Higher IQ

[robvalue]

That's okay, I wasn't very clear

[ignoramus]

It's not you Rob. Don't apologise.
Maybe, just maybe your thought processes are so far above most others that you have trouble communicating?
Think about it? Why are you an atheist? Because you saw through the world's greatest most connivingly complex scam ever, even as a kid?
There are mature old theology professors who still cannot grasp the concept of no big hairy fairy in the clouds? What say to them?

Goodnight all ...beddie by time for me!
(I'll be back tommorow morning at 7:00am from work to give you all the shits for another day ...)

[robvalue]

You're very kind, thank you

Good night my friend!

[Jackalope]

OK well I'm not making it all up it seems: http://www.iqtestexperts.com/iq-scores.php

It appears Mensa have more than scale. I believe mine was "culture fair test", the entrance requirement looks familiar.

I most recently took the WAIS-III, as part of a battery of tests for a research project for one of her postgraduate students. I have no idea which scale was used to characterize the results - received the Full Scale score as well as three sub-scores, which I think are just the raw scores which are then characterized by the Stanford-Binet et al. Each score was characterized with verbiage such as average, above average, and so forth.

There was somewhat more information provided than just the raw scores. I don't recall the details but I think I'll dig up the report because I'm curious what the other factors are.

[Jackalope]

Pretty sure 130 is the 98th percentile.  145 is 99.9% IIRC.

This chart has  you as right: http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx

However, Mensa apparently has different cutlines for different tests, ranging from 132 up to 148.

I think the reason for that is the difference between scoring models that use 24 point standard deviation versus the more common fifteen. If I'm not mistaken, they admit those two standard deviations above the mean, or the top two percent.

[robvalue]

So...

Is one just a multiple of the other? Surely it can't be that simple.

[John V]

I'm 145-150.

So, which test did you take that gave a range, and resulted in you having a score three standard deviations above the mean?

To say I'm extremely skeptical of this claim is an understatement.

I didn't take a single test that gave a range, I took multiple tests and the scores were in that range.

I don't know which tests. The first had a written test, then had follow-up by an interview. This was back in junior high when my school district was instituting a gifted program, which required IQ of 130+. I believe there were two main tests at the time (Wechsler and...?), both with means of 100, one with SD of 15 and the other 16.

I was also a national merit semifinalist. IIRC that was upper half of a percentile on the PSAT. Interestingly I was high as a kite when the principal came to tell me about it.

Believe or not as you like.

[John V]

IQ is exponential, so I can't even fathom consciousness in the range of 160+

At times I feel like I may go insane at 131 

IQ isn't exponential. It follows a normal distribution. Mean is 100 and SD is ~15. So, 130 is 2 SDs above the mean and puts you in the upper 2% of the population. 145+ means about 1 out of 1,000. Past that it isn't that meaningful, unless it gets you the Parade column like that one chick has.