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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.

Your parents knew how to game the system to get you into the gifted program. I did the same for my kids. We don't know their actual IQ because we only have the one that I prepped them for. Their IQs were 137 and 145. My 137 child is probably smarter than my 145 child, but I did less prep with her because we overshot the mark too much for the fist kid. The cutoff for the program was 128, so i was shooting for 130. Of course, I would do this because it gives them a better education and more opportunities. 🙄 I see kids in that program who are completely average in every way, so I'm certain I'm not the only parent to do this.

I hate the game and our unfair system, but I have to play.

Jesus Christ. This explains so much.

I hope it explains how to access good education for an average child, because that's what's happening.

My parents never told me but I did test into FCPS GT back in the 80’s, which was a much more selective and smaller program than today’s AAP. One parent does years ago and one just died a few months ago. I’m going through documents, I found my IQ test results and it is actually 152, which explains a lot. I am not overly successful in my career. I’ve been fired a couple times because I struggle with always thinking I am smarter than everyone including my bosses. I don’t have tons of friends but do have a wonderful husband and two wonderful children, all of whom are very smart, one kid likely around my level. I may be on the autism spectrum but was never evaluated for that. I just don’t relate to a lot of people that well. My dad was similar. The optimal IQ is probably around 130. Maybe even 125.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know mine but it looks like everyone lives in Lake Wobegon where all the IQs are above average. No, not above average. They're pretty much all above 120.

My cautionary tale is Marilyn vos Savant who, reportedly, had the highest IQ ever recorded at 228. She was born in 1946 and appears to have spent her life giving motivational talks, serving on corporate boards and answering riddles in her column in Parade Magazine. I've always found that kind of sad.

It's a sampling issue. You don't know a number unless you were tested for some reason, so there was probably already some evidence of either unusually high or unusually low intelligence.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know mine but it looks like everyone lives in Lake Wobegon where all the IQs are above average. No, not above average. They're pretty much all above 120.

My cautionary tale is Marilyn vos Savant who, reportedly, had the highest IQ ever recorded at 228. She was born in 1946 and appears to have spent her life giving motivational talks, serving on corporate boards and answering riddles in her column in Parade Magazine. I've always found that kind of sad.

Why is that sad? It sounds awesome and fun.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Your parents knew how to game the system to get you into the gifted program. I did the same for my kids. We don't know their actual IQ because we only have the one that I prepped them for. Their IQs were 137 and 145. My 137 child is probably smarter than my 145 child, but I did less prep with her because we overshot the mark too much for the fist kid. The cutoff for the program was 128, so i was shooting for 130. Of course, I would do this because it gives them a better education and more opportunities. 🙄 I see kids in that program who are completely average in every way, so I'm certain I'm not the only parent to do this.

I hate the game and our unfair system, but I have to play.

Jesus Christ. This explains so much.

I had to take an IQ test for admissions into a magnet middle school back in the 90s. It was a 128.

My 2 kids had to take the WISC for entrance into their school. They're at 128 and 126.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know mine but it looks like everyone lives in Lake Wobegon where all the IQs are above average. No, not above average. They're pretty much all above 120.

My cautionary tale is Marilyn vos Savant who, reportedly, had the highest IQ ever recorded at 228. She was born in 1946 and appears to have spent her life giving motivational talks, serving on corporate boards and answering riddles in her column in Parade Magazine. I've always found that kind of sad.

Well, DCUM skews more educated, so I don't above 120 in this thread is unusual - and no one sub-100 is going to be reply and give a number. For the records, I'm the PP with the concussion, my IQ is 129, but I flunked out of college because I couldn't pass physics. It's not the end all, be all of success.

DH and I do not know ours, but we know it was high enough to be in gifted and talented education in the 70s and 80s. Neither of our parents told us ours, and we did not tell our kids theirs.

One kid was tested in preschool for private school admissions, but I don't consider that valid due to the young age. It was very high, but I think it would be for any precocious kid.

Our other kid was only tested as a teen because of suspected LDs, and the psychologist said the number is not reliable because of the LDs. Really bright kid, very low number.

It's kind of fascinating. Huge difference in their tested IQs (more than 30 pts), but they have similar GPA and SAT scores (both above 98th percentile).

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know my exact iq, but I tested into the gifted program in the mid 1980s in elementary school. Anyone know what the cutoff was? I think I was the only one in my class to be accepted.

I even remember some of the test questions, being asked to repeat a long sentence about a car traveling and crossing the railroad tracks.

Do you think there was one cutoff in the 1980s in elementary schools? LOL.

I don't know mine but it looks like everyone lives in Lake Wobegon where all the IQs are above average. No, not above average. They're pretty much all above 120.

My cautionary tale is Marilyn vos Savant who, reportedly, had the highest IQ ever recorded at 228. She was born in 1946 and appears to have spent her life giving motivational talks, serving on corporate boards and answering riddles in her column in Parade Magazine. I've always found that kind of sad.

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.

Your parents knew how to game the system to get you into the gifted program. I did the same for my kids. We don't know their actual IQ because we only have the one that I prepped them for. Their IQs were 137 and 145. My 137 child is probably smarter than my 145 child, but I did less prep with her because we overshot the mark too much for the fist kid. The cutoff for the program was 128, so i was shooting for 130. Of course, I would do this because it gives them a better education and more opportunities. 🙄 I see kids in that program who are completely average in every way, so I'm certain I'm not the only parent to do this.

I hate the game and our unfair system, but I have to play.

I know mine because I did the WAIS-IV as part of a full neuropsych exam after a concussion.

I was tested as a kid because it was a requirement to be admitted into the gifted program I was in but my parents would never tell me what my score was even though I asked several times. My brother didn’t get into the gifted program so I guess they didn’t want me to know my score and tell him and make him feel bad (though I wouldn’t have done that…I just wanted to know and would’ve kept it to myself…I’m not a braggart, just a curious person.)

Anonymous wrote:I know my DH has an IQ of 147

....because he told you?

I think a bunch of people make up a number that sounds good to them. No one can fact check them.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know my exact iq, but I tested into the gifted program in the mid 1980s in elementary school. Anyone know what the cutoff was? I think I was the only one in my class to be accepted.

I even remember some of the test questions, being asked to repeat a long sentence about a car traveling and crossing the railroad tracks.

In my state the cutoff was 130. I live in TX now and the cutoff is top 20%, so more like 110 (average smart or smart enough for anything).