IQ = Brainy ???

[Buttonstoo]

This may sound obvious but does a high IQ = high intelligence?

I recently had my IQ tested and was told my score was 'above average' (139) so....

Why did I only achieve average results when at school (a long time ago!) and why don't I do amazingly well in pub quizes etc. ?

[irisred]

Yes the higher the IQ the more intelligent you are. However, this is measured with a variety of tests, language, logic, numeracy etc.

This does not mean you'll be able to remember reams of facts just because you are intelligent - you may be better at the logic or the nuermacy for example.

Why did any of us only ever get acerage results at school? Because it wasn't what we were interested in at the time perhaps??!

Hope this helps!

[Clanad]

Within the behaviorial science domain, there's been a great deal of disagreement on the significance of only a high IQ score as being an indicator of overall intelligence. There are those that believe, traditionally, that a high IQ must mean high intelligence, while those that disagree have pointed out nearly 8 kinds of defined intelligence with the IQ score relevant in only 2 or 3. So, it's possible that your score may have measured intelligence in only certain areas with pub quizzes not being among them.

A personal experience... here in the western U.S. distances are extreme. Once, driving on a lonely road late in the evening, I came upon a man and his wife in a car with a flat tire (tyre?). I stopped, of course, and offered assistance. I asked if they had a spare tire and jack, but the man simply didn't know. I located the tire and jack in the usual place in the car and replaced the flat. During this exercise, I found that he was a Philosophy professor at a well know university. Obviously intelligent but didn't know how to survive if it came to that . So, his IQ test probably didn't cover the requisite areas for tire changing...

[irisred]

One of the 'highly intelligent, no common sense' variety.

Very common!

[andy hughes]

I really think that a high score in IQ tests proves an ability to score highy in IQ tests - but it's no guarentee of ability to apply your intelligence in other academic areas.

[joko]

It means you're good at puzzles...

[frizzytwig]

I have an IQ of 148, but am as thick as a brick most of the tiome!

See I cant even spell properly

[frizzytwig]

And, Joko is right. I am quite good at puzzles

[Gef]

IQ is to do with problem solving. Some of us are naturally good at this others aren't.

Pub quizzes and some of the programmes on BBC (Ann Robinson?) tend to be more general knowledge. This has nothing to do with IQ.

At school you have to learn stuff - nothing to do with IQ.

[bracknell]

when you are at school you learn to pass exams - knowledge you gain thoughout your life counts. You learn more after you have finished school, colledge, uni then you do when you were at them.

[Piper-AK]

Oh aren't we all flippant about our IQ results - obviously want everyone to know we're at near genius level then, lol.
My sister saw a behavioural psychologist when she was all of two who tested her IQ. It came out at genius level. Turned out she had been doing the exact same things at her nursery for the previous month or so. When they gave her the second part of the test, poor lass came out distinctly average because she'd never seen the tests before.

Shows that IQ can be taught rather than innate, in certain circumstances.

[mimififi]

Schools don't want you to be clever and use your brain, they don't want you to think outside the box or apply knowledge and understanding to new and innovative concepts.

They want you to pass exams. Some of the most intelligent children in my classes when I was teaching were the most dissaffected. My husband is a good example. he now works for an investment bank in London, is fairly high up on the management scale and is very technical. he still does most of the programming etc....He has a few very poor GCSE's an NVQ in perfomring arts and no degree what-so-ever. he often helps out the graduates on the floor who have degrees and master degrees from Oxbridge.

I homeschool my children!!!!

[aka pixi]

i have an IQ of 140 (oi stop laffing, i did IQ test on tv) but i think it just means you are quick to work out the solution to a problem, cos im thick as pig poo most of the time

[Buenchico]

I've taken loads of IQ tests. (Results usually in the range 138 - 143, sometimes higher, occasionally lower). Unfortunately, however, intelligence tests only really test one thing - and that's a person's ability to score well in intelligence tests!

Chris

[joko]

Anyone who has done an IQ test online or on TV or in a magazine - or basically unsupervised - I'm afraid has been misled.

The idea of those kind of tests is to make you think you are exceptionally clever and tempt you to PAY for the supervised official test, which I guarantee you will do a lot less well at.

That's how organisations like Mensa make their money.

I have met a few people who are quite convinced they are in the top 2 percent of the population of England - despite being clearly below average intelligence - because they did a test in the newspaper or by mail order.