• Question: whats your iq and is 115 high

    Asked by meatsword to Mike, Pip, Tim, Tom on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I have no idea. I once got 140 from a test, but I don’t imagine it was a very accurate one.

      I don’t rate IQ tests at all. I don’t think they are a reasonable measure of intelligence and they favour things like mathematics and spatial processing (which, incidentally, boys are generally better than – I wouldn’t say there is anything to show boys are necessarily more clever than girls, but IQ tests do quite unfairly suggest this).

      Also, the more you do them, the better you get at them. So your IQ score goes up but you are no more intelligent.

      100 is supposed to be average, so I presume 115 is high.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I’ve no idea what my IQ is. I’ve done online tests, but I don’t really trust (or remember) the results.

      As Tom says, 100 is supposed to be average, so 115 is better than that.

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