I’ve been tested four times and I still don’t know.
I was tested once after 8th grade to determine my eligibility into the gifted program (I got in).
I was also tested three times during high school as part of an international study on whether nutrition affects IQ. One of the perks of the test was free vitamins (unless you were the control!), and the other perk was that they were supposed to tell you your IQ. They didn’t do the latter. :mad:
See my post describing the Jeopardy metric on page one. We’re clearly skewed smarter here.
Still, the > 195 answers does show there are some liars - though we can be charitable and interpret that as “fool of a Took.”
I know I’m not lying about my 155+ (or misremembering) because when I was going through some of my mom’s papers after she passed away last month, I found the form (complete with list of all the kids in my class and their IQs). Still blows me away that they could publish everybody’s info to everybody else. It’s unthinkable that they would do that nowadays.
Even so, though, I was tested when I was about 6 years old, and never since. So who knows how much of that stuck 40 years later? I hang around with a lot of very smart people, and often I feel pretty thick around them. But when I hang around with random strangers in social situations, I still feel pretty sharp. That’s a fairly (very!) subjective assessment, though. I’m scared to get tested again. 
I’ve read somewhere, years ago, no idea where, that kids always score higher on the scale than adults because their brains are still all maleable and eager to accept new things. While as we age our brains get less maleable and learning new things is harder to do. So often as a kid you’ll get something 130-140 and then years later you’d only get in the 110-120 range. Also the tests have changed over the years. So the test you took in 1972 has been updated and is more accurate so your score would be lower than it was then.
So we all get stupider as we get over. 
Totally agree. And as one who is in the 205-215 range these liars are easy to spot.
That’s funny; I think for so many super-duper geniuses around here, they should be more obvious. Most of the people here seem bright, but only a few seem like true geniuses to me (and I make no claims of geniushood for myself - I’m above average, but nowhere near Mensa material).
Younger people (late teens, I think) do perform best on certain performance areas of the test, while older people do better on tasks of knowledge/comprehension.
But since your score based how well you do compared to other people in your age cohort, it’s all relative. Barring brain damage or significant emotional/environmental deprivation, your score remains pretty much the same over time.
Sorry. I just don’t post as much as I used to. 
Maybe [del]we[/del] they are trying to fly under the radar.
I put 84. But that’s measured in hundreds 
I’m smart enough to know that you shouldn’t ask this question on a message-board and expect truthful answers. I’m also intelligent enough to ask this: Why do you ask?
I don’t remember my score, but I think it ended with a “2”
218
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Also, some other incredible number I’m to bored to remember (both the dazzling measurement itself, and the particular metric it measured). But I do know that it clearly illustrated my vast superiority… believe me. It is awesome and waaaaaay better than the rest of you!!!
(The above is my boilerplate answer to any self-love questions posted on the Dope. I’ve never understood the need for such public wank-offs. My IQ and my cock dimensions are more than adequate. Any details beyond that would be utter assholery.)
OOOOPS!! When I answered this in the last post I didn’t know how old this thread was. It looks like I had already answered earlier in the thread.
Ahhhhhhhh that’s ok… I’ve only gotten way smarter and more God-like since then. Just giving y’all an update. 
Don’t be too sad. There are plenty of drill-presses that need dull folks like you to run them. :eek:
My mother enrolled me in school late and told the principle she thought I was slow. They gave me an I.Q. test, on which I measured 148!
My mother’s response? “She must have guessed lucky.” And no, she would not let me be double promoted.
You think we are not smart.
We are smart.
We … look for things.
I’m starting to question your 218 IQ. :dubious:
118, tested a few months ago. I’m 33.
You people posting high scores are only raising expectations for yourselves. If you say or do something dumb it’s less forgivable than if a normal person says or does the same thing, because a genius really ought to know better.
That said, my IQ is 38.
Never seen “Being There” have you?
I’ve noted exactly the opposite. Generic stuff becomes pearls of wisdom if you think the speaker is a genius. I went to a meeting where my old adviser gave the keynote, and he said nothing new or very interesting. But the audience acted like they had heard the word of god. He deserves his reputation - that talk didn’t reflect his good points.
I said 84- but it’s a lie. I’m probably smarter than that.