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No. I would rather not know, I don't see the point in knowing it for myself. Knowing your IQ score is not applicable to know for any apparent reason in everyday life, maybe when you are young and have not completed school, it is a different story. I definitely would not be interested in being a member in social groups such as Mensa.
Nope...graduated summa *** laude from college, but never considered myself "smart." It was just pure drive and determination. I don't catch onto new things easily.
I would like to know my IQ score, but they now make you figure it out through Common Core, so I'm not sure that I will ever find out.
You do realize you can get a shrink to administer it if you are willing to pay. Either way IQ is pretty irrelevant beyond a certain point in terms of achievement ability.
With that said as expected this thread is on the high end probably because of section bias and/or possibly lying.
I don't understand how so many people know their IQs. I don't think I was given any test in school, and I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to take one. Do people actually pay to go somewhere and take an IQ test??
Yes. I took the 2 Reader's Digest tests back in high school. I got a perfect score on the first; missed 1 on the second. I set a goal of becoming a MENSA member. I certainly was not going to win any athletic awards, so why not? I decided I had the best chance of succeeding if I waited until I graduated from college.
In the mean time, I practiced taking IQ tests. When I took out a couple of books during college break, the student checking me out parroted something she must have been taught in an education class about IQ having no meaning. I politely ignored her.
I paid to take the MENSA practice test. My score was not quite high enough. Being aware that people tend to score higher on the practice test than the real ones, and also being aware of the statistical phenomenon of regression toward the mean, I was prepared to quit. However, the result sheet recommended I go on and take the tests. If these really smart people thought I should do this, who was I to question them?
I passed, and joined MENSA. By the way, one of the biggest benefits of being a MENSA member was learning that even smart people can do dumb things.
There seems to be some confusion over IQ scores. While most IQ scores have a mean of 100, the standard deviations can vary. This is why my CTMM score of 138 was a better score than my Cattell score of 152.
One my junior year of college - 164, and another offered by my employer as a purely inquisitive option (results were not shared with said employer - it was part of the company's Personal Development Week), which was scored at 167.
I don't really put my weight behind IQ scoring, however. *shrug*
You do realize you can get a shrink to administer it if you are willing to pay. Either way IQ is pretty irrelevant beyond a certain point in terms of achievement ability.
With that said as expected this thread is on the high end probably because of section bias and/or possibly lying.
That was actually my poor attempt at humor, trying to tie in the absurdness of Common Core to figure out IQ scores. If I had a higher IQ, I probably could have delivered it more effectively.
I do agree on your section bias.
Who would come on here bragging that their IQ was a 50...
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