<p>Sometimes I feel more intelligent than my IQ would indicate, yet I have this low IQ. Am I really dumber than I think I am? </p>
<p>I did not take an Internet IQ test. This was a real IQ test I took when I was 10 years old. My performance IQ is 86 and my verbal IQ is 111.</p>
<p>I just don’t feel like my IQ is that low. I express myself more effortlessly through writing than the average person. I doubt I’m an idiot savant either. I read literature. I read books about both the physical and social sciences. I read about literary theory. As pretentious as it sounds, sometimes I try to espouse my own literary theory and psychology. It’s probably nothing special or original as my IQ is supposedly only 97.</p>
<p>I’m not depressed about it. I just don’t understand, that’s all.</p>
<p>Am I smart? Please be as brutally honest as possible!</p>
<p>Studies have shown that child IQ tests are very unreliable, and rarely make accurate predictions about the same person’s IQ when taken later in life. That’s why I don’t understand the arrogance of some people who say that they have a large IQ when they took a test back when they were 10. Don’t fret it!</p>
<p>I read something from a guy who wrote Marilyn Vos Savant before. He’d been in the army for a while when he was young. Then when he got out, he pursued education and got several degrees, including some grad and professional degrees. Later, when he came across some old papers that indicated he had an IQ of 100, he was unpleasantly surprised. With his academic accomplishments, he’d figured he’d have a higher IQ than that. He speculated that maybe if he’d known when he was younger that he was “dumb”, he wouldn’t have pursued all of those degrees.</p>
<p>As others have said, don’t let the IQ score bother you. You’re probably plenty bright enough to succeed in school. IQ isn’t everything when it comes to getting through college (and grad school) successfully.</p>
<p>…because IQ doesn’t mean a whole lot? IQ only measures one part of intelligence. As guidelines go you could do worse but it’s not a comprehensive measure of your intellect. 90-110 is perfectly normal, and the overwhelming majority of the population chills happily, productively, and successfully in that 20 point range.</p>
<p>Then how am I stupid? Solely because of my IQ score or something else? I’ve already read half of Outliers and already knew about more than half the concepts and events Gladwell discussed. Hell, I could’ve done a paper on it myself without even knowing about the book.</p>
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<p>You have a point. I probably just have superficially high vocabulary with no real meaning of concept. I have a feeling that if the average person read as much as I did, I would look stupid in comparison. I just happened to be socially awkward, so I just spent my time reading instead. It’s more by chance than anything. Then again I could have spent all my free time on WoW or watching too much anime, which is far less productive. It’s not like my parents forced me to read or did anything beyond reading bedtime stories and taking me to the library as a kid.</p>
<p>It’s more like a lolwut thought more than anything. I mean a 97 IQ is what one would expect from your typical ditzy bimbo whose only real interest is getting drunk at parties every weekend. I know I’m not a genius, but I think I would have around an IQ of 115 instead.</p>
<p>Ah well, it’s just musings. I hope no one thinks I’m emo about this or whatever. I just like to see myself type and write, that is all.</p>
<p>For one, there is no universal definition of what intelligence actually is, how to measure it, or how to indicate whether someone has more of it then another. There are many different forms of intelligent behavior and thought so it’s impossible to brand someone simply by the terms “smart” and “dumb” given only one criteria.</p>
<p>The standard IQ test is incredible bias. A standardized test or any kind cannot compare two individuals with each other and determine which one has a higher intellectual capacity. Why? Because thought process is unique. The IQ test favors those students that think like-wise in favor of the test and its criteria, which is mostly geared towards white affluent families. It also is bias to those students that are not formally acquainted with the test or test taking techniques.</p>
<p>IQ fluctuates and never remains fixated, so what you scored as a child is not very accurate to what you would score now. They’ve run studies on students that were raised in underprivileged settings and converted into higher privileged settings to discover that their IQ’s actually increased.</p>
<p>In closing, the IQ test doesn’t measure anything related to intelligence.</p>
<p>Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists and most intelligent men of the 20th century, had a measured IQ of 125. IQ measures nothing but IQ; it does not really measure intelligence in any meaningful way.</p>
<p>Maybe you were a squirmy 10-year-old kid who didn’t want to be there and was thinking about what you were going to do with your friends that afternoon?</p>
<p>If you’re really worried about it, take another IQ test.</p>
<p>IQs, SATs, and intelligence tests in general are meaningless. This is coming from someone with a 138 IQ and a 2280 SAT. I’m good at taking tests, but I never feel that smart.</p>