So I just got back my IQ score and diagnosis and I'm sad

[psychoslice]

IQ is no big deal, emotional intelligence is more important, look it up.

[Exian]

Be brilliant anyways. Fuck 'em. At least you were brave enough to take the fucking thing. I wouldn't be able to do it.

Not to get Facebook on you, but here's some Einstein for your ass:
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

[vorlon13]

I've seen MANY instances of supposedly 'stupid' people do amazingly brilliant things, and I've seen even more examples of supposedly 'brilliant' people doing the most brain dead things imaginable.

One place I worked at, the department manager was consistently annoyed at what work was coming out the laboratory. Whatever lab result he wanted, that was never what the lab had been working on for the last week.

After many staff meetings, he FINALLY agreed to prioritize all the work in the lab.

Of the 22 testing series going on in the lab, he designated 21 as priority 1, and 1 item as priority 6.

(IANMTU)


Another place I worked at, the department manager sent all of us to computer training for a week (this was back in the 80s). This was a huge hit to the work flow through the office, we did much overtime to compensate for the training.

When the training was over, we asked the manager where the computers were. He said there wasn't any budget for that.

(IANMTU)



Read Dilbert, if you can. There really isn't too much in Dilbert that hasn't happened in a business somewhere.


Don't sweat the 108, means nothing in real life. If you wind up in plumbing, just remember shit runs down hill. You'll do fine.

[Jenny A]

I have two girls. One of them has an IQ off the scales. She takes a standardized test and she'll invariably come up in the 99.99999 percentile. The other child is smart, but shows up just above average on IQ and other standardized tests. That child generally accomplishes more.

If my husband and I take IQ tests, I do much better if the test is timed and he bests me if it isn't. (Yeah we've done this--we're both curious and competitive). We, like our children, have different strengths.

Worry about what you do in the world, not what your IQ is.

[Alex K]

Meh, forget it.

First of all, if my bell curve dont fail me, you're in top 30%. Yay.

THAT BEING SAID

* I think it is absurd to assume that the functionality of something as complex as the brain can be projected onto a single number in a meaningful way. It's like rating symphonies with a number.

* IQ is not a constant and can be influenced by emotional state and disease.

It's possible that you are capable of brilliant insights, but are merely a bit slower in the process than someone with 140.

Try to accomplish whatever you desire, don't let a number guide you.

[One Above All]

A high IQ doesn't translate into anything of import. What exactly do you think a high IQ signifies?

[Anomalocaris]

My parents payed for a comprehensive evaluation of my IQ, mental diagnosis, ability to pay attention, and some irrelevant school stuff.

I'm upset because my IQ is 108. No one ever did anything great with an IQ of 108. It's average. I might as well just be working in construction or something (I hate construction). Hell, I'm probably not even smart enough to be a manager at a food industry (I hate food industry).

I was also diagnosed with an 80% chance of autism. They said my eye contact was bad, my interests are limited, and tend to lecture on specific subjects but I catch myself.

Then they told me that I have trouble paying attention which I don't care about. I just feel like I can pay attention to stuff just fine if it's interesting to me, but they had me take a test where they had me click a mouse every time a letter appeared on a screen and to avoid clicking on the letter X and the test went on for like 15 minutes. It was exhausting.

So basically I'm socially awkward, dumb, have difficulty paying attention. It just makes me sad.

Look on the bright side, your IQ probably exceed the cube of the sum of the IQs of any five creationists, young earth or old, on this forum.

[One Above All]

Look on the bright side, your IQ probably exceed the cube of the sum of the IQs of any five creationists, young earth or old, on this forum.

That's not fair...
If it's smaller than 1, it will just get smaller if you cube it.

[Alex K]

My parents payed for a comprehensive evaluation of my IQ, mental diagnosis, ability to pay attention, and some irrelevant school stuff.

Why on earth did your parents do that in the first place?

I don't what to play armchair freud here, but very important factors are:
What is suggested to you and expected of you by your surroundings (family...) as far your abilities is concerned? Have they kind of pigeon-holed you already as being not very smart, or not good enough? Do they expect/pressure you to achieve more than you do academically?
All of those are hurtful and may erode your self-confidence and even affect your test performance negatively.

Studies find that people perform better on tests after they have been suggested that they are good at it. Conversely, pressure can definitely negatively affect test scores, including IQ tests.
This has for example been found to be an effect for women in stem fields.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Shake it off, MLA. All an IQ test can reliably determine is how well you take IQ tests. Means nothing.

Boru