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Old May 14, 2013, 07:38 AM
notALICE notALICE is offline
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Originally Posted by Mandrec View Post
As previously stated, online tests are not valid and will tell you very little about your actual IQ. And yes, there is a correlation between high IQ and MI, a strong correlation actually. But I do not think people with MI have higher IQs. People with very high IQs are however much more likely to have MIs. And if that didn't make sense to you I can recommend learning some statistics - it's really helpful. Also, no level of IQ is proof that you are a genius. Most IQ tests are extremely limited, for practical reasons, and none of them measure your intelligence with good validity. That concept is simply too wide to be measured reliably and validly. At least for the present. IQ is a score that is related to (operationalized) intelligence, it is not intelligence.
I agree with this. I tested at 140, my sister tested low normal. She is a highly successful curator at a prominent museum where I'm a hot mess that can never finish what I start. I'm an unemployed (ATM) woman who loses her phone in the house half a dozen times a day. I don't know about the rest of you hearing about "if you could only live up to you potential" spiel... But I have so many times. It's hard for me to have that "stick-to-it-ness", which I think helps people live productive lives.

It can't test everything like motivation, common sense, intuitiveness...

Try & try again
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