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What is Your IQ?

What is Your IQ?


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I've never taken one but figure I'm about average, which is 100. I was a 4.0 student always but didn't take difficult courses. I put great importance on grades and the courses in non-secular education towards the goal of being an elementary non-secular school teacher aren't that difficult.

Given the claimed IQs compared to the messages highly suggests that the IQ test aren't accurate.

I also suspect that people who have or see themselves as having very high IQs might have social skills and compatibility problems. A person believing s/he has superior intelligence probably isn't healthy and might not be a very intelligent self perspective. I don't think I've ever posted a message on the Internet or ever told anyone that I am smarter than s/he is.

If I ever did test and it was at a higher than average IQ I wouldn't tell anyone. I'm at least smart enough to know that.
 
I've never taken one but figure I'm about average, which is 100. I was a 4.0 student always but didn't take difficult courses. I put great importance on grades and the courses in non-secular education towards the goal of being an elementary non-secular school teacher aren't that difficult.

Given the claimed IQs compared to the messages highly suggests that the IQ test aren't accurate.

I also suspect that people who have or see themselves as having very high IQs might have social skills and compatibility problems. A person believing s/he has superior intelligence probably isn't healthy and might not be a very intelligent self perspective. I don't think I've ever posted a message on the Internet or ever told anyone that I am smarter than s/he is.

If I ever did test and it was at a higher than average IQ I wouldn't tell anyone. I'm at least smart enough to know that.



1. 100 isn't average for a woman of your race and socioeconomic status.

2. A lot of the people on this thread have taken some sort of on-line pop quiz and mistakenly think that the score it gave them (generally around 160-190) is some sort of accurate reflection of their IQ.
Actual IQ tests aren't routinely administered to the general populace; if you've had one, it's probably because you've been 1. incarcerated, 2. in the military, 3. under psychiatric care, or 4. a voluntary participant in some sort of research study.

I used to think they gave them in college, but I've known a lot of college graduates who have never had one.
 
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Actual IQ tests aren't routinely administered to the general populace; if you've had one, it's probably because you've been 1. incarcerated, 2. in the military, 3. under psychiatric care, or 4. a voluntary participant in some sort of research study.

Though you are correct that IQ tests are not routinely administered to the general population, and your 4 exceptions are accurate, there is one other exception. Some schools (not college) give IQ tests for several reasons. If there is the suspicion of a learning disability or other problem that hinders academic success, or if the school believes that the child is gifted. Also, some private schools used to give them. That's how I got mine.
 
If there is the suspicion of a learning disability or other problem that hinders academic success...


They also give it to the kid who makes non stop jokes, runs around the classroom screaming obscenities yet aces every test. He typically scores below 80.
 
1. 100 isn't average for a woman of your race and socioeconomic status.

2. A lot of the people on this thread have taken some sort of on-line pop quiz and mistakenly think that the score it gave them (generally around 160-190) is some sort of accurate reflection of their IQ.
Actual IQ tests aren't routinely administered to the general populace; if you've had one, it's probably because you've been 1. incarcerated, 2. in the military, 3. under psychiatric care, or 4. a voluntary participant in some sort of research study.

I used to think they gave them in college, but I've known a lot of college graduates who have never had one.

They were routine at expensive private grade schools from what I recall.
 
They were routine at expensive private grade schools from what I recall.

Or perhaps not. I went to an expensive private grade school, and I never took one there.
 
My public school gave me one. But it was only the students in the accellerated classes.
 
They tested mine, ironically enough, because they thought I was retarded. I could have explained that I was just bored reading Dick and Jane when I was used to reading college textbooks, but they never asked me.
 
Or perhaps not. I went to an expensive private grade school, and I never took one there.

apparently you didn't get all you should have:mrgreen:
 
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