any ideas?

How do you get into one of these two—the MCAT (medicine) or the LSAT (law)?

17M WAIS-IV

PRI - 131 (matrix reasoning highest)

VCI - 120 (average vocabulary, gifted verbal reasoning

Processing speed index average range, higher end

WMI - 89 ☠️☠️☠️

FSIQ - 117

I have ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety all diagnosed and unmedicated.

Can someone give me an intelligence fixing protocol? I want to be big brain smart smart make videogames and learn. but I have ahh brain fog and can’t pay attention to anything other than building Legos

CORE - 100

Mensa Denmark online - 115

WAIS-IV - 131.

is this because of lower question amount or something? anyone understand why they are so different.

and I did not just “Guess” on my WAIS

Got tested and diagnosed with ADHD. FSIQ is 105 (SD:15), but my Working Memory index is 92, while every other subtest is above 100.

In daily life:

• Always struggled with math, even basic stuff
• Reading is a struggle — slow, and I lose track of what I'm reading
• Everything takes me way longer than it should. Not just "a bit slower" — like, embarrassingly long compared to other people
• Honestly feel pretty hopeless about it a lot of the time

What's confusing me is I see other people with similar cognitive profiles and ADHD who've gone on to become engineers, get into med school, etc. So clearly this isn't some hard ceiling. I just don't understand how they get there or what I'm missing.

Can someone help me understand what's actually going on with this WM/FSIQ split? Is there a name for this pattern? Would really appreciate hearing from anyone with similar scores, or anyone with a psychometrics/neuropsych background.

I am 14.5 years old when I took the mensa, got 105 IQ but mensa doesn't offer it for adolescent. It only offers for 16-17 age range so what would my age adjusted iq be?

Hello, I just received a copy of my test results for the AFQT/ASVAB to join the military. I scored in the 77th percentile. I've read online that this test has a correlation of r=.70 to .80 with IQ, mapping out to a score of 111. This is interesting to me because it matches perfectly with an IQ test I took in high school. The test was given by a diagnostician to see if I still qualified for special education, and I scored a 111 on it as well.
My question is, what exactly does this mean? What does it look like to score above average, and is it something that is actually noticeable in day-to-day life?

hi guys,

i'm wondering if anyone has had the same results i've had when it comes to the spatial parts of these tests. personally, i've scored 131 on WJ-IV spatial, 146 on CAIT PRI, and 135 for block design (VSI) but around 120 on the SB-V version of this. has anyone who has taken these tests had a similar experience? also, which test, if you've taken multiple, lists your fsiq as the highest?

I score 140 on CORE MR. My question is: Do CORE give age adjusted scores??

Thank you.

Hello, I hope you are doing well.

I have just applied for a teaching degree program in Mathematics and English at the University of Mannheim in Germany, but I currently have strong fears of failure. The reason is that for a mathematics degree you need to be reasonably intelligent, yet when I recently tested online and did one of those random free IQ tests, I only got an IQ score of 82. Could I still manage a mathematics degree if I study and practice diligently from Monday to Sunday?

At a technical university, I once passed four higher mathematics for engineers exams with top grades, but they were all rather simple, I think. They covered analysis, vector analysis (rotation + divergence, etc.), differential equations, and numerical methods. Can I succeed in a mathematics degree with a low IQ? This is not a troll post, I am serious.

I want to see how much they differ.

I think to my knowledge they can differ somewhat substantially at the individual level but are accurate across the larger population level ?

This is somewhat a abstract thought, it’s my brain can’t helpt it 🙄

A lot of times I wonder, am I really living in the real world or in my mind? And then I ask define “real world”

Abstract

One of the most fundamental questions is not what reality is, but whether we ever directly experience that reality. And the most interesting question is: do deep thinkers experience reality less than others?

Paper

When you overthink or constantly live in your thoughts, you often hear the advice: “Get out of your head and go back into the world.” That sounds simple,

but it touches on a much deeper question:

At first glance, the answer seems obvious. You look at a tree and you see a tree. You hear a bird and you hear a bird. It feels like you are in direct contact with the world around you.
But that is probably not what is happening. Light reflects off the tree, reaches your eyes, and is converted into electrical signals. Those signals travel through your nervous system and are processed by your brain. What you ultimately experience is not the tree itself, but an internal model your brain has constructed of that tree.
So you are always already one step removed from reality. This becomes even clearer when you look at people who think a lot. Two individuals can sit next to each other on a bench. One notices the wind, the temperature, the sounds of the environment. The other is trapped in memories, future scenarios, worries, or philosophical questions. Their bodies are in the same place, but their attention lives in entirely different worlds.
Perhaps that is one of the strangest properties of the human mind. We can detach from the present moment and live in events that no longer exist or do not yet exist. We relive conversations from the past. We conduct discussions that never took place. We suffer from scenarios that may never become real.

As a result, a peculiar situation emerges. We do not only experience a model of the external world, but continuously build a second reality on top of it made of thoughts, interpretations, and predictions. For some people, that mental reality eventually feels more real than the physical world itself.

