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What is Your IQ?

What is Your IQ?


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ronpaulvoter

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A very simple question. What is your IQ?

If it has been officially measured, tell us.

If not, then try three or four of the free IQ web sites and report the scores.

When taking an IQ test, be sure there are NO distractions. Turn off your phone, radio and TV. Make sure nobody is around to disturb you. Then take the test.

How did you come out?
 
I tried one once, got an IQ of 110, but I still feel it, or the way it is interpreted by others, is BS. I'm a smart person relatively speaking, but a really bad test taker. :2razz:
 
It depends on the type of test, but the one issued by Mensa gave me a 154.

The one issued by the Church of Scientology gave me a 163 (I was bored one day and they offered free IQ tests as I walked past the church/store). They then said that Scientology could help improve it. I wasn't flattered.
 
Ronpaulvoter, I notice there is something wrong with yr poll selections. Which do I select when I have an IQ of 130? :D (shhhh don't tell anyone cos it ruins my dating chances :2razz: )
 
I've taken the Mensa test, as well as 3 different online tests and I've consistently scored in the mid to upper 150's....

I never took the Church of Scientology one.
 
I'd kick everyone's ass if this was golf...

I've consistently scored about 3 under par when I take those IQ tests.
 
It depends on the type of test, but the one issued by Mensa gave me a 154.

The one issued by the Church of Scientology gave me a 163 (I was bored one day and they offered free IQ tests as I walked past the church/store). They then said that Scientology could help improve it. I wasn't flattered.
Yeah right!
:roll:

Who administered the tests?
 
Depends on which IQ test I took at which time. The first one was 155, the second was 128 (was drunk during that one - LOL), and the third 142.

I think that IQ is only one part of someone's intelligence. Being able to act within a social context is also another measure. Some who have high IQ's have the social skills of a 3 year old.
 
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I voted my wife's IQ in... 148 :2razz:

Mine is a couple of points behind that. 146.

She is an INTP and I am an ENTP. Myers Briggs. The Myers & Briggs Foundation

I think the Test that matters most is Emotional Intelligence though. It is more important to be emotionally healthy and secure than to be able to innately grasp number sequences and spatial dimensions. That is, if you want to have a happy life.
 
135. It looks like everyone is a friggin' genius. :mrgreen:
 
I've taken a buncha nd I'm going by the best I have ever done.

161, just barely passed the mark! :D
 
I've yet to see an online IQ test where the average slack-jawed yokel couldn't score 125+
 
I was tested by Mensa at the age of 8 or 9 or somewhere around there. 142 "or so" if my mother's memory is correct. They didn't tell ME the results, and urged my mother not to tell me either until I was much older. /shrug

I've not ever taken one since, online or otherwise.
 
A very simple question. What is your IQ?

If it has been officially measured, tell us.

If not, then try three or four of the free IQ web sites and report the scores.

When taking an IQ test, be sure there are NO distractions. Turn off your phone, radio and TV. Make sure nobody is around to disturb you. Then take the test.

How did you come out?

I don't think the bolded portion is going to produce any meaningful results. :lol:

My IQ has been tested twice, both times when I was still a minor; it's between 114 and 117, apparently.
High-ish average-ish.
They said it was in the "superior" range (but still a far cry from MENSA quality, they failed to add ;)).
 
I've yet to see an online IQ test where the average slack-jawed yokel couldn't score 125+

If those online tests gave people their REAL scores, people wouldn't want to take the test. They'd rather take a test that inflates their ego.
 
I was tested by Mensa at the age of 8 or 9 or somewhere around there. 142 "or so" if my mother's memory is correct. They didn't tell ME the results, and urged my mother not to tell me either until I was much older. /shrug

I've not ever taken one since, online or otherwise.

That's exciting. My sons are both over 140.
So far, they're not doing much with it, though.
Which is fairly unsurprising, considering that we come from a long, long line of what you'd call "bright underachievers".
 
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.

Well, the whole "IQ test" deal is classist, to some extent; biased in favor of affluent whites (and possibly, of males).
Your average middle-class white American (the sort, for instance, that might be expected to own a computer and frequent political forums) has a higher median IQ than the gen-pop.
Research on race and IQ- by William Shockley, Arthur Jensen, Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein, and others- has shown significant disparities between the median IQ scores of whites and minorities, wealthy and poor... but no significant correlation between race and intelligence.
 
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Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.

I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. I mean, look at what they do in their spare time...these people aren't exactly playing texas hold 'em on yahoo...they're discussing ideas.

As for mine, the three times it was measured, I came in at 135, 132, and 141.

I also don't think raw IQ scores are an accurate measure of total intelligence.
 
That's exciting. My sons are both over 140.
So far, they're not doing much with it, though.
Which is fairly unsurprising, considering that we come from a long, long line of what you'd call "bright underachievers".

No matter what, they will find a way to smoke dope. No matter what is lying around. :mrgreen:
 
Somehow I doubt that 73% of the people on this forum are in the top 3% of the population.

I doubt people with average IQs are inclined to post that. It's like advertising inadequate sexual prowess.
 
I doubt people with average IQs are inclined to post that. It's like advertising inadequate sexual prowess.

/ 1069 is not embarrassed to post her very mediocre (for her sex, race and class) IQ score.

I know how smart and singularly cool I am. :cool:
I'm not necessarily very good at taking tests, though.
Especially under duress.
 
/ 1069 is not embarrassed to post her very mediocre (for her sex, race and class) IQ score.

I know how smart and singularly cool I am. :cool:
I'm not necessarily very good at taking tests, though.
Especially under duress.

Actually, the number you posted was above average. You have nothing to be ashamed of, IQ wise. ;) :mrgreen:
 
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