What's your IQ?

[Mnementh]

NJ5 said:

Mnementh said:

Wolfenstein said:
I tested for some months ago and then I had 126 here in Norway avrage is 102 so I got quite happy about it.

PS: It is many diffrent IQ countings and that some has huge gaps

Average is always 100, thats the way IQ is defined. Other things differ with different methods, so a IQ of 130 can mean different things with different methods. But 100 always mean average.

I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense. For what definition does 100 equal the average IQ of every possible subgroup of people? If I go into a Nobel Prize winners meeting, should I expect that their average IQ is 100?

I know what you mean but my point is that I never saw a definition which causes the average IQ of a country 's population to be necessarily 100. If I am wrong, please point me to an appropriate definition which implies that.

And what this thread teaches us is that most IQ tests give too high marks (maybe to make people feel well?)... Unless you guys are willing to consider that vgchartz is, as another poster said, a "cluster of geniuses"

OK, you're right, a dinner of nobel-prize-winners may have a different average IQ. The standardized tests to calculate the IQ will be readjusted from time to time to match the criteria, that the population of a country has IQs that form a Gaussian bell curve centered around 100. To cite Wikipedia: 'When standardizing an IQ test, a representative sample of the population is tested using each test question. IQ tests are calibrated in such a way as to yield a normal distribution, or "bell curve".' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#How_an_IQ_test_works