What is average for I.Q. level???

[OKIE]

It's all a matter of opinion, especially since there is no set universal standard for the test.

I could easily say your 3 hour test is not proper because at the end of the 3 hour period your brain is no longer performing at 100%. Or a you could take a speed IQ test to test your intelligence in how quickly you can come to different conclusions in problem solving, but then that too could be bullshit because you may think "slower" but more analytically and still come to the same conclusions.

Also a long test will not hold your concentration as well as a short test. So which gives the true score? You will never know. You say you took several internet tests. You lowest internet score was only 10 points higher then your "real" test. NOt much of a difference, and the spread could have been repeated if you took the "real" test as many times as you have taken the internet test.

A 3 hour IQ test is more of a endurance test than anything and will not show your optimal performance.

Yeah, you're right...that Internet test created by some computer dork that your GF took is much more accurate than one given by someone with a PhD! Any test, Internet or not, can measure intelligence to some extent, but you're in the sub-100 range if you think a 50 question Internet test can accurately measure someone's IQ consistantly. An IQ test is not to see how much you know...it is designed to evaluate how well you absorb and comprehend information.

 

[GaryWary]

I could easily say your 3 hour test is not proper because at the end of the 3 hour period your brain is no longer performing at 100%. Or a you could take a speed IQ test to test your intelligence in how quickly you can come to different conclusions in problem solving, but then that too could be bullshit because you may think "slower" but more analytically and still come to the same conclusions.

I'd like to add that if you of an anxious disposition or have depression - you may score lower than your actual I.Q. Due to your mind being pre-occupied and tired with 'issues'.

 

[buddy28]

I'd like to add that if you of an anxious disposition or have depression - you may score lower than your actual I.Q. Due to your mind being pre-occupied and tired with 'issues'.

Gary

This is why i havent taking an authentic IQ test. I have an anxiety disorder with moderate depression. Its funny, one of my negative beleifs is that Im stupid. When I take a timed test I get really nervous that Ill fail ect. So ive decieded to wait until i overcome my anxiety before I take an IQ test.

By the way, a 136 IQ sore qualifys you for American Mensa membership. A score of 132=> on the Standford Binet or Wesherler qualifys for American/Canadian Mensa membership

 

[Workin_at_it]

It's very hard to accurately measure very high IQ's. Mensa is NOT very high.

Scores in excess of 140 in a standard test often generate a difference of 5 points for a single answer.

http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/

Is the place to go for information on high-IQ tests and their associated societies.

If anyone does qualify for anything like the Triple-9 or (amazingly) the Mega/Ultra society, I'd love to hear about it. I would not be surprised to find an above average number of 150+ IQs here. Why not, the smartest man in the world is a body-builder. (And it's not Marilyn, Guiness be damned)

Most of these tests have no time limits and you take 'em until you feel you can go no farther - over a period of days or even months.

As for 179, pretty damn impressive.

Beats Rembrandt, Copernicus, Mozart, Darwin, Kant, Einstein and Linus Pauling.

Definitely an Underachiever. Picture the genetics of Flex Wheeler with the body of Pee-Wee Herman.

 

[saint808]

Re: I Q fun for E V E R Y O N E

Go figure, I'm a mensa - 179 IQ, registered.. Yet, my nickname is platehead - I look and act like an animal in the gym. My vocabulary came out a George Carlin dictionary and everybody that knows me outside of my job (I manage computer nerds) thinks I'm just a dumb roid head... It's amazing what a high IQ can do for your image!

sure take that away from me too... remind me of high school again... i scored a 33 on my ACT and found a guy who scored higher while walking down the hall.

 

[saint808]

and i was gonna join mensa but the damn papers were just too confusing.

 

[The_Mexican]

I took an internet IQ test once, and guessed on all the questions without reading them and scored 100. I guess I must be pretty damned smart

 

[Natymike]

AVERAGE IS 75-99.

75??

at 70 you are legally retarded, I think the average starts a little higher than 75.

 

[Lao Tzu]

I think one of the worlds smartest guys is a bouncer who lives in a bedroom converted from a garage in back of his parents' house (documentary, long time ago so my memory is hazy). According to "The Millionaire Mind" most of today's decamillionaires couldn't compete with the future lawyers/doctors in their schools so they picked a different route to success.

Chris Langan. IQ of 195, i think. Lives on $6k a year.

http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/megasoc/noes140/langan.html

http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_991210_iq_chat.html

William Sidis, considered the smartest man who ever lived

http://www.quantonics.com/The_Prodigy_Review.html

worked some minimum wage job for his entire adult life.


What does IQ measure? how fast you learn, what you can learn, what? does an IQ test have any real life applications other than letting you say 'i did good on an IQ test'? people like Sidis & Langan are very creative thinkers (both did groundbreaking work in astronomy) but did they do it due to their high IQ or because they were socially pressured to 'do something smart'.

 

[the ice]

Im not sure about average, but mine came in at 129. So I would like to know where I stand also.