If you talk to someone and ask 'Do you know your IQ?' some people will say no and others say about 138. From the people I have spoken to the average IQ is about 140 and my girlfriend is a genius. Can't anyone tell we know they are lying?
2006-10-11 16:55:48 · 19 answers · asked by SR13 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
Good point Yosh. Why do people lie when it's obvious they are lying anyway? Do they think the rest of us are that stupid?
2006-10-11 17:02:33 · update #1
140 is definitely not the average IQ - to high.
Find your closest Mensa chapter through the link below and you can take an IQ test very inexpensively.
2006-10-11 16:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by Robert 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Could be they are lying, or they just take bad tests.
The last test I took was the Test the Nation one, which is a dodgy idea to start with, and then you see that the average result is over 100, it should be centred to 100. People basing their IQ on this test should maybe drop a few points from their score.
The most important thing to realise is the IQ tests don't really measure anything but your ability to do well on IQ tests. IQ wasn't intended to be a measure of innate intelligence or anything, it was identify children who were not performing like their peers in school, so that teachers could work with them to improve their abilities.
Whatever anyone tells you, an IQ score is not a hard and fast measurement, it can easily be improved, and IQ scores are very much affected by your social and educational background.
2006-10-12 11:41:24 · answer #2 · answered by lauriekins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're probably
1. Bluffing
2. Don't actually know their IQ.
3. Took a test that gave them an incorrect IQ.
#3 is far too common, especially with the hordes of shitty fake IQ tests on the internet like tickle that inflate your IQ and give everyone the same score.
Not to mention it's like penis size. People are going to add more onto their score if they're just telling you what it is rather than showing you proof.
That and some people state their IQ score without telling you if its a child score, adult score, and which standard deviation was used. For example, I could easily say my IQ is 790 and I wouldn't be bluffing. I just didn't tell you the standard deviation.
That and child scores are almost always higher than adult scores. A child scoring say 160 would probably score 140-145 as an adult.
2006-10-14 15:47:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think more and more people can honestly say their IQs are higher...and it's partly due to all the new things we're expected to know how to do to get by in this world. So maybe there should be a new "average" IQ?
But I know what you're talking about too. It's annoying, but then there is always the possibility you just don't see what they shine at yet.
2006-10-11 17:11:32 · answer #4 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The average person has an IQ of 100-120. That is what most people's are whether they get straight A's or not. Mine is 119 which is actually a high average and is almost gifted.
2006-10-11 18:36:01 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah* 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
these test that they offer on the internet give you a falsely high IQ why because then you feel good and you fall for the scam/sales whatever there edge is. So lots of people are taking these tests rather that the proper mensa tests so everyone is feeling more clever when in fact they have ben duped (so does that make them clever)
2006-10-11 17:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the IQ tests have suffered 'grade inflation' also.
For example, my IQ is 120, established when I was 13 or so. (When my kid, who certainly isn't any smarter than me) was tested at age 3, she was given a score of 148. Then, when she was tested again at age 5, she was tested at 153!!!
Can you imagine? She should be spouting theories and curing cancer by now, imo.
2006-10-11 21:43:28 · answer #7 · answered by nora22000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The last IQ I did was "Test the Nation" and I clocked a 121. I did get higher once on a mensa based website but there was no time limit on questions which there was on the TTN one.
2006-10-11 17:01:50 · answer #8 · answered by Thinker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they aren't necessarily lying, they probably don't know their real IQ. internet tests are very unreliable, and that's how most people get their results. real IQ tests take hours and are hard to find. i think it's just a question of having a bad test.
really, though, IQ tests don't mean anything.
2006-10-11 17:18:41 · answer #9 · answered by donlockwood36 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it is twaddle. I (apparently) have a genius IQ but have yet to discover what I am actually a genius at.
2006-10-11 20:56:45 · answer #10 · answered by Janbull 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