What was your IQ, the last time you checked?

Question

i'm at 150-160, and thirteen--that's Einstein's level. i'm not a nerd, though--just smart. what about you?

ignore the lack of caps, i realllly don't feel like using them just for this. ;)

Mmm, and it wasn't an online test--it was a test to get into a gifted program. ;)

Answer 1

I was tested several times and each time I told them I didn't want to know. For one thing it labels a person--either gift or otherwise. Second, it's a biased, subjective test--it tests basic knowledge and facts. It doesn't tell you that you may be gifted in music, writing, art, even mechanics. I'd rather develop my talents using the intelligence I already have and being smart enough to know when I need to learn more about a subject--and how to look up that information. Bragging rights don't mean much since hardly anyone knows what the average IQ is anyway.

But, if you think your IQ is correct, then congrats to you and best luck to you in your future. Be careful when you go back to school, though. Most of the kids aren't going to see you as extremely gifted--they're going to think you're an obnoxious smarta**. The ones in the gifted program are going to think they're smarter than you.

Answer 2

When I was a kid, I used to have my IQ tested twice during each school year because I was learning very quickly...quickly enough that it caused our family to have to make some adjustments (schools for gifted children and so on). The tests were conducted by psychologists who worked with schools, much as they do today. There was little deviation in scores, and by the time I graduated from high school the average of all of the tests was 163. As an adult, I have only had it tested twice - once after a car accident with head injury, and once about eight months ago. To my disappointment, it has dropped quite a bit - the two adult scores average out to 158. I have been in school in some capacity all of my life - since high school I've been in college or in vocational/technical courses most of the time because I don't feel quite myself if I am not learning something new. I appreciate my intelligence and feel that it is my gift, and I try not to take it for granted or use it to make others feel bad, and that's really the only awareness I have of it these days. I am working hard on raising my emotional intelligence, which can be lacking in intellectual people. I think that it is important that highly intelligent people set intellect aside and develop their people skills, particularly when they're young, because all the smarts in the world can't make a person nice :-)

Answer 3

I was tested by the school system when I was 12 (right before entering 7th grade), and they told me that my IQ was 189. However, they didn't tell me which test they gave me or what the standard deviation was, so the number by itself is meaningless.

They gave me the IQ test because I was transferring from a private school to the public school system. They were going to make me retake 6th grade because of my age. After they gave me my results, not only did I get to go to 7th grade, they also put me in the gifted program.

So, while the IQ score itself is meaningless, that test probably saved me many years of anguish.

Answer 4

155

Answer 5

138

Answer 6

I think my IQ was 120 or something like that. But tonight, I feel like it's hovering around 80.

Answer 7

um.....and where did you have your IQ tested? if it was an online test, it is not at all accurate. You need to be tested by a reputable association, such as MENSA. I was tested there and my IQ is 137 (I'm 19).

Answer 8

somewhere around 10 at the moment --- I am brain tired

Answer 9

152 i am smart too. and i answered it in a foreign language, so that makes me smarter!!!