For the sake of this thread I took several online IQ tests.
My scores:
161
103
118
137
103 is average, 163 is Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. So I don’t know what the hell my IQ is.
I’d guess the SDMB average is 117.
I’m thith many! (holds up 4 fingers)
:eek: I, uh… I wouldn’t know anything about that, officer.
-Tygr, whose IQ test always comes back “Negative”.
[sub](…and the clinic tells me “negative” is good.)[/sub]
kitarak, actually, an IQ of 163 would put you in the 99.9987 percentile – among the one hundred thousand “smartest” people in the world.
As for online IQ tests, aren’t they all a bunch of crap? Some online IQ tests may consistently give out 90 - 110 scores and, at the same time, market an item to “increase” your IQ, whereas others may rarely give a score below 130 (technically genius level) and market something so that you can “utilize your earning potential” (or something similar). I’d take the result from any online test with a grain of salt.
I’d put the average IQ of Straightdopers at around 115 – one standard deviation wrt the normal curve to account for those in the lower bracket (<85) who, as Sam Stone suggested, are unlikely to visit the SDMB in the first place.
Just to consider some of the numbers that have been tossed around here and using a strict definition of IQ (100 is the average with a standard deviation of 15 IQ points, IIRC): 100 = 50th percentile, 115 = 84th, 125 = 95th, 140 = 99.6; 200 = one in 76 billion :D. However, those figures are just taken from what I remember in my Algebra class.
Ian: Depends on the test. However, I suspect I may be misremembering slightly as it was a while ago and I don’t have the actual results to hand. I’m sure it was 140+, but now that you mention it you’re right… 163 does sound wayyy too high. ::embarassed look::
It really was an honest mistake though. I happen to have an appalling long term memory (But an excellent short term one, which is a bonus on tests like that).
Incidentally this wasn’t an online test. It was administered by a professional psychiatrist - I was being helped with Dyspraxia at the time. (I then proceeded to ignore their advice and deal with it on my own, but probably not as well as I could have. Ah well, such is life)
David, who as much as he’d like to be in the top 100,000, isn’t.
Are we including the banned ones, too? Because a couple of those folks could really bring the average way, way down.
Mine’s 160 according to the test I took back in 11th grade. I guess it’s pretty good, but I feel that most of the people here are smarter than me. So I really have no fragging clue. I’d say somewhat smarter than average simply because those who aren’t able to read and write due to mental difficulties are ruled out.
It’s a well-known fact that, on average, circumcised people have a lower IQ than those who weren’t mutilated at birth. Trust me. I’m a trained statistician.
OG PASS TEST!
So, helmets really do prevent brain damage!
** RickJay ** - where’s the test where you scored 160+? I have an insane urge to better my 150+ score, and spend the rest of my life kidding myself it actually means something… 
Whatever it is, I lower it.;j
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I took one of them befandangled online IQ tests for math. I can’t recall exactly what score I got on it. Either it was an 80 or an 08. :o Wouldn’t it be interesting if my score was an 08? 
I wonder if it’s possible to score that low. I mean I could see a score of 0 or something, but it’d take special talent to score an 08 or a say a 3.5 or some odd number like that. Well, whatever the score actually was, it means I didn’t do very well, but whether or not that test was accurate, I could have told them that from the get go. Numbers or math in most forms make my head hurt. So, do any of you Dopers want me to handle your finances for you? 
But I digress. I haven’t the foggiest clue what the average Doper IQ is, and I don’t know why some silly number you got on a test should matter anyway. The point is can you live and communicate in the world we have to deal with nowadays? Do you know what your name is, or your telephone number(s), or where you live, or where you’re supposed to be at any given moment? Now that’s true criteria for an IQ test! 
Unfortunately, if I had to take that kind of test in my current state of mind, I think I’d score even lower than I did on that online math test.
Carry on.
:eek: If the famously brilliant tomndebb’s IQ is 68 degrees Celsius, then good heavens, wouldn’t he almost be as hot as the sun or something?! :eek: So, Tom~, I’ve just been tempted to ask you this question.
What’s it like being a genius? How do you retain so much knowledge without having your brain melt or something? At this point in my life, I can barely remember my name, much less all the stuff I’ve read or learned.
I asked some genius friends of mine this question awhile ago, but they acted like they didn’t know the answer. I wonder if they just didn’t want to make lil ol’ me feel even further beneath them, or if they just couldn’t figure out a way to help me relate.
My IQ is 133 … i guess that i always thought it was around that …not the best but up there … Great thread… :)
I snuck a peek at the IQ portion of my Junior High School transcript when I registered for HS. 139. (Yes, it was 20 years ago. So?)
Which I’d always thought was pretty good. But Mr Winnie’s is 143. I keep trying to tell him that only differences of ten or more degrees indicate a variation in ability, but I admit, it irks me.
Of course, now my brain is filled with old song lyrics and useless trivia, so even what I’ve got isn’t doing me a whole lot of good any more.