The importance of IQ

I undergone this IQ test and I scored really high.
This is not a brag, in fact I feel a little bad about it. I didn't know where to post this.
It's a feeling that I have when I think they put the standard higher. After I could do all the stupid and dumb things and I could just think, ok, I did this because I'm stupid, and I really do lots of dumb and stupid things so I have the right to think like this.
This logical reasoning serves as an excuse from myself to me, and maybe for the others. This doesn't change the vision that I have about myself, but it raises that pressure. I'm smart in somethings, I'm not smart in others. So logical thinking, when I do something really dumb, beside than desappointing myself, I feel like I cheated and that I'm cheating everyone that believes me to be smart, including that test. I know that, there are days and days, subjects and subjects, so I don't have to be smart all the time.
But if I had allways see myself as a gifted person that had lots of excuses to be dumb and if I believed myself to be this way. I feel bad in having a peace of paper saying the opposite. I will probably burn it.
But my doc knows the results, so I will measure even more every word I say, and I will punish myself even more for disapointing her, for showing I'm not that smart, because I'm not!

I have never had an IQ test done I don't think, but it would probably end up being somewhat high. I mean I was fairly good at acedemic things in school and doing research papers and what not....but I still don't really feel that smart. It can be annoying because a lot of times people don't believe I am too mentallly screwed up for work(at this point in time) because as they tell me 'but you're so smart.' Well apparently being smart doesn't necessarily help you get by in the world as I am SSI due to inability to function.

I don't think you're cheating anyone, it is very possible to have a high IQ and still struggle with a lot of things...or even be less mature emotionally and stuff like that.

Mines 146 at the time I found out I was yeah genius told ya. Now not so much. There's been research in the past that those with higher IQs are more likely to have a number if mental illnesses. Smart ppl do stupid stuff all the time. Just because someone is academically smart doesn't mean they are realistically smart. There's also the bit of drug and alcohol consumption. I purposely did a lot of drugs to destroy brain cells do I could be normal like everyone else. Didn't work out too well.

Its one thing to know what you should do and another to actually do it. Poor life choices don't affect your intelligence. I have an IQ of 162 and have dropped out of three colleges. Logically I knew that was idiotic but in the end I still quit. When I put forth the effort I aced everything with ease, but putting forth that much effort was difficult for me. Mental stability is completely different then intelligence. Sorry for the typos

I think some people also make up their IQ to look special. Lying about IQ seems very common, and I don't really understand it.

IQ tests really only look at a small side of how your brain works. They don't measure your emotional intelligence, social aptitude, or anything along those lines. Those things are just as important in being able to perform in life, especially when you are being expected to perform alongside (or with) other people such as in a workplace, a school, or within your own relationships.

Very often people who have a high traditional IQ will have social difficulties stemming from a low or underdeveloped emotional/social IQ. Tests that force us to think logically are absent all of the factors we have to maneuver through actual life with. They present us with very clear questions that have rational, logical solutions. That's not how we live though. We can try to think logically when it comes to real life, but emotions, hormones, and fears are a part of who we are, and they affect the decisions we make and how we see the world.

As an example, most people will say our world population is too high. They look at the water shortages, food shortages, habitat destruction, pollution, disease, wars, and overfishing and come to the rational conclusion that if there were fewer people, those problems would be lessened.

However, when most people decide to be a parent they choose to have their own biological child, rather than adopt. Logically it would make more sense to adopt. It's raising child who is already alive and who needs parents, versus adding another child to world and leaving an already living child in the foster system. That decision is being influenced by hormones and emotions though. It doesn't matter how smart someone is IQ-wise, chances are every individual alive will at one point in their life experience the desire to have their own biological child. So long as a person has hormones and emotions they will not be able to only think rationally.

What I'm trying to get at here is don't beat yourself up when you do something dumb. Your decisions are influenced by more than just your traditional IQ, so even if you have a high IQ that will never ensure all your decisions will be good ones. You've got to grant yourself some leeway for your weaker areas to make mistakes

I'm not sure where this thread is going and I'm not sure I understand what you want mulan. To me IQ is something like the quality of a computer. A high IQ doesn't mean much if it isn't utilized properly. It is nothing to be proud of nor ashamed of.
I don't think giving this too much significance is healthy for you. It is new found knowledge and knowledge is (helpful) power if used well.

What is your current IQ now? What do you do for a living also?

Likewise. I think it's cool you did well but I don't think it will get you everything you want anymore than money will. I've only taken the quickie one and didn't do that great but I know that my brother has always done well on tests and poor with applying it. It takes me longer to learn something but once I do I understand it plus all the stuff behind it because I am a good analyst. Or maybe I'm just dumber.

