Anonymous wrote:My Dad was a developmentalist who was trained to administer IQ tests and he's talked to us about it.
IQ as a single number really isn't a particularly useful metric. You can have very high verbal skills but low logical or mathematical skills and vice versa. Those online IQ tests are just scams. IQ also isn't static, it's very dependent on whether you utilize certain skills.
My parents actually didn't give us our IQ scores we got testing into gifted because they didn't want us to compare. They also taught us that being smart didn't mean much if you didn't apply yourself.
For those of us who say we were tested we received all the subscores which is how LD’s are identified.