What's your IQ?

[leothelioness]

Just like in the world at large almost everyone here has an IQ in the 90-105 range.

You mean here or where you live?

If you mean here, I think the results have more than proved that wrong.

 

[Neve]

Just like in the world at large almost everyone here has an IQ in the 90-105 range. Generally speaking you're not going to take a real IQ test unless your school thinks you're mentally handicapped or you've demonstrated yourself a prodigy of some kind and they'd like a metric on how far that goes.

This.

It is laughable that people are basing their intelligence off a 20-question test. My post about my special needs sister's IQ test - a real IQ test - shows that the link should not be relied on. Plus, for the record, a privately administered real IQ test is expensive - I believe my parents paid $600 for her testing.

 

[Neve]

You mean here or where you live?

If you mean here, I think the results have more than proved that wrong.

The results are self-reported based on shady online tests - of course, they are off. Unless everyone can upload real IQ test results, we can't say with certainty the results for this forum.

But - in the end - IQ is just a number. It doesn't say what you can do with the intelligence and abilities you were given.

 

[NorrinRadd]

Just like in the world at large almost everyone here has an IQ in the 90-105 range. Generally speaking you're not going to take a real IQ test unless your school thinks you're mentally handicapped or you've demonstrated yourself a prodigy of some kind and they'd like a metric on how far that goes.

What do you mean "real" IQ test? My school records show at least 3 IQ scores (labeled as such) -- Lorge-Thorndyke (133 in 1968), Otis-Lennon (144 in 1970), and Otis-Lennon (141 in 1972). Plus, "IQ societies" usually view pre-1995 SAT and PSAT scores as surrogates for IQ.

Certainly things have changed significantly in the world of education since my school days. Perhaps IQ testing is among those changes. Back then, everyone took those tests. My grandparents, father, and uncle all worked as teachers and/or school administrators back then, and I know it was unusual for them to encounter school records that did NOT include at least one IQ score.

 

[sehnsucht9]

He is right this isn't a real IQ test, I took it as something fun online.
I also agree with Neve, I personally don't measure intelligence with IQ tests. There are so many levels of intelligence that aren't based on such numbers.

 

[NorrinRadd]

The results are self-reported based on shady online tests - of course, they are off. Unless everyone can upload real IQ test results, we can't say with certainty the results for this forum.

But - in the end - IQ is just a number. It doesn't say what you can do with the intelligence and abilities you were given.

It is also not a direct measure of intelligence, since psychologists and psychometricians are not unanimous as to what "intelligence" even IS. IQ tests measure certain abilities that are generally regarded as being representative of "intelligence," and (at least at some points in history) were closely associated with "success," especially in western society. But two people with the same IQ can have significantly different actual aptitudes that get averaged out and hidden in the single "IQ" number.

 

[Texas101]

When I took it standing on my head I gained 15 points. Must be due to the blood that rushed in, but I didn't feel the rush until I stood up.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

85.I am a slow learner and kind of dumb in my opinion.

 

[ColoradoGrrrl21]

95-105 is going to be the average. Here in this thread you have the issue of selection bias. For one, the more intelligent are more likely to have reliable access to internet and the ability to utilize it effectively for message boards etc. (Working at a public library I see many people every day, and not only the elderly, for whom even simple technological literacy is a real challenge - and they are of average intelligence). You also have the selection bias from the simple fact that few are going to be willing to admit they scored poorly on the test. One doesn't brag about getting a C or D, but about getting an A. The mean and median (on a bell curve) on a statistically reliable IQ test, as administered by psychologist or school counselor, etc. will always be 95-105 - 100 is the peak of the bell curve for the test - that's the way they were created. If the curve moves off that center point then the test is inaccurate and/or unreliable.

 

[Cute Tink]

I got 146 on the originally posted one and 132 on the second. I don't think mine is that high. I'm remembering a more realistic 120 on a test I took a long time ago.

I was in the gifted program, which was more of a special projects program at my middle school. I was also invited to join MENSA at some point, but they seemed more interested in the membership dues than anything so I declined.

 

[graciesings]

95-105 is going to be the average. Here in this thread you have the issue of selection bias. For one, the more intelligent are more likely to have reliable access to internet and the ability to utilize it effectively for message boards etc. (Working at a public library I see many people every day, and not only the elderly, for whom even simple technological literacy is a real challenge - and they are of average intelligence). You also have the selection bias from the simple fact that few are going to be willing to admit they scored poorly on the test. One doesn't brag about getting a C or D, but about getting an A. The mean and median (on a bell curve) on a statistically reliable IQ test, as administered by psychologist or school counselor, etc. will always be 95-105 - 100 is the peak of the bell curve for the test - that's the way they were created. If the curve moves off that center point then the test is inaccurate and/or unreliable.

I know. The thing I'm interested in is how different CF Singles is from the average. I know we're an unusual group of people... so I was expecting the internet to have a different average or at least a different balance.

And I created the poll anonymous so that if people think their score is too low, they can vote and nobody has to know about it

 

[Miss Spaulding]

I know. The thing I'm interested in is how different CF Singles is from the average. I know we're an unusual group of people...

 

[DaedraSun]

130 for me

 

[DaedraSun]

Where's Gracie's score? I read through this thread...maybe I missed it?

 

[William67]

I decided I wanted to join MENSA back in the late 80's, so I had my IQ tested. The score came back at 154. I joined, but soon realized that MENSA is basically a bunch of Prima Donna's who solve nothing and just sit around trying to convince everyone of their intellect and superiority. So, I quit.

 

[NorrinRadd]

I decided I wanted to join MENSA back in the late 80's, so I had my IQ tested. The score came back at 154. I joined, but soon realized that MENSA is basically a bunch of Prima Donna's who solve nothing and just sit around trying to convince everyone of their intellect and superiority. So, I quit.

My informal observation over a few decades is that when a contestant on "Jeopardy" has Mensa membership listed as one of the things on the background sheet that Alex reads, that contestant usually proves to be mediocre.

I wonder if people who "like" Mensa are in fact too self-impressed with the fact THAT they were admitted to Mensa.

 

[William67]

My informal observation over a few decades is that when a contestant on "Jeopardy" has Mensa membership listed as one of the things on the background sheet that Alex reads, that contestant usually proves to be mediocre.

I wonder if people who "like" Mensa are in fact too self-impressed with the fact THAT they were admitted to Mensa.

I dont know. I like to tell everyone I was "young and stupid" when I joined. Really, at 21 it sounded "cool" to be in a "think tank". (Yes, I was a nerd). Most of the people I met there "specialized" in one or two subjects. Few had any real world experience and very little common sense.

 

[FreedByte]

As far as I know online IQ tests are all meaningless

the first site is actually listed as a scam: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/free-iqtest.net

 

[redblue22]

not sure what IQ means, but I would guess low.

personality tests would be fun.

 

[Orange Crow]

As far as I know online IQ tests are all meaningless

the first site is actually listed as a scam: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/free-iqtest.net

the one I did (WAIS III in my case, but it's an older version), WAIS IV is my recommendation.