Anonymous wrote:Floor and ceiling detectability levels differ depending on the test and age group for which it is used: WAIS, WAIC, or WPPSI are examples, all Wechsler tests. So there may be no such thing as an IQ score greater than 135 for a 2 year old, but for a 10 year old, different story.

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about whose IQ is what and how my kid really does, too, have an IQ of 145 or whatever is obsuring the very important point that 11:09 made. Sometimes a very high IQ can be a burden to a child in learning work habits before it is too late. I could have written 11:09's story word-for-word. Sometimes it's a wonder to me how I managed to succeed at all given my pathetic study habits. I've learned some work habits as an adult, but not the ones some of my very successful colleagues in grad school had - they were machines.

My kids attend private school in part because I want them to learn good work habits. Their WPPSI scores are in the mid-90s percentile. I would call them bright, not genuises, but I don't care about the label or the number. What I care about far more is that they learn to love school and learning and that they develop good work habits.

Anonymous wrote:Floor and ceiling detectability levels differ depending on the test and age group for which it is used: WAIS, WAIC, or WPPSI are examples, all Wechsler tests. So there may be no such thing as an IQ score greater than 135 for a 2 year old, but for a 10 year old, different story.

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But 12:20's post shows something really interesting: she's assuming her friends have a higher IQ and therefore are in the 140/150 range. Likely they aren't.

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Anonymous wrote:hi which experts are you talking about, who say scores of 150+ are "bullshit"?

There are a lot of them that don't say that.

You seem to feel so strongly about it -- are you the parent of a kid with in IQ of 135, perchance?

No. Are you an assh^le, perchance? If you don't know the name of the firm most well-known for accurately testing the IQ of children in this small town, you are not putting your high IQ to very good use.
Sure, there are a lot "experts" out there who will take your money and tell you just about anything to make you happy, but the honest ones with the great reputations will not. And they don't. And they told me that they don't. Not with respect to either of my children, who have never been tested, but in the course of an in-depth conversation I had about the nature of IQ testing in general with the name partner of that firm.

Who also said that although they will test children younger than 5 at the behest of the private schools, they are very constrained as to what they can measure. You want an accurate score? Bring your child back when he or she is 7 or 8.

Nuff said.

This has nothing to do with a high IQ. Why don't you stop beating around the bush and just post the name of the firm?

Anonymous wrote:I had a nearly identical experience to the 11:09. I have several friends in the 140/150 range. We can't be all that rare.

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Anonymous wrote:"How does an adult go about testing their IQ? As a child I was tested and scored reasonably high, but nowdays, I really can't imagine being that much above average. Could my IQ have lowered? And no, this is not a fake post. I'm seriously curious. "

My understanding is that the testing isn't reliable if it is done before the older elementary years.

Your understanding is correct.

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Anonymous wrote:All this talk about whose IQ is what and how my kid really does, too, have an IQ of 145 or whatever is obsuring the very important point that 11:09 made. Sometimes a very high IQ can be a burden to a child in learning work habits before it is too late. I could have written 11:09's story word-for-word. Sometimes it's a wonder to me how I managed to succeed at all given my pathetic study habits. I've learned some work habits as an adult, but not the ones some of my very successful colleagues in grad school had - they were machines.

My kids attend private school in part because I want them to learn good work habits. Their WPPSI scores are in the mid-90s percentile. I would call them bright, not genuises, but I don't care about the label or the number. What I care about far more is that they learn to love school and learning and that they develop good work habits.

This is me as well. 99th percentile on every standardized test I ever took as a child, never had to study or do homework to get straight As, never learned good study habits. Same thing once I got to college/grad school where study habits mattered - I did not know how to focus, study, put in the work. I still graduated with good grades - magna cum laude from college, I think, but not law school - but it makes me feel like an idiot knowing I could have done better if I had any study skills. My husband on the other hand learned great study habits early on, because he needed to use those study habits to get good grades, whereas I skated on whatever "smarts" I had without studying. I envy his knowledge of how to be a good student - I don't have that. I wish I did.

Anonymous wrote:Think about it, folks. We're in DC. We have a firm of experts in the field of intelligence testing. My bet is that they're pretty damn good, and I can tell you from my experience with them as an adult that they are good at a multitude of things.

Let's consider this again for a moment: If you have an IQ of 135, you're in the top 99% (or more) of the population. Does it really take a super-genius to understand that, beyond that, it is very hard to measure IQ in a way that is statistically reliable? I don't know, but I'm guessing that those out there with IQs truly above 135 should be able to grasp this concept, albeit at the expense of their egos (for themselves or their children).