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Your IQ "number" doesn't matter, your relative percentile does. There are varied scoring methods which yield differing composite scores.

On two different tests, 115 is the same score as 124 due to differing scoring methods.

IQ tests are also not as accurate as many think. You maye very well score a deviation higher or lower on a different test (though highly unlikely). Score variations of 1/3 to 2/3 a standard deviation (15 points constitutes a deviation on the most common rubric) are pretty common.

IQ tests attempt to predict general cognitive functioning by measuring specific facets that are highly correlated with full scale IQ. ambiguous circular logic, I know, but full scale IQ does correlate to real world performance.

What somewhat backs this up is how seemingly unrelated subtests correlate well with one another. Such as 3 dimensional block design and word analogies, for example. Visuo-spatial reasoning and arithmetic.

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They aren't "meaningless".

No, don't reply with some inane argument about how "correlation =/= causation", unless you can explain to me why the cause of the correlation isn't self evident due to the strength, persistence, and intercorrelations between the subtests themselves.


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