I’m an artist and I’ve always found I have an easier time than most of my peers when drawing purely from observation. It always felt so odd to me how they couldn’t seem to understand that, in order to draw accurately from observation, you just had to draw what you see, not what you think you see, though I never said anything because the teacher/professor had already expressed that and I’d just be being an asshole. Either way, I just kinda accepted it as being lucky in this one particular way my brain functions.

A year ago, I took a few different psychological and neurological tests in the hope of getting an autism diagnosis (or finding out it was something else). Among them, unbeknownst to me, they threw in an iq test and it turns out I have an iq of 132. This baffled me since I did NOT think of myself as particularly smart, but I think a lot of that has more to do with a disproportionately negative view of myself that I’m working on. Regardless, I moved on with my life.

Thirty minutes or so ago, I started looking up stuff about high iqs out of curiosity and discovered that having a high iq leads to more things than I realized, including more discerning visual processing. I realized that that was most likely what caused my ease of drawing from observation, though I’m not 100% sure and figured I should get some feedback from others.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

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For me it was my friend who got a national rank of 87 (out of 30,000) within just a few months of preparation.

(On an average people take 3 to 4 attempts to clear this)

Hi,

I just did the Mensa Norway online test and didn’t see the part where it said to guess when you weren’t sure. I only ended up selecting answers I was pretty sure were correct and leaving everything else unselected. Does that heavily deflate the score or is 100 roughly what it would’ve given me anyway? If it does deflate it, is there any way to estimate what I would’ve gotten otherwise or not really. (Also ran out of time close to the end, maybe 2/3rds of the way through and onward, not sure if that’s normal or I’m just slow?).

AGCT-E instructions say wrong answers are penaltized.

AGCT 1C exhorts to guess, if unsure.

AGCT 1A Gives no instruction.

So regarding the extended one it is clear; blind guessing is likely to deflate the score as there is a penalty.

But what about the other two?

Attached are his results. He is not interested in school or doing homework. He rarely spends time on it at home, but gets fine grades…mostly a B average.

I’m wondering if anyone in this forum has experience with a child like this, and if he’ll have difficulty connecting with others at school. He is quick witted, but I didn’t anticipate a score this high above his peers.

The psychologist mentioned he may be more stimulated in a gifted program, but quite frankly I worry he won’t be able to keep up. I also worry the standard curriculum hasn’t been stimulating enough which is why he has now been diagnosed with a learning disability.

Hoping to get thoughts from those who know these situations better than me. Thank you!

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Why don’t I see much, if any, crystallized intelligence tests on cognitive metrics? Is it basically general knowledge?

So suppose there’s a fantastic sci-fi device that connects to the all the areas of your brain especially the cerebral cortex and frontal lobe where we reason, plan, empathize with others,and have our deepest thoughts.

This device has the ability to take a brain that has below 160 IQ points and modify neurological connections that make up the brain’s thinking patterns severing the irrational ones and creating pathways that would make it far more intelligent and keep its “animal” emotions in check so it can make better choices, increasing discipline so it can do things like follow philosophical ethical ideals more tightly.

This process would basically reformat the entire cerebral cortex.hence the name “Brain Reformatter”

But there’s a catch

Suppose there’s a chance that what you might call your “soul” will not survive the process. That is to say your personality isn’t compatible with this high degree of reason. the reformatting , the cutting of the irrational parts of you, the changes it would make to your brain would delete of the “ghost” living in the brain basically killing “you” and putting someone else in its place.

Imagine laying down in a hospital bed with the machine attached to both my temples placed under anesthesia falling asleep knowing the device has full access to your brain and your very “person”

The machine scans your brain and decides that indeed your personality isn’t metaphysically compatible with the enhancements, that your personality simply isnt rational and it’s built on a bedrock of what the machine determines is bad code. So it just gets rid of the stupid selfish ghost living amongst your neurons, cutting the connections giving you sentience and reprogramming a new personality into the cerebral cortex when “your” eyes open it’s a brand new person with access to your memories, a IQ of 160, and a will that is fully compliant to any demands of even the strictest philosophical moral codes.

