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Mnementh on 27 September 2007

I used different tests and had anything between 85 and 145. But I also made a standardized test and had an IQ of 135, enough to become member of Mensa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International Anyways, membership in the Mensa has no real advantages. And the high IQ does not help me in any way in my normal life. And I suck at playing games, I'm not able to solve every riddle on myself in an adventure without using a walkthrough. So dont overestimate the importance of IQ-Tests.



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NJ5 on 27 September 2007
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"

 



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Wolfenstein on 27 September 2007
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.


 Sorry if that is the case but I did only state that my teacher said when I asked whats avrage. Either way it's good to hear people saying that your smart.  



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mesoteto on 27 September 2007

wow...looks out nasa Vg is forming their own think tank here


I have never been tested for IQ--infact the only major test i have ever taken was ACT--i got a 31 b/c i stoped halfway thru one section and didnt tak the last part--(stupid kid) b/c i didnt think i was going to college and didnt feel like taking it all the way



 

kn on 27 September 2007
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.


 Does anyone know why 100 is considered average or where it came from?  In the beginning, God created... Wait, wrong story...

        Mental Age

100X  --------------

         Chronological Age

Therefore if your brain was mentally "ahead" of your chronological years, you would be over 100...  This has obviously been refined over the years -- see WAIS theory, but that is the gist...



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Mnementh on 27 September 2007
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



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TheBigFatJ on 27 September 2007

At birth I scored an 8 on the APGAR test. So -- don't feel like you *must* praise me.



Delusional on 27 September 2007

I never took an official one. I heard better indicators only occur if you take it before a certain age (young age). Not sure where this topic is leading.



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NinjaguyDan on 27 September 2007

151 when I was a freshman in HS (about a year or two before the VG industry crash) 141 on tickle.



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Ishy on 27 September 2007

I did a mensa test that proved me 2 be 137...



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