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What is your IQ?

I don't trust online IQ tests.

I took a government issued IQ test, I think Stanford-Binet, around the age of 20. I remember it was one point below what would have been needed to join Mensa. However, my ASVAB and SAT scores were high enough that Mensa would have still accepted me.

But I always that only a douchebag would join such an organization.

But that was a long time ago. Based on the difficulty I sometimes have in helping my son with his homework, I am fairly certain I have gotten dumber with age. Wiser, sure, but also dumber. :)
 
Ha. A couple years ago one of these online IQ tests was going around Facebook. One of my friends --- who is SUPER smart -- decided to answer all of the questions wrong and he STILL got a "genius" score. *eyeroll*

I've never formally taken an IQ test. I imagine I'm just average.
 
BrewerBob said:
I don't trust online IQ tests.

I took a government issued IQ test, I think Stanford-Binet, around the age of 20. I remember it was one point below what would have been needed to join Mensa. However, my ASVAB and SAT scores were high enough that Mensa would have still accepted me.

But I always that only a douchebag would join such an organization.

But that was a long time ago. Based on the difficulty I sometimes have in helping my son with his homework, I am fairly certain I have gotten dumber with age. Wiser, sure, but also dumber. :)
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I know I have, if online tests are at all accurate. I know what my score was at the age of eight and now, 54 years later, it's 10 points lower, give or take a couple.
I didn't take this test though.
 
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No I didn't cheat either..
 
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Josie said:
Ha. A couple years ago one of these online IQ tests was going around Facebook. One of my friends --- who is SUPER smart -- decided to answer all of the questions wrong and he STILL got a "genius" score. *eyeroll*

I've never formally taken an IQ test. I imagine I'm just average.
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Jesse Booth said:
Damn, beat me by two points. Oh well, that's expected - everyone who takes one of these online IQ tests seems to just happen to be a genius. So weird!

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Just tried one where I got them all wrong and it came back with a score of "<75" so it's somewhat legit
 
151, but these online IQ tests don't mean anything. An actual IQ test doesn't really mean all that much.
 
BrewerBob said:
I don't trust online IQ tests.

I took a government issued IQ test, I think Stanford-Binet, around the age of 20. I remember it was one point below what would have been needed to join Mensa. However, my ASVAB and SAT scores were high enough that Mensa would have still accepted me.

But I always that only a douchebag would join such an organization.

But that was a long time ago. Based on the difficulty I sometimes have in helping my son with his homework, I am fairly certain I have gotten dumber with age. Wiser, sure, but also dumber. :)
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:lamo wait until you get to my age...
 
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Last time I tested traditionally was during my Postdoc four years ago. I scored 163 then. Either I've gotten a little more stupid since then (which is a distinct possibility), or this test has an upper limit.
 
I took one of these for a job once and blew everyone out of the water. Unfortunately I scored the lowest of all takers on the "gets along well with others" test. lol...true story.
 
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I got bored counting rectangles and playing "which number doesn't belong".
 
I was sick a lot as a kid. my mother was a college professor and had me read all sorts of books when I was home sick so when I took an IQ test when I was in grade school the score was very high. Same with SAT scores. One of the smartest women I knew in college barely cracked 1200 on her SATs. she said her IQ test was 110 and yet she graduated summa cum laude and then first in her class at Tulane Law School

in other words, those tests don't always tell the true story
 
As a poster said earlier, IQ tests don't really mean all that much. Anyway, mine is somewhere in the 120's if I recall correctly.
 
Online tests are crap. You need to take an accredited one.
 
I didn't look at it, but the reported test results seem (to me) to be consistently too high.
Of course, they want page views. They're not gonna let you score 85/90
It appears people are reporting scores app 30 pts higher than I perceive from their history, OR... the test makes enough easy ones to guarantee 100+, even if they then get tougher/more accurate/flatten out as they go higher to only app 20 pts too high.
Would make sense for a website gimmick.
 
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