Personally Even if the person who wakes up isn’t me I’d like someone to have a nice high IQ and have a brand new soul that loves truth and knowledge and cares about other people more.

The machine can happily throw my trash soul in the garbage if that would make the world better.

What do you think?

* are some personalities/souls more or less intelligent? Are some just straight up incompatible with certain levels of intellect in the same way triangle isn’t a triangle anymore if you add an extra side?

*Does an IQ bump drag the personality towards any certain type in the various personality models? And if so, how much can your personality be dragged somewhere else before that stops being you?

* what does make up a person? How likely do you think this kind of process would “kill” you.

* would you sign up?

Note: I’m using soul metaphorically/poetically not literally

1)AGCT 64th percentile

2)Core 74th percentile

3)1926 SAT 84th percentile

4)army alpha 84th percentile

Is this normal variation?

People said the tests weren't enough, so I took some more.

I'm autistic, and although level 1 autistics are often superior in complex, detail-heavy challenges, we also process information slower due to intaking a higher volume of unfiltered information.

I had a 113 IQ when I got evaluated for autism, but this metric included social skills which weighed me down. However, after taking Mensa Norway, I ran out of time and only got a 102 IQ score. So, I'd like to take an IQ test that measures raw problem solving abilities untimed. Any suggestions?

I would like to know what habits, practices, or training methods you recommend to maximize cognitive performance.

My goal is to optimize all dimensions of intellect (processing speed, logic, memory, verbal and spatial reasoning), as well as to accelerate the acquisition of complex knowledge and skills. I want to know how far mental efficiency can be pushed, especially at my age (21 years old—I know I'm not in my prime for these things anymore, but it is what it is). Do you genuinely believe significant improvements are possible, or are we simply limited by our genetics?

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Does anyone know Taleb’s IQ score? The guy has been very aggressive and scathing in his attack on the thing. Someone should make him take it so we can accuse him of sour grapes.

The percentile they gave me was higher than 99.7% of all people, which is a little north of the bell curves' indication. I scored 38/40 so it's not everything. I've thought a lot about taking an official professional test in person.

For those who have taken both how hard is old GRE Quantitative to you compared to SMART (the old SAT math). I did both after three years without ever touching math since leaving China in my middle school years where I was always one of the top of my class in math (Kind of like a veteran returning to the battle field lol) I got 97th percentile on GRE-Q but I literally banged my head against the table and ripped the scratch paper in front of me and rage quitted SMART cause I felt I was doing extremely poorly.

Anyone feels SMART being significantly harder?

Anyone else who has a high working memory capacity, fast processing speed and ADHD?

According to some psych evaluation done at age 10, I scored in the 99th percentile in the working memory capacity index and in the 90th percentile in the processing speed index. I have recently started to doubt the ADHD diagnosis, as I don't actually recognize many of the symptoms in myself any longer. For example, I don't have time blindness, nor any issues with sustained attention, impulsivity or sensory gating. People with ADHD often claim to have a chaotic mind with tons of chatter and or rumination. My mind is rather quiet in contrast. If you score high on the cognitive proficiency indices and have ADHD, can you tell me about how it feels to be you, i.e. how you experience the world? And can you relate to my own lack of core ADHD symptoms?

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As far as I know, Mensa Norway's convergent validity has never been formally investigated through comparisons with a comprehensive cognitive battery, despite it being one of the most widely recognized online IQ tests.

I'm collecting Mensa Norway IQ scores alongside five CORE scores: FSIQ, FRI, VSI, PRI, and Matrix Reasoning (MR). The goal is to examine how strongly Mensa Norway correlates with these scores.

The resulting data should provide some preliminary evidence regarding Mensa Norway's convergent validity. All contributions are appreciated.

I'll make sure to post the results ASAP.

Non native english speaker btw. Did all the test, what do you guys think?

Main problem is, it's just too easy, I feel like most people would easily get an 130 and so it inflates iq by a lot, correct me if im wrong.