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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?

I’ve often wondered that. My mother has minimal education due to her circumstances growing up, but she’s much more intelligent than any of her children. We’ve all had far more education than her.

There are many types of intelligence of course. I’m not sure how useful these scores are. I would guess they are far too simplistic.

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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.

Because I've seen the report. And the degrees from Oxford kinda back it up...

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine was 137 when I was tested in 3rd grade. I often wonder what it would be now and if I would test the same...given I often can barely remember what I did this morning!

Same on all counts!

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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.

Maybe. But the scores people are posting are exaggerated. It doesn’t take a genius with a high IQ to see that. It’s embarrassing.

People with very high scores - and I know some of them - would have no qualms posting their scores on an anonymous board, especially since it’s the kind of thing no one brags about publicly. So I don’t think that the scores people are posting are exaggerated. You don’t have to believe them, but your “it’s embarrassing” comes across as a little…I dunno…defensive. I’ll just remind you that IQ is ultimately meaningless and has no bearing on success in life.

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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.

Maybe. But the scores people are posting are exaggerated. It doesn’t take a genius with a high IQ to see that. It’s embarrassing.

As someone who got a high score and went to GT and is very average in life success... I don't think it matters. I struggle with life as much as or more than others because I'm highly sensitive and also analytical and have to research everything. I'm not very care free. I'm divorced. I like the beach and outdoors. I dislike math.

I don't get what's so great about IQ. My kids are all bright but haven't been tested except the one with ADHD/ASD. How is it useful to test and know this at all?

Anonymous wrote:Mine is 138. I was tested because I didn't speak at all before 4 years old. Then I fell out of the moving car in the parking lot on the way to get the test. But, it turns out that was unrelated. I have since made of for my early lack of speech in spades.

My older brother who spoke for me has an IQ of 118. I know because I found all his files in a box at my house. I had great fun making fun of all of the comments in his report cards. What a fun day!

How do they test a child who doesn’t speak?

Anonymous wrote:No. I got a 179 on the LSAT so I can guess it’s pretty high but I did prep for that. I’ve definitely met people clearly smarter though at that level there’s often some other tradeoff (neuroticism, social obliviousness).

I think I’m dumber now at 40 but happier and I think have sharper social skills.

I wouldn’t mind writing a column for parade magazine instead of reading legal documents and emails all day.

The LSAT is mostly testing for reading comprehension and logic and reasoning skills. It’s not an IQ test.

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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.

No. Most of these posters also claim their kids have IQs over 130. 90% of them full of sh!t. And people don’t flunk out of college because of one class being too difficult for them.

I would post mine if I had a 100 IQ but I have no idea what my IQ is. Growing up outside of Boston they don’t test unless you have a learning disability. No gifted programs or at least very few. Massachusetts still manages to have the top public schools in the country.

Here’s an article of the states listed by highest IQ down to the lowest average based.
Like all these studies Massachusetts and other New England towns are on top with Mississippi being on the bottom. DMV states are in the middle somewhere.

https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/average-iq-in-usa-1710768833-1#

How high does it go? Whatever it is that’s mine

OP here. I wonder if I was tested in school and don't remember. I went to parochial school and didn't have the GT programs a lot of posters are referencing.
I was a bright child and usually tested in the 95th or so percentile, but likely not mensa material. Part of the reason I ask about IQs is that I feel like I am getting dumber. I wish I had the data to back that up or prove my feeling wrong.

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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?

Yes. Yes
Like everyone else answering, I tested into GT in the 80s. I qualified for MENSA, but didn't join. I was a frustrated student in all levels of school. I don't remember my IQ score.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe this happened, but I know I’m remembering right that in a socialscience class I took in middle school in the late 1970s the teacher actually read out loud the IQs of the people in the class. I don’t know why that happened or how it was allowed.

That’s the only way I know what mine is, 125. The lowest one was 90 and I felt bad that everyone then knew it.

I can believe it. When I was in school, we were weighed in gym class and the teacher would call out our weight in front of the whole class so a student could record it. My weight and height are even listed on my early elementary school report cards (early 80s).