What is your IQ?

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account

What is your Iq?

  • Total voters
    111
129. I'm pretty sure my social and emotional intelligence are relatively worse, though, and I'm not really involved in a major that tests my capacity to learn, so as far as I'm concerned the number means very little.
 
I have a very superior IQ but I hesitate to say the number here.

As others have pointed out, an IQ test will not necessarily determine how well you do in life. Mainly IQ is to determine your ability to learn and it also depends on what kind of intelligence you have. Some people are really good with numbers or puzzles, others with language. I've taken about five IQ tests in my life, mainly over the last 5 years and the score has been around the same, consistently.

This may have to do with the fact that I enjoy puzzles. Tetris is my favorite game, though I do enjoy other classic games like Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, et al. it's been shown that when you do puzzles and other mental exercises on a regular basis, this can reduce your chances of mental deterioration as you age, it's also been shown that children who are not encouraged/stimulated mentally can be affected by this. In the end, IQ is a combination of nature vs nurture. You are born with the potential for a certain amount of IQ or your brains are wired a certain way (left or right brained for example) that will determine how well you do in pursuits. I know some smart people are not good with standardized tests, so they may perform poorly on it because their brains are geared towards different perspectives in problem solving.

In the end, true intelligence is comprised of a number of factors. A high IQ on a IQ test may be accurate for some people, especially if they perform just as well over a variety of tests, but not others who manifest their intelligence through processes other than filling in dots on a piece of paper or figuring out what comes next in a sequence.

I will tell you, a high intelligence as a kid was not always the greatest thing. It was no secret I was bright, because I loved to read, and I solved puzzles quicker than most adults I knew. I would sometimes get bad grades and my parents would be like 'but you're so smart, why did you get a C or a D???' or other inane comments like that. I remember I was at my aunt's house playing this game called 'Phase 10' and it was a stupid game in my opinion, I quickly lost interest in it and wanted to quit, and my aunt is like 'but why? you're SOOOO smart, you should enjoy this!"

I'm sure those of you here who have tested high on the IQ tests or were otherwise recognized as bright have had to deal with ignorant comments of 'but you're sooooo smart/bright'
 
My IQ isn't extremely low, it's just that I do very poorly on any kind of standardized tests because I never learned to read.
 
Yes, MENSA, the CWCkiforums are card carrying geniuses. Eat your heart out.

I'm sorry if I sound mean but the people who seek their IQ are usually the ones with less sense than piss in a pot, seeking validation. It's arbitrary.

But then I'm poor, uneducated, and dirty.
 
images
 
Meh, my parents had me tested when I was a kid. I probably wouldn't seek it out otherwise.
 
A-Stump said:
Yes, MENSA, the CWCkiforums are card carrying geniuses. Eat your heart out.

I'm sorry if I sound mean but the people who seek their IQ are usually the ones with less sense than piss in a pot, seeking validation. It's arbitrary.

But then I'm poor, uneducated, and dirty.
Click to expand...
It was for a general honors thing in high school
 
One time I took a trick test online (those ones that will go on infinitely) for about 45 minutes before realizing what was going on. So based on that experience, not too smart.
 
155 the last time I took a test. IQ tests tend to measure types of intelligence--such as spatial and linguistic--that I happen to excel in, though, and don't take into account other types of intelligence.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom