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Ask HN: What's your IQ?

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Many here assume inhabitantans of this particular little part of cyberspace have extremely high IQ.

How about some help ballparking it?

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The highest I ever got on an IQ test is 134, and the lowest is 86.

I got a couple of others around 120.

So, take your pick.

Do you want that in metric or Imperial intelligence units?

Like many others here, I don't put much stock in IQ values. It's a trainable skill, and it depends a lot on what kind of test you do. IQ tests have also been proven to be strongly culture-related.

But for what it's worth, when I was young, I scored 136 in a test from some booklet that I didn't finish, and much later I scored 139 on the test from "The National IQ Test" on Dutch TV (which had 140 or 142 as a maximum score). I've never really done a "proper" IQ test, or if I have, my parents didn't share the results.

I guess it's safe to say I'm fairly smart, but I don't think I'm noticeably smarter than my friends or family. Maybe they also score in the 130-140 range.

163 using whatever test Mensa used in the UK in the early '90s. I have always assumed they were incentivized to ensure as many people as possible got high scores. I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time.

>I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time.

How did you deal with this? I've been very insecure about my intelligence over the last year or so, even though everyone tells me I'm very smart and I do happen to pick things up quite quickly. I just can't see myself as the person they say I am in relation to where I am in my life, I feel like I should be doing something important if I am truly intelligent.

It's starting to affect my relations with people and my relationship with myself as I overcompensate more and more and have become far more competitive.

I took it out of insecurity too, early 00s, whatever type Mensa was using then.

I still tend to overcompensate too. That's probably not a big of an issue (it's also usually a male thing).

>172 (that 172 was the limit because of the not-so-big a sample)

There was no verbal questions, though. Only symbolic.

> How did you deal with this?

Not necessarily very well. I am reasonably happy with myself in terms of what people might characterize as "intellect", but I still feel intractably talented in the field of day-to-day idiocy. I am often quite hard on myself in entirely unproductive ways.

As always, talk to your Doctor (or psychatrist).

Some general hints for almost all mood and mind problems: are you getting the right amount of sleep? Are you exercising? How about your diet? (Are you getting laid enough?)

Getting those things right doesn't help directly, but they make it so much easier to cope with whatever life throws at you.

Also, forget about intelligence, and start creating.

That question is not very helpful without specifying which test you took, and in which country. (And whether you practiced..)

Kind of a reason why I didn't ran with a poll. This way you get to provide additional information.

"And whether you practiced"

My oldest sister (17 years older than me) did psychology at University and specialized in child psychology and education at post-grad level. Guess who was experimental subject #1 for her?

By my teens I had seen every possible "intelligence" test you could imagine and could do them in my sleep. Fortunately nobody (other than members of Mensa) seems to take IQ tests very seriously in the UK....

And UK's mensa is kind-of a joke, if I remember right. The German mensa is somewhat more worth joining.

I'd say high 800s. I'm sure someone could back me up on this.

can vouch, my IQ is around -1600ºC

Weird. My Toyota iQ is much warmer.

How much is that in football fields?

What kind of football though?

Never taken actual IQ test, did one on the Mensa's website once and all it said was that I should consider taking the actual test, but I'm pretty sure that's just marketing thing.

The truth is that I'm too lazy and cheap to take part in actual IQ test. Plus I'm kind a afraid that I'd find out that I'm just an average Joe or maybe below the average intelligence as that's the only positive trait I (appear to) have. Maybe if I started to take care of my body and got fit I could muster the courage to find out just how dumb I am when I at least was healthy otherwise...

Just my random thoughts.

Checkout http://reddit.com/r/fitness

136 - Cattell III B - UK - No practice, at age 15.

I've never taken a standard test like that of Mensa, but the ones I've taken over the last 5-6 years have scores in the range 138 to 145, but I don't think it's a good indicator of overall brain capacity. Maybe just a level of your Logical ability.

Probably better as an anonymous poll. Lots of people with high-IQs are rather shy about it.

Mine's not even that high and I'd rather not blurt it out in public, so I completely agree.

We just fake it by being negative about everything.

I'd really like to see interviews with people who've been grouped by IQ.

The interviews would all use the same questions.

Idk/idc.

I always thought that IQ tests are silly.

135, Stanford Binet, USA, 12 years old.

I can urinate much higher than you can.

My dad is bigger than your dad.

Helicopter.

somewhere around 850g.

25cm

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