According to my last test, my IQ score is 147. Not bad, but it seems somehow puny and inadequate when measured against mental heavyweights like Goethe (210), Einstein (just above 160), and William James Sidis (250-300).
Speaking of Goethe, when I was being tested, the fellow who was doing the testing was reading questions out loud to me. He asked me, “Who wrote ‘Faust’?”
I replied, “Christopher Marlowe! No, wait. He wrote ‘Doctor Faustus’. Go-eth wrote ‘Faust’. Go-eth. You know, the German dude.”
My tester looked at me quizzically and asked, “You mean Gerta?” (‘Gerta’ being the correct pronunciation of ‘Goethe’).
“Yes! That’s him! I knew who he was, I just couldn’t pronounce his name!” I said.
I don’t know what my “official” IQ score is, but one internet IQ test said I was 131,and another said 127, a third said 124 … and I’m a high school dropout dontcha know!
I have no idea. Nor do I particularly care to know. If it’s too low, I’ll be crushed and if it’s too high, I’ll feel I’m not living up to my potential. In this case, ignorance is bliss.
Official test in high school - estimated at 190-200. The testers didn’t seem to be prepared very well for some reason and as a result they weren’t able to locate my score. Like FCM, I’d rather not know what my exact IQ is.
The estimate does seem about right, I’m the type who just absorbed information throughout my school years and never studied for any class except for English. That might be due to my brain working faster than my mouth does.
Just remembered, I think I was offered some AP classes after that but I thought it was a bit late. I must have been at least a sophomore by the time I was tested. Besides, I kinda liked not having to pay much attention in class.
About 160, and tested after I was more-or-less developed. Had I been tested when I was younger, the score probably would’ve been higher, due to the nature of the testing and scoring. Off the top of my head, I’d’ve scored about 20 points higher.
I know way too much about the damned test–enough to know that it means just slightly more than jack squat.
I think that everyone secretly really wants to know how intelligent they are, but since we’ve never developed anything better than the IQ test, we’re still depending on it to analyze us even though it’s not terribly effective.
I went through a battery of IQ tests all through public school, mostly because the people in charge of my education were unable to agree on whether or not I was:
The tests didn’t seem to answer this debate, so I ended up in the interesting position of being a sixth grader enrolled in two gifted classes, one “special needs” class, and the rest regular classes. That was peculiar, let me assure you.
