View Single Post
 
Old Dec 14, 2009, 11:20 AM
VickiesPath's Avatar
VickiesPath VickiesPath is offline
Magnate
 
Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
Quote:
Originally Posted by Merlin View Post
I did an IQ test, a genuine one, in grade eight. They never did tell me my IQ. I know that my lowest section, I was in the 88th percentile and there were sections that I was in the 99th percentile. I did the test on the mensa website and they said that I might be a candidate for mensa if I took another IQ test. A professor at college once told me that I was the smartest student he had. I think I'm gifted, but I am also one of the people that ruins the correlation between giftedness and success.

As a former member of Mensa, I can attest that being gifted has nothing to do with being successful.
__________________
Vickie