[NT] IQ? ASVAB?

[LEVINA]

I decided it was a good idea to bubble in curse words on the test.

 

[Argus]

91 on the ASVAB.
138 average IQ based on six different online tests. I actually took seven but omitted the outlier of 168 figuring it inflated everybody's score. I also timed them.


W0ow1a!

 

[tinkerbell]

Guys

I'm pretty sure that different IQ tests are rated on different scales.... Thefore the absolute number is not comparable absolutel, however where your score fell on the scale is....

Just a thought

L

 

[tinkerbell]

Actually once you get beyond the level of clever clogs IQ doesn't reap benefits in every day life. Super bright people think they ought to be listend too more and that is simply not true. People need to ahve a balance of social skills and emotional intellengece.

Women of course are totally screwed if they are bright

Clever devils get the bird - Times Online

Lis

 

[SciVo]

I got a 2380 (out of 2400) on the GRE back when it corresponded to IQ, if anyone cares. It hasn't done me much good; in fact, I've been working really hard on my EQ for the last five years, since it seems much more useful for the rather obvious goal of being happy.

 

[FigerPuppet]

Scored 253 on a Facebook IQ-test. Can I be genius nao?

 

[erm]

Someone needs to run an independent IQ test on this forum. Since it's impossible to take the IQ scores in this thread seriously. Plus there's no Standard Deviation for each score, usually 15 or 16.

Like what happened on INTPc, where claims of 140+ suddenly went quiet. No-one scored above 135, not surprisingly considering how rare those scores are. That's including what most thought was a bunk part of the test, which exaggerated the score slightly.

The general rule is: Don't take internet or school IQ tests seriously. At a young age, IQ functions very differently, and the internet ones are usually crap, if they aren't deliberately deceiving you to try and get money.

 

[Saslou]

That's a good point. If we all take the same test, at least we'll be able to measure the correlations better.

I only got 114. I don't mind though. You can be a genius and still screw up in life.

 

[Katsuni]

Actually once you get beyond the level of clever clogs IQ doesn't reap benefits in every day life. Super bright people think they ought to be listend too more and that is simply not true. People need to ahve a balance of social skills and emotional intellengece.

Women of course are totally screwed if they are bright
Lis

Sigh sadly I agree, there's a bit of prejudice on the whole 'wth why aren't yeu more girly?' >.>

Oh well.

In any case, yeu're also right on the above. Being 'too smart' in one isolated way is a problem... there's many many many forms of intelligence, musical inclination, the ability to grasp 3 dimensional thinking, linguistics, mathematics, social skills, each of these things and many others make up the mind as a whole. Become too heavily weighted on one (the prom queen or an idiot-savant) and yeu sacrifice so much of the others that it's worthless.

Personally, I've tried to maintain only a slightly unhealthy balance, with far more dedication towards comprehension style intelligence, and viewing things as a whole such a the whole wise beyond yeur years type dealie, while maintaining hopefully a descent enough social and emotional balance, have to sacrifice somewhere but be careful not to sacrifice too far.

One thing that's always bugged me is how people are like zomg we have to cure autism! Why? It's not really BROKEN, it's just another form of comprehension and thinking, more or less... I have actually known someone who was autistic, and they basically were just very heavily leaning into a certain mode of thought process, with severe compensations paid for it. If yeu want to be ridiculously good at one thing, yeu can't be the jack of all trades TOO on top of it. People have no issues at all with this in the physical sense, but as soon as yeu become a little difficult to deal with socially, pft yeu're useless, no matter how smart yeu are in any other way. If anything, we should be focusing research on ways to encourage some of the autistic behaviours (typically higher intelligence) and try to reduce the negative aspects (difficulties grasping emotions, social restrictions, etc). It's not that their minds are broken, they're just hyper-specialized more or less.

Which does show a perfect example of "too much of a good thing", as tinkerbell was mentioning.



One last thing I'd like to mention too... stop relying on the IQ tests, especially online ones, they can bounce around wildly. Yeu can get 105 on one test and 250 on the next. Obviously there's no standard being set here, and if yeu seriously believe that in a random sampling of the world on this forum can have a dozen people who test higher than anyone else in the world has ever achieved and pass einstein and hawkings, then perhaps yeu aren't even remotely as bright as yeu may've thought, because yeu obviously lack the common sense to apply any raw intelligence yeu may have. Being book smart is one thing, having any clue as to how to apply it is quite another, and it's best to have a mix of both. For a referance point, the bellcurve of IQ normally drops off sharply at about 130, if yeu're above 130, yeu're in the top 10% easily. Einstein was estimated to be about 160. There's probably less than a dozen people in the world who have officially tested over 200. If yeur test gives yeu a 250+ rating, don't brag, it'll just make people think poorly of yeu for either A: having no clue whot yeu're talking about, or B: being so pretensious as to actually believe it. Note, I'm only referring to those who seriously believe their iq is WELL OVER 200, if yeu REALLY believe that to be 100% accurate, it's obviously nowheres near the truth if yeu can believe such a silly thing. Those that just referance it as a joke though, yeu have to admit it is kind of funny how wildly the values can swing, and how ridiculous the testing and scoring methods are.

Had to bold the last bit so people didn't think I really meant 'everyone' who was quoting such believed that. That's just silly to assume such.

