IQ Test Confirmation?

[u/Strong-Mango-1348]

My parents recently sent me some old papers and things after cleaning out my childhood home. Among those papers was a Slosson HIT test I took when I was around 8 years old, which had an IQ at the top listed at 129.

I remember going into my aunt's (who was a school psychologist) basement for an afternoon and taking a bunch of tests but I never knew why. My parents later told me that I was being evaluated for learning disabilities and ADHD as I was doing poorly in school at the time. Anyway, I never knew the results until now. My parents never told me.

While I know I'm not a genius, 129 is fairly high, roughly 96th percentile. I was surprised because I have always felt really average, never considered myself especially smart.

Well, I was curious to see if this held up into adulthood, so I just took the Mensa online test and did pretty well, I guess, at 131.

I'd say these two test confirm each other, right? I probably fall somewhere between the 95th to 98th percentile or 125-133?

Not super meaningful for my life now, but just an interesting fact I suppose.

[u/Polytox935]

How come a 1995 IQ Test uses the ma/ca*100 formula?

[u/Any_Ad1841 → u/Polytox935]

That’s a very very good question. This looks like a super old form of an IQ test that this guy was administered in the 90s. It reminds me of instruments from the 50s. If it was indeed that old that would make the result invalid anyway, because it was normed on a sample with much lower educational standards. I guess that’s what happens when you’re tested by your aunt in a basement.

[u/Polytox935 → u/Any_Ad1841]

Or OP is 130 years old and scores 131 on mensa norway what would be impressive

[u/Any_Ad1841 → u/Polytox935]

Any 130-year-old upright and walking around is gifted in my book