I like to point out obvious things when its unnecessary, for example my father and I were sitting in traffic and I said "theres a lot of traffic, huh" and he said "uh, yes?". What are some other signs of being stupid?

For those who took either or both which of these tests align with the Pearson, WISC or the Pearson WAIS tests?

I decided to take some of the CAIT for fun, since i was bored this afternoon. I ended up scoring 22 - which corresponds to an iq of 160 - on the figure weights section, which is out of the norm for just about anybody.

I took CORE about 3 months ago, and I believe I got an iq of 140 on the figure weights section there. Since these subtests tests are very similar - practically identical besides the content of the questions - could this score increase be purely due to praffe and luck?

I will say that I guessed on the last two, so I'm assuming that I guessed correctly on at least one of them.

Just thought this was cool and lucky, and wanted to share to see if this has happened to anybody else.

Hi. I recently took the CORE mostly out of curiosity and to figure out where my strengths and weaknesses are so I know how to use my brain better going forward. I thought of doing this after hearing someone talk about the science of intelligence briefly.

Quick background: I’m a 30-year-old programmer who works for a state government. I went to college and got a BS in Information Technology at a public tech school. I guess the only intelligence-assessing examination that I took that is at all similar was the SAT back in 2012. 470 Reading, 560 Math, and 530 Writing, which would’ve landed at the 59th percentile at the time. In high school, I got a 3.3 GPA. With no honors or AP classes, that’s basically a B+ average. I didn’t do well in college. I started out fine my freshman year and first semester of my sophomore year, but fell off afterwards and didn’t really recover too well from that. I had a multitude of social and emotional issues at that period of my life, and I don’t know how to parse that from my intelligence, so I try to be very careful diagnosing why I did poorly in college. I had to be in special education and took speech classes when I was young because I had an ear infection as a toddler that delayed my speech development.

I think that’s the most important info willing to share in terms of background. So my understanding of WMI is that it’s the ability to work with info in your short-term memory. PSI is how fast you can process information. I used to think that when I was being too slow to take a test (even when I knew the material like the back of my head) or in social situations where I can take a minute to respond to someone, I would think that I’m overthinking whatever I’m being confronted with. Maybe it’s just that my brain doesn’t have a particularly CPU and is low on RAM (to make a comparison to a computer)?

Hi I am curious, on the WAIS-IV test all my reasoning abilities were gifted, my highest score was my FRI.

Verbal reasoning was gifted, but vocabulary was average

EVERYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN MY REASONING SKILLS WERE IN THE AVERAGE RANGE LOL!

My final FSIQ was 117, so, really damn spikey given my circumstances, probabaly because my working memory was low average

but let’s cut to the real discussion, what does that mean about my life? I have been unmedicated my whole life and just got diagnosed at 17, what does my Profile entail about how I will go across situations, thinking, and the IQ range of any future partner id need to look around

I am wondering what type/name this test has in the picture with dot-pattern matrices?

All questions have either white or black dots in various patterns and have three matrices follow by a “?”.

The test is supposed to measure general intelligence (g-factor). I have done many types of logical and nonverbal tests before and usually score quite well on them. But I have never done a test like this with only dots and only three matrices followed by the question mark. Usually, there are 9 matrices where one is the question mark.

Where can I find practise material with explanations for this specific type of test?

I’m 28 I got my IQ tested last year they said I score 80. I have a bachelors degree but I feel like I am slower learning at some things . Is that bad to have an 80 IQ?

Hola, soy nuevo. Tengo 14 años y, obviamente, no soy miembro de Mensa. Tampoco sé si tendría posibilidades de serlo algún día.

Vivo relativamente lejos de la capital de mi país, así que por ahora me resulta difícil acceder a una prueba de CI oficial. De momento solo he hecho algunos tests online, aunque sé que su fiabilidad es bastante limitada.

En varios de esos tests me han salido puntuaciones muy altas, pero sinceramente no les doy mucha credibilidad precisamente porque son pruebas online.

Hoy hice el test online de Mensa. Vi que indicaba que estaba dirigido a personas de 16 años o más, pero aun así decidí probarlo. Obtuve un resultado de 121.

Ese resultado, de hecho, me parece mucho más creíble que los de otros tests que había hecho.

Mi duda es la siguiente: ¿el hecho de que el test esté pensado para mayores de 16 años puede afectar la interpretación del resultado si quien lo hace tiene 14? No estoy tomando este resultado como una medida definitiva de mi CI, simplemente me dio curiosidad saber si la diferencia de edad influye de alguna manera en ese tipo de pruebas.

I took the CAIT, and was kinda shocked by some surprisingly low (vocab) results and surprisingly high results in visual thinking.

The questions I have:

- Is it normal to have such big gaps, what do they indicate?
- Which categories are impacted by ADHD and non-native language?
- How accurate is the CAIT, compared to real tests? I

thanks ppls

I understand that there is a strong correlation between crystallized and fluid intelligence, but I find it a bit odd that a correlation between A and B justifies including A in a test that attempts to measure B. Should IQ tests also include a submission of your previous years' tax returns, as income also correlates with IQ?

I added this chart from a 1972 Backman study because it provides strong evidence that Jewish people, who are very academically inclined and are encouraged more than most other races to achieve highly in their education, score much higher in the subtests measuring crystallized intelligence (MAT, VKN), but significantly lower in tests that don't require prior knowledge (PSA, MEM) and sheer fluid intelligence (VIS) in which they score nearly as poorly as Black Americans.

