/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11034221

IQ is a quite good measure but not that good to have this level of accuracy, I see IQ really in terms of standard deviations mostly because 2 points up and down barely mean something. Maybe one day you get 136 and the next 125.

When I was a really young kid in school the math teacher thought I was a potential prodigy and made the centre IQ test me (in my country is not common to test the IQ, only on demand and very rarely). I don't remember anything but my mother say I got around 125 or less so nothing happened. Then on my 20's, while studying psych I got really interested in creative geniuses and learned about everything I could. One thing was IQ. Reading the literature about the life for gifted/high iq children, adolescents and adults I was seeing how my life was already explained infront of me. It took me almost two years of reading and researching to reach a point to allow myself to think that I am not really dumb as I thought. Did the battery of tests because my ADHD psych was interested too and I got around 140. The difference in the results, compared with the one i did as a child, was that this one took into account the fact that I had ADHD to avoid masking my "real" IQ.


So ,long story short, you are smarter that you allow yourself to believe, these numbers mean something but not everything and intelligent people usually are the ones who most self-conscious are about their intelligence. It is a common occurrence on untested adults to see themselves dumber than they really are.

PD: You can suppose I was sattisfied with `a score of`+-140 but what I thought was that i would never be able to be a genius like those who I admire because I am not even 160IQ so I really saw my score as mediocre at best. What I mean with that is that never will be enough for you, you will never be satisfied with what you have so the best thing is to learn to appreciate what you have because, in your case, it's a really high score.