<p>Individual IQ tests given at a young age and administered by a qualified professional can help to provide programs modification information at both upper and lower ends of the range. Taking web based IQ test are of little value except bragging rights. Certain forms of the IQ to such as L-M Stanford Binet can be used to identiffy very highly gifted students. IQ > 160 . Extreme program modiication my be needed to meet an individual student educational needs for this type of individual. For what is is worth early broad studies showed that most scientists and professionals are in the 115-135 range. You do not have to be a geniuos to do well. Drive probably matters more for most careers once you are above average</p>
<p>Not only is oldolddad correct about the importance of drive, but I think that telling kids their IQ score can actually be detrimental. If it is high, they may think their giftedness is a pass on hard work. If it is low, the kid may think there is no chance to achieve great things. It is an artificial number anyway, so beyond using it to get into special programs I don't think it has any real value.</p>
<p>My younger D's score has varied over the years, but is almost always in the 140 range. A little higher, a little lower. (she had several tests for gifted programs, otherwise I wouldn't know) My older D was in the mid 120's last time I heard---10 or more years ago. My own was 138 in HS, I think. (It's probably 98 by now.) I score around 160 on the internet tests, though, (which are really fun sometimes) so they're off by a lot if the old one was right. I think that they measure the ability to take them. Not much more.</p>
<p>Telling a young kid can be problematic if he/she does not understand what it actually means. Obviously where cutoffs such as three standard deviations above average are used to get in some highly gifted programs a student can infer what his IQ must have been to get in. Tests have a relativley high standard deviation and some have ceiling affects. What is interesting is that the number on children found recently to have extremely high IQ is greater than predicted by normal distribution calculations. The IQ test areas do correlate to the skills needed and used in many academic pursuits. Those with high Spatial IQ often find subjects like Physics and Geometry easier to grasp and excel in, as an example. There is some interesting information and research available on the web and through the universities who have departments that are doing work in this field.
As with so many other things in our society IQ information is abused and missused.</p>
<p>When I was in 7th grade, I was recommended for a test and I scored a 129 overall. The cutoff for gifted was 130. :D</p>
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<p>Yea, I scored in the 99th percentile on the block design and object assembly parts of the WISC. The summary of my scores said I am a visual-spatial learner. I took geometry honors in 8th grade and got a 98 without ever studying....haven't taken physics yet.</p>
<p>IQ level is a not good measure of one's intelligence. Especially the ones found on the internet.</p>
<p>And (one of) the problem(s) with the ones for younger kids are their format. I have speech problems, so the school board got me tested for special ed programs when I was about 3 (logical? no. Public education for you) They showed me pictures of things like white clapboard churches and fried chicken and asked me to identify them. I grew up in a primarily black neighborhood in Brooklyn--I had no idea what the heck that stuff was!</p>
<p>I took one when I was in 3rd grade and they said i was in the top like... 99% percentile for my age (which probably isn't saying much)... so they moved me to a better school and a gifted program and needless to say I've been a mediocre student ever since.</p>
<p>IQ has only real merit when significantly below 100. Otherwise, it does not matter much in relation to success in life.</p>
<p>my iq is off the charts. they tried mearsuring it but it ended going beyond the highest bound.</p>
<p>Kissing Ass > High IQ</p>
<p>If you don't agree, then you haven't worked in corporate America.</p>
<p>the concept of an IQ is stupid. patterns do not truly exist unless they are explicitly described. </p>
<p>for instance, what comes next:
o/o/oo/o/o/oo/</p>
<p>the "right answer" would be "o" but in fact, this segment can be a fragment of a larger pattern...OR the system could just be "chaotic" and it could be a fluke that we see a pattern...</p>
<p>so which answer do you say? do you wow them with your insight or do you tell them what they want to hear?</p>
<p>This is probably obvious, but like others said, internet ones aren't really good.
They generally inflate your score so you'll buy the "super" test or whatever, which costs money.</p>
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The concept for IQ is not stupid. Not even remotely.</p>
<p>The greatest thinkers in civilization, Western or otherwise, most likely had extremely high IQs. In fact, as an engineer, you likely know how much having a high IQ benefits your ability to do schoolwork.</p>
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<p>If you don't agree, then you haven't worked in corporate America.
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<p>Amen to that. And often it goes beyond corporate America to academia as well. Ever tried getting tenure?</p>
<p>I wonder how many people discrediting the methods used in an iq test have ever taken anything other than the junk you've found on the internet. Those are not real or accurate. </p>
<p>One must also realize, that people blurting out scores without a scale noted is meaningless. Since a cattell 140 is a weschler 125, etc.</p>
<p>Generally speaking a gifted child may be tested a few times up through high school and the scores are withheld from them until they turn 18. (or the parents choose to tell them, although that could be extremely problematic and is recommended against)</p>
<p>139........................</p>
<p>Also just forgot another important factor is that these scales become unreliable approaching 130 and above. The differentiation between a 135 and a 160 probably boils down to communication abilities. Also upper range iq's can retest under different conditions, including mental and physical, (eg. diet, sleep, stress) and vary much wider than the standard 4% deviation.</p>
<p>"In high school he was bright, with a measured IQ of 123:[8] high, but "merely respectable" according to biographer Gleick.[8] He would later scoff at psychometric testing."</p>
<p>Richard</a> Feynman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>A single data point often has little meaning.</p>