What is your IQ? - A test and poll to figure out average intelligence

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

My IQ like a million five. My dad works at the brain factory.

 

[A Proud Black Woman]

I am black and all tests are racist! Now give me money you fucking honkies!

 

[Bruce LaLiLuLeLo]

Unfortunately didn't cross the 130 mark
Alright result, I'll admit I'm not the best at ravens progressive matrices. Lost patience by the last 3 questions or so.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Is 30 bad?

 

[Twix Eatr]

I've got the same issue. I can't remember what the actual breakdown of subtest scores was when I was in elementary school, but they had me evaluated partly because the spatial reasoning portion was a lot lower than everything else.

With that said, though, I've been tested since then and received a full-scale score of 157. Not that IQ matters once it gets much more than two standard deviations over the mean, and the exact number probably doesn't really even mean anything at that point since it's supposed to be based on a population average, but my forum title fits pretty well. I genuinely am at least  somewhat smart.

Do you have ADHD as well? Not being medicated until like 34 has been such a kick in the pants. "You can pick up many things fairly quickly, but you will forget about or lose interest in them just as quick!"

Any clue which full-scale test it was? Wechsler is common, I believe. I found a version of it online that I'll try and take one of these days.

 

[Bothriolepis]

Do you have ADHD as well? Not being medicated until like 34 has been such a kick in the pants. "You can pick up many things fairly quickly, but you will forget about or lose interest in them just as quick!"

Yep. I wasn't medicated at all as a child, even after being diagnosed, and ended up falling into that weird middle ground where you're too smart to receive support, but also have the attention span of a goldfish on meth. If something was interesting to me, I'd go all in and learn enough to write a book on the subject twice the length of War & Peace. If it wasn't, I'd forget all about it after a few minutes and start drawing giant, drunk aliens in trucker hats vomiting all over the National Mall (that one got my parents called in for a chat with the guidance counselor, where my dad apparently had to step out for a "bathroom break" before he started fucking  howling).

Bonus points for also being deeply troubled, to the extent that I almost got a mandatory eval for Conduct Disorder (basically, Antisocial Personality Disorder, but for people too young to permanently label as sociopaths) due to behavioral problems as a teenager. Thankfully, that didn't happen, and I straightened up just enough to get into a selective public university after highschool. I graduated with honors and went on to earn an MA, before finally proving beyond a shadow that the school system was technically wrong and incredibly stupid by taking the WISPI-IV at the insistence of an actual, licensed psychiatric professional, and testing below clinical significance for Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid, Antisocial, Narcissistic, Histrionic, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Dependant Personality Disorders. Sweet, sweet vindication.

Any clue which full-scale test it was? Wechsler is common, I believe. I found a version of it online that I'll try and take one of these days.

Wechsler sounds right for some reason, but I honestly don't know why, since we really weren't even told what the test was for (beyond being reassured, repeatedly, that we wouldn't be graded on it). I found out that it was an IQ test from my parents a week or two later when the results came in and they got really excited about their son being "a genius". To be totally fair, I'm pretty sure that they'd been warned that I might literally be retarded beforehand, because I decided to sneak a Venus fly trap to school in my lunchbox one day for purposes that are no longer clear to me now and disrupted class in order to feed it.

God, I was a weird kid. I mean, I'm not exactly normal as an adult, but I can at least read the room well enough to know when it is and isn't appropriate to tell people that Utahraptor was surprisingly friend-shaped.

Spoiler: Unrelated but Important Paleoart

 

[Twix Eatr]

To be totally fair, I'm pretty sure that they'd been warned that I might literally be retarded beforehand, because I decided to sneak a Venus fly trap to school in my lunchbox one day for purposes that are no longer clear to me now and disrupted class in order to feed it.

Good stuff. I relate to a lot of it.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

My IQ is over 9000.

 

[Bothriolepis]

Good stuff. I relate to a lot of it.

That's really not too surprising. I imagine half the people here can, actually. Tbh, I think that most weird kids eventually both grow out of it (well, at least kind of)  and become fascinated by the ones who don't.

Really, I can't even explain why I'm interested in most lolcows. I'll mock the ones who are objectively terrible people, obviously (the malignant little shits in 764, the poor OPSEC of Gnarpediapedos, whatever the hell Nick Reckieta's doing to his neighbor's anus with his ballsack, etc.), but the few who aren't spineless sadists or self-obsessed degenerates feel more like exhibits in a virtual museum of abnormal psychology than a comedy goldmine. They, or at least the content they produce, can have some unintentional value as humor, but it's more like they're standout examples of what can happen when you throw a lot of mental illnesses together in a gumbo. The non-horrorcows generally represent some of the strangest blends of Axis-I and Axis-II disorders that can exist in the wild for any meaningful length of time before either self-destructing or being locked up somewhere safe, and it's genuinely, legitimately interesting.

It's not really a "There but for the grace of God..." thing, since I highly doubt that very many of us are a single poor decision away from posting DeviantArt fanfiction about 90s cartoon characters pooping chocolate pears, but there's definitely something that draws in viewers who want to see what happens when you start tacking half the DSM-V onto their own strain of Brain AIDS. We're not  all the result of ADHD or Autistic children growing up to be (relatively) functional adults who enjoy the view through the Window to Hell, but it's probably at least a plurality.

 

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