Anyone had IQ tested? | ADHD Information
I was in "gifted and talented" classes in elementary school and they gave us all IQ tests (after we were in the program, not to determine who was gifted) and I scored 136.Do you know how long it would take us to even add and subtract if we were not taught (by elementary school teachers who don't even know that addition and subtraction are major feats?!) how numbers are carried, etc?? If we were not taught that we were working in base 10?! I took a couple of IQ tests on line, I'm not sure if they are accurate or not, but I scored about 130 - 135. Last IQ test my employer 'administered' (they do that for the kicks of it on occasion) i scored the maximum of 172 on that particular (two hour) test... so, according to the 'third party' company that performed the testing, my IQ is higher than that..But, it really says nothing tho... i have an engineer who designs the most brilliant flying machines and parts for them but scored 119 on that same IQ test :) (he scored the maximum on logic and creativity but VERY low on somewhat more 'common sense' sections of the test, like 'social' and stuff.. so, yeah, this guy DEFINITELY has ADD :) .. For a lot of people it's hard to believe that this particular engineer is considered the top technical (ie: applying the 'theories' in practice) guy when it comes to nano-technology and quantum physics)
I myself excel in leadership, social skills, innovation and most of all, the ability to 'sell' anything i dream up to those who buy our products or (in the case of play-things, concepts, etc) the board of directors/CEO/etc of the company i work for. It does take a LOT of preparation on my side before i conduct the actual 'sale' tho.. if i don't prepare the crap out of it, i'll stumble between my (way too fast) mind and mouth.. typical ADD.
Ever seen a Dodge RAM 1500 powered by a jet engine? We build one at a cost of 7,000 for the hell of it (radio controlled.. luckily.. it blew up (quite nicely too) on the third runway run we did..). It did manage to get to 400mph tho :) However, that one was CHEAP for one of our play-things.. We've spend a couple of mil before on fun projects that (usually) amounted in rather large explosions and stuff. Gotta keep the workforce happy tho, and this is the sort of stuff that engineers go nuts over... give the guys an 1991 Acura Integra with 160hp and a week later it'll still have the stock 4-cylinder engine but produce in excess of 600hp.. they love it.
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Like most of us, when my IQ was tested the results were surprisingly high...
But I wonder, some of the questions that I had difficulty with, I struggled because of the working memory problems we ADHDers suffer from (you know, the need to keep one bit of information in your head while processing another?). It wasn't that I was too dumb for these questions - were it not for AD(H)D I would have probably been able to answer them.
So, perhaps, even though our IQ scores are usually fairly high, our actual intelligence could in fact be significantly higher than these test results show.
That's my theory anyway, because I quite like being brainier than the normal people out there.
I took one for the first time about a year ago and got 126. I think you can study for them if you have a clue what will be on the tests.Intelligence tests are stupid. It took thousands of years for us to even have our number system- thousands of years for people to stop getting thrown off cliffs for believing that Zero is useful. For us to run in and take some test and claim that we know the stuff cause we're smart, and that the test examines logic and knowledge that is intuitive is totally presumptuous. To claim that we know what we know because of the innate greatness of our minds is just lying. Had all of them Mensa geniuses been born a couple thousand years ago, they'd be quantifying rocks with terms like "many" and "few"Take one class in Discrete Math, and your score will go up a whole lot.
Remember this:
A Man A Plan A Canal Panama!
And you are sure to be labelled a genius.
Stuff yourself with an "Improve your Vocab in 30 days!" and then your score will go up too.
Get born outside the main culture of the IQ given country, and you're an idiot. Sucks for you.
I was given an IQ test as part of my Neuropscy eval to test for A.D.H.D. I had great dissparity between subtest scores. My psyc said that that was proof of A.D.H.D. because people do not get that much dissparity between scores unless they either have A.D.H.D. or brain damage. Spaz, u remember how much of a discrepency you had and between what? not me or my son at all quite the opposite. done at school as part of se testing. Low score mostly cause of lack of attention.This what was said.