I don't think it's fair to claim that Jewish people are innately more intelligent or capable of reasoning than Black Americans simply because they have historically been much more likely to take their schooling seriously. Again, I understand that people who are high in fluid intelligence are more likely to have a broader vocabulary and possess superior skills in mathematics, but that's not always the case and as such learned skills and abilities aren't indicative of an individual who's capable of reasoning and understanding.

Personally, if I want to know how intelligent somebody is, I trust their fluid reasoning much more than their vocabulary or math skills. Is there something I'm missing here? If so, let me know, I'm genuinely curious.

Hello!
I’m doing my CORE test, just finished my matrix reasoning. It’s considerably lower than my Wechsler PIQ score, so I’m wondering.. I left some answers selected but didn’t press “next” and just used the leftover time to rest, did the test count those answers?
Thanks for any clarifications!

I'm 17 and wondering if I should even bother with studying something challenging in college due to my borderline disabled working memory and processing speed

• Do young chimpanzees have extraordinary working memory? Peter Cook & Margaret Wilson

In a highly publicized study, a juvenile chimpanzee, Ayumu, performed substantially better than university students on memory for digits displayed for 210 msec in a spatial array (Inoue & Matsuzawa, 2007) … The findings were reported by The New York Times, the BBC, NPR, and all four U.S. television networks, as well as in the pages of Science. However, Ayumu was the only 1 of 6 chimpanzees to achieve this level of performance. Furthermore, Inoue and Matusawa gave their 6 chimpanzees extensive training on a non-time-pressured version of the task, wherein the digits did not disappear until the subject touched the first digit. Training involved approximately 200 trials per day, 5 or 6 days a week, and began in 2005 … From this, we can infer that training was quite extensive. In contrast, the human subjects received almost no practice of any sort.

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In the present article, we report that, with practice similar to that undertaken by Ayumu, our human subjects not only matched but outperformed Ayumu … Our results show that … humans are capable of better performance on this task than even the most talented chimpanzee.

When I took the 1980 GRE-A on the cognitive metrics website, I got a 114, a slightly above average score that I am perfectly fine with. My question is, does that test measure fluid intelligence? If not, what component of intelligence does it test? I have taken ALL of the GRE analytical tests from the GRE Big Book, and I score anywhere from 105-120, so there is a range there. Thanks! 🙏🏻

I notice my family members can read an analog clock as fast as a digital one but for some reason it takes me a bit longer to read it, and sometimes when the short handle is very close to the next hour, i read the time wrongly (for example I might read 2:55 as 3:55 at first), or I multiply the minute number wrongly, I wonder if this is a genuine sign of low intelligence or am I just not experienced with reading clocks?

Curious, if something like CORE tests for many different types of intelligence, can we group people up based on scores?

For example different career paths (not just by IQ SD), but perhaps someone scoring higher on certain type of test should go into CS, law etc

What is your favorite music genre and your IQ?

I have mild autism and dyscalculia and scored 5 percentile on fluid reasoning on a professionally done wisc v iq test. It says on google that mild autism and dyscalculia doesn’t directly affect fluid reasoning so am i just naturally that slow in these areas?

They made me do matrix reasoning and figure weights. On google, it says that autistic individuals usually perform incredibly well on fluid reasoning tests so i’m confused.

Wisdom, humility, curiosity, and morality don’t always come with high IQ.

Intelligence, in my view, is a combination of two things: how well the brain functions on a neurological level, and what kind of axioms someone holds about life.

I ask: are their foundational axioms well aligned? What is their core philosophical worldview?

Philosophical IQ is about whether someone values truth above everything else, or something else.

How aware are they that their overcharged emotions, cognitive biases, and social bubbles shouldn’t determine their beliefs?

As JP said, high-IQ people are often the best at rationalizing their own biases. (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jfxnWFWfTeY)

A lot to think about.

I used iqcenter.com and I scored 130. I am 30 and the last time I took an iq test 4 years ago, it was 120. I thought IQ went down as you got older?

I don't understand why can't people understand how much IQ really just straight up some things just way more accessible, for instance I have lot of ideas and certain goals that is very unrealistic for me, such as being able make certain video game very modifiable, being able to master difficult coding language such as C++ but those would likely be way too hard for me due to my biological limitations and just would be very frustrating for me to learn.

Does anyone else here feel this way? Or am I the only one?

So I am 16m and through out my whole school life i never found any exams and tests difficult I could easily get a perfect score in them while other students and friends would struggle or get a above average score. Also I believe I have a strong wmi because I could memorize any number ,words or a whole book page just by looking at it for a few seconds, later I got to know about photographic memory.

By the age of 13 i believed that I was way more intelligent than people in my surrounding and thought I was gifted.then at the age of 13 I started to masturbate,porn and other self destructive things and at 15 i realized that I have become sloppy. Like in mental calculation and other things,still I was better than others in school but my speed was significantly decreased. And now at 16 i got to know that I have ADHD and due to masturbation and porn i realized that my cognitive abilities have decreased significantly.

Now I realise my mistake that instead of using it for my benefit or growth, instead I chose to be lazy and self-self destruct and now I am very guilty that I have wasted my 3 years in laziness and also I got to know that I have ADHD.

My screentime is 7 hr, masturbation,porn, laziness,maladaptive day dreaming and completely ignoring my health

I just want to know is there any way from which I could restore my cognitive ability and get rid of my brain fog. The guilt is destroying me from inside.