I took a psychological assessment over the last few months and just got back the results. They diagnosed me with schizoaffective disorder and measured an IQ of 129. From what I understand, this is pretty high and I’ve never really done that great in school. Is there any significance of a high IQ?
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I took a Stanford binet IQ test for Mensa and scored the same. 1more point and you can join Mensa. They have a dating site. They are in the top 2% as far as intelligence goes. People treat me like I’m stupid. I don’t think people near the top 2%, should have to live in poverty. And the average people claim I’ve been all over the world, because I went to 2 countrys, and shouldn’t be allowed to travel because of sz.
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I once knew a guy who had an I
I once knew a guy who had an IQ of 158, and he was totally dysfunctional.
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wow what was he doing?
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He was in an assisted living center. I believed him when he told me about his IQ because he knew a lot of vocabulary that I didn’t, and I have a good vocabulary. I only knew him for a short period of time. There was another guy in a mental hospital who several staff told me had a very high IQ. That really surprised me, because you never saw any evidence of intelligence in his behavior. Everyone thought of him as a thug and a loser. He had a terrible childhood. He told us stories about his family life when he was a kid that were like they came from the twilight zone
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My housemate claims he has 140 IQ! There’s no way this guy is smarter than I am… Let alone by a lot. But say hypothetically we have the same IQ, our logical reasoning and brain processing similar … there are soooo many just as important factors as iq. And if your ego gets in the way like this guy who thinks he has 140 IQ, it’s game over. Because this guy’s ego is beyond the realm of sanity and it’s really detrimental for him.My two cents…
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I just took an IQ test for neurocognitive testing. I get my results on 7/20 so lets hope that I end up doing really well.
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Stephen Hawking said something to the effect of IQ scores being for losers.
Accomplish something and be proud of that, don’t just flaunt an IQ score and hope to get back pats.
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There was a book that came out a few decades ago called “Emotional Intelligence”. I didn’t read it, but I heard that the thesis of this book was that traits like perseverance and altruism are more important than IQ in determining success. Character flaws can do a lot to defeat you.
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I’m really pissed off today because my House members are showing their true colors really… That they’re really pretty awful people… With great character flaws all of them. I was upstairs and apparently I left the door open and I heard someone yell “ ■■■■■■■ doors open again!!” And they always complain. These guys are sick and starting to take advantage of my kind nature. I’m gonna have to set some boundaries. There’s a lot of sick sick people in AA. I’m really not one of them. Neither are u crimby. You’re a good guy. Wish you were one of my housemates!
IQ was meant to measure academic aptitude, so most of the important associated outcomes relate to this, either directly or indirectly. But an IQ of 129 is definitely an advantage in many other areas as well.
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you cant put a number on ‘Genius’ 
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Thank you! I’ve learned from experience that when people in AA say they have personality defects they aren’t kidding. Set boundries, but try not to shut them out completely.
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I would guess his performance IQ would have been rather low. I’m very good verbally but don’t do well at the practical application of intelligence. On the JCTI adapted IQ test devised by a psychometrician I scored 77(73-83). On the JCTI timed test I scored 40(38-54). On the Mensa Hungary adapted online IQ test I scored 73. On the MyIQ intelligence test by the university of Cambridge psychometrics centre I scored 65. These were all measures of non-verbal/performance IQ.
I did the ICAR 16 which is a verbal and shape based question . https://discovermyprofile.com/tag/Intelligence I scored 9 out of 16 with percentile 61.89(8 were shaped based questions). I then took it again answering “Don’t know” to all the shape based questions but keeping my other answers the same . I scored 8 ie all the non shape based answers were right. My percentile was 53.13.
I had a neuropsych exam in September and the administrator estimated my IQ around 132.
Because I’ve always had really low self-esteem I never knew or thought that I was very smart. Unfortunately I had the neuropsych test because I was having some trouble functioning after a series of psychotic breaks. The test revealed that I can no longer harness my intelligence for any worthwhile reason really, because of new deficits with my working memory, processing speed, etc. from the psychosis.
This was devastating. I found out I was smart but it was too late.
I’m still really upset about it.
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For me it’s not how many lemons do you have, it’s what you do with them.
Be the best you can, that’s all…
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My IQ is like 120 by my own estimate. Meds seem to lower it. I’ve probably seen a drop in 10 points.
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Wishing you and your housemate well regardless and beyond your iqzzz.
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That’s a good way of putting it.
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Being gifted and yet having slow processing speed sometimes goes together. The Tortoise Hypotheses - Davidson Institute
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