Just a little friendly advice. I couldn’t tell you the exact history but I imagine the IQ test was a method for scientists to deterimine the breakdown of intelligence in society. It probably wasn’t meant for personal use. I could be wrong…
This method has any number of variables: What did you eat the day before? Are you feeling weak when you took the test? Did you happen to practice the question type beforehand? Do you think better at Night? The test takes none of these into consideration.
I took any number of these stupid tests over the span of a year, when the guidance counsellors had questions about why I was so bored in high school. Personally I didn’t want to know what the score was because it either would make me feel stupid or like an underachiever. It just so happened it was underachiever, but that isn’t really the point.
This is going to sound trite, but here goes. Figure out what you would like to do, apply yourself, and do it. That number is unimportant and partitions society into different groups based on PERCEIVED abilities
Note “Brave New World”
I will stress it one more time, forget about the number.
I hope I didn’t sound mean… I just think the number is damaging to high scorers and low scorers alike.
Your MEMBER NAME IS KNEADTOKNOW, and you tell us we don’t want to know??? >>Snort<< please. For those of us who are not Pun Deficit, fine, you got your laugh. Share, or get outa the pool
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( I did well on my I.Q. exam, and scored off the charts on the Spatial Relations Test, but failed my Rorshach. Every single image looked to me like a crowd of coyotes who were shaved hairless and covered with avocado and oil-based lubricant. Doesn’t make me a bad person… does it, Anngela? :rolleyes: )
A lot of what was said above is true. You really need to find out more information about the test you took. Different tests will provide you different scores… But usually ones that have a scale different from what I provide below won’t call it an IQ, but something similar. (Intelligence Score or Intelligence Mark…)
The Standard IQ tests are constructed so the average IQ is 100 and a Standard Dev. of 15, and a normal bell curve from there. So anywhere from 85-115 is “normal” (ie- 68% will fall within this.) 14% will be from 116-130 and 2% will be above.
Keep in mind that these are standard scores from standard tests. A lot has changed, and most tests don’t work this way anymore. A lot of psychologists used specialized tests as well that measure a whole more broad realm of “intelligence.” Most tests will have a “conversion” into standard IQ score too, since most people are more familiar with it.
If you really want a good measure, go see a psychologist… and they can explain the results.
Once my friend Jon and I were walking down the street and an attractive woman standing outside the Church of Scientology invited us in for an IQ test. After we took the test she told us that we both scored 155! So Jon and I were really thinking we were both geniuses, but then this guy we knew told us he had gone in there with two other people and all three of them scored 148! Man, I have some really smart friends!
Actually, I think what happened was that once we got inside, the Scientology representative decided that we looked poor, so we got high scores. I suspect that if we had looked like we had money, our scores would have been mediocre and the Church would have offered to “improve” them.
Anyway, I know I really am a genius because of The Spark’s online IQ test. They said I was way above average.
So who has a higher IQ, Cecil or Steve Allen? I know that Cecil is the smartest human being alive, but with all that Steve Allen accomplished in his lifetime, I have serious doubts he was human.
the level of intelligence won’t be lower but our ability to measure is less accurate. IQ testing is based on the premise of mental age vs chronological age. So a 4 year old who is reasoning like an 8yo you would get a score of 200+ on the SB LM. However that kind of measuring falls down as people get older. The new Stanford Binet is supposedly being normed so that the ceiling effects kick in higher. The Weschler tests ceiling at 140 for an 8 yo - a kid might have a higher IQ but they will measure the same as a kid who is genuinely testing at 140. The Stanford Binet LM (an outdated test but the best we currently have for measuring very high IQ) doesn’t ceiling until about 160 for a 12 yo. The WAIS is still useful for adolescents I think but I’m not sure.
All of the oh my god scores have been with children of young ages - Michael Kearney and Justin Chapman FE. They both scored around the 290 mark about the age of 5. There’s rumours of kids with higher scores but who apparently have parents with an iota of decency who don’t parade their kids through the media.
I don’t know, by all accounts it is Greg Smith. A 10 year old that is already in college working towards three PhDs, and plans on becoming president.(what a waste)
I would say he is the upgrade to Cecil. =) (though by all accounts, he isn’t anywhere near as cool as Cecil)
Doesn’t appear to be a joke. I found a page with a whole lot of links to articles about him, photos with him next to Clinton, etc.
Why are you worried about him comming to get you?
Gregory Smith isn’t a joke. Neither’s Justin Chapman. I’m sorta bewildered as to why people would think they were. And defensive of the kids involved here. They are real people. And nice kids as well.
Whether or not one believes in IQ tests and such, there are a subgroup of kids and always have been who are tremendously able and who are ready for early college. Going back to the original Terman research and there were kids who
were ready.
It’s hard enough dealing with the reality of these kids without people making fun.
OK. I just clicked through. That’s one ghastly webpage for Greg Smith. That’s one other danger with these kids. Hideous po faced nonsense like that.
I agree. Nor did I think they were a joke, or tried to make a joke out of their brilliance. Perhaps many do laugh, because they envy them their gifts(and feel uncomfortable because they do not possess them), but I admit my limitations, and because of that, only have respect and awe for these kids. In fact, they give me a model to work towards. I could never do what they have done, but I sure can try as hard as I can to get as close as possible. I look at them as Role models, not something to laugh at.
Actually, I think **partly_warmer{/b]'s post above is closer – The originators of the test concept may have intended the IQ test to be for detection of learning disability or giftedness; but shortly afterward, specially when it crossed the pond into the USA and was used to classify recruits for the WW-I Army, it was recast as an instrument to measure whether folks were “smarter or dumber” than the mainstream. See also The Mismeasure of Man.
