How is your IQ scored?
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166 really?? I would think you could figure it out. LOL\n\ntop score 300. average 110-115, genius (top 2 %) 130+\n\nIt was estimated that Marilyn Vos Savants IQ was 230. but when IQ gets very high it is impossible to tell. There actually is not top score but it is estimated that it is almost beyond improbability for a homo sapiens to score higher than 300 and not be another species.\n\nPart of the measuring problem is ceiling bump. i.e. how does a person with an IQ of 135 design a test to quantify the IQ of someone with and IQ of 200 or 250.\n\nWith an IQ of 166 one thing that you Will notice. People that have IQ of less than say 120 will notice that you are smart but not be able to discern how smart. People that are over 135 can discern the difference between two people one with say an IQ of 145 an another with an IQ of 165.
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Take the test to see:\nhttp://www.funeducation.com/products/iqtest/intro.asp?source=google
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Most IQ tests are normed for a definite population so that the average IQ will lie between 90 and 110 (with the mean 100) on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.\n\nHowever, an individual scoring at 100 within one population can score above or below that value within another population.\n\nFor example, the Japanese are supposed to have the highest average IQ in the world (115 St-Bin). I.e. compared to a calculated mean for the world. Still they have only an average of 100 within their own population.
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Mean: 113\nMedian: 108-116\nMode: 108-116\n\nThe mean was the hard one, I actually took the middle score from each range (eg 90-98=94) and multipled it by the number of times it occured (eg 94x6=564) and added all 5 (564+2266+4816+3388+1170= 12204). Then divided it by the frequency (6+22+43+28+9=108). Total (12204/108= 113). It's impossible to find a mean of a set of ranges, you need exact figures.\n\nThe mode is the most commonly occuring range, the median is the central range. These figures can't be accurate without the full actual IQ scores. But based on the figures provided, the mean, median and mode are as I stated above. If you provide the exact figures I'll work out the exact mean, mode and median.
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1. Any halfway accurate IQ test you take would factor in your age when calculating the score, so a 13 year old who gets less questions right than a 25 year old might still get the same score.\n\n2. Most IQ tests you find on the internet are total crap, and furthermore, that Tickle IQ test gives you your score based on the performance of everyone who's taken the test, which includes people who cheated on it, which makes it ridiculously inaccurate.\n\n3. Many IQ tests are flawed in the questions they choose to use. For example, questions about proverbs and other cultural items do not test your intelligence so much as the depth of your knowledge of American English, and a brilliant person from another culture will miss that question. A famous example of a flawed question is, "Which of these does not belong with the others? A. dog B. deer C. cow E. horse." Someone might say "A. dog" because the dog does not have hooves. Someone else might say "deer" because the deer is the only animal that is not domesticated. Someone else might say "cow" because the cow is the only one that's a source of food. Someone else might say "horse" because the horse is the only one you can ride on.\n\n4. IQ tests often do not account for the variety in kinds of intelligence. There are many kinds of intelligence, some recognized by American culture and some not recognized by American culture but recognized by other cultures. For example, there is social intelligence, creative intelligence, logical intelligence, etc. IQ tests generally look at four intelligence types, but totally miss many others.\n\n5. The original purpose and professional use of IQ tests is not to tell normal people how smart they are. IQ tests were originally designed to detect mental deficiencies. For example, a child with a particular disorder might fail a large number of questions related to logic, or a child with another disorder may miss the questions relating to spacial skills.\nOnline tests will do a sort of reverse of this- telling you that your strong point is your spacial reasoning or something. It's not quite so bad as just spitting out a score, but it still is not what that kind of test is best used for.\n\n6. Once again, these things are as unreliable as all ****!\n\nSome geniuses might get a 260 on these tests. But, some geniuses might get a 95. There are many kinds of intelligence, and no IQ test- especially no free IQ test you find on the internet- can really tell you how smart you are. Your intelligence is something you have to discover by yourself, by coming up with the right way to go about things and getting the results you expect.
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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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The average IQ is defined to be 100. most people range from about 85 to 115. The distribution of IQ scores lies on a Bell curve. It has been noted that the average IQ worldwide seems to have been rising at a rate of about 3 points per decade, so tests are periodically renormalized so that 100 is once again the average.\n\nNote that IQ tests are designed to measure specific aspects of intelligence, and there are forms and manifestations of intellect that are not indicated by one's IQ score.
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IQ tests are usually standardized to produce a score, based on the amount of questions you answer correctly and the difficulty of them.\n\nHistorically IQ has been mental age divided by chronological age, but in adulthood, this way of measuring is faulty.  Hence the point-scored tests.
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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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You determine a genius by his IQ.
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It appears to be an IQ score. Here is the mapping of scores to percentile
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your "intelligence quotient" is supposed to measure your ability to reason and your potential knowledge and thiking. or something like that. all it reallytests is how well you take that one particular test.
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I've taken a couple of online IQ tests (I don't remember if I've done the iqtest.com) and my scores seemed to be off from my 'real' scores (as of 2nd grade) by about 10 points in either direction.  Ten points is actually less than the standard deviation on an official IQ test (between 15 and 25 points, depending on the test), but may be the difference between the 25th and 50th or 50th and 75th percentile.\n\nEven 'real' IQ tests are not really very acurated measures of intelligent.  They test vocabulary (which is very much a reflection of education, and very much not a reflection of ability), and not creativity (which is probably the most important aspect of intellectual ability - accuracy is worthless without originality!).\n\nBTW, I generally score between about 125 and close to 140 on those things.
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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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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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No.  Only a qualified professional can measure your IQ with any kind of accuracy.  There are plenty of websites where you can take an "IQ test," but none give you an accurate score.  One I've noticed claims the average score of it's test takers is over 120, when it must, by definition, give an average score of exactly 100 (since scores are determined based on how far from average they are, and average is _defined_ as 100).  But some websites where you can take "IQ" tests just for fun include:\n\nhttp://www.iqtest.com/\nhttp://www.intelligencetest.com/\nhttp://web.tickle.com/\nhttp://www.highiqsociety.org/iq_tests/
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Actually, the intelligence quotient is defined as 100 times the Mental Age (MA) divided by the Chronological Age (CA).\n\nIQ = 100 MA/CA.\n\nThe average IQ of the population as a whole is, by definition, 100. IQs range from 0 to above 200, and among children, to above 250. However, about 50% of the population have IQs between 89 and 111, and about 80% of the population have IQs ranging between 80 and 120, with 10% lying below 80, and 10% falling above 120.