When an attempt was made to test me as a youngster, the equipment wound up being badly damaged and there was a brown-out of the entire eastern seaboard. So, no, fearing I’d harm others, I would not want to be tested.
ETA: as I composed this post, the fluorescent lights here began to flicker and the fire whistle of three nearby volunteer fire departments spontaneously sounded.
I’ve never taken a proper IQ test but there was a quite well done television show on in the UK a few years ago which was basically a televised national IQ test.
I don’t recall my score but I do remember that out of approx 80 questions I only got two wrong, which dropped my IQ something like twenty points…I thought that was a bit harsh. 
I had my IQ tested much later in life - in my 20s - as part of a research study on patients with epilepsy. Strangely enough, I never had it done during school, though my sister did. When we were in public school, she was tested into the gifted program, then we both eventually tested into a merit-based private school.
Had I not had my IQ tested for that study, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. It was interesting, but I’ve met a lot of people who are wildly intelligent if you look only at their IQ but many have the communication skills of monkeys in the middle of a poo-flinging rage. If you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter how smart you are.
Like Peggy Hill, I have self-assessed my IQ. I’m pretty sure they don’t have tests with high enough scales to measure me.
Besides, who wants a “score”? I want a solid number – I want to know that I’m the 145,063rd smartest person in America.
That’s how smart I am!
I have no idea and couldn’t care less. People who do care about this are annoying.
Well, maybe I’m wrong. Apparently, according to this estimator a pre-recentering SAT score of 1250 does seem to correlate (at least by that chart) to an estimated IQ of 130. Huh.
ETA: Although that site seems to be using Mensa criteria somehow in estimating, so there may be a bit of circular reasoning there.
I was given one in elementary school and I wish it had never happened. I always heard how I never lived up to my potential because it was 142 (or 6. It was a long time ago!) and I was “underperforming” in gifted classes.
So the exact opposite of what happened to me.
I think it just goes to show that none of it is in the tests, or the numbers. We should just raise children with gentle encouragement, the knowledge that their performance isn’t their worth as a person, the understanding there is almost nothing they can do to really disappoint and without the word “stupid” anywhere near them.
I don’t really see the point.
This guy I worked with took one of those online IQ tests and got something like 140 and was all happy. When I told him those things are basically bullshit he got upset and said I was just jealous. So I took the test. And got a 180. I told him he had to either acknowledge that I’m a genius, or admit that these tests are bogus. He opted for the latter.
I was tested in fifth grade. They told us the raw score, but not the IQ. But the scale had been on the test and I remembered it (it wasn’t a number, but a range, e.g. 105-115) so I know what it was. Since that was over 65 years, it might be interesting, if anyone cared, to see what I tested at now. But not of sufficient interest to actually do anything about it. And what difference did it make anyway? Did I do anything differently because I knew the number? Of course not. Did the teachers do anything differently? I don’t think so.
Sure, I’d take it. Couldn’t help myself. I’d dismiss the results as measuring something other than ‘intelligence,’ but I’d still take it.
I think the ‘1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die’ book/list is pretentious and inaccurate, but I keep track of which ones I’ve read.
I think the stationary bike I exercise on measures something that’s almost exactly, but not quite, entirely unlike calories, but I always record the ‘calories burned’ on the spreadsheet I keep of my exercise program.
I like numbers and data, even if they’re silly.
I have enough real tests to take, an IQ test is way down at the bottom of my list of “things that concern me”.
hotflungwok, any test that claims to be able to assign an I.Q. score of 180 is worthless. Doubtlessly you are quite smart, but 180 is vastly beyond what any I.Q. test can reliably claim to measure. 160 is about as high as any accurate test can go.
And some of the online IQ tests are trying to make you think you’re smart so you’ll buy their product, whatever it is. I scored higher than I should have on some test and then they started sending me offers for something for smart people, I don’t recall what.
I do believe that was what he was getting at.
Were you smart enough to not buy it? 
This, only I think I was tested somewhere around 4th grade. I qualified for the gifted program, although I am still not convinced the program really did anything for me. I, too, am not terribly interested in the actual number and I was told by a teacher (as an adult) that the score to qualify for gifted programs is 130. :: shrug :: I’ve been curious enough at one point to try to contact the school district I attended in 4th grade, to see if it was buried in my school records somewhere, but too much time had passed so I wasn’t able to put my hands on my old records.
So much for that “this will go on your permanent record” crap, huh? 
Did you go to a private kindergarten? I thought it was a no-no to do giftedness testing in kids younger than a certain age, though I’m guessing that’d vary by state. I was thinking that in public schools, since kindergarten is considered a new-ish standard requirement, they wouldn’t have such an early gifted program, but sounds like I’m probably off-base.
That’s funny that your mom won’t tell you your IQ. Maybe your score is in a safe somewhere. 