What is your IQ?

KieranKennedy

Have you ever actually taken a real IQ test (real doesn't include any facebook app, internet quiz or something you made up in the bath tub while reenacting the denouement of Das Boot with your genitals) and if so what was your result? I did one recently and was quite surprised at the results.

Webmonkey

They load of crap tbh

Sure half people probably guess and with a bit of luck think they smarter than they are.

00112984

Think I'll hop on the exaggeration train before it leaves the station.

My IQ is 15 biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion.

Same As

Who actually has the Highest ever IQ?

Sorry to go off topic but was it that German novelist Goethe or was it Newton or one of those lads?

Dave.

KieranKennedy wrote: »

Have you ever actually taken a real IQ test (real doesn't include any facebook app, internet quiz or something you made up in the bath tub while reenacting the denouement of Das Boot with your genitals) and if so what was your result? I did one recently and was quite surprised at the results.

Well what score did you get?

My name is URL

Me not know, me only like snu-snu

Turd Ferguson

My IQ is potato

KieranKennedy

Webmonkey wrote: »

They load of crap tbh

Sure half people probably guess and with a bit of luck think they smarter than they are.

It is highly unlikely that lucky guesses would come across as a genuine high IQ in anything like a rigorous IQ test. Most IQ tests have several options, as many as 8, and a large number of questions. Also, IQ testing can involve the completion of a number of different tests, which means that recording a high IQ due to chance alone is so improbable that it will probably never happen, and if it does, it will not be repeatable.

Overheal

Yeah I took a WISC-III when I was a child. I'd still like to hear what you got first OP

Ostrom

Or we could all save time and get out rulers....

KieranKennedy

Cattell III B test and scored 154

Kess73

I scored quite well on mine as my result meant I fell easily within the top 2% required for Mensa. But guess what? It pretty much counts for nothing, and sure as hell did nothing for me when I was made redundant a few months back.:p

Captain-America

My name is URL wrote: »

Me not know, me only like snu-snu

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

af_thefragile

Over Nine Trillion!!!

i put alot of value on it to be honest..

Overheal

Kess73 wrote: »

I scored quite well on mine as my result meant I fell easily within the top 2% required for Mensa. But guess what? It pretty much counts for nothing, and sure as hell did nothing for me when I was made redundant a few months back.:p

If this becomes another Mensa thread, I will pan-fry a kitten.

My WISC-III score was 135

DrumSteve

13...
















.... on a flop.

Carlow52

KieranKennedy wrote: »

Have you ever actually taken a real IQ test (real doesn't include any facebook app, internet quiz or something you made up in the bath tub while reenacting the denouement of Das Boot with your genitals) and if so what was your result? I did one recently and was quite surprised at the results.

WHAT IS iq?

Ostrom

DrumSteve wrote: »

13...
















.... on a flop.

I'm much smarter than you

Ostrom

Carlow52 wrote: »

WHAT IS iq?

A theoretically and methodologically flawed psychometric instrument (intelligence quotient)

DrumSteve

efla wrote: »

I'm much smarter than you

yeah.... prove it.

EdgarAllenPoo

I've been properly tested a few times and the last one I did was both flattering and unbelievable. I make it my mission in life to disprove my score.

KieranKennedy

Kess73 wrote: »

I scored quite well on mine as my result meant I fell easily within the top 2% required for Mensa. But guess what? It pretty much counts for nothing, and sure as hell did nothing for me when I was made redundant a few months back.:p

The fact that IQ doesn't necessarily mean success is old news. I constantly fail exams in college and am basically going to be homeless unless I can find some way to apply myself despite the fact that my raw IQ was in the top 2 % of those tested. While doing a bit of research in the weeks leading up to the test I found nothing more annoying than the weird pity that high IQ underachievers seem to think they deserve. I have never applied myself in an academic setting apart from the last few weeks approaching the leaving cert in order to get the points for the course my friends were going for, and I accept that this is my fault entirely. Many high IQ wasters seem to think that they deserve success, which others less well endowed gain through hard work, by virtue of their high IQ alone. A lot of what accounts for a high IQ is abstract reasoning which is often useless in an academic setting. Rant over.

magenta73

read something about 1 year ago,that the person with the highest IQ in Europe is working for Tesco, in England as a check out girl. I don't think it's about IQ anyway it's how you apply yourself.

Ostrom

DrumSteve wrote: »

yeah.... prove it.

The SPSS value field is limited

DrumSteve

strangely though i have quite a high IQ and i have terrible problems applying myself to do things... i have such a lack of effort i scare myself sometimes.

