how high is your IQ?

[JBH3]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Which is funny. In reading most of their posts, you'd have no idea they were all gifted.

No one day I was talking to someone (Honestly I forget who) and they were telling me about their friend of a friend who had like a 240 IQ and he got a job as a college professor and he forgot to wear his pants on the first day of class and could not make out full sentences when he talked, yet he was like one of the smartest people in the world

In that instance I think I'd take the ability to put on pants and communicate with the rest of the world over figuring out Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

[DickDalewood]

Re: how high is your IQ?

I'd actually say OS itself is a VERY legitimate IQ test. Wander up to any of the sports games forums and I can tell you almost immediately who the idiots are. I can also tell you who is a genius, which is easy because, thankfully, they always let you know...

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: how high is your IQ?

No one day I was talking to someone (Honestly I forget who) and they were telling me about their friend of a friend who had like a 240 IQ and he got a job as a college professor and he forgot to wear his pants on the first day of class and could not make out full sentences when he talked, yet he was like one of the smartest people in the world

Well yeah......thats why I said a lot of mentally challenged people who take the IQ tests, their test scores be off the charts, they are smart as hell. However they just can't grasp the basic day to day things like dressing themselves, cooking, balancing a check book, etc.

[Scottdau]

Obviously, we've all seen you type!

That is because I am so ****ing bright I made my own grammar.

[l3ulvl]

Re: how high is your IQ?

I remember being all proud of scoring 132 on it in like 9th grade. Now I'm not so sure...

[The GIGGAS]

Re: how high is your IQ?

I don't remember (was a while ago), but I remember it was good. Never had much common sense, though.

[superjames1992]

Re: how high is your IQ?

I don't think I've ever taken an IQ test before.

[Ninja Tactic]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Scored 133 in high-school, but then I dropped out. Sad I know...

[p_rushing]

Re: how high is your IQ?

The official test I took in 2nd grade was 130


I don't believe a lot of the scores here, if you haven't taken a real test, the number is probably wrong. Anything over 160-165 is getting into the range of having problems dealing with the real world.

Online versions are only half the test and allow guessing. That is usually only the first part and the rest involves taking it with a psychiatrist and doing puzzels, oral questions, and reviewing how you solve problems.

[Chip Douglass]

Re: how high is your IQ?

173......My wife was a 146, her dad was 169.

It is this mentally challenged guy right down the street he scored 190. But then again they say mentally challenged people are really super smart if they focus, they normally always score very high on IQ tests.

173?

Yeah no.

[Chip Douglass]

Re: how high is your IQ?

The official test I took in 2nd grade was 130


I don't believe a lot of the scores here, if you haven't taken a real test, the number is probably wrong. Anything over 160-165 is getting into the range of having problems dealing with the real world.

Online versions are only half the test and allow guessing. That is usually only the first part and the rest involves taking it with a psychiatrist and doing puzzels, oral questions, and reviewing how you solve problems.

If it's not Wechsler, Woodcock-Johnson, or Stanford-Binet, it's probably total bull****.

FWIW, I took the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children in 2nd grade and scored in the mid 120s.

[superjames1992]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Are these scores from legit IQ tests that take hours to complete or from online versions because a lot of the scores being posted on here are better than guys like Einstein? Maybe we just have a lot of geniuses; I don't know.

Of course, the average score would appear higher than what it really is since people with low IQs likely are not going to be posting about it whereas people with high IQs are more likely to reveal their score.




Grade Range Percent
Genius 144 0.13%
Gifted 130-144 2.14%
Above average 115-129 13.59%
Higher average 100-114 34.13%
Lower average 85-99 34.13%
Below average 70-84 13.59%
Borderline low 55-69 2.14%
Low <55 0.13%

[Dog]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Are these scores from legit IQ tests that take hours to complete or from online versions because a lot of the scores being posted on here are better than guys like Einstein? Maybe we just have a lot of geniuses; I don't know.

Of course, the average score would appear higher than what it really is since people with low IQs likely are not going to be posting about it whereas people with high IQs are more likely to reveal their score.




Grade Range Percent
Genius 144 0.13%
Gifted 130-144 2.14%
Above average 115-129 13.59%
Higher average 100-114 34.13%
Lower average 85-99 34.13%
Below average 70-84 13.59%
Borderline low 55-69 2.14%
Low <55 0.13%

The test I took was given by a certified Psychiatrist

[TracerBullet]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Mine was probably lower than what I originally said. I was in the gifted range but that was awhile back. I thought the scale was different, oh well. Could I get that high now, I doubt it, my brain likes to fade in and out on tests .

Do these things even matter much, I never thought much of IQ tests. Also if anyone just took the internet ones and posted on this that's hilarious.

[Chip Douglass]

Re: how high is your IQ?

Are these scores from legit IQ tests that take hours to complete or from online versions because a lot of the scores being posted on here are better than guys like Einstein? Maybe we just have a lot of geniuses; I don't know.

Of course, the average score would appear higher than what it really is since people with low IQs likely are not going to be posting about it whereas people with high IQs are more likely to reveal their score.

This is true, but even the high-end scores are absurd.

About 1 in 2,000,000 people have an IQ of 173. There aren't even 200,000 registered members on OS and if you're adjusting for frequent posters, that number might not even be in the thousands.

Statistically, it's very, very, very unlikely that someone on OS has an IQ that enormous. I don't think that poster even realizes what that kind of IQ would entail. You'd be reading by 2, using computers by 5-6, and graduating high school and attending college by 12 or 13.