Is a 120 IQ high, normal or what?
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The best answer is the most simplified form is:  A 120 IQ is just right for you.   \n\nHave you ever seen the movie "Forrest Gump?"  Take what you have (your IQ) and "RUN!! FORREST!! RUN!!"\n\nHave an AWESOME day!!\n\nCosmicKelly :)
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The average IQ of any person is 100.  It doesn't matter how old you are, the tests are tailored to different age groups.
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An IQ of 120 is actually above average.  98th percentile is really good.  What it means is that you scored better than 98% of the people who took the test.  The standard deviations you don't really need to worry about.\n\nBottom line:  You're a smart cookie!  Congrats on your test scores!
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120 is average for the UK.\n\nMine is 128. My best friend is 160, and he knows everything, no matter what you ask, he knows the answer. Sometimes I want to poke him in the eye with a sharp stick because he's just so smug, on the flip side of the coin, its one of the reasons I love him so much.\n\nover 140 excellent\n120-139 very good\n110-119 good\n90-109 average\n80-89 low\n70-79 very low
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the average iq is around 100
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IQ Description % of Population\n \n130+ Very superior 2.2%\n \n120-129 Superior 6.7%\n \n110-119 High average 16.1%\n \n90-109 Average 50%\n \n80-89 Low average 16.1%\n \n70-79 Borderline 6.7%\n \nBelow 70 Extremely low 2.2%\n \nYou are high average.Part of 16% of population
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It depends on the individual.The average is 75 but could be as much as 120.
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2 standard deviations above average (100).\n\nThat means 130 or 142 depending on the IQ test(s) being used.\n\nI joined a few years ago, mostly to prove I could, but found the whole thing pretty dull.
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Generally, IQ tests have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.  Most people are between 85 and 115.  A person with an IQ of 130 or higher is considered to be a genius; a person with an IQ of 70 or below is considered to be mentally retarded.\n\nSpecifically, average is 100, and any score above 100 would be above average.
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An IQ is your "intelligence quotient"  115 is slightly above average.  basically in a nut shell, less than 50, a sack of hammers is smarter than you, less than 90, still dumb, above 100 you will survive, above 110, you can converse with most people, above 130, you will succeed at most things you do, above 150, join Mensa, because you a smart MF.
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No good without a degree a decent job and money. IQ is your ability to learn, it doesn't measure the amount of knowledge you have. \nTell me who knows more: a 60 year old woman who has seen war,  lived in two different countries, survived riots, had four children, worked five jobs and has talked to tens of thousands of people. Her IQ is 95.\nOr it it a 15 year old with an IQ of 170?\n\nMy IQ is about 140- different tests tell me different things but\nI have very little knowledge. This means that no person is able to amass all of the knowledge in the universe or even their own country. I can always learn.\nAny intelligent person realizes that they know very little in comparison with everything.\nAlso, to add to the comments to the mensa person. I do physical labor for "genius" types. You wouldn't believe how they judge people by looks. And, as far as being around "normal" people. My advice: Remove head from rectum.
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99/70 is a little low. 120/80 is considered normal and the low of normal is considered 100/70. so yours is borderline, reallly.
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IQ tests are a good measure of overall intelligence, but it is not worth getting "hung up" over a score lower than average. Naturally we are all skilled in different areas, and a good IQ test will test you on all of these. Often people who are good at the literature based questions are not so strong on mathematical ones and vice versa. Also many online IQ tests copy questions, so people can become used to the types of questions they will answer. This isnt therefore testing IQ, but memory!!\n\nPersonally my IQ is 145, which is considered high, but I dont think this makes me any more intelligent than those with a lower score. \n\nI dont think intelligence can be measured - and I find the need to measure children on an IQ level quite disturbing.\n\nWhat does everyone else think?
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ask my friend got an iq of 182
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IQ scores are expressed as a number normalized so that the average IQ in an age group is 100. In other words, an individual scoring 115 is above average when compared to people in the same age group. It is common practice to standardize so that the standard deviation (σ) of scores is 15, although some IQ tests use difference scales (for example, the Stanford Binet IQ test uses a standard deviation of 16, and the Cattell IIIB test uses a standard deviation of 24). Tests are designed so that the distribution of IQ scores is Gaussian; that is, it follows a bell curve. A difference has been documented between the IQ score distributions of left-handed and right-handed test subjects; the distribution in left-handed people tends to cluster at the two extremes of the IQ scale.\n\n(The following numbers apply to IQ scales standard deviation σ = 15.) Roughly 68% of the population has an IQ between 85 and 115. The "normal" range, or range between −2 and +2 standard deviations from the mean, is between 70 and 130, and contains about 95% of the population. An accurate score below 70 may indicate mental retardation, and a score above 130 may indicate intellectual giftedness. Retardation may result from normal variation or from a genetic or developmental malady; analogously, some otherwise normal people are very short, and others have dwarfism. Giftedness appears to be normal variation; autistic savants have often astonishing cognitive powers but below-average IQ's.\n\nIt has been observed that scores outside the range 55 to 145 must be cautiously interpreted because there are smaller numbers of respondents with which to make comparisons in those ranges. Moreover, at such extreme values, the normal distribution is a less accurate estimate of the true IQ distribution.\n\nIn actuality there is a higher percentage of the population measured at 3 or more standard deviation levels on the test than the probabilities of the normal distribution would predict. Some IQ scoring procedures may attempt to integrate such clusters of statistical outliers into the curve by adjusting the scores so that they better represent actual probabilities (according to Silverman) and in these cases, scores around 145 and above may actually have been notably higher, were they not so adjusted.\n\nMost IQ tests in the United States tend to use a SD-15 or SD-16 scale, meaning that one standard deviation corresponds to +/- 16 points on the IQ scale. However, European IQ tests tend to use a SD-24 or SD-25 scale, resulting in discrepancies. Therefore, an IQ of 130 (+2 standard deviations) in the U.S. might correspond to an IQ of 148-150 in Europe. Due to these differences, percentiles are more accurate measurements than IQ numbers.
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The average IQ is generally 100, although you can get the average IQ listed by state here: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/US-Election-IQ2004.htm\n\n120 is a very good score.  That is a higher score than 91% of the population.
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Depending on the institution 70-110 or 80-120 is normal.  If it is just a little over, keep an eye on it, but yeah, consistently higher than that, you need to see your doc.