What is a good IQ?
If it helps, I'm 15
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they make those tests easy so you think your smart and pay money for your whole profile
126 is a good score..most people score between 85 and 110. You are considered above average intelligence.
I'm 122 and i'm a nurse. We are considered bright or gifted. Above average is between 110 and 120. Try and enhance your learning ability. I play flute and clarinet.
I just tried that iq test and I got 124
I have been told by a psychologist that an IQ test on the computer really lacks validity. I don't believe a test such as this would hold up in a court of law.
I believe only tests administered by a psychologist hold any real validity. Concerning IQ scores:
The average IQ is 100 with anything within one standard deviation of 100 (85-115) being considered normal. Sixty-eight percent of the population score between 85-115. Fifty-percent score between 90-110 which is the range Lewis Terman deemed as normal. A score of 130 is obtained by only the top two percent of the population.
above 120 is gr8
That's considered an above average score, however your age doesn't matter. The IQ, or intelligence quotient, is not supposed to change throughout your life, because it is supposed comparing your mental score to your actual score.
The best way to see it is with age 10. The intelligence quotient is your mental age, divided by your actual age x 100. So at ten, your mental age (determined by the average scores for each age group) was about 12.6. 12.6/10x100 is 126. The reason your age doesn't matter is that you're supposed to get "smarter" as you get older but the quotient should remain the same.
When people say "good" IQ or any type of standardized score they are refering to the standard deviation, or how much that score differs from the average. So the average score would be 100, your mental and actual ages are the same. Then they spread the mean out for one standard deviation which is around 85 and 115. In these situations your mental ages would be only slightly different from your age (about 1.5 years) but this is still average. The next standard deviation, which is where you fall, is considered above average. That's 2 standard deviations from the mean. You'll find that (I think) about 6% differ this much, 3% above the mean and 3% below the mean. Then three standard deviation is about 130 and up and 70 and down. About 3% (1.5 above and 1.5 below) have then scores. When you're 3 standard deviations away I think that's considered genius, or mentally challenged.
It's all statistics. I'm sorry if it's a bit of an overload, but it's based on a normal curve.
Also, not to sound lame, but don't put that much emphasis on your IQ score. It was originally created to distinguish between children who needed more help than others, to help then grow mentally. It doesn't really determine how smart or how good you are as people think it does. That's because we know now that your mental age is just as much environmental as it is internal. There are some people (people who have PKU) who can drink a soda that contains an amino acid that they can't digest and their mental age can drop significantly, and go back up when they haven't had it for a while.
So above a 115 is considered good, but don't let it go to your head. Also, you can catch up to your mental age or surpass it through studying, reading the newspaper and stuff like that, because all IQ tests are flawed. My IQ jumped 8 points, which took me from one standard deviation to another (and its not supposed to do that if its a quotient). Also, at a certain point it doesn't matter anymore. The 'mental abilities' of someone with a 136 and a 141 are indistinguishable, same for a 60 and a 56.
Check out the standard curve for IQ here: http://www.members.shaw.ca/delajara/norm...
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