My folks had me “evaluated” in elementary school, around 1973 or so.
I would daydream a lot and Ritalin was all the rage then, but Mom wanted me tested first. I remember pretty much blowing away the Dr. asking me what I considered easy questions.
They gave me an IQ test, but don’t remember which. It’s been a while.
Anyway, my mom would never tell me what I scored until I was a teen and asked about Mensa. Turns out my score was 185, or so Mom said. I can’t imagine she’d embellish such a thing. Mensa was easy, but I only really remember them saying “top 1%” about my testing.
I scored 1590 on my SAT, 35 on the ACT and got several scholarships, including med school.
Now a **really **smart person would have 1) gone to med school instead of opening a travel agency, and 2) noticed this was a zombie thread before page 3!
I didn’t want to know my IQ because I thought whatever it was, knowing it could limit me, but my mom was so excited, she told me anyway. I’ll leave it for you to decide if it was because it was so high or because she had thought I just barely outsmarted tubers and was delighted to find out I was average. I made it a rule not to tell anyone my IQ, but I did tell my ex and was sorry I had, as he resented that my IQ was quite a bit higher than his. By every other measure, he was clearly every bit as smart as i am, and probably smarter.
I didn’t participate in the poll because IQ is so meaningless. That’s why schools generally don’t administer them en masse any longer. In most schools, they only test students to determine if they might be eligible for Special Ed or for a gifted program. A kid might score in the average range but have a genius level intelligence in, say, verbal intelligence, while his spatial intelligence is so low, he can barely find his way out of a pullover sweater. Also the tests don’t do a very good job of predicting student success. IME, people mostly use their scores to give themselves bragging rights.
I didn’t participate in the poll because I just don’t think IQ’s matter much.
I made it a rule not to tell anyone my IQ, but I did tell my ex and was sorry I had, as he resented that my IQ was quite a bit higher than his. By every other measure, he was clearly every bit as smart as i am, and probably smarter.