What is your IQ?

[Yelnoc]

Prompted by the "Guess the IQ of the Previous Poster" thread; what is your IQ?  The scale is taken from the Stanford-Binet IQ test chart.  My guess is that most people, assuming everyone is honest (please be honest, the poll is anonymous!), will fall under either option 3 or 4.

[bgwah]

I doubt most people here have actually taken an IQ test.

[Torie]

And it's biased to some extent. It helps to have a huge vocabulary and have a lot of practice in categorization. And of course having nurtured your mind, which is muscle. My IQ numbers on the test in other words are inflated. Yes they are. As a kid I was off the charts. It was ludicrous!

[Alcon]

Why don't you ask my Mensa bumper sticker?

[Torie]

Why don't you ask my Mensa bumper sticker?

Presumably its number if they are issued in chronological order is higher than JJ's, since JJ got it first! I never applied to Mensa. I might not have made it!  

[TJ in Oregon]

I took the IQ test when I was a kid and my Mom refused to tell me what my score was.

However, I did a quick online search of correllations between GRE scores, SAT scores, and IQ's. The resulting estimate from that is what I voted on.

[Alcon]

Why don't you ask my Mensa bumper sticker?

Presumably its number if they are issued in chronological order is higher than JJ's, since JJ got it first! I never applied to Mensa. I might not have made it!  

I actually just filed J. J.'s bumper sticker off his car.  You'd think a man with a genius-level IQ would know not to leave his sedan in the unlighted part of a strip club parking lot.

[Alcon]

Also, 80% of respondents so far are in the 98th percentile.  I have a lot of sedans to get to stealing!

[Torie]

Also, 80% of respondents so far are in the 98th percentile.  I have a lot of sedans to get to stealing!

Welcome to Lake Woebegon (sp)!  I must admit that I voted.

[bullmoose88]

Option 8.

[Gustaf]

I took the IQ test when I was a kid and my Mom refused to tell me what my score was.

However, I did a quick online search of correllations between GRE scores, SAT scores, and IQ's. The resulting estimate from that is what I voted on.

That's an interesting variant. I doubt that it works though. My GRE score would predict me having an IQ of about 150 (and that should probably be a low estimate since having English as 2nd language presumably drags down my verbal score). And I'm certainly not up there IQ-wise. I'd guess my IQ being somehwere in the 110-130 range or so.

[Tender Branson]

Where can I check this ?

I think we once did an IQ test sometime during high school and it showed 120 or something - but I´m not sure anymore.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I was placed in a 'gifted and talented' class in year 8 - part of it meant I had to take the test.

I know what mine is, and while it is mensa level apparently, I find it a silly thing to put too much pride in it, there are many other types of intelligence and the IQ tests put too much stock in only a couple.

[Platypus]

I doubt most people here have actually taken an IQ test.

I did when I was 6, adjusted for age to 128. Online ones have said anywhwere from 110 to 135, so, I'm going with my 6 year old self.

[opebo]

That's an interesting variant. I doubt that it works though. My GRE score would predict me having an IQ of about 150 (and that should probably be a low estimate since having English as 2nd language presumably drags down my verbal score). And I'm certainly not up there IQ-wise. I'd guess my IQ being somehwere in the 110-130 range or so.

Yes, I also got '150 IQ', from those GRE/SAT score translators.  I am also skeptical, and I also think my real score would probably be the range you mention.   I've never been motivated to investigate such things, and find people who do in rather poor taste.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Don't know, don't care. A number doesn't indicate who I am.

[Gustaf]

Don't know, don't care. A number doesn't indicate who I am.

Well, it might indicate your intelligence.

What matters the most in most situations is really whether you have good judgment or not and that is often rather uncorrelated with intelligence.

[Torie]

I took the IQ test when I was a kid and my Mom refused to tell me what my score was.

However, I did a quick online search of correllations between GRE scores, SAT scores, and IQ's. The resulting estimate from that is what I voted on.

That's an interesting variant. I doubt that it works though. My GRE score would predict me having an IQ of about 150 (and that should probably be a low estimate since having English as 2nd language presumably drags down my verbal score). And I'm certainly not up there IQ-wise. I'd guess my IQ being somehwere in the 110-130 range or so.

What he said.  The SAT/GRE is even more biased of course.   Let's see. I got about 792 on the verbal, with a perfect score 800.  I'm a genuis I tell you - yes genius. 

By the way, I think I may have lowballed Muon2. You know, it is hard to fully appreciate the subtleties of a physicist's mind. Sorry about that.

[Verily]

LSAT to IQ conversion seems to give me somewhere around 144-146. At least that's a little more reliable than the SAT or GRE as the LSAT is much harder to learn, but it's still a learnable test. So are IQ tests, of course.

Edit: SAT conversion gives me a 147-150. The SAT is easily learned, though. I assume these conversions just use a percentile ranking.

[Insula Dei]

Never had it tested. If I had to guess I'd say probably north of 100, but beyond that I really don't have a clue. If it's true that (active? passive?) vocabulary helps with the test, that'd probably be a bit of a boost for me as people often tell me that I have a peculiar way of expressing myself. On the other hand, I doubt whether I could get myself to focus on something as comparatively unimportant as an IQ test, so you know. Also, IQ doesn't really indicate anything, etc. etc.

I wonder wether a site like this would have a lot of members below 100 or above 140 or so. I frankly doubt it.

[memphis]

The idea that intelligence is linear and can be represented by a single number is epic fail, as is most of psychology.

[Username MechaRFK]

115

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I was told it's over 152, but I have Autism, so who the hell knows.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Took one in kindergarten--142.

[Torie]

The idea that intelligence is linear and can be represented by a single number is epic fail, as is most of psychology.

Yes, there are multiple forms of intelligence, and IQ measures but one. It is a poor measure of creativity for example.