I was the person the guy was conferring with. They woke me up from nap time and showed me your early test results. Intuitively I spotted some key patterns and directed their testing of you for optimal efficiency.
Then I had a graham cracker and went back to nap time.
I gotta say, the whole gifted program thing? I sat around and played Adventure on the gifted teacher’s TRS-80. This eventually upgraded to fucking up the SimLife saved games of the other gifted students by inserting one immortal dragon-type predator somewhere.
Yeah, maybe I’d put more stock in it if A) my school district had had a “gifted” program that wasn’t “lose a recess three times a week to play video games and logic puzzles” and B) if the other kids in said program weren’t as much fuckups as I was. 
Back in the day I was given the test by my school’s phy-ed instructor. I was told I scored 4.50. Oh wait, that was my forty time.
I picked low average. I’m no genius. Once upon a time I felt better than average, but time takes a toll, and these days I feel less than exceptional. It all worked out fine. Didn’t take long to figure out that the smart career move wasn’t being the smartest guy in the room or working for the smartest guy, the smart move was being the guy that manages the room full of smart guys. 
IIRC, low 130s on a test I took in community college when I was 19.
Wonder how I’d do now, 20 years later.
That’s 6 standard deviations above the mean. One in a billion.
I haven’t been tested as such, but I’m sure it’s way above average because I’m clearly much smarter than some of the other checkout chicks in my store.
I’ve been told I’m very smart, one unofficial book testing gave Me 134.
But when I read General Questions or Great Debates, I feel it actually is lower.
So I go to the BBQ Pit to feel better and there I think that 134 is probably underestimation.
I’ve never done an IQ test.
I have no desire to do an IQ test.
I am comfortable in my abilities and accomplishments.
One of the many reasons I don’t report my score. I was a guinea pig for a grad school student learning to administer the test. It happened at my dining room table with my husband sitting on the sofa reading comic books. The results were not valid. It was a lot of fun, though.
Still, I had to know what it was. Even knowing all the flaws in these tests, all the biases, even knowing it doesn’t really matter… I had to know. But paradoxically, shortly after that I stopped worrying about proving to myself I was smart. I have enough experience now to know I’m smart. Not the smartest person on the planet, definitely not the smartest person in undergrad or grad school, but smart enough to be curious about the world around me and to have interesting conversations and to live the kind of life I want to live.
I think everyone on this board is smart enough. We’ve all been blessed with intelligence of some kind.
This thread was turning into a pissing contest.
The last time I posted my IQ here I was torn to shreds by some guy because “IQ TESTS DON’T GO THAT HIGH! BLARGH!” Then I was grilled on my school’s location, the year I graduated, GOT MY HIGH SCHOOL GOOGLED and analyzed to further prove that due to the demographics, I couldn’t possibly have an IQ that high.
Let’s just say I’m in the 99th percentile and have my Mensa renewal on my coffee table right now. And that was from the official Mensa test, not the one I took in high school (which was higher).
I was tested immediately before I went into the Army, and then again shortly after I got out. My post-military score was 5 points lower.
momma always said… stupid is as stupid does
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one fiddy! :dubious:
99th percentile for IQ is 135-137, depending on the specifics of the test. I find it hard to believe someone would both freak out about that and still be worth listening to. It’s the idea that the Dope CENTERS at that level that’s kinda suspect.
Regarding this, I am not aware of any standard test used in education or for Mensa membership that is accurate above around 160, just due to the statistical problems of discriminating so finely with the sample sizes typically used to calibrate them. For the same reason, there’s a lot of skepticism about how meaningful the results of IQ tests (such as the Mega Society’s specific one) that purport to discriminate usefully in the 160+ range are, again simply due to sample size–at that point you’re trying to measure people at 4+ standard deviations from the mean (the 1 in 1,000,000 level is around 170).
Such results are not likely to be especially meaningful (and are, in fact, generally held as non-meaningful by psychologists in the sub-field) in the context of assessing actual intelligence.
All you ‘‘smart’’ dopers with a single IQ are just so precious. When they tested me they said that I was so intelligent that they needed to assign a seperate IQ for each side of my brain. And each side of my brain scored higher than the other half. Prolly like a thousand or something.
Link, please!
I think this is the thread in question. Wendell Wagner questioned the likelihood of three kids in a class at a small public high school (not a magnet school drawing kids from across the county or across the state) scoring north of 160 on an IQ test.
I agree that the claims that are often made in doper IQ threads can get pretty ridiculous. That said, I find it entirely plausible that the average doper IQ is a fair bit higher than the average for the population as a whole. People look at some score and say “well, that would be one in a thousand”. Well, if your high school had 1500 people, then the smartest one or two kids in your high school would have a score that high. Were the smartest one or two kids in your high school so smart that they would stick out as exceptionally brilliant on the SDMB?
A recurring theme in these threads, btw, is people saying “well, I have a really high IQ, but I never was all that ambitious or anything”, which makes sense to me. The people who are super-driven and ambitious don’t have time to post on the SDMB about their IQs, and that’s true if their IQs are 160 or 140 or 120. But there’s no reason to think that really really smart people don’t want to loaf around and get into SDMB dick-waving competitions just because they’re really really smart.
This is a much more emotional topic than one might expect.