My IQ is 149, whats yours ?

[UndertheOcean]

On Internet tests I get 160 -163 , The one time I had one at an office for a job application I got 149 , I think the 149 is more accurate

[EstimatedProphet]

1. 150. So there!

[UndertheOcean]

2. My self esteem is crushed

:P

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. I tested out at 139 on a real one once...

On the internet tests, it varies wildly depending on how serious I take it.

[nomorenomore08]

4. Well, my composite score was 130, but my results were really uneven.

First of all, my verbal IQ was measured at 147 (on a scale that only went up to 150), whereas my non-verbal was only 105.

If that wasn't strange enough, my scores in individual areas were just ridiculous - ranging from higher than 99th percentile (genius) to lower than 1st percentile (impaired/retarded).

[Ptah]

5. couple weeks on H should fix that.

[nomorenomore08]

7. Really? I've heard that H is actually one of the least harmful "hard drugs" for your brain.

Crack and meth, on the other hand - those can destroy you, neurologically speaking.

[mitchum]

31. That's true

[DS1]

6. 4

[harmonicon]

85. HA! mine's higher, sucker

11 - eat that!

[BarenakedLady]

8. My IQ knows no bounds

or something.

[Redbear]

12. I would have guessed that.

To limit it to mere numbers, would be gauche. or something.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Not that high. But the doc told my mother when my bro and I were born that

we might have lost some IQ pts due to the fact that her placenta shut off on both of us @ 8 mos. (I was 3 lbs 14 oz, he was 4lbs 4 I think.)

[Ava]

10. i've never taken an iq test

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

11. According to my last test...

[TZ]

13. so that means

you are not real?:D

[Dr. Strange]

27. I'm a complex man.

At times, irrational.

[UndertheOcean]

16. So even after squaring your IQ , it is still below zero?

[Dr. Strange]

28. I'm too hip to be squared.

[Fran Kubelik]

26. I suspected that you were a figment of my imagination.

[Dr. Strange]

34. Would a figment of your imagination post this?

[Inchworm]

35. *brain explodes*

ahhhhhhh

:crazy:

[Pierre.Suave]

66. Whoa...

that is freaky and awesome.

[FloridaJudy]

64. I can't imagine it n/t

[Dr. Strange]

72. Really?

[applegrove]

14. 130 on some internet tests.

[Breeze54]

15. I was told it was 159 in grade school.

I have no idea if that was true or not.

[Xithras]

39. Since Einstein's was 160, that's probably not accurate.

Unless you're penciling out new maths on napkins or something.

IQ tests on young kids are notoriously inaccurate, as are most of the Internet tests you see today.

[Breeze54]

43. That's why I said I didn't know if it was true but the way they scaled the tests

back then is very different from the way they do it now. They used high numbers back then for scores. I was also tested 3 times for reading level in 3rd grade (because they didn't believe the results) and was reading at 2nd year college level. I know I'm not as smart as Einstein! :rofl: But that is the number I kept being told when I didn't 'perform' at an acceptable level in school. They never let me alone after that test. On my back all the time!! It sucked!!

[Breeze54]

47. History of Intelligence Testing

History of Intelligence Testing

http://www.iqtest.com/history.html

snip--->

Instead of giving a person’s performance on the Stanford-Binet as a mental age, Terman converted performance into a single score, which he called the intelligence quotient, or IQ. A quotient is the number that results from dividing one number by another. The idea of an intelligence quotient was first suggested by German psychologist, William Stern, in 1912. To compute IQ, Stern divided mental age by the actual, chronological age of the person taking the test and then multiplied by 100 to get rid of the decimal point. So, a child who was eight years old and answered the test questions as well as a twelve-year-old scored an intelligence quotient of 12/8 x 100, or 150. A twelve-year-old who answered the test questions as well as an average eight-year-old would have an IQ of 8/12 x 100, or 66.

This formula works well for comparing children, but since intelligence levels off in adulthood, it is not appropriate for adults. A thirty-year-old who answers questions as well as an average twenty-year-old would have an IQ of only 20/30 x 100, or 66.

So intelligence tests today no longer use the IQ formula. Instead, the score on a modern intelligence test compares a person’s performance with others his/her own age, while arbitrarily defining the average score as 100. By convention, most people still use the term IQ to refer to a score on an intelligence test.

More...

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So I very well could have scored 159 at that time. ;)

[Fox Mulder]

17. I don't like to base my intelligence on a number.

[UndertheOcean]

18. Now , thats intelligent

[Missy Vixen]

19. I took an online one

that had pages and pages and pages of "free offers" which I refused to sign up for. I get all the way to the end.

It's 41.