OK. I found an IQ test that test 9 different areas. It is free and online. I scored much higher in Spatial IQ then any other area. I am low in verbal and short term memory.
go to www.intelligencetest.com
You are only allowed to do this test once from any one computer and test time is 15 minutes. Anyone curious out there? I am to find out how different ADDers rate in different areas.
Are you seeing a psych? I think one of them could administer the test.
A note of warning. An ADHDer (especially one not treated) cannot look at the final score on an IQ test and trust it as accurate. We frequently score as lower than we actually are.
There are many areas which are tested and each of those is scored, then they are averaged together. You have to look at the subtest scores to get an idea. You may score high in some areas and low in others.
You can conceivably be very high in some things and very low in others. I think you would be one of those from what you have said. You would need to make sure anyone who tested you would share those with you.
go to www.wrightslaw.com and look for IQ testing and then go to the section which explains the sub test scores.
Good luck!
I was just curious if anyone has ever had their IQ tested. I have read that some ADDers have really high IQ's.
The reason I ask is.. give me a 8th grade spelling test I would probably fail. I can't spell if is saved my life. Thank God for spell check!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT I have an amazing ability to fix just about anything! I just look at something and say, oh I can do that or I can make that or fix that. I learn computer programs without even reading or taking classes. I have inventions in my mind that I know would make millions but just don't know how to go about having it done. In fact I was so pissed the other day when I saw one of my ideas in the local Pep Boys Auto Store. I had that idea in my mind for years.
I think I remember being tested and it was 130 or 135. I just remember being told that I was a 'borderline genious'. LOL
I don't have the fixer upper as much as you do but I also can see the 'easy way' to do things that others around me can't seem to see.
I was tested when I was in the Army. I don't remember what the score was, but I was but it was over 135 (the cutoff for a special program I applied for). But I was still dumb enough to apply for it!
If you want to get tested, you may want to contact a CVE (Certified Vocational Evaluator). They routinely give tests to people with special information processing needs and make the appropriate adjustments in order to get accurate results.
I had an IQ test when I was I was young, scored 125. Interestingly, the school principle told my parents, "your son is very intelligent. If his grades drop, make sure you follow up to understand why and move him in the right direction."
My grades did drop and I was a horrible student in Jr. High and High School. This was before ADD/ADHD was known/popular. Back then I was that "lazy" child, or the child whose mind "wandered."
I've scored consistently since then, averaging between 124-132.
After I was diagnosed with ADHD three years ago I began to wonder if I had a higher IQ but was "handicapped" by the disorder, so I paid for one of those on-line IQ tests that categorized results and timed the test.
My average across 12 categories was 140, but my computation speed was an abysmal 48 (I'm okay with reading, but am horrendously slow with math), which made the average IQ score 133. This seems to support my belief the ADHD effects my IQ.
The test I paid to take is at www.iqtest.com. It appears pretty credible and since the results are close to previous IQ tests, I've no reason to question it. A great topic, thanks.
Russ Where do you go to get an complete IQ test done.. not some 20 question one on the internet. I was tested in High School to see if they wanted to put me into Enrichment classes. I'm not sure where you can go. Good Question!Well, I'd never taken an IQ test before, so out of curiosity I took the one on the web page on a previous post. I scored 112, highest in matching and anticipating pattern (visual) and lowest in short term memory and verbal, they were equally low.
i took the linked test from above(intelligencetest) got 126. low short term memory score. usually test around 140. holding info in my brain while processing is a challenge. more on some days than others.
might have scored higher this time if: i hadn't totally skipped (did not even see it to consider it) one question, misclicked on another (does anyone else get a little 'spaz' and have hands jerk/twitch as if your brain has misfired as you reach and control signals get interuppted causing drops, knocking things over, mistime grabbing things?)
also, one question asked which does not belong: paris, berlin, seville, athens, rome. i clicked athens as i thought it is part of eurasia, not cont. europe. it escaped my attention that seville is the only city not a capital.
the other one i got wrong had a series of numbers compared to the word peace, and asked the relationship between another set of numbers and what word would associate with it. i couldn't draw the correlation.
i think most of us are very intelligent. we just have so many more mental hoops to jump through, and other obstacles to get data from brain to mouth or pen. don't know 'bout you, but i get sidetracked no matter what i'm doing. that's why i struggle to read unless i'm medicated. plus, wanting to go fast.
