Mensa Online IQ Test Result?

Question

Hi, im 16 and i got 128 on the MENSA online IQ test (http://mensa.dk/testiq.html). What does this mean? Good, Bad?

Answer 1

100 is usually the average for adults!! So well done!

If you want to try another one so you have like a second opinon try the one on Tickle.com

It's free and quite reliable - however obviously not totally!

well done again - you should go far!!

Answer 2

Mensa Test Results

Answer 3

Mensa Online Test

Answer 4

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You've no idea who writes the MENSA tests (apart from them being MENSA members) and even less idea as to who writes the online tests so there's no "standard" so an individual's results could vary wildly. I've tried so called MENSA tests in the likes of Reader's Digest and a fair few others online and the results all came within 5 or 6 of each other (135-141), well within a reasonable margin of experimental error. It may be you're unlucky and have tried some more suspect tests that are designed to be more difficult to get a good score unless you are practising their style of IQ tests in which case you're going to get better average score than you've been achieving.

Answer 5

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 6

Try an IQ test offered by your guidance counselor-- that would probably be a more reputable result and you would have a better handle on your intelligence rating because there would be someone there to explain it to you. Although, quite frankly, some people are just better at taking tests like that-- I know a number of people who were substandard in college & testing at best who went on to be really successful. It's all a matter of finding your niche. No one is going to look on your resume for your IQ rating.

Answer 7

Those IQ tests are a waste of times and biased and will give you different results if you are not a white male because they're the ones who make that test. There is quite a bit of controversy over these tests. I got a 128 too on a IQ test designed for adults on Tickle when I was 12(which is impossibly high for a 12 year old even though my marks were a quite high in school). These tests are just a scam. Don't do them anymore.

Answer 8

128 would be a good score. 130-132 would qualify you for mensa.

By the way, I know how the scores on this test are distributed, and some of you are lying about your scores stating scores that arn't possible given the distribution of the test.

How lame can you possibly be? I won't point out those individuals but they know who they are ;)

Answer 9

On the Stanford-Binet IQ test, 100 is average. 128 is well above average. To join Mensa you must score in the top 2% in whatever test you are taking, in Stanford-Binet, that would be 148.

Answer 10

You know the smartest guy in Mensa is the guy with lowest IQ, but has tricked a lot smart people in giving him their membership fees for a piece of paper so smart people can feel like they got a gold star on their forehead. I love it and now that's intelligence.