I scored 140 on my IQ test at work is that good?

[JRLeft]

[monmouth]

1. If you're not sure if it's good or not, I would question the test..n/t

[seabeyond]

5. gigglin... i was thinkin', nt

[rateyes]

25. I was thinkin the same thing.

[Ed Suspicious]

2. For a chimp.

looking for an ego stroking? Of course it's good.

[TrogL]

3. Anying above 130 is genius

100 is "normal" by some definition of "normal". It's a log scale (I think) after that which puts you in some ridiculous percentile.

[MgtPA]

16. I think 130 is considered "gifted"

130 is the minimum required to qualify for entry into the GSEP program at my daughter's school.

[Motown_Johnny]

31. 144+ is genius

130 is highly gifted.

[Lebam in LA]

35. Are you sure about 140 being genuis

I scored 146 and I can assure everyone that I am no genuis

[DevonRex]

41. There are different tests. Just a number means nothing.

[Jazzgirl]

64. I was around 145 too but....

I can hardly even think about genius, LOL! That's some funny shit.

On edit: I know a woman that scored 70 on an IQ test. She became a school superintendent.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Yes, it's good. Average is around 100.

[seabeyond]

6. betcha you are 141. lol

i tease.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Nope, I'm not!

I'm in the mid 120's! I guess it's not how many IQ points you have, but what you do with them, LOL!

[seabeyond]

51. cute.

[TexasTowelie]

7. No.

It means that you get to do 40% more work than the average Joe and you still get the same pay!

[cali]

8. shameless plug of how smart you think you are. ugh.

[jody]

9. If you must ask then the test average is not 100 with std dev of 15. nt

[aikoaiko]

10. Double check to make sure the scale doesn't extend to 500.

I keed. I keed.

Most IQ test results are scaled so that 100 is average.

[Fumesucker]

11. Are you a cop?

If so, probably not..




http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/too-smart-to-be-a-good-cop/

A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
…
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”
…
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
…
But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.

[snooper2]

12. what do you do for a living?

[JRLeft]

23. Upper Management for bio fuel company.

[BeyondGeography]

13. Is that a smart question?

[Zorra]

14. If you don't already know the answer to this, the test was bogus.

[Uben]

18. That's what I was thinking

nt

[thelordofhell]

15. No

Supervisors like stupid underlings, you will be the first to be laid off. I'd start updating my resume right now.

[DrDan]

17. since you strung two sentences together with no punctuation, I must ask

did you forget a decimal somewhere in that score?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. If you don't know the answer to that question already,

how can you have scored 140? Also, what kind of work do you do, and why in the world would your employer be doing IQ tests on its employees?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

20. If you have to ask you lose 40 points

[MgtPA]

21. Where do you work, that you were given an IQ test?

I've never heard of such a thing.

[JRLeft]

24. It was voluntary.

[HangOnKids]

28. Wasn't FaceBook Made For This Kind Of Drivel?

This post is gonna bite you in the ass when.....if you are so smart you can finish the sentence.

[MidwestTransplant]

26. That puts you squarely in the bottom 25% of DU users.

I wouldn't sweat it though.

[lastlib]

65. In Freeperville, you're Einstein, Newton, Hawking, Pascal and Leibnitz rolled into one.

[Cleita]

27. Maybe not.

When I did HR back in the Jurassic period, IQ tests were geared for certain jobs. If you scored too high for a certain job that was not an entry for a promotion to a better and more challenging job, you wouldn't get it because the view was that if you were too smart you would bore easily and become a bad employee.

However, I did find the IQ tests useful in the fact that they were pretty accurate in how smart a person had to be minimally for a certain job. We often hired workers with fewer skills and experience for a particular job because they scored better on the IQ tests within the parameters of what IQ level was needed for that job. It turned out that they would do fine. Many times the better skilled worker with not quite the level of IQ needed for that job, which we sometimes hired because there was nobody else, often had a mediocre performance.

