Only thing I got out of it was hundreds of spam emails selling merchandise.
You can get this back with effort and practice.
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IQ tests aren’t perfect, but they’re the best currently available to measure intelligence. Proctored tests are the gold standard with norms based on a sizeable number of test takers that are taken from a well balanced sample of the general population. This is where ‘hobbyist’/high range IQ tests come up short, not in the quality necessarily of the test creator,due to norms based on low sample sizes with the test takers not being a well balanced sample of the general population.
For those not wanting to take an IQ test. A reaction time test will give some idea as to a person’s level of intelligence. The reaction time standard deviation being a better measure of intelligence than the average reaction speed. Faster speed tends to result in a lower RTSD. Reaction time increases with age. A good reaction time for a person my age will not necessarily be a good reaction time for a 25 year old. sloBRAIN - Reaction time
clocking-the-mind-mental-chronometry-and-individual-differences.pdf (1.6 MB)
My current difficulty is with planning steps to doing things and organization. It takes way more effort to figure something out compared to last year.
I can concentrate and focus though.
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Same here. I am probably at 70 now, used to be 140-150 as a kid. Because of cognitive symptoms, I guess.
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I had this after long covid whacked me. Got most of it back, but it took a lot of time doing extra mind exercises. Frustrating.
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What do you do for mind exercises
Organising and planning are major weaknesses of mine. Anything that requires prioritising, such as a multistep task, I really struggle with. With or without an official diagnosis so much points to having ADHD , that I’m coming out of the ADHD closet.
Virtually everything I’ve struggled with has been seen as a character defect, for the vast majority of my time as a psych patient. It’s only been since 2017, and my daughter’s intervention, that that has stopped. It’s because of my experiences that I’m highly critical of psychiatry, and a good number of mental health professionals. Not in a ‘going over to the dark side’ way, but in a ‘It needs to be improved’ way.
I think online tests are unreliable. I’ve scored between 90-140 online over the years. I have stupid delusions and I am disabled. I cannot do what I’ve used to do even simple things like hygiene.
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Online tests are never reliable. They tend to inflate your actual score.
Jesus, I scored 200 once on an online IQ test lol which is DEFINITELY inaccurate.
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It took me until I was 26 to be able to spell IQ.
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I learned not to care. I have an uneven profile.
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This may sound strange coming from me, but that’s a sensible way to be.Much of my interest,obsession some might say, is driven by the effects of bullying related trauma. It’s very much a ‘but more proof is needed’ situation. There’s a big difference between that, and a benign curiosity about it. Low self esteem, doubting whether I’ll ever be good enough,plays a major part in it.It’s much easier for me to tell you, and anyone else here, that we are much more than a score on such tests, than it is to apply that to myself.
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