Do you know your IQ?

Mine have come out as anything between 138 and 146 over the years. Basically I'm smart enough to know that I'm not smart enough for it to actually matter. Good in a pub quiz though.

Great post, @CakAndMoreCake Lovely.

Intelligence is indeed complex. I think IQ is reductionistic. Testing to access services is actually one of the better uses.

At the other end of the scale my sister was formally assessed (to access support) as having an IQ below 70.
She obviously has difficulties but I hope it may give hope to a parent to hear that it’s not the end of the world to have a low IQ score. She is now living independently, cooks simply and can read/ write to a functional level to live her life.
Intelligence is a complicated and unmeasurable thing.

Sat the supervised Mensa test ten years ago after a dare from friends and got in...proudly display the certificate on my kitchen wall..

I've never been given a number though, just that I'm in the top 2%

Doesn't mean I have any common sense, social skills or emotional intelligence though!

It sounds like you're stressed.

The common knowledge things to do as in getting enough sleep, good nutrition, exercise, mediation, reading, etc. really do help.

No; but I did an Online Test which I know are not totally accurate but it said my Verbal IQ is higher than my Nonverbal IQ.

The part with the shapes had me completely flummoxed and "this makes no fucking sense"

I would have had to pay to get the actual results.

bright enough to realise that I'm not super bright

Important point, @Saverage. There's a truism that it's a sign of intelligence to recognise those who are more intelligent than oneself. Part of the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon, I guess.

Fuck me! It's the actual MN Genius! Lucky you.

Mine was high (not that high!) and was tested for various reasons until I was about 35. Out of curiosity, I did some tests whilst heading for a nervous breakdown and it did, indeed, diminish. Now I'm less stressed but much older & generally fucked health-wise, it hasn't gone back up. Still comfortably above 100, though, and I no longer have to care as not in a competitive environment.

I have become infinitely more understanding and tolerant of people with average or low IQ. Nothing to do with my own score, I'm just rather embarrassed that I used to be unfairly impatient.

I did an iq test and it was 129.Mensa test what tried online (not the real one)said 134.
I am 38,did them 1 month ago.
I am very good in maths,love reading and was very good in school.Just about to start university.I am still nervous that i not will be good enough.

Theres literally nothing bitter or nasty about my comment. Calm down. You're just looking for a Mumsnet bunfight.

Did a Mensa test 146

I Margret thatcher have an in of 6

I just did the little Mensa test, I got 115. I've done a couple of tests before and it was about 125 - I'm not so good on those pattern recognition ones which is the whole of that little test.

In general I feel reasonably bright, but am also bright enough to realise that I'm not super bright. I work with enough extremely clever people to see the difference.

I was thinking that. OK, it only measures one kind of intelligence.
But you still have a high score for that. I would be impressed, especially as my score would be average to say the least.

148 and was in Mensa as a child, didn't do me any favours as I grew up. Intelligent doesn't translate to academic or good at studying.

162 but I find in now losing my memory, I usually say I've forgotten more than half the things I ever learnt. Luckily my husband likes having an intelligent wife.

No idea. My ego likes to think it’s about 140, in reality, it’s probably more like 120. I’m above average/ quick in the uptake, but by no means a genius. But IQ score is just not information I need.

My mother had them done by an ed psych when we were teens. I think mine was 130 odd, my brother’s was 140 odd and my sister not a lot over average.

My brother has fucked up royally on all fronts, I have done well in my career and a couple of others things, but not in other key areas, my sister runs her own business alongside a successful family life - she loves what she does and she makes enough. I think she was a late developer which probably skewed her lower, but she is the least academic/clever of the three of us - but if you were measuring a balanced life, she’s come out on top.

Bereavement fried my brain. I couldn’t believe that I was saying the wrong words in sentences, couldn’t remember things I’d done, places I went.
Someone explained to me it’s all the hormones that are released, the shock, and you probably don’t eat and drink properly.
I can remember the day the shock wore off —20 months later, it took that long.
Simon Weston says he suffered from shock for over 20 years ( I think it was as long as 25 years)

Things that have helped me include relaxation, hypnotherapy and lots of vitamins.

Why do so many posters get so bitter about IQ?! Mine definitely isn't so high lol, but if it was I'd be proud. And I'm really impressed by anyone else that got a really high one on their test. Why be nasty about it?!

The purpose of MENSA quick tests, is to get people to pay for a MENSA full test.

Anything else is froth.

Same! 😁

IQ tests measure your ability to pass, or not, those tests. Mine measures high. Most people who know me would laugh at that. I'd have happily swapped a high IQ for a larger measure of common sense.

Exactly the same here. My DP laughed his head off when I bragged that I'm technically a genius according to my IQ
I don't go a day without doing something completely dim/having to have something simple explained to me/having to cross my birthday out of the 'todays date' on work sheets etc.

To keep your brain active try learning a foreign language or musical instrument, it forces the brain to make new connections....