2008-07-14, 01:42 PM
By definition, a score of 100 on an IQ test is average. Anyone who tells you anything else is wrong, lying, or using an intelligence test which does not measure IQ. See, IQ stands for intelligence quotient, and it is represented as a 100 baseline when comparing you to your piers. Small children and very old people tend to be less intelligent, so if you're very sharp at a young age or quick when you're old, your IQ will actually be a bit higher. Alternatively, if you peak young and remain level throughout your life (not really possible...), your IQ will appear less impressive during the middle of your life.
Incidentally, I recall taking one of these things before and being intensely dissatisfied with it. Too much emphasis on speed. I have an excellent capacity for learning (was at the top of the test scores of the last math class I took in High School... when I failed it due to not doing any of the homework), but sometimes I'm just not so fast. Also, as others have said, some of these things test knowledge, and that's not related to intelligence at all (although intelligence can be identified as one's potential capacity for knowledge). Someone who is very intelligent can be not very knowledgeable and vice versa. I think the score I got on the one I took before was between 125 and 129, but I do recall noting that it was definitely below 130. This must've been about 5 years ago though... haha. If I was to take the same test now, I'd get a lower score I think. Second half of high school into college years, I kinda fizzled out. I still have intelligence, but I hardly practice it at all, so I surely would come off as weaker on a test now.
Incidentally, I recall taking one of these things before and being intensely dissatisfied with it. Too much emphasis on speed. I have an excellent capacity for learning (was at the top of the test scores of the last math class I took in High School... when I failed it due to not doing any of the homework), but sometimes I'm just not so fast. Also, as others have said, some of these things test knowledge, and that's not related to intelligence at all (although intelligence can be identified as one's potential capacity for knowledge). Someone who is very intelligent can be not very knowledgeable and vice versa. I think the score I got on the one I took before was between 125 and 129, but I do recall noting that it was definitely below 130. This must've been about 5 years ago though... haha. If I was to take the same test now, I'd get a lower score I think. Second half of high school into college years, I kinda fizzled out. I still have intelligence, but I hardly practice it at all, so I surely would come off as weaker on a test now.