Spin off... do you know your REAL IQ?

[HelenePA]

You dont have to tell us what it is and not from those games on the computer... Do you know your ACTUAL IQ. Seems a ton of people here know theirs along with their friends... I do not know mine or any of my friends. I do know my 10 yr olds though.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

No - not interested.

 

[Tangled4Rapunzel]

Likewise, not bothered. No system will ever be able to truly record the magnificence of my genius. The brilliance of my mind constantly leaves me unsatisfied in life, isolated by my greatness eve-- Oops got to go, Jersey Shore is on....

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Nope. My mom knows mine, along with my brother's (and her's), but she won't tell any of us. She just said that we are all pretty close, and one of my brothers and I qualified for "gifted" at school (which, she said, when we were in school 20 years ago "gifted" started at 120). Actually I don't know if my other brother didn't qualify because of his IQ or something else, because he is dyslexic but was not diagnosed until high school. DH has no idea what his is, but I'm sure it's much higher than mine!

 

[Happy Mom2]

I don't have a clue what mine is. I know DH's...he's a freakin' genius. I am curious what DD and DS's would be.

 

[sorcerormickey]

I haven't had mine tested in many years, but when I was in school we were tested like once or twice a year (gifted program).

 

[DisneyLoverUSA]

I know mine because I was tested back when I was in elem then in junior high for the advanced program, what they call the gifted program now. So I know what mine is. I also know what my son's is because he was tested and accepted to his GATES program at his school.

 

[laurie31]

I had to vote that I know mine, along with my friends/families.

I don't know ALL my friends' scores, just the ones who were in the gifted class with me in 7th grade. We all wanted to know our scores but the teacher wouldn't tell us. So one day when she was out of the classroom, we went in her files and looked. Not just at our own, but at everyone's.

So, this proves one can be gifted and still be a stupid 12 year old. And yes, I remember all my friends' scores over 30 years later.

I know my children's scores the same way I know when their last tetanus booster was and what their birth weights were. Meaning, it's just another statistic about them that I'll always remember because I'm their Mom.

 

[Bonnie151]

I know mine because I was part of some study (not an exciting one!) when I was quite young, back in the early 70s.

 

[Nancy]

I don't know mine and I don't care. I don't know my kids and I don't care. IQ is a number..meaningless to me.

 

[MoonFaerie]

I know mine, and I know DS's. I was in the gifted program in school, and IQ testing was part of getting into the program. The only reason I know DS's is because it was part of the testing and evals along the way to the Asperger's diagnosis. Personally I was fine with no evals or diagnoses, but that's not the way it works with schools.

 

[mom23boys]

I only know my middle DS IQ. He has a reading disability and we had him tested by an educational psychologist (3rd grade he is now going into 7th). I told him his IQ.

 

[goofy!]

Yup. I know mine, DH, and all 3 of my children's.

The kids and I have all had the stanford binet (several versions), the wisc, the wpssi, and every version of the "official" IQ testing available. Along with pretty much the whole battery of psychological tests a psychologist would give you.

My mother is a child psychologist.

BTW - many of the 'tests' given by schools for the gifted programs are not true IQ tests,just screenings, especially the ones that are administrated as a group. DM had a thriving business of parents whose kids didn't make it into the gifted program on the group test, so came to her for the official "IQ" tests.

And as she would pound in my brother's and my heads and then later in me when we would become discouraged at the number being given to us for our daughter with Down syndrome - it is only a number from a test for that particular day. It is only a predictor of academic intelligence. It doesn't measure anything else, such as creativity, artistic ability, work ethic etc. It is what the person makes of their potential that is their true intelligence.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

And as she would pound in my brother's and my heads and then later in me when we would become discouraged at the number being given to us for our daughter with Down syndrome - it is only a number from a test for that particular day. It is only a predictor of academic intelligence. It doesn't measure anything else, such as creativity, artistic ability, work ethic etc. It is what the person makes of their potential that is their true intelligence.

Your mother sounds like a very wise woman.

I know mine (my guidance counsellor told me in high school), but DH doesn't know his and we don't know our kids' IQs.

 

[stargazer2892]

I know mine only because I was tested in 2nd grade for learning disabilities. Turns out its pretty high and my disability was laziness. DH has never been tested though I'm guessing its pretty high.

 

[SLK1]

I know 3/4 of my kids (fourth one is too young). I don't know mine or DH, but I surely HAVE to be higher than him.

 

[HelenePA]

Yup. I know mine, DH, and all 3 of my children's.

The kids and I have all had the stanford binet (several versions), the wisc, the wpssi, and every version of the "official" IQ testing available. Along with pretty much the whole battery of psychological tests a psychologist would give you.

My mother is a child psychologist.

BTW - many of the 'tests' given by schools for the gifted programs are not true IQ tests,just screenings, especially the ones that are administrated as a group. DM had a thriving business of parents whose kids didn't make it into the gifted program on the group test, so came to her for the official "IQ" tests.

And as she would pound in my brother's and my heads and then later in me when we would become discouraged at the number being given to us for our daughter with Down syndrome - it is only a number from a test for that particular day. It is only a predictor of academic intelligence. It doesn't measure anything else, such as creativity, artistic ability, work ethic etc. It is what the person makes of their potential that is their true intelligence.

This is what our dd's outside of school speech teacher told us.. its just a number and it means nothing. When I saw my dd's number I was like She assured it meant little to nothing.

 

[Micca]

no - not interested.

+1

 

[PigletsPal2]

I don't think I was ever tested, so I can't even guess. I do know that DD#1 was tested as "genius" the summer between 1st & 2nd grade (how can they even tell at that young?) and DD#2 tested "PHS" in every subject in 5th grade. I was all up in arms that she didn't get a grade-level number until I was told that PHS meant Post High School! They're both pretty smart, and even better, they have common sense.

Queen Colleen

 

[mirage0306]

I do know mine. I took one (administered by my psychiatrist) when I was about 22.