Mensa, IQ testing?

Question

I have tested before, done well in every area but "word arrangement". There are three words in this word, what one word do all the rest have in common and so on. Can't get those for the life of me.

What I was wondering is what weakness, if you will, that translates into in the "life skills" department. People that don't do well in that area don't usually do well in yadda, yadda, yadda. I was just curious if there was any info on that matter.

Answer 1

IQ testing is very relative, it often rellies on what experiences a child has been exposed to, that says nothing of a child's intelligence.
also not everybody is good at all tasks and hence you could do very well in an area and poorly in another and still score high
I do not consider my self "intelligent" but at one point in my life I scored an IQ of over 150 and at another point it was just average
why did I score differently? test is no good, the fact that you have problems with word arrangement means nothing, you could be as good a lawyer or doctor or nurse or air line pilot as anybody else, it takes discipline, sacrifice, persistance.
the exception being those individuals born with a defect that causes mental retardation (not physical as proven by the Math Nobel Prize winner Dr. Hawking)

Answer 2

I don't know the Mensa test specifically, but here's the reasoning behind the IQ score: when psychologists first started to find ways of measuring intelligence in children (sometimes at the expense of understanding it!) they collected lots of data about what the average child ought to be able to do at each age. Then they created the Intelligence Quotient, which was defined as Mental Age divided by Chronological Age x 100. So a child of 10 who accomplished tasks that a 12-year-old would achieve would be assigned an IQ of 120 - 12/10 x 100; a child of 10 who achieved the level of an eight-year-old would be assigned an IQ of 80, and so on. In the early days of this type of study certain disciplines were observed which have been left behind since then. For example, the figure was not supposed to be calculated for anyone over the age of 16 or thereabouts because the concept of 'mental age' ceases to hold water after this point; also if the ratio for any particular child was greater than 135 it would just be reported as 135+ ... as opposed to some of the quotes you see nowadays where X is reported to have an IQ of 188, or whatever. So, it seems a safe assumption that Mensa has taken 100 as average, and therefore your score of 128 means that you do as well as or better than roughly 80% of the population. However, may I make a practical point about interpreting scores like this? because you can think of them as giving you a ceiling above which you won't rise, or a floor below which you have no excuse for falling, and thinking about them as floors rather than ceilings is much more realistic and less likely to result in problems of self-esteem. Or, to put it another way, you could see this score as meaning that you'll never do any better than 80% of the population or as meaning that you have no excuse for doing any worse than 80% of the population, and the second view is much more useful. It's very important that parents bear this in mind if they're given their teenagers' IQs, or that people recruiting for jobs use intelligence tests as a means for sorting people.

Answer 3

I don't think there is any correlation between IQ tests (or the Mensa test) and real life skills. They say that the IQ test only measures your ability to do an IQ test, and I believe it's true.
Lately, researchers have come up with several more kinds of intelligence, which cannot be measured in a test.

Answer 4

Most of my friends are around 2 standard deviations from the norm in IQ. Having said that, I suggest that you :

1. Develop a close relationship with the "higher power." Pray.
2. Develop a good relationship with your friends and family
3. Eat vegetables
4. Exercise
5. Get a master's degree in any field - make whatever sacrifices you must to get that degree.
6. Work hard at your job.
7. Read
8. Read about current events from different sources. Read history.
9. Get a hobby doing something creative, composing music, painting, photography....
10. Learn to play Go, (also known as Weiqi in Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 圍棋; Simplified Chinese: 围棋), Igo in Japanese (Kanji: 囲碁), and Baduk in Korean (Hangul:바둑). Go is a strategic, zero sum, deterministic board game of perfect information originating in ancient China, before 200 BC.
It is more difficult that chess,--- really.

Answer 5

IQ tests usually measure your academic abilities rather than life skills, unless your job are highly intellectually challenging(eg NASA rocket scientist). Besides, IQ tests are a measurement for IQ, not EQ or AQ which are more required in life.

Answer 6

It means that we all have different strengths or "intellegences". Nobody is strong in all areas, or even weak in all areas. My husband is very good with lingistic intellegence and gets those puzzles very fast. I'm better in logical puzzles and whiz through those. Don't sweat it, unless you really want to get into Mensa, which in my opinion is overrated (and I do qualify for it, so it's not just sour grapes!)

Answer 7

first of all u need to tell the person who told u how to write that they didnt know wtf they were doing, cuz the second paragraph u wrote makes no sense. i took the iq test 19 yrs ago and did very well too (127), know about mensa but dont need a group of egotistical nerds in a group to tell me im smart, and have been writing a book for over 20 yrs. trust me, it doesnt make sense. think about it and edit later if u see it. if not then oh well lol

Answer 8

Those sort of questions are measuring your inductive reasoning.

Inductive reasoning is the type of reasoning in which you go from specific to general. The question gives you three specifics and from them you are supposed to infer what the common general theory is from them. This type of reasoning is crucial in problem solving - based on observations of specific cases we can infer what will happen next.

Answer 9

IQ test only really measure your ability to take tests.

Answer 10

IQ tests have been pretty much debunked