# What is your IQ (Mensa+ Edition) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690 "2012-12-01T16:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/21 "2012-12-01T23:45:37Z")
I went with a Fibonacci number. And not the puny one. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/22 "2012-12-02T00:13:37Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > My IQ is 1100100. Unfortunately, that’s in base 2. Okay. _This one_ I can (almost) believe! ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/23 "2012-12-02T01:08:42Z")
140 on an internet test. But the thing is, that was the top of the scale. And one of their answers was wrong. Also, it was at the end of a long night shift. For all I know I could be in the 300 range, easy. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/24 "2012-12-02T18:10:54Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > 140 on an internet test. > But the thing is, that was the top of the scale. > And one of their answers was wrong. > Also, it was at the end of a long night shift. > > For all I know I could be in the 300 range, easy. Errant pedantry alone gets you into the 150s. Chief Pedant? 300s easily. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/25 "2012-12-02T20:31:19Z")
I’d like to take an IQ test now that I’m solidly an adult – all my past tests were taken as a teen or younger, and thus I doubt they apply anymore – but I looked at the quiz Mensa has on its website and despaired. Most were math or math-related: find the primes in this sequence, which is the perfect square, calculate a right triangle. For most people with math education, this is doable, but I have the math skills of a third grader. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/26 "2012-12-02T23:53:57Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I personally haven’t laughed so hard since Steven Hawking’s last specious argument on the true implications of singularities in space-time. And can you believe people still listen to him instead of you? I think it’s his ‘80s 8-bit voice. Nobody can resist that good ol’ 8-bit audio goodness. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690/27 "2012-12-03T03:31:59Z")
Olmat (age 13) - 110 (aa) Terman and Merril (age 16) - 125 (s) various online testers (above age 33) - 133 to 159 (s) It’s supposed to improve with age, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-iq-mensa-edition/642690.md?page=1)