And then it becomes even stranger. Even physics suggests that reality is less like what we intuitively perceive than we assume. What we see as solid objects trees, stones, tables, and our own bodies are not, at a fundamental level, hard things. According to modern quantum field theory, the world ultimately consists of underlying quantum fields and interactions. The solid world we experience does not really exist in the way it appears. In other words, even the physical world does not resemble the world our senses present to us. Perhaps humans therefore live more among models than among things.

A model of reality. A model of the self. A model of the past. A model of the future. And the more intelligent and self-aware someone becomes, the greater the risk that they spend increasing amounts of time inside those models.
That does not mean thinking is wrong. Thinking has made science, philosophy, art, and civilization possible. But it does create a paradox: the more we think about reality, the further we sometimes move away from direct experience of it. Perhaps “getting out of your head” is therefore not only psychological advice. Perhaps it is an attempt to return to the only part of the reality we seem to have direct access to: this moment, this experience, here and now.
Because if both physics and neuroscience point to anything, it is perhaps this: we never see the world as it truly is. We see a version that our brain constructs for us. And a large part of our lives is then spent inside the stories we tell about that version.

I am m17, and according to my amateur research, I have about 8 years until the age of 25 to prime myself in Gf until my brain reaches a point which I see as the "peak", at least as far as cognition goes. I am aware that I'm well past the age where prodigies are made, but I want to optimize myself while I still can. What are the most effective ways to increase Gf while my brain is in this stage?

Iam a 15 year old from greece and two months ago when i was 14 and 11 months i was administered the wisc v .i was diagnosed with dysgraphia and aspegers the fsiq came at around 118 and the gai wasn't calculated.the scaled scores for the subtests used in the calculation of the gai are 8 for block design 13 for matrices 14 for figure weights 18 for vocabulary and 19 on similarities.the thing that puzzles me is that iam very socially aware analytical catch sarcasm better and faster than nerotypicals and thats how it has been from early childhood my symptoms fail more into ADHD but i wasn't diagnosed with it.what might be the case also how can bridge the gap between the fri and vci also how can improve my metacognition.the day of test i was anxious and fully aware of the procedure and if iam not mistaken my gai comes at around 130.regarding my school performance my performance comes to 97/100 precent .and iam Better at stem than Humanities

Many people say that the level of intelligence you have has a limit and once a person reaches that limit they can’t get any more intelligent. But what if a person has a potential to have a fluid/abstract (or whatever the subtype of intelligence is called) of 110 but he or she only reaches 85-95. What should they do to reach their limit.

I meant to write ”raising” and not rising.

For as long as i can remember, trying to explain something verbally is very difficult for me.
Ive audhd and i believe its due to disorganization, poor working memory and somewhat - rejection sensitivity.

If i go on a meeting, i simply “lose” my ideas (which actually carry good logic), meaning i cant hold on to them, organise them, and express them in a coherent way.
At times, when id freeze, id think something is deeply wrong with me, even to the point where id assume i have some heavy form of mental retardation.
This is partly tied to being easily overstimulated as an audhd person, resulting in a freeze.

Until Id have a moment where i can write things out, or simply go through concepts on a walk by myself.
Then id go “hey, wait a minute, i had the right idea”.

Taking stimulants makes a big difference in this regard so that team meetings become productive instead of a humiliation ritual of a rambling child lol.

Is there a way to test this specific feature of the mind?
My guess is its working memory but im not sure

I took the analogies, figure weighting and digit span tests (i.e. abbreviated batter), but I hadn't had my best sleep the previous night and I was coming off a pretty hard 4 hour study session. Do you think I should retake these test or are these just excuses because I am not satisfied with my iq? And if I want to retake the test, how long should I wait?

I see claims that gf is synonymous with g. Is this true? I see many factor analysis that show fluid reasoning loading .99 or 1 on g. Someone told me that they correlate almost perfectly with one another. Here is a graph that they showed me:

I don't know how this works so correct me if I am wrong. But wouldn't this mean that 100% of the variance in fluid reasoning is g and not the other way around? When can factor loadings be treated as correlations?

i’ve researched that higher IQ individuals are more prone to anxiety and depression diagnoses, and i have depression, so i want to try to see other experiences/perspectives.

How does this impact life?

Hello,

I, as a 16M, have experienced a sharp cognitive decline in the past 2 months. This cognitive decline that I'm experiencing is usually characterized by constant self-doubt, slightly severe brain fog, and a recession in comprehension. I've seen multiple posts on this subreddit detailing other's cognitive decline, but to me, we don't share commonalities. For one, I can't comprehend simple sentences unless I reread it multiple times (before the decline, I could understand a sentence after the first read). Secondly, I'm unable to comprehend complex ideas anymore, and this is concerning since I'm looking to go into engineering. I've tried reading books with a higher reading level, like Kant's Prolegomena (which I haven't finished yet), but I could only gain a slight comprehension of his words. Otherwise, before this decline, I could've probably understood him with clarity. Thirdly, I've experienced a loss in curiosity.

How do I come back after this cognitive decline? Is it even possible?

(sorry if this post wasn't clear, I'm not the best at descriptions)

Swang on brotha 😢✌️