Somehow, I'm thinking there may be a mistake. It's hard to say.

Julie

[CreekDog]

77. you refused all the "free offers"

it's 141. :applause: :rofl:

[hyphenate]

20. Somewhere between 137 and 150

According to a million different tests I've done. I remember in high school (oh, so long ago!) that one of our teachers (who couldn't reveal the results) looked me in the eyes when he proclaimed that some of the results were surprising, that some people were higher than he thought. I had a very bad tendency to never do my homework way back then, and I guess I was your typical underachiever. An early geek, if you will.

[LanternWaste]

21. Same as my shoe size (and I have little feet).

i think my IQ is about nine. Maybe nine point five (see, I'm not even bright enough to use the numerical keypad).

But, since the majority of my family, friends and co-workers have a COMBINED IQ of seven, I still proudly and loudly boast of how damnably intelligent I am, and take an unearned pride in advertising it to any who will listen...

:evilgrin:

[CreekDog]

22. It depends

right now 73 and partly cloudy.

[Burma Jones]

23. Semprini

[CreekDog]

24. Where are you all from, Lake Wobegon???

i know i know, your mommy said you were smart.

i give up. :banghead:

[Inchworm]

30. ...and all the children are above average

:rofl:

[murielm99]

42. These posts always crack me up.

Everyone who posts on DU is a genius.

Well....maybe we would get different results in GD: Primaries

[DS1]

63. Isn't that the truth

right now we're averaging 146

[swag]

25. 3 or 4. I fergit.

[Darth_Kitten]

29. Bragger.

hmmmph. :(

[azmouse]

32. 132 but I think it's dropped a few points since I started hanging out in GD:P.

:cry:

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. Enough to have learned that no one will support you if you post your IQ.

:7

[laylah]

36. ...

:thumbsup:

[GCP]

37. Minus 9

But still high enough to get annoyed at posts like the original.

[Xithras]

38. Seriously? 137

Which makes me smart, but not genius smart :) The generally accepted cutoff for "Genius" is anything above 140.

I haven't have a test in many years though, so I don't know how accurate that number is anymore. Scores tend to fall slightly with age as our mental acuity declines. Even at the ripe young age of 33 my mental response times and ability to recollect are probably slower than they were at 22, when I was tested.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. Try two standard deviations above normal.

If normal is 100, one standard deviation is 15 points. Mensa's cutoff at the top 2% of the population is at 130. There are also high IQ societies that are more selective.

There is one called the Triple 9 Society, which is for people that score three standard deviations above normal, or 145. That's one out of a thousand people, I believe.

[DarkTirade]

91. I thought Mensa was 150?

Hmm... maybe I could join then. :P Question is... do I want to?

[DS1]

40. oh, and "not fucking dumb enough to want to try heroin"

[bicentennial_baby]

55. !

:applause:

[Rising Phoenix]

57. beat me to it!

[GCP]

58. ROFL - Brilliant!

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

41. I got a rock

[Kingofalldems]

45. Speaking of IQs, who has the highest recorded

IQ? Is it Hawking?

[Dr. Strange]

75. Ask Marilyn

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/9550

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. 149 + 6j

:P

[Dr. Strange]

51. You suck.

Damn engineers with your j!

[Rabrrrrrr]

69. Hah! Damn non-engineers and your.... everything else.

You people are impossible to talk to.

[CreekDog]

52. J=-17

:dunce:

[Dr. Strange]

74. Oh. Man.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[UndertheOcean]

54. Let me guess , you are an electrical engineer ?

Only an EE will use j instead of i

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. darn right!

i is clearly current in all circumstances. The rest of the world has it wrong when they use i for j.

x(

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

48. "It's not how big it is- it's what you can do with what you have..."

I won't say what mine was measured at because there are so many ways to test it- which one is correct? Are ANY of them accurate?

I have a client who was accepted into Mensa, but he still can't figure out how to find a file on his hard drive. He's about as tunnel-visioned as it's possible to get and still have eyes that work. So you can be an extremely intelligent idiot for all that, or you can be an average person who still gets it right every time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. I'm as dumb as a post.

[Pierre.Suave]

67. yeah but,..

it is a smart post!

:hi:

[PeaceNikki]

50. 386

Suck it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

83. SX or DX?

:shrug:

[colinmom71]

53. 168...

Funnily enough, my uncle scored the same exact number.

[trackfan]

56. One of the tests always gives me 173, others are lower, but I go with that one.

Why not?

[baldguy]

59. 122.537

It would have been 122.538, but I didn't have that second cup of coffee that morning.

[Mike03]

60. Jesus Christ; I didn't know IQs even went that high. Mine is 135. But it has

definitely dropped over the past few years. I once took an internet test, but the result was so ridiculously high I just dismissed it as horseshit.

