Have You Ever Done A IQ Test

[Far Away]

If you have what score is considered to be a high IQ and a low IQ

[popper]

If you have what score is considered to be a high IQ and a low IQ

Anything under 100 and you should start to worry.

Actually if you were below 100 you probably would not do too much worrying about it nor would you be on a political chat forum!

Actually, now that I think of it ..........

[TheBear]

If you have what score is considered to be a high IQ and a low IQ

100 is average. Below that is low, above it is high. *shrugs*

Seriously, I'd say 70 and lower is very low, and 120 and higher is quite high.

[zakalwe]

these tests are designed so that an average person will score 100. anything above means above average and any below means below average.

[cyberianpan]

Whilst 100 is the mean it is intended ordinarily to be the mean for the country developed in (tends to be the US). Ireland's mean is probably in range US_100 +/- 3 (not yet seen any good sized test to establish where it is).

Also watch out on the scaling, on some scales 136 means that you are in top 1% whereas on others 160 is the mark. So unless you are 100 it is probably best to quote your score in percentile.

Furthermore some widely used webtests have poor normalisation (which shows particulary at the extremes) so watch out for quality of test.

cYp

[david]

I've never done one nor, seemingly, had reason to. How do they work and what are they supposed to prove/do? What happens if you come out more/less intelligent than you think you are?

[popper]

I've never done one nor, seemingly, had reason to. How do they work and what are they supposed to prove/do? What happens if you come out more/less intelligent than you think you are?

If you come out more intelligent than you thought then you set up a politics.ie account and lecture people on irrelevancies.

If below, you can adopt the same course but with that added tincture of bitterness.

[cyberianpan]

I've never done one nor, seemingly, had reason to. How do they work and what are they supposed to prove/do? What happens if you come out more/less intelligent than you think you are?

Basic idea is that they ae meant to measure pure abstract reasoning ability, some complain that they are not "culture fair" but tests exist that rely wholly on shape matching etc (i.e. no language & way less "context").

They don't necessarily measure knowledge, complex situational awareness, personal/emotional awareness etc. Some people would lump those in as being part of intelligence hence the disagreements.

Also note that some tests split out into "verbal/visual spatial/mathematical" and sometimes peoples abilities can be divergent in differing categories.

They are a useful tool so long as you are aware precislely what they measure, for example they don't measure creativity that well & so aren't very useful for measuring "problem solving" ability... ie say a hi IQ person could follow but not necessarily generate a complex solution(but mostly speaking there is close correlation).

The PC brigade will attack this thread any time soon :wink:

cYp

[david]

Thanks, cYp.

[revereie]

I put myself down to do one in town once but everytime I went through the revolving door of the exam-hall I ended up back out on the street - I gave up in the end - who designs those things anyway !?


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