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Has anyone here taken a real IQ test?

Richard Loeb

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If so, what were the results?
 
Richard Loeb said:
If so, what were the results?
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Yes, but it was long ago. I believe it was the Weschler 3, though it might have been Stanford-Binet 4.

As to the results? It got me into the gifted program at my school, which required one to fall within the 95th or 97th percentile (I don't recall anymore, though I believe it was 97th percentile).

Fun story...my first teaching job was teaching the same gifted program, which is how I know so much about the tests. During my tenure as the gifted instructor, we changed some of the parameters of the program, so that's why I'm not exactly sure of which test I took or what my score was.
 
Richard Loeb said:
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Back in high school, so around 1980. It was if I remember correctly 149. I suspect it has gone down considerably since...
 
134, but I'm pretty sure the doc shaved a point off to keep me from genius range. I could just make that up, the number could only be contested in peril.

At some point, we're gonna have to contest a number. That's gonna be fun.

edit: Just saw, Redress 149. :lamo
 
Richard Loeb said:
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I did once with a doctor, 134 on the Stanford-Binet test. Math is my bane though, I do pretty horrible on any algebraic questions.

At this point in my life, I want to keep my high credit score...:2razz:
 
Richard Loeb said:
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I was tested at 8 years old, and I saw the result on the school principal's desk. Do they think kids can't read upside-down?
I won't say what it was because there's been a lot of neural carnage since but like the guy above, I was in the accelerated program.
 
in california back in the 70's our district had a program called MGM/MAL....

mentally gifted minors/more able learners

my parents told me about it when they placed me in the class....

i know that they used scores and grades to place the kids.....

what the minimum were, i have zero idea

wow...just found this on the program

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED060585
 
Funny story, I took the same IQ test twice, the Stanford-Binet. Once while sober, the other after getting extremely high on a crossbreed of Maui Waui and Acapulco Gold. Suffice to say, I scored better while I was high. Actually, qualified me for Mensa with a 142. Non-Stoned was 130. Still pretty good I guess. So much for it killing brain cells...
 
ecofarm said:
134, but I'm pretty sure the doc shaved a point off to keep me from genius range. I could just make that up, the number could only be contested in peril.

At some point, we're gonna have to contest a number. That's gonna be fun.

edit: Just saw, Redress 149. :lamo
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You should have seen my brain back then tho~
 
I took a professional IQ test when I was a senior in high school. It was like a 12 hour test over 3 days from a psychologist... I forget which one it was. whichever has the genius level as 140.

I had the IQ test done ironically because I have a learning disability, Central auditory processing disorder.... nothing major, and you would never know I had it and I did great in school, but I wanted to see if I could get some extra time taking the SAT, because I actually had it diagnose when I was in elementary school, but I walked away from the accommodations in middle school because I felt weird xD.

but my IQ score was 139. And the psychologist said it was probably higher, because of my learning disability. Interesting thing is, I scored through the roof in everything except short term memory, which I was average. And she took a separate test for auditory processing and I got below average.
 
The great thing about these threads is that you'll never see someone posting anything less than 130.
 
I took one once in...middle school, I think? No clue what I got, but, I didn't land in any gifted classes, lol. Don't care, either. IQ is a measure of potential. My wife's brother is a Mensa member. He's, like, 48, or somewhere thereabouts, single, no kids, no career, lives with his mom. Legit smart, though. Can solve a rubics cube in a couple minutes. But he doesn't apply it to anything.



So what does it matter?
 
Apocalypse said:
The great thing about these threads is that you'll never see someone posting anything less than 130.
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Currently, my IQ is south of 130. Probably way south.

Do you ever tire of being wrong?
 
Redress said:
Currently, my IQ is south of 130. Probably way south.

Do you ever tire of being wrong?
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Being a bit south of 130 means you're still smart enough to understand that I wasn't wrong here.

And to answer your question no, I don't tire of something that never happens, do you ever tire of being right?
 
Richard Loeb said:
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Multiple times when I was younger. Keep in mind there are multiple recognized IQ test standards. and they product different number results.
For instance Marilyn Vos Savant, writer for parade magazine for years and is wife of artificial heart creator Robert Jarvik, is widely known to be a one of the women with the highest IQ. her scores varied wildly from 186 to 228.
Guiness used to list her record but they retired the highest IQ entry after determining that IQ tests were too unreliable to list a highest IQ record holder.

I was tested a lot in gradeschool apparently as a teacher thought I was an idiot and wanted to see if I needed to be put in a remedial program. According to my mother as I remember the tests but don't remember the details, I guess I tested 146 and the teacher assumed I was cheating so they made me take the test again under more scrutiny and I got a 150. I ended up being put in an accelerated class as I wasn't an idiot I was just bored.
That being said IQ tests aimed at children and those at adults are different. the child tests tend to product a slightly higher result. tests I have take in adulthood have ranged from 134 to 140.
I consider myself reasonably intelligent but certainly no super genius.
I took the Mensa pre-test and passed that indicating I had a good chance of passing the official test. however from my experience of Mensa people I decided that I had no interest in joining a bunch of pretentious people.
 
IQ tests are stupid, they really don't mean anything because they measure potential, not actual performance. My brother-in-law has a high IQ but he has zero drive to succeed. As such, he is living with his parents at age 55, has never had a girlfriend in his life and works a minimum wage job because he has absolutely no interest in success. He's actually terrified to try anything.

That said, I've taken a number of tests in my life and scored high, I was offered membership in Mensa years back, but thought the idea of hanging out with a bunch of boring smart people sounded terminally dull. It really doesn't matter, the whole concept is pointless.
 
The first time I took it (around 1991-1992), I was diagnosed with mental retardation.

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wow tons of gifted people in DP in the top five percentile

now here's the scary part:

IQ is a number meant to measure cognitive abilities (intelligence) in relation to their age group. An I.Q between 90 and 110 is considered average; over 120, superior. Roughly 68% of the population has an IQ between 85 and 115. The average range between 70 and 130, and represents about 95% of the population.
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Wow, that sucks, how long did that last before people realized you were not handicapped?
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1 school year. The school psychologist at the time told by folks all the bad news you'd expect folks with MR at the time had. So by the age of 5 my life pretty much peaked.

Until I suddenly wasn't MR.

Eventually they figured out I had other disabilities instead.

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Fiddytree said:
The first time I took it (around 1991-1992), I was diagnosed with mental retardation.

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Me to, something like 90, I was very young, I turned out to be regarded as intelligent by most who know me. Did it ever occur to them, I was utterly, bored by the test?

I don't care how booksmart you are, what are the fruits of your life?
 
Slingshot Bob said:
Me to, something like 90, I was very young, I turned out to be regarded as intelligent by most who know me. Did it ever occur to them, I was utterly, bored by the test?

I don't care how booksmart you are, what are the fruits of your life?
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Interestingly, I was also diagnosed as ADD and put on Ritalin, which I hid under my tounge and spit out.

I was always bored by school and that boredom was misinterpreted as a my problem, easier than seeing where the system fails kids.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
Me to, something like 90, I was very young, I turned out to be regarded as intelligent by most who know me. Did it ever occur to them, I was utterly, bored by the test?

I don't care how booksmart you are, what are the fruits of your life?
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*too (I am very sorry, but I just couldn't resist.)
 
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