What is your IQ???

[BFM_Hydra]

Scored 157 on the one that Edison posted.

[Racr]

Ummm... :(?

[BFM_Hydra]

118 and I'm only 16, I'd say I did pretty well. Cheesy

Your IQ does not change as you get older

You can do things to IMPROVE it of course, but in general your IQ when you are 3 years old will change very little to when you are 103.

Hm? how is that? I'm sure that when someone that is 5 years old takes one of these tests and scores poorly on it(say ~80), he achieved such a score due to his lack of knowledge to such types of puzzles or questions. Therefore, the more one learns the greater knowledge one gains to solve such situations as an IQ test. I seriously doubt someone doesn't increase their intelligence as they grow if they try since "with age comes wisdom".

The IQ system is based around one's intelligence. Hence, someone who scores 3/10 on a test may get the same score as someone who is 35 and scored 8/10, which may also be the same as someone who is 95 and scored 6/10. The real IQ tests are adjusted for age.

Also, there are IQ tests made specifically for children to test their IQ, tests they will understand. Many children are given these tests during kindergarten and their early years of primary school.

My IQ before I went to school was 142. Now it 141, 15 years later.

[Êmü]

woo 143

[Mith]

128 

[BFM_SüprM@ñ]

Recently took another IQ test in my high school psychology class, made a 133. It was pretty cool, showed what kind of learner I was or something like that. My score on this one was 119. Hrm...

I'll try to get a link up soon.

Okay, here we go. Unfortunately it doesn't take into account one's age. I'm pretty sure it's using the Weschler scale.

http://www.testq.com/career/quizzes/show/121

Have fun.

[BFM_Booyah]

I am not bothering to read all 9 pages of this thread so this may already be explained but unless things have been drastically change in the past 15 or so years IQ is not an absolute measure of one's intelligence.  IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient i.e. intelligence ratio.  It is a measure of your intellectual age compared to your real age as compared to a measure set by an average of the rest of the population.  For example a 10 year old that tests to have the intelligence of a 20 year old would have an IQ of 200 but the standard that sets what the intelligence of a 10 year old should be is based on the average scores all the other 10 year olds have achieved.  One of the inherent problems with traditional IQ tests is that while it is easy to tell a general increase in intelligence in 10 year olds to 20 year olds it becomes increasingly difficult to tell any real difference in average intelligence of say 30 year olds compared to 40 year olds.  For that reason IQ tests have traditionally only been considered to be relevant when given in childhood and it is that IQ that is applied to you for the rest of your life.  This is because there is a difference between learned knowledge over time and inherent intelligence which is your ability to learn.  The person who has scored the highest legitimate IQ is Marilyn vos Savant who at the age of 10 years 1 Month tested with a mental age of 22 years 10 Months for an IQ of 228.  Tests like the one in this thread are commonly called IQ tests but are in fact measuring something very different than what the traditional IQ tests measure.  Still very fun though. 

[BFM_Edison]

Of course, getting a ten year old to focus isn't all that easy I'm now thinking about the stuff in Ender's Game, though.

[BFM_Hydra]

I am not bothering to read all 9 pages of this thread so this may already be explained but unless things have been drastically change in the past 15 or so years IQ is not an absolute measure of one's intelligence.  IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient i.e. intelligence ratio.  It is a measure of your intellectual age compared to your real age as compared to a measure set by an average of the rest of the population.  For example a 10 year old that tests to have the intelligence of a 20 year old would have an IQ of 200 but the standard that sets what the intelligence of a 10 year old should be is based on the average scores all the other 10 year olds have achieved.  One of the inherent problems with traditional IQ tests is that while it is easy to tell a general increase in intelligence in 10 year olds to 20 year olds it becomes increasingly difficult to tell any real difference in average intelligence of say 30 year olds compared to 40 year olds.  For that reason IQ tests have traditionally only been considered to be relevant when given in childhood and it is that IQ that is applied to you for the rest of your life.  This is because there is a difference between learned knowledge over time and inherent intelligence which is your ability to learn.  The person who has scored the highest legitimate IQ is Marilyn vos Savant who at the age of 10 years 1 Month tested with a mental age of 22 years 10 Months for an IQ of 228.  Tests like the one in this thread are commonly called IQ tests but are in fact measuring something very different than what the traditional IQ tests measure.  Still very fun though. 

I'll do a Jane...

"Paragraphs ftw!"


Good summary, though, Booyah! I didn't know that it was measured like that.

[SgtTanner]

i score a 90 IQ. that mean i score higher than 90% of people right? is that what the 90 mean?

I just took it again after a long time (almost ten months) and scored perfectly...

what did u score and what is the perfect score? what is the max iq u can get? one more thing how do i know how many i got wrong? 

[Ben-BSH]

I am perfect, that is the only explanation.

[Nassor]

IQ of 132 here.

[BFM_dStruct]

bahaha ben

[SgtTanner]

someone answer my ? plz

[BFM_Edison]

90 doesn't mean you score higher than 90% of the people. Essentially, the scores are on a gaussian (aka normal distribution) where the average is 100 and the standard deviation denotes how spread out scores are and whatnot. IQ Wikipedia Page.