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[Dependent]

What's your IQ?
Personally, I've never taken an IQ test. I'm frightened that it will be below what's expected of me, or high enough to make me socially awkward around those that matter to me. One of my greatest fears is 'not fitting in', and I'm far too worried about my social status to ever get my IQ checked - at least not until I'm older.
Bay12 seems like a place full of intelligent people -- and yes, I understand that IQ =/= Intelligence -- and I'm interested in learning a bit more about the people in it. So. What's your IQ? Are you frightened that if you tell others your IQ, you'll be judged? Are you scared to get your IQ tested in case you disappoint yourself? Et cetera.

[Jreengus]

Last time I took an IQ test was back in school, I've forgotten what I got but it was apparently the highest in my year so I guess it must have been good.

[Muz]

Mine is high. It's always been really high. I got somewhere like 160 when I was a child, then it dropped to like 130+ average now. I got accepted as a member of some high IQ society, because of good linguistics IQ or something.

IMO, it means nothing. I think IQ is the way for the people who design IQ tests to look smart. Interestingly, the SAT in the US is designed very much like an IQ test. You can actually study for an IQ test and get a better result. Hell, you can even cram for them. I find a LOT of flaws, even in "oficially recognized ones". The best way to score in one is to think exactly like the person who developed the test.

[Morrigi]

Mine's 120 somethin, I forgot the actual number. Took the test a couple years ago.

[Cthulhu]

I took one in second grade and got 148.  I haven't taken an official one since then, though.

[Jude]

I've never taken a real one but I have taken college coursework which made me realize that the notion of an IQ is a crock and intelligence testing isn't going to be meaningful until it's refined to a point where our current intelligence tests look like flinging poo around a monkey cage by comparison.

Incidentally, if I did take one, I'd probably kick ass on it.

[eerr]

IQ tests are extremely inaccurate. I wouldn't bother with them.

Also I don't know of any except that online test that won't tell you your results.

[Wiles]

I have never taken an IQ test. I tend to think intelligence is hard to quantify. If someone gave me a difficult math test right now I would probably do very badly because I hardly ever use math, the only time I do is when I'm calculating tips or taxes which very simple math. Yet if you gave me one night to study material for this math test I could ace it. Yet I wouldn't consider myself more intelligent than I was before, just more knowledgeable.

Is a mathematician more intelligent than a composer? Is a playwright more creative than a scientist? I don't think so, they are simply creative and intelligent in different ways. 

[Mindmaker]

I only made an online one.
For fun, I didn't expect to get any accurate or meaningful result.

What does it matter anyway?
I want people to like me for who I am and not for some made up number.

Anyway, if people arround you care for such things, you're probably surrounding yourself with the wrong kind of people.
No offense.

[Jakkarra]

It's been recently studied, IQ tests, i mean. They are actually fairly Inaccurate, there's the new type, RQ tests though (Reasoning quotient, i believe) Which are believed to be more accurate.

[Jude]

Basically, the more specific you get the more accurately you can measure an ability, but of course that conflicts with mushing everything together into one or two numbers, which people have some weird obsession with. Of course, evolutionary theory says that we should expect many, many, highly specific abilities and should not expect them to lump nicely together, which tosses basically all intelligence tests (if not all intelligence testing related theory) out the window.

[ToonyMan]

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Do'h.  I was one point off.

Test says I'm a genius.

[Nilocy]

Did you know that these tests were an invention of the American army during WW1 to split the masses to grunts and officers?

And that web based IQ tests are even more redundant than normal ones? They don't include anything to do with spatial orientation or physical based thinking at all.

I'm still a believer in the only thing that IQ tests do is tell you how good you are at taking them.

Edit: Damn, I suck at writing coherant posts.

[Jude]

Yeah, any IQ test on the internet is even more of a crock than real ones.

[Cthulhu]

I got 106 on the test Toonyman linked.  Around 20 I got tired of it and started guessing on questions that required a modicum of thought, so that probably hurt it.  Of course, maybe that guessing means I got dumber...

Hmm...

I blame vidjyagames.