100 "should be" average, because the whole scale is calibrated to be distributed evenly around it. If most of the people who take it end up getting an average of 110, they'll readjust the scale with that level of performance rated at 100.
Unless you're referring to Lake Wobegon, MN, where all the children are above average, and the mean IQ, as mandated by local ordinance, is in fact 110.
IQ means Intelligence Quotient. It is a muesure of your ability to learn, not how much you know, or how big your brain is. If anyone wants to know, and since its the topic of the thread, I'm at between 150-160, somewhere in there(stupid tests get different everytime). This probably not being accurate, but all the online tests ive taken(and ive taken a lot of em) have pointed me to this range. I dont get good grades thoug, quite the opposite, i almost failes my first semester of high school last year. I HATE homework, so i dont do it.
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Punkrock546 wrote:
I wasn't bragging about anything. I was just trying to prove the point that Tennessee's educational system sucks. (And yes I am from Tennessee and so is Soccerguy13(in fact I know him personally since he goes to my school.)) If you can stick it out until college, Professor Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville seems like a smart guy. | |
Shun Di wrote:
Please Reply. Since you asked so nicely, I will. In elementary school I was in the TAG (Talented and Gifted) program, which was good but which I mostly remember as goofing off and doing fun stuff. In junior high I was in advanced classes and in high school I was in honors classes (I think they were hoping they could trip us up by changing the name every few years). My crowning achievement came in my junior year of high school when I got the highest score in Ohio on the PSAT; in fact, I suspect that was the genesis of the movement to reform standardized testing. Since then I have consistently underperformed, no doubt because life isn't challenging me enough. (Ha!) | |
I have a 135 IQ, which was exactly enough for my middle school's gifted program, which was called WINGS. I don't think it stood for anything, but it was always capitalized.
Although, it'd be pretty damn funny if it did and I just never figured it out. -AbyssDragon | |
Well, back in elementary school, the gifted class was called "ABLE"... I'm pretty sure it's an acronym, but I can't remember what it stands for...
We met three times per week, which got me out of class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons...lol But all we did was really fun stuff... Nothing too "advanced"... But we did things like disecting a fish one year, making homemade litmus paper out of cabbage juice, playing with tangrams... Stuff that's out of the ordinary for elementary school children to be doing...lol One time we also built those things that you put an egg into and drop it off the roof to see which one can keep the egg safe... That was fun... And I can remember doing actual "lesson" type things... But it's the fun stuff that stands out in my mind the most... Another cool thing about it was that it was the same group of kids every year... And not just one grade... All of the qualified students from all 4 grades (2-5... 1st grade was sort of the "testing ground" to see who would get into it) were lumped together into one class... And it was a fairly small group... Only about 10 of us total any given year (with 5th graders moving onto middle school, and new second graders entering, so it was always changing)... So the first year us little second graders got to mingle with the big kids...lol It was a really neat experience all around... And back in those days, we took the "Iowa" tests of scholastic achievement... The junior variety of the Proficiency tests of high school... I'm sure most of you are familiar with these... And I always scored in the 99th percentile... Without trying... And then moving onto middle school (junior high, 6-8, we call it "middle school" in this town)...it was onto the "Honors" classes... Pretty much every class I took that had an Honors status I was in it... And it was always the same group of students in all of my classes...lol I too was taking Algebra (I and II) by the 8th grade... And there was some standardized math test that we all took during one of these three years that I scored the highest in my grade on and won some award for...but I can't remember what it was exactly...lol In high school we still kept the "Honors" classes... And again, I was in them the whole way through... We then could take AP (Advanced Placement... I believe this system is national, so most of you American students should know this term) classes... Although by this time, I had become a slacker, and only took AP Calculus (of which I remember very little...lol) and AP French (of which I remember even less...lol)... I was always the type who would never do homework at home (always made sure to have a study hall during one period of every day)... And I never studied... I'd only take notes if the teacher checked our notebooks as a grade requirement... I'd never look at them after writing them down... In fact, I also