iq

[glenis]

what is the highest ever recorded iq?

[Quizmonkey]

The IQ scale is an artificial one, where average is defined as 100. The highest score achievable by an adult is 161, I believe - you can't actually 'achieve' higher than that.

[DMA]

Mines 162

[Whickerman]

Mine's 136, which apparently puts me in the top 5%. I'm chuffed about that.

[glenis]

thank you

[rojash]

Are you sure about that top 5% Whickerman? Mine's 136 too, but I know a helluva lotta people who are a helluva lot cleverer than me!

[shazbang]

im 135! (just thought i'd share that cos it means above average and im well proud)

[Whickerman]

Rojash - Yip - and if you like that, try this link:

http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq04.htm

(you might have to copy that into your address bar).

[robbo82]

According to the Simpsons, Stephen Hawking's IQ is 280. And just to boast, mine's 148.

[DMA]

Shazbang if your 135 shud you not be in a care home

[DMA]

Im in the 120 category according to Wickermans chart, but im not a Stenographer coz I dont even know what one is.

[markja]

mine's 10, same as my shoe size or is that how old i act? this is sooooo confusing, i think i'll go and suck my thumb in the corner with my blanket.

[SarCaustic]

I'm not quite sure what my IQ test is - I've taken loads of tests but the results always vary so much...

I got 119 on one of them (which put me in the top 2% of the people who had taken that)

127 on another

and 135 on another

and 154 on this ridiculous one which told more or less everyone that they were geniuses

Conclusion: IQ tests are an unreliable measure of intelligence and don't actually account for many types of intelligence like social intelligence - they just show that the person is good at IQ puzzles. I don't believe intelligence can actually be quantified.

[joko]

many people do the mensa test advertised in the paper, then send away for a postal test, do it, send it off, get the results which say "congratulations!! you are in the top 1% or 2% percent of the poulation - why not take the proper supervised test for �30-odd and get it in writing!!"

some people get excited thinking they are a genius and apply for the proper test - and get a vastly lower score....surprise surprise

others don't, but go about believing this unsupervised postal test, that they do at home in their own time, is accurate and that they are really clever...mmmm...?

guess how mensa make their money?

by tempting people into getting proof of their 'near genius' by giving them a pish-easy postal test that bears little resemblance to the supervised one.

genuis!

[Greedyfly]

I had my iq test when I was seven and apparently I was well above average but they would not disclose to my parents as apparently they didnt due to pushy parenting problems for clever kids. I havent had one since where would I take such test now?

[pappasmurf]

Mine is 216, although it is not recorded. Because I just made it up.

[rojash]

Thanks for the link Whickerman. I now know that I've been in the wrong job all my life!