I have a high IQ by testing, but I don't think it means anything. Never have. I am really good at taking tests. Always have been. It just comes easily to me. It's like a game to me. So, I look good when it comes to test scores. But there are so many other different kinds of intelligence. There's, for lack of a better phrase. academic intelligence. People who excel at school-related stuff. Both course-work and testing.There's emotional intelligence (people who think about feelings, benefit from criticism, show authenticity and empathy, praise others, give feedback and apologize, etc.). I believe personally that there is musical intelligence (Mozart; Miles Davis) and artistic intelligence (Van Gogh; Rembrandt; Donatello; Rodin; Baryshnikov, Makarova). There are people who are geniuses at math or physics (Einstein; Gauss; Galileo, Newton), but who can barely compose a properly-formatted, grammatically correct one-page essay. Even within the writing genre, there are folks who are genius at poetry (Shakespeare; Whitman), those who are superb writing novels or short stories (Dostoyevsky; Dickens), and others who excel in non-fiction (Orwell; Capote). Nowadays, I suppose there are probably geniuses at video games. Athletic geniuses. Youtube geniuses. And so on.

So anyhow, I just think this testing is really just about making an industry that ultimately can charge for its services. The testing business. IQ testing has, in my personal experience both going to school forever and then running a fair-sized business, really zero predictive value in terms of how a person will perform in an academic setting or a work setting. That's because IQ testing doesn't measure things like emotional intelligence. It is evaluating a very, very narrow set of abilities. Living life, going to school and working, is about way more than that narrow band being tested for. Just my 2 cents.