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I describe my IQ as "embarrassingly high". It's been tested a few times, for school programs, military, etc., and the scores were all in the ballpark of 180. I'm a college dropout with a string of broken relationships and lost jobs. Intelligence is a detrimental trait in western society. The only geniuses we like are fictional (House, Bones, Sherlock Holmes). In real life, society just calls you a jerk and slams the door in your face.

There are various forms of intelligence. My humble opinion is that doing well on IQ tests just proves that you are good at taking a very specific, narrowly defined type of test in a somewhat controlled environment. How you will do in the unpredictable, uncontrolled environment of life is another game altogether.

How would I know? That sounds like your're bragging. What's your current EQ? My husband and I own a dry cleaners. What does this have to do with being sick? What do you do?

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There is no evidence that people wirh higher iq are more likely to have mental illnesses. And iq is about more than academic smarts.

Google SENG emotional needs gifted. Read.good stuff. Heal your wounds wirh other gifted people.

Maybe we need a Forum here. We are neurologocally atypical. Isnt that psychiatric?

High IQ people perform better in the uncontrolled environment of the real world. We make better physicists and better pool players. Life is not fair.

Mulan,

You are not bragging. You took a test. You learned you are very intelligent. You may be a little bit surprised. Maybe not. It runs in families. Maybe you know your relatives are smart but think you are not. Or maybe you have always heard you are and wondered why life has not been easy and successful.

We are more complex systems.

Read about It. It is normal.to feel like a fraud or a fake or to think but id I am so smart why do i feel so stupid? Because thats how It is. The stupid believe they are doing all right and the bright agonise that we dont know.more and cant do better.

We are also more sensitive. To everything.

Learn about It. Be open to It. Accept yourself.

Not necessarily...people with high IQs also need to have common sense and that is not guaranteed. I am surrounded by people with super high IQs but not much common sense who don't fare so well in the "real world" because of that.

Can anybody give out a link to a legitimate IQ test I can take for free? Google gives me mixed and phony results. I would feel much better if someone here gave me a link to a legitimate free IQ test. I've wanted to test mine for years and I'm a bit sick of these scam sites that take advantage of people like me. It's not fun finishing your long IQ test and then they ask for payment, never telling you beforehand that you would need to pay for your results.

Good Link....
Does IQ Test Really Measure Intelligence?

Yip, so true. According to mine I am also supposed to be a gifted genius, but I'm a social and societal idiot. The only thing I can do well is my work, I suck at everything else. I found that nobody likes a smart-***** either, people have genuine hatred for you, because you often correct them or something like that. I want to ask you guys, is there a correlation between IQ and occurrence of mental disorders or cases of autism spectrum disorder?

IQ tests...I pay them no heed. Why? Because its a number on a scale and no one should be reduced to a number on a scale. We're humans. We can't be measured. everyone's brain works in different ways. Someone who may have a high IQ on a test - which, really, only tests a specific part of your brain - may have smarts, sure, but that doesn't mean they're street smart. Nor does it mean that they'll be the master of everything.

IQ tests don't test creativity, or street smarts, or life in general. It's pretty much just problem solving and, in my opinion, unless you want to become someone like Sheldon Cooper, it doesn't matter so much. After all, look at him in social situations. He'd have a high IQ but has no street smarts whatsoever. Each one of us has our strengths and weaknesses and that's the sort of thing that won't show up on a test.

And I'd also like to say for the record: just because someone has a lower IQ doesn't mean they're not smart. It just means they don't do so well in a standardised test.

I am not trying to use the test to measure my self worth and value as a person. I want to take it because it's something I've wanted to do for years for fun and it's never worked out properly.

I'm so smart that I married three men who were crazier than I ever thought about being. I'm so smart that I let an art scholarship go because I was having too much fun self medicating. I'm so smart that I stood by an abusive drunk through three rounds of cancer. I'm so smart that I've allowed people to use me most of my life because I thought so little of myself.

So maybe that number doesn't mean as much as people think it does. And maybe I'm not really that smart after all.

Yes, smart usually does not fill that emptiness inside us. I hope you are better at seeing your value and selfworth.

IQ measures a specific Western kind of pattern matching and noise filtering. This is somewhat helpful in some areas of learning and academia which is I guess why we used it in the past.

The problem with an exceptionally high IQ is that it's often combined with deficiencies in other areas meaning that it can be difficult to channel it into success. This is often seen in children with learning disabilities.

I'm not sure it means much honestly, and I sort of try to forget my IQ. It's a number and I'm a person as are all of us. It's easy for me to get lost in categorizing and quantifying things that aren't necessarily meaningful or helpful so I try to let things like this just kind of be as they are without getting into it too much on a personal level.