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IQ testing was designed to identify extremes for the purpose of intervention (e.g. placement in a special education or g/t program), not to rank people. A score of a few points this way or that way shouldn't be taken as a meaningful difference - it's not like GPA rankings or interest rates. Someone who scores a 90 can't accurately be said to be more intelligent than someone who scores an 87 only based on those two scores - they just answered one or two more questions correctly for whatever reason. It's also completely normal for scores to fluctuate within the same general range from day to day or year to year.
Some subsections can have more relevance to a person's life than others. For example, people who score lower overall but comparatively high on verbal IQ tend to present as bright and may have fewer issues with, say, employment, even if they find certain activities challenging.
Anyway, outcomes aren't determined by a score, they're determined by whether you best utilize the brain you have. Learn your strengths and play to them, and be real about your weaknesses and mitigate them.
I've been professionally tested three times with a median score of 147 and I never know what the hell is going on. Don't take any stock in it, and don't let it bother you. Focus on what you want to do with your life and don't make IQ a part of it.
This was a test that was given to me, under my consent, from a professional that I've been seeing for several years, as they were actually curious to see where I placed. I'm very well aware of the fact that these tests are often perceived as being deplorable under our current societies standards, yet it doesn't make detest placing into a range that they've labeled as being 'dull normal' any less, which is seriously a degrading name. Why not just rename it as being the 'below average' range? Are they any ways to boost my intelligence quotient?
I'd give you +30 points for vocabulary, and -20 points for grammar.
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IQ testing was designed to identify extremes for the purpose of intervention (e.g. placement in a special education or g/t program), not to rank people. A score of a few points this way or that way shouldn't be taken as a meaningful difference - it's not like GPA rankings or interest rates. Someone who scores a 90 can't accurately be said to be more intelligent than someone who scores an 87 only based on those two scores - they just answered one or two more questions correctly for whatever reason. It's also completely normal for scores to fluctuate within the same general range from day to day or year to year.
Some subsections can have more relevance to a person's life than others. For example, people who score lower overall but comparatively high on verbal IQ tend to present as bright and may have fewer issues with, say, employment, even if they find certain activities challenging.
Anyway, outcomes aren't determined by a score, they're determined by whether you best utilize the brain you have. Learn your strengths and play to them, and be real about your weaknesses and mitigate them.
That's so true. B students rule the world.
I've socialized with MENSA members - not because I am one, but because I have family members who are - and although they are great conversationalists, MENSA members often are under achievers.
So. Yeah. Intelligence doesn't determine your success in life. Average intelligence is enough to succeed in a huge way.
I've socialized with MENSA members - not because I am one, but because I have family members who are - and although they are great conversationalists, MENSA members often are under achievers.
So. Yeah. Intelligence doesn't determine your success in life. Average intelligence is enough to succeed in a huge way.
Well, MENSA is kinda silly, so I'm not surprise you're kinda unimpressed by it's membership, lol.
I think the myth of the clueless genius rather overplayed, but it is true enough that sometimes people with high intelligence have cruised through their early schooling, and therefore missed out on chances to learn to really dig in intellectually, develop study skills, and deal with setbacks. G/T programs tend to be perceived as snooty or superfluous but IMO it's just as necessary as SpEd, for the academic and functional development of high intelligence students.
This was froma test that was given to me, under my consent, from a professional that I've been seeing for several years, as they were actually curious to see where I placed. I'm very well aware of the fact that these tests are often perceived as being deplorable under our current societies standards, yet it doesn't make detest placing into a range that they've labeled as being 'dull normal' any less, which is seriously a degrading name. Why cant they just refer to it as being the 'below average' range? Are there any legit methods to boost my intelligence quotient?
I fixed it for you. Now don't ***** to me stating that I'm a day too late.
Throughout my life I have taken many, many IQ tests. My uncle was a professor and gave my name to students to use me to practice administering tests. The range of test scores was remarkable.
Even though I have taken perhaps 50 IQ tests I only claim the closest score to 100.
This was a test that was given to me, under my consent, from a professional that I've been seeing for several years, as they were actually curious to see where I placed. I'm very well aware of the fact that these tests are often perceived as being deplorable under our current societies standards, yet it doesn't make detest placing into a range that they've labeled as being 'dull normal' any less, which is seriously a degrading name. Why not just rename it as being the 'below average' range? Are they any ways to boost my intelligence quotient?
Going by your articulation here such a score seems a bit skewed by something. I wouldn't put to much stock in it. Much depends on a particular test, the one giving it, and the scoring methods. I've had two such tests recently, and scored 96 on o e and 127 on the other. Lol, wildly varied results to say the least. One test was given by a male phsyciatrist, the other by a female counselor. They were quite different in the questions asked and the interpretation of answers and many of the questions had no "correct" answer. They were subjective and open to individual interpretation by both me and the one giving the test. In my case one of the administrators was much more objective than the otber. I'll let you guess which one.
Truly I wouldn't sweat it. Lol, some of my interpretive answers on one of these tests just flummoxed the one giving it and thus my score was reduced due the their lack of understanding. It was over their PhD head and I found that amusing.
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