[CreekDog]

78. "I dismissed it as horsesh*t"

a sign of intelligence! :think:

[SOteric]

61. My IQ is a Brazillion.

My penis is a foot long and thick as a brick.

I make 4 gazillion dollars a year and I just won the Nigerian lotto.

And I owe it all to my blind faith in spurious claims by the socially inept which I find reading the internet.

[DS1]

70. dick shots or bullshit

:D

[FloridaJudy]

65. Only 58. Centigrade. n/t

Edited because not all smart people can spell.

[AzDar]

68. 154. But that was before I took up huffing....

;)

[leeroysphitz]

81. How is that working out for you?

:)

[flvegan]

71. No idea at all.

High enough, I guess.

[triguy46]

73. Don't know....

but my kids were smart enough to get academic full rides to very good schools and each graduated in 4 years with ZERO debt. One in grad school, the other is a newly hired auditor for a fortune 500. So there. Its not what you know, but what you do with what you got.

[CreekDog]

76. you people realize internet IQ tests inflate your score to get you to buy the results

if not, subtract 20 points from your *score* :crazy:

[Dangerously Amused]

98. Ha ha yup, or else if you score high they lower the score,

...and then play upon your insecurity/ego (Oh my GOD! My IQ is slipping!1!) and try to sell you their "Improve Your IQ!" books/tapes/whathaveyou.

[DarkTirade]

79. Most of the tests I take end up putting me around 145.

I don't think I've ever gotten a score lower than 140 or higher than 150.

[NNadir]

80. I am intelligent enough to know that IQ is a nonsensical metric.

I wrote about this rather bizarre notion that a single number can represent intelligence elsewhere: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/11/19320/331/992/420040

My note was merely a referent to the far more cutting and brilliant discussion of the subject of IQ racism by Stephen J. Gould.

A quarter of a century ago Gould made arguments that were, in my view, irrefutable, that basically offered that the concept of IQ was just another element of public mythologizing that was, at best, silly and at worst, criminally pernicious.

In general I know a fool when he or she either asks me what my IQ is, or worse, blurts out his or her own IQ.

[NJmaverick]

82. I'm 6 inches

[DarkTirade]

90. To quote from an online comic I read...

when a character finds out that his girlfriend thinks smart is sexy, his immediate response is, "Hey, my brain is hung like a horse!"

[Critters2]

84. 150s. I always score in the mid 150s.

When I took an IQ test in high school, I got called into the guidance counselor's office and scolded because I was in the "low genius range" and my grades weren't "low genius" kinds of grades. I stopped caring about my IQ right about then.

[alarimer]

86. 5 or 10

I ARE an Aggie, after all. They'll let anybody in.

[medeak]

87. mensa baby mensa

but have I done anything with it? nope...but have brilliant kids who are

[medeak]

88. dr friend of mine has 196

no kidding...his profs at UCLA confirmed.

I told him that and $4 would buy a latte

[Oeditpus Rex]

89. I went into Teh Longue

and a MENSA meeting broke out.

[JoePhilly]

92. 3.14159265 ...

Oops ....

Thought that was Pi-Q!

[johnnie]

93. I have no IQ

Kind of sucks....

[Generic Brad]

94. 138

But you wouldn't know it by reading my posts.

[bridgit]

95. 140+, but this shit is soooo fucking boring...

:boring:

[Breeze54]

97. LOL

:P

[Robeson]

96. I have no idea.

[WCGreen]

99. Somewhere between 135-140...

I can't remember it was so long ago...

But after they tested me, I always got the you are not living up to your potential crappola...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

100. high enough to get me in trouble and low enough to make me

stay away...

[last_texas_dem]

101. I haven't taken an IQ test in years, and I'm not really sure I want to know what it is

In fourth grade, I scored a 150 on the IQ test I took. Four years later whenever I took the test in eighth grade it had fallen to 118. Maybe it was a bad day or something, but I dunno... I'm still not sure I'd want to take another IQ test. Who knows how much lower it may have fallen?!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

102. Mine comes in around 122...

I've had it tested a couple of times, and it's always the same, damn it!

I'd thought it was a lot higher... :shrug:

[littlebit]

103. Before

my incident it was 147. Years later it is down to 128.

[Evoman]

104. My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[krispos42]

105. Smart enough to vote Democratic...

...and do my own taxes.

But I only fill out the 1040A :P

[JanMichael]

106. Between 10 and 216.54782.

More seriously between 116 to 160 on a few "interweb" tests...I'm not so certain about the accuracy of these tests...

Actually I think most are full of themselves or aimed at people who are.