about the studies of how the right and the left brain work. We took an exam about ourselves. We were to find out which side of the brain we used most. So, we got clumped into groups after the exam. I was clumped into the R group which meant that I was using mostly the right side of my brain. Of course their were seemingly, and maybe it was the amount of people in the class, more people than any that were grouped into the L group, those who used mostly the left part of the brain. Anyway, it seemed like their were way more students on that side. Then their were some put in the middle who used both sides of the brain. They were considered extrordinarily adaptable. I guess it depends on each individual. My group, the right side, studies or learns better by visual stimuli. So they basically tought us how to study and learn by using things such as audio, books, things like that. I guess this got wordy. So, yes I doubt my IQ.

My IQ was only tested once, as far as I know. This was when I was five, the most stressful year of my life. That year, I was put through a lot of traumatic experiences.

I've read that stress reduces IQ scores. If this is true, that was the worst point in my life to test my IQ. I'm not complaining; my score allowed to me get a good education ("gifted" school). But I suspect that my parents still see it as an accurate assessment of my intelligence. They treat me like I'm a lot less intelligent than I really am, as they always have.

I kind of want to get my IQ tested again, but I'm too skeptical of IQ tests to go through with it.

I'm led to believe that it's part and parcel of this whole thing, to be unbelievably intelligent in some areas and not at all in others. Probably not to the extent of being an "idiot savant". But when I hear others talking about people with high IQs with no actual useful knowledge, I always put my hand up and say 'that's me!! !'

"smart with no common sense" would describe the majority of people on these forums.