I dont put much stock into it. Ive only done one type of IQ test and it wasnt the long formal one it was just a short one as part of my autism testing and i scored average, though he wrote he thinks how depressed and anxious i was effected things, i definitely agree that was a terrible time in my life (was hospitalized 4 times in 3 months). And then later on had a pdoc tell me thinks my IQ may be in the 120s, but that was just an observation. He seemed to think very highly of me and was so possitive about the schizoaffective diagnosis.
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The thing about IQ is how many people actually have had a formal test for it? I’m not sure if free online IQ tests are very accurate. Most of the intelligent people I’ve met rarely mention IQ, but a lot of people I wouldn’t have really considered smart always seem to talk about their score. I don’t know what my IQ is, but I would guess average.
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I just took an online IQ test over 20 years ago. My IQ was 124. It made me feel better. I felt below average intelligence due to making a bad decision about marrying my first husband.
He really wasn’t who I thought he was….and we dated over 2.5 years before we got married. I was really side swiped. I mean the marriage could end, ok , I understand, but he was so different after we got married that I was blindsided.
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I don’ think I’d be even a quarter as obsessed about IQ as I am if I’d had the help and support I needed/hadn’t been bullied/hadn’t become severely mentally ill. Long periods of feeling that I’ll never be good enough,that I’m worthless, are punctuated with false bravado over some high score I got.
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I have a very high IQ, but I doubt that the IQ test is the whole story on intelligence.
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I got into the Gifted/Talented program in 3rd grade but nobody ever told me my score on the test. I have a Master’s degree but it’s no big deal since I haven’t used it for anything…I do well on tests and writing papers but can’t deal with other people. I think my IQ has probably gone down since I had severe mental illness. It’s all okay…
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I have never put any stock in IQ tests and was never tested. I test well, but I don’t need to test to know my strengths and weaknesses.
I am very good at making IQ tests. I suck at real life jobs, except for ones that are very slow-paced. I can’t do my dishes. It took me 30 years to figure out that people lie sometimes. I really do not think IQ is important.
My dear friend has an IQ in the “mentally challenged” range. I love her. She is kind and sensitive and in so many ways a lot smarter than me.
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I wonder a lot about what I would have tested if I didn’t have sz AND if I’d had healthy developmental years. The first time I took an iq test I was a couple years into prodrome and I scored 132 which is nothing to sneeze at but I can’t help but muse about the healthy version of my self that may have tested higher.
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The field has moved onto a new concept of “g factor” or general intelligence factor and they are both entirely mystified by its relevance or how its measured…
Life is about doing … Not earning merit or being born with it for that matter.
Intelligence is nothing if its not applied.
Really the failure trying to encapsulate things that are divergent.
I love all the people who are my friends… They’re all different… None of them really that smart… Actually the smartest amongst them seem the most hopeless.
All the same life is a tapestry… Grab a paint brush
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Went to a psychologist and got a recommendation to call an institution for highly gifted people, week later i checked myself into the ward.
Last month i saw my psychiatrist, she asked me where did i get my intellengence from. I have never done a real iq test but i think they can see in the way u behave and communicate on what level u operate.
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Actually same,
I never did an IQ test; (only unnoficial ones, like mensa on web)
I just asked “whats my IQ” one of the psychologists, where I did cognitive test for SZ
she said its medium, and said I can do most things as most people can 
So yup I am average,
Just when I was a kid, I was very succesfull at school,
But I believe it was more about lots of effort, rather than intellect. @Rollo
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No its also like who really cares, i rather be a functional happy person than a depressed intelligent guy.
Hope u can find something that u love to do and enjoy your time on this earth
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I wish for you the same,
Actually the most important thing in life is how we feel
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Very good article
I did an official test when I was 15 , at public school. I was never told the result. Previous to that my parents used a method that was doing the rounds in San Francisco during the mid 1960s. The IQ wasn’t reflected in my academic performance . Far more recently I’ve done tests created and/or normed by a psychometrician .I’ve done reasonably well.
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Of course: Rome is the capital of Italy! I got that wrong, it was the last question.
My intelligens is useless because I really don’t use my brain that much.
I once met a guy who had an IQ of 158, and he was totally dysfunctional. I believed what he said because he knew a lot of words I didn’t know, and I have a pretty good vocabulary. My mom was doing some tutoring at the library, and she said one guy had a verbal IQ of around seventy, and a nonverbal IQ of around 150. Mohamed Ali had an IQ in the seventies, and he was such a brilliant boxer.
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