It’s simple: A voluntary response survey of Dopers’ IQs. :eek:.
Formal testing for the gifted and talented program when it was first started when I was in Jr High resulted in 129. Later semiformal testing for Mensa scored a 135. Split the difference at 132.
Sadly, I’ve never had anywhere near formal testing. But all the online tests I’ve found (which are close enough, I’m sure) assure me that I hover between 130-135. I’m sure that’s an entirely reliable number.
Drats. You should have used your 129 and gave the change to the poor Doper with a IQ in the 60-69 range.
Cheated slightly… Took the test in just about the most comfortable possible circumstances: no pressure, for fun, administered by a test operator who was a close personal friend. (A formally trained and licensed test administrator, I hasten to add.) Still, a comfy environment is certainly going to help boost the number.
When I took the Mensa tests in 1991, they gave 2 different tests. I scored 138 on one and 151 on the other.
I love these threads.
Four foot six
When I went to a psychologist, in a passing comment, I mentioned that one of those stupid online tests, I scored 115. He said that he thought that mine would be higher than that, but I’m not quite sure I’d believe him.
According to this online test, 200. I’m still waiting for my free iPad though.
My IQ is 238. This guy told me so.
Just shy of seven inches… Ooops, wrong thread, 
but what with the tone of the thread, it’s an easy mistake to make.
I got tested when I was 11, and it was 143. Got tested again at age 25 in grad school and again it came up 143.
That is a long time.
If I was ever tested in school I was never told the results. So I voted don’t know.
I’m not going to report my score, but I will say this: I took the Weschler as a favor for a friend. It was kind of a neat experience. My performance in the coding section dragged down my overall score. My favorite part was making shapes out of blocks. (Apparently I haven’t changed much since kindergarten.) It was mentally exhausting though, and it was really obvious how biased the test was toward Western/European culture.
Never been officially tested, but my brother has and he is way smarter than me (MD/PhD, high school valedictorian, 3.98 college GPA with little effort, his top 20 grad school was full of people who did undergrad at MIT, Caltech, Harvard, etc). His wife is a teacher who had some official tests and he scored about 130. That surprised me, I figured he would’ve been 150 or so.
So if he is 130, I’m probably 115. I have no idea though. I struggled to maintain a B average in undergrad, so I would be 110-120, I’d assume.
Call yourself a Doper? That’s not even 95th percentile!
(seriously, you beat me to it)
I’m embarrassed to admit that I still remember my SAT score from 1971. According to this site, my IQ is higher than I expected it to be. Finding this out has caused some pretty weird feelings in me, primarily that I’ve been an under-achiever my whole adult life. Wow, I feel weird.
Even if you say "“Stanford Binet scale” you are talking about several different scales. What adds to the confusion is that the numbers resemble each other: both have 100 as average, and above 120 as gifted.
But the “academically-and-beyond-gifted”" (and that is the range Dopers and most IQ-fans are interested in) score about 125-130 on the one scale, and 140-160 on the other. The difference is due to how that particular test deals with standard deviation in the comparison group.
Percentiles are supposed to have dealt with this issue, so they are more reliable, even in bragging contest.
The underlined part is extremely important. Without knowing which scale is being used, the numbers are as meaningless as a temperature of “32” - are we freezing, already frozen, or hottish?