I skored 8.Depending on the test administered I vary a lot. On one I got 160 and another I got 145. I applied to mensa and got a failing mark which pissed me off for a while. A lot of spatial memory tests and I suck. Anyone else do poorly on those nasty ones? you know which I mean - they show three shapes (circle on square, triangle on tiny triangle, etc. then you say which comes next??). I always fail - have trouble with spatial acquity (sp?). Can't work a blueprint or do art at all.
I still say if mensa used a standard word test I'd have kicked ass! So, I'm gonna join Densa - for those of us not wanting to join mensa (phthbt on you losers!) LOL. Funny people - cynical and obtuse just like me.
If I remember right it's said somewhere that Albert Einstein did poorly on IQ tests - so I don't think they hold a heap of water every single time.
They are fun to take though. Funny side on this too - I switched from dexedrine to strattera for a trial run a while ago - took a test to see my IQ on the meds and got a 120! Felt like my brains were oozing out my ears - totally slowed me down.
[QUOTE=spaz]I was given an IQ test as part of my Neuropscy eval to test for A.D.H.D. I had great dissparity between subtest scores. My psyc said that that was proof of A.D.H.D. because people do not get that much dissparity between scores unless they either have A.D.H.D. or brain damage. [/QUOTE]What if you have ADHD & Brain Damage? Then you dispare between tests? Hey! I got it!
ADBD
Advanced Deficit Brain Damage
was that a play on words? despair/dispare.... i am SO slow sometimes on
picking things like that up.
i was way too literal when i was younger. i am better now but not much...
so was it? i have always needed jokes explained to me but once i get
them i appreciate them a lot - so its worth it in the end i guess!i score highly on iq tests but that is because i enjoy them and do them
quite frequently and once you understand the basic pattern to many of
the questions.... like anything it becomes easy.
if i were to sit an entirely new, different type of test or if i had never had
any mathematical training at school etc. etc.
i am sure my results would be much lower. so it is difficult to know... like
with this new sudoku thing - the first time i did a sudoku puzzle it took
me four hours or something to complete it (with lots of scribbles) now
regardless of level of difficulty it wouldn't take me more than twenty
minutes... i have already worked out how to scan the lines, look for
doubles or triples etc. etc. and it is boringly easy...
equally with the rubiks cube when one first comes across it
so it just depends on the level of familiarity you have with the style of
problem/questions on any given IQ test - i reckon.
Yeah, I 'fess. 'twas disparity.
I've tested high, and low.
Like my blood pressure.
I love playwords. I've 'vented words that were added to Webster's...
Quite unlike this molecule, which has the one ring to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them
strychnine
'cuz strat
works on norepinephrine
not dopamine,
like amphetamine,
methamphetamine,
or methylphenidate
Role in Attention
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KTsDistraction38606.4826157407do others have huge discrepancies between their math and reading skills?
Yes.....................................
My math skills completely suck and are in the toilet..........i need a professional add coach to deal with the fincancials once I get my business going.......
I can read ok generally especially if its interesting and i dont lose track. My reading i guess is better then my math in a way. I sometimes have problems reading out loud though to people.
KTsDistraction38606.527662037for sure!!! Math has always been suckie, but when I would do thoes standardized testing, I would score way above my grade level doesn't a human being devise and write up iq tests? nough said
I'm still debating whether we are a failed experiment or a really annoying and stupid species
[QUOTE=sabina]doesn't a human being devise and write up iq tests? nough said
I'm still debating whether we are a failed experiment or a really annoying and stupid species
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