2006-09-07 10:27:09 · 8 answers · asked by pennys2cute 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
~Mine isn't. I refuse to play that stupid game. What does the number mean? Not much unless it's big enough that you want to flaunt it, or low enough that you can qualify for SSI or like benefits. For kicks, take a culturally biased IQ test sometime. With luck, you may score slightly higher than a grape.
Rather than worry about some artificial comparison scale, just try reading and teaching yourself.
2006-09-07 12:44:08 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. It is determined by an IQ test!
http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf is fairly reliable and based on the real thing (ravens).
2. The highest score statistically possible is around 195 SD 15 (making you the smartest person in the world). However, no commonly used tests can go this high. No widely used test can test higher than 166, actually. However, people have attempted to design special tests that go beyond that, but most of them are not considered very accurate.
3. The lowest score statistically possible would be 1, however, no tests test this low. An IQ below 20 would be considered a 'vegetable', aka you can't really do anything. Koko the gorilla is smarter than you (IQ 85...), how insulting.
4. The statistical average IQ is 100; however, further analysis of the world shows the average worldly IQ comes in closer to 90.
2006-09-08 14:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An IQ or intelligence quotient is determined by a series of questions that test the person's ability to work through complex problems and or the ability to recognize solutions out of a series of possible answers. The tests include questions about a person's ability to store information, ability to catagorize and see similarities, math, vocabulary, common sense and the ability to recall a string of digits. There are other tests as well. It is directly linked to a persons mental ability and their age. The intelligence quotient is defined as 100 times the Mental Age (MA) divided by the Chronological Age (CA)
The lowest score for an IQ is 30 and the highest is 200 although most people fall at about 100 to 111. People with IQ's less than 74 are likely to be unemployable to some extent and or institutionalized. The grade average to someone with an IQ of 74 is about 8th grade. People with IQ's of 111 and above are usually college bound and persue many upper level jobs like being a doctor, lawyer or engineer.
2006-09-07 17:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by elu_1998 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IQ is the difference between your mental and your biological age, multiplied by 100. For example, if you are 15 and you think like a 20-year-old your IQ is (20/15)x100=133.
An average below 100 means that you might not be quite smart, but you don't need to worry unless your IQ is less than 70 or so.
The IQ is not really that important, because researchers found out some time ago that there are 7 different types of intelligence. I mean, you can be a brilliant painter and know nothing about maths, and by taking just one test nobody can tell you whether you are smart or not.
2006-09-07 17:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by ralu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An IQ of 100 is average by definition. There are very, very few people with IQs above 140 or below 60; beyond these numbers, IQs are very difficult to test and measure. IQ tests are designed to measure something called the general intelligence factor, which largely governs pattern comprehension, three-dimensional thinking, etc. In short, the general intelligence factor is just a theorized core of all the qualities Western society accepts as indicating intelligence.
2006-09-07 17:39:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IQ is determined at birth, and fluxuates only a little bit. It is, essentually, the ability and compacity to learn. It is evaluated by simple tests, in which children and adults to score near the same thing. The highest is somewhere in the low 200's. Two people possess the same number, and are married together. As for the lowest, I am not sure. National average is around 120, but slowly dropping.
2006-09-07 17:36:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that doesn't seem to work to one's advantage as you get older... so if my IQ were 146, then when I'm 50 I'll think like a 65-year-old? And when I'm 76 I'll think like a 90-year-old?
At that point in life it's not much of a big deal, is it?
2006-09-07 19:24:20 · answer #7 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
partly genetics partly training....
the average is 100
but normal is 80 to 120
2006-09-07 17:34:48 · answer #8 · answered by pagolpakhi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