Do you know your IQ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone going to fess up to having an iq ~100?

Am I the only one that has never been tested?

I think most people have never been tested. I’ve been tested because I have a mental illness and that was part of the battery of test they did when I was hospitalized at 14. Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, especially people claiming to have been given an IQ test that landed them in the top .005%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a 139 when I was 14. I haven't taken it since. I had only slightly above average SAT scores though!

Then you don’t have an IQ higher than 98% of the population. SAT is not a difficult test for smart people.

Actually it can be. My IQ is 99th percentile and I did horribly on the SAT. I have ADHD, and although I was first in my class in math all throughout elementary school by the time I got to junior high I couldn’t pay attention anymore. I barely got through algebra and geometry in high school with D’s, and I never went beyond that. And my SAT score reflected it. Pretty low. High enough on the verbal stuff, but super low math scores. I did score 99th percentile on the lsat though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was 138. Low for my family: my sister was 148, our mom was 156, and my father's was close to 180. I have never met anyone smarter than my father. But if you think being a super genius makes you super competent, etc., guess again. My father was brilliant, but EQ stunted. It is hard to hold a regular conversation with someone who intellectualizes everything.

My brilliant father (200) is in his third marriage. He’s cut off his mother, his sister, and his daughter among others. Emotional T Rex

One of my sons to my surprise has an IQ of 104. All of his life, people marveled at his intelligence, vocabulary etc. He made excellent grades and is very successful in his career.

🤷‍♀️

lol, y’all are too much. Einstein’s IQ has been estimated to be between 150 and 160. And your dad is at 200? Yeah, right. [/quote



NP, well, I'm 183 so yes possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was 138. Low for my family: my sister was 148, our mom was 156, and my father's was close to 180. I have never met anyone smarter than my father. But if you think being a super genius makes you super competent, etc., guess again. My father was brilliant, but EQ stunted. It is hard to hold a regular conversation with someone who intellectualizes everything.

My brilliant father (200) is in his third marriage. He’s cut off his mother, his sister, and his daughter among others. Emotional T Rex

One of my sons to my surprise has an IQ of 104. All of his life, people marveled at his intelligence, vocabulary etc. He made excellent grades and is very successful in his career.

🤷‍♀️

lol, y’all are too much. Einstein’s IQ has been estimated to be between 150 and 160. And your dad is at 200? Yeah, right. [/quote



NP, well, I'm 183 so yes possible

OK. Well, maybe you can get on that unified theory thing? And quit typing away about your IQ on a forum like this? I

That’s what I thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was 138. Low for my family: my sister was 148, our mom was 156, and my father's was close to 180. I have never met anyone smarter than my father. But if you think being a super genius makes you super competent, etc., guess again. My father was brilliant, but EQ stunted. It is hard to hold a regular conversation with someone who intellectualizes everything.

My brilliant father (200) is in his third marriage. He’s cut off his mother, his sister, and his daughter among others. Emotional T Rex

One of my sons to my surprise has an IQ of 104. All of his life, people marveled at his intelligence, vocabulary etc. He made excellent grades and is very successful in his career.

🤷‍♀️

lol, y’all are too much. Einstein’s IQ has been estimated to be between 150 and 160. And your dad is at 200? Yeah, right. [/quote



NP, well, I'm 183 so yes possible

OK. Well, maybe you can get on that unified theory thing? And quit typing away about your IQ on a forum like this? I

That’s what I thought.

What's your problem? you know there's no rule that says you have to respond to every post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was 138. Low for my family: my sister was 148, our mom was 156, and my father's was close to 180. I have never met anyone smarter than my father. But if you think being a super genius makes you super competent, etc., guess again. My father was brilliant, but EQ stunted. It is hard to hold a regular conversation with someone who intellectualizes everything.

My brilliant father (200) is in his third marriage. He’s cut off his mother, his sister, and his daughter among others. Emotional T Rex

One of my sons to my surprise has an IQ of 104. All of his life, people marveled at his intelligence, vocabulary etc. He made excellent grades and is very successful in his career.

🤷‍♀️

lol, y’all are too much. Einstein’s IQ has been estimated to be between 150 and 160. And your dad is at 200? Yeah, right. [/quote



NP, well, I'm 183 so yes possible

OK. Well, maybe you can get on that unified theory thing? And quit typing away about your IQ on a forum like this? I

That’s what I thought.

What's your problem? you know there's no rule that says you have to respond to every post.

What’s your problem? Desperately insecure?

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. I know people who had off the chart SATs and have never accomplished anything. My SATs were about average but I’ve done fine. I’m a good problem solver and have pretty good common sense and it’s worked well for me.

[Anonymous]

I know a couple people in Mensa and they are a sad lot. Seems like it’s mostly people who haven’t accomplished much professionally but like to talk about their high IQs.

High IQ means squat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was 138. Low for my family: my sister was 148, our mom was 156, and my father's was close to 180. I have never met anyone smarter than my father. But if you think being a super genius makes you super competent, etc., guess again. My father was brilliant, but EQ stunted. It is hard to hold a regular conversation with someone who intellectualizes everything.

My brilliant father (200) is in his third marriage. He’s cut off his mother, his sister, and his daughter among others. Emotional T Rex

One of my sons to my surprise has an IQ of 104. All of his life, people marveled at his intelligence, vocabulary etc. He made excellent grades and is very successful in his career.

🤷‍♀️

lol, y’all are too much. Einstein’s IQ has been estimated to be between 150 and 160. And your dad is at 200? Yeah, right. [/quote



NP, well, I'm 183 so yes possible

So you and about 2/3 of DCUM are smarter than Albert Einstein. Ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These tests have got to be BS. if 100 is average, where are all the people who get below 100?

Response bias on the thread, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These tests have got to be BS. if 100 is average, where are all the people who get below 100?

Response bias on the thread, of course.

I think I gave the lowest, or at least one of the lowest scores, for my kid at 104. Bottom line is that IQ is not a very useful test when it comes to predicting achievement, satisfaction, or success.

[Anonymous]

I would like to increase my emotional and social IQ -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a 139 when I was 14. I haven't taken it since. I had only slightly above average SAT scores though!

Then you don’t have an IQ higher than 98% of the population. SAT is not a difficult test for smart people.

Some of us have standardized test anxiety.

I have a 147 IQ. I know because I was tested for a gifted program as a kid.

I didn’t do as well on the SAT as my IQ would suggest.

And some of us have 1:1 interview anxiety.

We're all geniuses in our own niches.

[Anonymous]

People who think they "have" a certain IQ for their whole life are low IQ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These tests have got to be BS. if 100 is average, where are all the people who get below 100?

There's some confirmation bias. Those of us who scored well don't mind answering the question. But also, let's not forget the demographics of the DC are and DCUM. We are more highly educated than the average, and the IQ test definitely shows privilege bias.

Is IQ something you were born with? Or is it increased with education?

Advocates for test say it is genetic. Common sense says it is a human construct and fundamentally bias toward the culture of the dominate class. If it is something that can be studied for (it is) then you are not born with it. One is trained into it, either explicitly by studying or implicitly by the way one’s parents raise them. Many, many, many studies show the tests used in the US are bias toward the white affluent. If one is from a different background their word choices will be different, their descriptions will be different, the puzzles they are trained to solve will be different, etc.

Someone should make IQ tests (and norms) for other subcultures for us all to try.