Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
I am looking for information as to what a person with a certain IQ, say 180, is capable of doing and the thought processes of said individual. Is there a website where I can find this information?
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Seeking Information on IQ
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Oi. IQ tests are often a contentious topic.
A person with a high IQ can perform the sorts of tasks presented on IQ tests well, and is likely to do the sorts of tasks you see in public school well.
IQ is not designed to mean what people sometimes think it means. Originally, it was designed (and it is still best used) to find kids who are at risk for falling behind in school, for whatever reason. Lack of native ability is one possible reason, but poor preparation is equally probable, as are many other reasons. IQ doesn't really speak to the cause, it merely helps identify that there may be a problem. Scores on IQ tests do correlate well to grades in future education, but correlate much less well, or not at all, to later measures of intelligence/success in life.
IQ is not a test of general intelligence or intellectual ability - those terms are not well defined, and so cannot be tested. The original conflation of the results of testing to "IQ = intelligence" is based largely on some statistical do-jiggery that really doesn't mean what folks say it means. And, at the ends of the scale (moreso on the high end) the system generally breaks down - having a 180 IQ does not speak volumes about what you can do that a person with a 130 can't. And having a high IQ does not mean you have particularly different mental processes.
A person with a high IQ can perform the sorts of tasks presented on IQ tests well, and is likely to do the sorts of tasks you see in public school well.
IQ is not designed to mean what people sometimes think it means. Originally, it was designed (and it is still best used) to find kids who are at risk for falling behind in school, for whatever reason. Lack of native ability is one possible reason, but poor preparation is equally probable, as are many other reasons. IQ doesn't really speak to the cause, it merely helps identify that there may be a problem. Scores on IQ tests do correlate well to grades in future education, but correlate much less well, or not at all, to later measures of intelligence/success in life.
IQ is not a test of general intelligence or intellectual ability - those terms are not well defined, and so cannot be tested. The original conflation of the results of testing to "IQ = intelligence" is based largely on some statistical do-jiggery that really doesn't mean what folks say it means. And, at the ends of the scale (moreso on the high end) the system generally breaks down - having a 180 IQ does not speak volumes about what you can do that a person with a 130 can't. And having a high IQ does not mean you have particularly different mental processes.
Jesus_marley
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Umbran said:
Speak for yourself. I, with an IQ in the high 170's am currently typing this entire message using only my thoughts.
I would like to see any of you lowly 130ers try that.
Jesus_marley said:Speak for yourself. I, with an IQ in the high 170's am currently typing this entire message using only my thoughts.
I would like to see any of you lowly 130ers try that.
Pay no attention to that large heavy object that's currently floating behind your head...no attention at all...
Infiniti2000
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Infiniti2000
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The part of IQ that most people ignore is that it's tied to age. Take the test one day before your birthday and then the following day your IQ will drop, perhaps significantly. Repeating your IQ from a test done many years ago merely asserts your current IQ of 100.
Aurora
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I think IQ scores can only be taken with a grain of salt. I took one recently and scored in the mid 140's. As I was taking the test I laughed at the fact that ten years ago I probably would have gotten almost every question right. I just have had no use for a lot of the applications required to answer many of the questions in the last 10 yrs, so I guess my brain hid that knowledge away with all of my childhood memories. So, I have to agree with Infiniti2000 on the age thing.
The quality of ones' education greatly affects ones' "IQ". There are plenty of kids whose futures are determned every year by such tests and I find it pathetic. There are plenty of "intelligent" people that because their parents couldn't afford to send them to the best schools wouldn't score well on such a test.
Not to mention IQ tests do nothing to measure things like emotional stability and common sense. God knows I have met a lot of extremely intelligent people with zero common sense. What about physical intelligence, conversational intelligence, social intelligence, and survival intelligence. None of this is taken into account in such tests. IQ tests may be good for measuring how a person will do in an academic system, but fall way short in being able to quantify a person's intelligence.
Fru- as to your original question, I found this site:
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq04.htm
The quality of ones' education greatly affects ones' "IQ". There are plenty of kids whose futures are determned every year by such tests and I find it pathetic. There are plenty of "intelligent" people that because their parents couldn't afford to send them to the best schools wouldn't score well on such a test.
Not to mention IQ tests do nothing to measure things like emotional stability and common sense. God knows I have met a lot of extremely intelligent people with zero common sense. What about physical intelligence, conversational intelligence, social intelligence, and survival intelligence. None of this is taken into account in such tests. IQ tests may be good for measuring how a person will do in an academic system, but fall way short in being able to quantify a person's intelligence.
Fru- as to your original question, I found this site:
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq04.htm
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Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Thanks Aurora! That helps tremendously.Aurora said:
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