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by Carmella on October 6th, 2006
Everybody on here seems to have quite high IQs.
I'm not sure whether that's because they're lying, only people with higher IQs are answering, (because people with lower IQs don't want to answer), or because mainly people with high IQs are attracted to AB for some reason.
Anyway, to get to my answer, last time it was 'officially' checked, my IQ was 136.
I did a BBC Test the Nation IQ test a few weeks back, and on that my IQ was 127. On another, random internet IQ test, my result was 89 (I do question the reliability of that one, unless I was having a really 'off' day...)
But honestly, depending which IQ test you do, depends what result you get.
So say Joe got an IQ of 100 on one test, on another it might have been 120, and on another 90.
I think I care about it to a point, because if somebody told me my IQ was low, I'd be quite gutted.
But then again, whatever IQ score I get, it won't change the way my mind works, or the way I solve problems etc.
Ultimately my brain's still the same, no matter what number you attach to its ability.
by Stableboy on October 6th, 2006
I think its about 120 in the morning and drops to 80 or so late in the day.
by ptrask on October 6th, 2006
Based upon an IQ test I took on the internet a few years ago, my IQ is 139. According to a standardized test I was given back in 1971 by the Cohasset public schools, my IQ is 135.
I suppose I would care if it was lower, but it is very easy to be modest about it when it is high :-)
What's yours and do you care?
Having thought about this some more, I have decided that I definitely DO care what my IQ is. I'm not sure I would be posting it on the internet if it was 90. Its not that I think there is anything wrong with having below average intelligence. I just think that it is a plus to have above average intelligence.
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Edit:
Before any of us go getting uppity about our IQs, I would like to relate a couple of life experiences. The first is in regards to one of my brothers. I come from a family of seven, and he is number six - my baby brother. He is a certified genius, with an IQ over 200. The testers told him that they couldn't acurately rate his IQ with the standardized tests, that to get an acurate reading, they would need to send him for special testing, which he declined. He graduated from high school at age 15, and started college on a full scholarship at 16. Here are my observations about him: He is one of the smartest people I know, but he has about the least common sense of anyone I know. He is not a very fast reader (in fact I read at twice the speed that he does), but he retains EVERYTHING he reads indefinitely. He is a great dad to his kids, as long as nothing is out of the ordinary, then his poor wife has to deal with five kids rather than the four they have together, since he has about as much common sense as his kids do. How has his intelligence helped him in his life? I don't see that it has. He gets easily bored with things, and would rather go write a poem or story than learn something that will advance his career. How about remembering everything he reads? I suppose that it is great, if you want him to quote to you a passage from Dante's Inferno, or if you want to know what happened in the Little Orphan Annie comic strip from a Sunday in 1988. I have never seen how he has been able to turn this into an asset in his life.
The other experience I would like to relate is about a time when I worked as the Comptroller for a start-up software company. In the early days, the company consisted of me, and six hardware and software engineers. There was the one who could look at 20 pages of computer code, and pick out the error within minutes. But he couldn't remember to take a shower in the morning. There was one who could sit in his office thinking all day, then write a solution to a problem that the best engineers at IBM had been working on for months. But he needed help filling out the forms every time he had to send an express mail envelope. My favorite was the president and founder of the company. He was a genius, with many years of software and hardware development experience, who wrote columns for two different technical journals. He was the co-founder of a local technology council, and he could multiply and divide six-digit numbers in his head. However, eachweek when I presented financial statements to him, I had to explain all over again what each report was and the reason for it - every week.
Based on these experiences, I'll keep my IQ, and the CSQ (Common Sense Quotient) that I have!
by hijklmno on April 21st, 2007
I honestly don't know, I honestly don't care. I am fairly intelligent, it's all I need to know.
IQ tests are:
a) indicators of how good people are at IQ tests and nothing more;
b) so indebted to an academic interpretation of "intelligence" that they are pretty much useless when it comes to other fields (literally so - is a farmer more intelligent than an office administrator when it comes to producing food?); and
c) just another way "intelligent" people can humiliate others.
by Firebrand on December 29th, 2006
It is/was very high I was a Mensa member for a while but they lowered the entrance . IQ does not really mean a lot unless it is very low.Too high and the brain is like an impatient child running around all over the place and difficult to control or train
by Captain Birdseye on October 6th, 2006
120 to 125, depnding on the test, and yes, I am smart enough to care. If I was really dumb I wouldn't understand the question.
by ...... on April 4th, 2008
I have never checked. But The test was designed by man to measure the intellect of man, makes me question how intelligent was the man who designed this test.