[kentuck]

29. That's average for DU...

[rateyes]

30. I scored 145 on my IQ test in 3rd grade, and have been told many times that

I'm as dumb as a coal bucket.

Edit for spelling...

[JRLeft]

38. My girlfriend tells me I am dumb all of the time lol.

[surrealAmerican]

32. It doesn't say anything good about your employer.

I would question how they might use your score.

[Cleita]

37. Actually, I'm kind of surprised they used one.

I thought the Civil Rights movement made them illegal in the workplace because they favored the better educated, mostly white job seekers..

[HappyMe]

33. No.

No it's not.

You are probably going to lose your job tomorrow.




I'm kidding, of course.

[Springslips]

34. Obvious attempt at bragging.

Seriously, if you didn't know you could had used google. If you didn't know you'd shy away asking just in case it was bad.

[Motown_Johnny]

36. Excellent, 144+ is genius. If you practice a bit you might hit that score.

If you have never taken one before then 140 is a great score.


http://www.iqtest-center.com/iq-scores.php

^snip^


Grade Range Percent
Genius 144 0.13%
Gifted 130-144 2.14%
Above average 115-129 13.59%
Higher average 100-114 34.13%
Lower average 85-99 34.13%
Below average 70-84 13.59%
Borderline low 55-69 2.14%
Low <55 0.13%

[JRLeft]

43. It was my first IQ exam.

[Motown_Johnny]

50. pretty good

I think there are books to help with some of the questions like "Three identical hexagons can be overlaid to make the profile of Thomas Jefferson".

Other little things like that.

[DevonRex]

39. You scored someone else's test and THEY got 140?

[trailmonkee]

40. Einstein was 160+ - chart:

[link:http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wlas0006/jhon's_sp2012%20class/iq-bell-curve.gif|

[nanabugg]

42. You will probably lose your job because you are overqualified. nt

[undeterred]

44. Depends on what your manager scored...

[BOG PERSON]

45. you better get cracking on that cancer cure, buddy

the world needs your gigantic mind!

[RagAss]

46. If you had a 140 IQ you wouldn't post it here and you would know what the score meant.

[HangOnKids]

48. ^^^^^THIS^^^^^

Thank you.

[Logical]

47. How lame are you? My bet is you scored low 80s.

[JRLeft]

49. If I would have known, that some duers would get upset, I would not have posted

my results. I am sorry, my post wasn't intended to upset any of you. I will keep personal things to myself for now on. Once again I am sorry

[Raster]

52. congratulations! But it's not what you have, but how you use it.

There have been extremely successful persons with average IQs and there have been absolute losers with high IQs.

An IQ score is ONLY a measure of potential.

[monmouth]

54. Oh please, we caught your gig miles back..n/t

[taught_me_patience]

53. Everyone on the internets is 150

you lose sucka.

[Dreamer Tatum]

55. They clearly left off the run-on sentence questions, so no, it's not good. nt

[vademocrat]

56. No, now they'll make you do all the work!

(and, yes, it is good!)

[Speck Tater]

57. I'm a good test taker, but I'm no genius. Yet...

I scored 162, 165, and 164 in elementary school, high school, and the Air Force respectively. So I don't put much stock in them there high-falutin' tests.

And as they say "If you're so smart how come you ain't rich?" Well, I'm not rich, and I've never been rich, and now that I'm retired and on Social Security I never will be rich, so I can't be very damn smart.

[Enrique]

58. rec

i have no idea what to make of the OP, but it led to a funny thread.

[1-Old-Man]

59. Its the minimum score to get you into Mensa

[JRLeft]

60. It turned into I hate you bastard thread.

[Dreamer Tatum]

63. We just like showboating better when it's factual. nt

[patrice]

61. My 2nd husband tested off the charts & was a disaster every time he picked up a tool. nt

[Matariki]

62. No. It's shameful.

Since you're rather unsubtly fishing for compliments, I thought I'd butter you up