 

[erm]

That's a good point. If we all take the same test, at least we'll be able to measure the correlations better.

That's a good way of doing it. The more questions, the more accurate it will be, as well.

they're just hyper-specialized more or less

Specialised at what?

Autism is usually just a lack of capability in certain cognitive areas (to over-simplify it). Only in a small minority of cases do autistics show any advantage over the average person.

For a referance point, the bellcurve of IQ normally drops off sharply at about 130, if yeu're above 130, yeu're in the top 10% easily. Einstein was estimated to be about 160. There's probably less than a dozen people in the world who have officially tested over 200.

130+ will put you in the top 2%, by definition, if it's a SD 15 test (the usual one). 145 puts you in the top 0.13%. Hopefully that puts the claims in this thread into perspective.

Only one person is officially considered to have an IQ over 200. A few have officially hit 190+. Three, I think.

 

[Laurie]

My parents wouldn't let us see our IQ's on the tests we took in school. 'Cause, you know, the dumb ones might feel bad. Or the smart ones might get a big head? Someone shoot me.

 

[Valuable_Money]

I remember when I took standardized tests in middle school it said I was in the 95th percentile of the state consistantly. Cant really remember my highschool ones but I always have really high scores in English and Sceince and History ect. but really shitty math scores. Like special ED math scores. Numbers are not my freinds....

Is there anyplace else I can take the ASVAB other than militart.com I really dont feel like giving military recruiters my street adress.

 

[therationaledge]

ASVAB = Intelligence test given by US military. in order to enter service you need an ASVAB scroe of 30, 50 is average It's on a curve. Most people will get 50, but that means they are smarter than 50 percent of test takers, 85 (ME) means smarter than 85 percent.

I know someone that got a 16, i got a 71, when I was a junior in highschool. I got like 95 and up percentile scores, but the horrible score in JUST math brought me down so much.

 

[Lasting_Pain]

I got a 121

But I my average is about a 123.

So I am pretty happy I guess.

Here is a place where you can take a free IQ test.

Free IQ Test, Career Aptitude Test, Personality, Kids IQ Test

 

[The Decline]

It seems to me that internet IQ test scores are super inflated. I mean, come on, anyone can make a minimum of 140 on those. I personally have made scores ranging from 140 to 160.

I do know however that my "real" IQ score is approx. 135. I don't think I put much value in IQ scores regardless, though.

This. You said it so I didn't have to.

 

[Katsuni]

Specialised at what?

Autism is usually just a lack of capability in certain cognitive areas (to over-simplify it). Only in a small minority of cases do autistics show any advantage over the average person.



130+ will put you in the top 2%, by definition, if it's a SD 15 test (the usual one). 145 puts you in the top 0.13%. Hopefully that puts the claims in this thread into perspective.

Only one person is officially considered to have an IQ over 200. A few have officially hit 190+. Three, I think.

Thanks muchly Erm! I couldn't find an accurate listing, and whot info I did get was with my computer crashing several times so it was hard to get something exacting >.<

That's exactly whot I was looking for though ^^



As for the autistic, almost every one I've seen referance to is very good at thinking analytically, and logically, but they have issues with things that are abstract like emotions and societies' preferances. One would think the brain is just specialized for dealing with a very specific type of problem solving.

I could be wrong of course, but most everything I've read on the matter suggests such to be the case. Most claim 'autistics are often very smart', but I don't think that's so much the case as just being very capable in reasoning very specific criteria very well. They may be 'smart' in that one situation, but lacking greatly elsewhere.

 

[Argus]

I believe there was an episode on King of the Hill about those kinds of idiotic online IQ test scams.

Apparently not many of us are smarter than a fictional lower-middle class southern housewife.

 

[Argus]

130+ will put you in the top 2%, by definition, if it's a SD 15 test (the usual one). 145 puts you in the top 0.13%. Hopefully that puts the claims in this thread into perspective.

That means I have an average IQ of 124. I calculated that number using my once thought of 138 IQ brain.

 

[Argus]

My parents wouldn't let us see our IQ's on the tests we took in school. 'Cause, you know, the dumb ones might feel bad. Or the smart ones might get a big head? Someone shoot me.

Your mother was clearly an F.

 

[lunalum]

96!
Who says there aren't dumb INTPs.

My IQ is 0

-7.
AH!*dance of victory*

My IQ is 557 according to the Neuschwastein Test, and 10e^5 according to the Bordeaux-Tolouse Neo-PIQPQ Inventory.

Scored 253 on a Facebook IQ-test. Can I be genius nao?

242 IQ and 123 ASVAB
What's ASVAB by the way ? Wait ! I don't wanna know

HA! My IQ is 243. I beat you by 1 point.

:steam:

I have not taken the ASVAB, but I score between 85 and 155 on the online IQ tests and from 91 and 134 on the subtests of the real thing (Welscher Adult Scale) with a full scale of 118

If this thread is supposed to tell something about ASVAB scores, IQ, and NTs, I'll make the following claims about IQ now: it is most likely that the majority NTs score below 130, there are some that score below 100, and it is possible for them to score below 70, and the ability to move little blocks around, memorize digit spans, find a similarity between toast and paper, etc... has very little to do with type