Tar.Aldarion

They brought somebody ito secondary school to give us all one. Got 180ish, not that simple maths/logic/spatial questions can tell people how intelligent they are.
There was also some aptitude test in all schools, dunno what that was for though. It ranged from maths to clerical accuracy marking people out of 99 in each.

DrumSteve

efla wrote: »

The SPSS value field is limited

yer ma's SPSS value field is limited.

Ostrom

DrumSteve wrote: »

yer ma's SPSS value field is limited.

Well played sir

DrumSteve

efla wrote: »

Well played sir

thank you.

*takes ball home*

JohnGalt

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

They brought somebody ito secondary school to give us all one. Got 180ish, not that simple maths/logic/spatial questions can tell people how intelligent they are.
There was also some aptitude test in all schools, dunno what that was for though. It ranged from maths to clerical accuracy marking people out of 99 in each.

If you actually got 180 ish, congrats, you beat Einstein

I don't believe you, in case that isn't obvious

Ostrom

JohnGalt wrote: »

If you actually got 180 ish, congrats, you beat Einstein

I don't believe you, in case that isn't obvious

'Intelligence' has very clear conceptual limits in psycohmetrics, partly the reason it is largely discredited in academia

magenta73

efla wrote: »

'Intelligence' has very clear conceptual limits in psycohmetrics, partly the reason it is largely discredited in academia

......say what now???????????:eek:

Ostrom

magenta73 wrote: »

......say what now???????????:eek:

The poster with the high result is undoubtedly intelligent, but within the conceptual limits of 'intelligence' as measured through the test, it ignores a range of characteristics - positive or negative - that condition success.

magenta73

efla wrote: »

The poster with the high result is undoubtedly intelligent, but within the conceptual limits of 'intelligence' as measured through the test, it ignores a range of characteristics - positive or negative - that condition success.

........say what now!?????????;)

Ostrom

magenta73 wrote: »

........say what now!?????????;)

The IQ instrument measures a specific range of attributes (mathematics, verbal reasoning etc...) - psychometrics has often been argued against as a flawed methodology because there are many attributes and qualities of a person that do not lend themselves well to standardized measurement; motivation, aspiration, emotional intelligence is one I see mentioned quite a bit popularly now....

The test also suffers from poor re-test reliability and sample bias

Saibh

Haven't got a clue - don't think I will bother finding out either.

magenta73

got tested for a goverment job a few years ago and got 137

stovelid

3.14159265

Tar.Aldarion

JohnGalt wrote: »

If you actually got 180 ish, congrats, you beat Einstein

I don't believe you, in case that isn't obvious

I don't think Einstein ever did an iq test? and having a higher iq doesn't mean you will be better than an idiot savant(not that he was one) in their field or give you a flare for what you do like he had.

SV

magenta73 wrote: »

got tested for a goverment job a few years ago and got 137

Needed to be lower I take it?

oldyouth

I have two IQs. One is pre-beer and one is post-beer. I personally think the latter is much, much higher

ibarelycare

Overheal wrote: »

Yeah I took a WISC-III when I was a child. I'd still like to hear what you got first OP

I did one of these yokes too when I was a kid. My family thought I was some sort of child prodigy I think. I did pretty well too, don't know the exact score but it was in the top 2 percentile ranking of....something. Pity alcohol and drugs has destroyed all my best brain cells

TPD

Did one of them aptitude tests in school, was in the top 2% of the country at spacial relations, and the top 30% in the country at clerical speed and accuracy. The other 4-5 subjects (?) were between top 2% and top 30%.

Im lazy as shíte though, so I doubt anything will come of it. In the interest test, which we did around the same time, everything was under 30% interest, even the ones I had specifically marked that I intended to do in college. So I'm able but uninterested. Heh sums me up alright I think.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Where do you get these tests? Does it cost much?

pieye

IQ tests are puzzle books, you really shouldn't build your view of yourself on what a puzzle book says...
I got some IQ tests done as part of some SLD testing, decent score but I still find menus difficult to read some times.

carly_86

mine was 116

andrew

Do people put their IQ on their CV? I've never heard of someone doing it, but considering the value that it's given it seems kinda strange that people don't.

Super-Rush

carrott

rain on

Did one when I was a kid, dunno which one it was but I was around the 130 mark which sounds about right to me -- above average but not super intelligent. Still, at least my socks match most days and I can engage with other human beings moderately successfully

Patricide

I did mine and got a 135, also did the DAT and scored in the top few % in the country, Yet ive still dropped out of college 4 times in 2 years and only got 375 in me leaving.

Shows you that they dont mean jack.