by Anonymous on February 8th, 2007
High enough. It's like penis size. The results are subjective, and it is only as good as what one does with it. :)
by My ratings on November 10th, 2007
I think it varies among each test. So far, my average is about a 109.
by anonymous on March 18th, 2007
Don't know, and frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
by Jenniferocious on October 16th, 2006
I've taken a few online IQ tests (but we're talking ONLINE IQ tests... so I can't say I trust them!) But I've gotten scores anywhere between 126-160... do I care? I'll be honest, it is kind of nice to see high numbers when you take those tests... otherwise I don't think I would have taken them!
by Victoria on November 20th, 2008
148 but I think it is wrong. The tester looked strange at times! I think I should be lower.
by Anonymous on February 8th, 2007
It depends on:
A) How much sleep I get
B) The amount of prescription medication I'm on
C) If I feel like taking a test to prove what I already know.
by Jessicax23 on December 29th, 2006
tested between 148-160, and I couldn't care less. I mean, I'm glad to be intelligent, but don't care about the numbers. They are unreliable at best, and different tests use different scales, so even if you believed the number meant something concrete, you'd have to know the test it came from before comparing it to someone else's.
I personally think there are better ways of recognizing, as well as displaying, one's intellect.
When I was tested in school, my mother told me the number (156 on that particular one), and then lied to me about the "levels" they assign to the score ranges. She told me that 160 was genius, when (on that particular test) the actual "cutoff" was 140. She also told me that your IQ worked like muscle training - that using your mind more could raise your score, and mental atrophy would lower it. That was some of the best parenting I've ever seen. It gave me something to shoot for - if I really wanted to be a genius, I thought, I would have to exercise the heck out of my mind to get those last 4 points. It also kept me from getting too big for my breeches about the score (and labeling myself a genius in polite company, lol). But it still made me feel special and lucky to have that sort of baseline - and gave me a sense of responsibility to show that I appreciated what I'd been born with, and use it accordingly.
by bignose on October 6th, 2006
--145 and no, i don't give a rat's ass about it all. in fact i sort of doubt it's usefullness or accuracy.
by Mr.Bean Mime on July 8th, 2008
I was in shock to find mine to be 58. I am ashamed of myself.
by KevinW42 on July 30th, 2007
One hundred forty twelve.
by Anonymous on March 8th, 2007
Yes. Mine is 87. I find it very sad. It's just an online test though, and might not be accurate. It really put me down though.
by teknimage on January 4th, 2007
According to that test, 147.
No, I don't really care. It hasn't helped or hindered my life knowing what it is.
by genx-guru on January 1st, 2007
125 wish it was lower...all the stupid people I know seem to be happy. The bright people think their not getting enough out of life.
by Godfather Part II on January 1st, 2007
My IQ score is high enough so that I know what it means. But low enough for me to want to do better.
It's high enough for me to realise that IQ tests are not a particually effective measure of intelligence. But low enough for me to miss that the previous statement is in fact a paradox.
by tjatherton on December 29th, 2006
I don't know the actual score, but whenever I applied for a job, I scored higher than their Managers and lost the job I was seeking.
So yes I do care that it labels you.
Not ALL smart people are intelligent! And not all intelligent people are doing what they love to do.
by Joe-Speedy on October 6th, 2006
120 last time I checked. Do I care? Not really. It is what it is. You can't change it so why worry about it?
by Old School on December 31st, 2010
Yep....;-D....
by Sid on November 20th, 2008
It was 155 when tested years ago, but would be nearer 15.5 nowadays, after years of bad insomnia have wrecked my brain.
by advracer on November 20th, 2008
I had it tested long long time ago, and it was 136. But I've drank a lot of beer since then. I'm sure I've killed off a few of the important brain cells since then...
by sm00z on September 23rd, 2008
It's probably around 140 but I still don't know how to tie my shoe laces.
by squarepeg on May 23rd, 2008
either i'm extremely stupid, or the only honest one here...mine was 115
by kedar on April 1st, 2008
I recently scored 130, it was a little higher a couple of years ago -- I don't really care much, however, I am somehow glad that my IQ's higher than the current president of the United States'. In fact, George W. Bush's IQ is 91.
by Flapdoodle on July 30th, 2007
I am really good looking.
by Halskiisaklink on April 21st, 2007
Don't know, don't care.
by Barcaluv on March 18th, 2007
What's my what?
by VOD on January 4th, 2007
I have ranged from 126 to 132.
by Tokyos on November 4th, 2006
Last time I checked it was 120.Honestly though,who cares what your IQ is?Should it matter,most people are smart who just didn't understand the questions.They then get a low IQ.
by anonymous on October 16th, 2006
I don't know mine but I wouldn't mind knowing. Anyone who has bothered to find theirs out obviously cares.
by Anonymous on January 13th, 2009
I have no idea what mine is. Is there anywhere online I can give it a go? What is 143? Good, bad, or average?
by Babycakes on January 4th, 2009
I don't know what it is and not interested in finding out. Might be too depressing....
by Lil Jimmy on November 20th, 2008
128
I'm lazy though -_-
by Led Zeppelin on November 20th, 2008
184..
Probably because I'm a historian..
by gtravels loves her life penguin on November 20th, 2008
I think it's 12;)
by TERRYTUKER on November 20th, 2008
Hmmm Beer
by G_tech on November 20th, 2008
don't know, never been tested
by --paw43--is back for now on November 20th, 2008
Honestly I don't know and I don't care!
by Halskiisaklink on November 18th, 2008
Don't know, don't care. Intelligence is an abstract concept that can't be definitively measured, unless you're really narrow-minded.
by anonymous on September 23rd, 2008
My IQ when I was tested in the Army was 156. That was 4 years ago.....;)
by Raaaaaa on September 23rd, 2008
I did a random one on Facebook, not sure how reliable that is - but i scored 126.
by MagicSquares on September 23rd, 2008
When I took the Mensa test about 30 years ago, I scored 152.
by PartRadio loves YOU on September 23rd, 2008
It's my Internet Quickness.
by Mr.Bean Mime on July 29th, 2008
40
by Berkeley on June 16th, 2008
Mine is supposedly "high" but IQ's don't mean crap to me, so I'm not going to bother saying what it is.
Just like "buxtonite ..house hubby extraordinaire68" said, there are lots of people out there with high IQ's who make bad life decisions.
I can't tell you how many people I know who have 100 IQ's who are successful entrepreneurs, and people with 180 IQ's who can't even tie their own shoes or go on one friggin' date without doing/saying something incredibly stupid or offensive!
If you scored high on an IQ test, congratulations, you did well on THAT test. And that's just about all your score tells you.
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I like your brain, Carmella. Nice answer.
by Jodie44 on November 10th, 2006
You do know the average IQ is going up according to trends. The bell curve really doesn't apply to it very well.
by Valparaiso on January 1st, 2007
Due to brain damage, drug use and other trauma, you will never have a true bell curve. It will be skewed toward the left or below average half. As any test is updated/re-normed, 100 remains the average. I don't doubt your assertion VAL, it just doesn't jive with what I know about statistics. And I've forgot more about stats than I want to think about.
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on February 8th, 2007
Well Mirage they keep adjusting the scoreing system on the IQ test. So now a 100 is a hell of a lot harder to get then it was 20 years ago. And by the way I learned this in one of my two college stats courses.
by Valparaiso on February 8th, 2007
Very interesting VAL. I'd like to think as a species we are getting smarter. Smacks of evolution, doesn't it? That is curious enough to actually research.....RF
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on February 8th, 2007
Or better education? Even if you belive in evolution you know it can't just happen that fast. And besides statistically speaking people with lower educations are having more kids then those with higher educations.
by Valparaiso on February 8th, 2007
VAL: Like the evo, joke? IQ is supposed to be inherent. It can't be taught. That is achievement testing.
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on February 8th, 2007
Thats why IQ isn't real. Clone Abert Einstein, teach him how to read and write and then lock him up in a basement for 10 years and I'll bet I could best him on any IQ test. Now thats not to say that if we had the same education Einstein wouldn't blow me away, but I'm sorry people with better educations do better on IQ tests and its not always because they are smarter or learn faster.
by Valparaiso on February 8th, 2007
And education is a function of economic status which is a function of ability which is a function of genetics which has nothing to do with education. Just funning you. Thinking skills can be taught, this should happen in school. But you always reach a limit where you cannot teach a person more than he is capable of learning. Which is what IQ attempts to measure. Are you as tired of this as I am? Been fun, but I gotta move on....be seeing you..RF...BTW- you might consider teaching, you have didactic skills.
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on February 8th, 2007
I'm a sunday school teacher, you are the third or fourth person that suggested that I take up teaching professionally.
by Valparaiso on February 9th, 2007
Teaching once a week is enough of a challenge. Why spoil a good thing? Be flattered. You're good!
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on February 9th, 2007
Its not much of a challenge they are good kids. The hardest part is getting the 14 year old girls in my class (9/13 of the students are girls) to stop chatting. But they are getting better
by Valparaiso on February 9th, 2007