slept in a great many of my classes...and always had an easy time of things... A's and B's (and the occasional C) the whole way through... Always on the Honor Roll without trying to be, had numerous opportunities to join the National Honor Society (but never bothered...lol), and just generally coasted through doing better than most of the people around me who actually had to try... I acquired a HUGE case of what I call "Ability Induced Laziness" or AIL...lol I never really applied myself because things were too easy to begin with, and I figured why bother trying when I can do well enough without doing any real work...lol I also did very well at the high school Proficiency tests, passing them all the first time through (and therefore earning the right I therefore graduated 16th out of my class...but (at the risk of sounding too egotisitcal) I know I could have done a lot better... But no matter, I still graduated with honors (and got the cool little gold tassle! lol) I never took the SAT, or PSAT... Ohio colleges put an emphasis on the ACT...so that's the test I took... I got a 31 out of the 35 possible... They say that a score of 18 is average, and anything above 20 is advanced...lol I then applied for the Ohio state University, and got accepted with honors... I tested out of all but one quarter of mathematics (having got a 4 on the AP calc test, and getting a really high score on the university's placement test)...and got into all kinds of honors classes... However, here's where my long standing slacker-ness came back to bite me in the arse... No matter how much ability I have...or how intelligent I think I am (or others think I am)... I have no drive to use it... I skipped classes left and right, stayed up all night, and slept all day... There were some classes that I was enrolled in that I never went to a single time...lol And the grades plummeted and out I went...after only two quarters...lol So here I am... The kid who everyone considered to be the smartest they knew (regardless of my place in the GPA standing, I was widely regarded as being at the top, or damn near it) and now a college drop out, with a rather large and wasted academic loan to repay, still working at Wal*Mart...lol So what has all of my academic ability gotten me? Not much yet...lol It does no good without the drive to use it... I'm still planning to go back (I do NOT wish to be a Wally World slave for the rest of my life...lol), but I haven't gotten around to it yet... And seeing as I really have no clue what I want to be "when I grow up"...I don't have any goal to shoot for when I do finally go back... In fact, that might be a part of why I'm no longer there to begin with... Not that I feel sorry for myself or have any less faith in my ability... I made a stupid mistake (regardless of what factors played a role in it, it is still ultimately my fault that I'm no longer a student) and all I can do is accept that and try to change and try it again... No major harm done... But it raises the question... Who's better off...the one with all the ability that never has to try...or the one that has basically average ability, but knows how to work to get where they want to go? As for IQ, I've taken a few online tests, that have given me scores anywhere from 130 up to 160... I took a self-test from a professional book on IQ...and got slightly better than 130 (of course, I took most of it in less than ideal conditions, like while watching TV...lol) But I place little faith in IQ tests... Anyways, to sum it all up, I guess you could consider me to be above average...or even "gifted"... But again...I don't think my natural ability counts for much if I can't even bring myself to apply it...lol | |
and most people seem to listen to more heavy music then norm i dont think i know anyone who likes brittney or n-sync (im probably very wrong) *ducks to see if he can avoid the flame*
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Gughunter wrote:
Since you asked so nicely, I will. In elementary school I was in the TAG (Talented and Gifted) program, which was good but which I mostly remember as goofing off and doing fun stuff. Interesting. We had TAG as well when I was in elementary school and it also stood for the same thing. Every Monday the second half of the day, we would go to the school's administration building where there was a classroom. In there we had certain little things we did. Almost like a "station" system. First we would do typing for 15 minutes, then we studied a foreign language for 15 minutes, etc. We also were required to enter our area's science fair every year. | |
After "graduating" with a G.E.D, I only attempted to take one class in college. I dropped out after 3 days, because I apparently knew everything in the class already (since the first 3 days were spent reviewing what they were going to cover).
My only education outside of that has been self-taught on the computer. Everything I know, programming, graphics, web design, writing, and whatever other nonsense I can figure out how to do, those are all things I learned on my own.
So if you wonder why I don't ever come up with those big words that Lexy and Lummox and those other long-winded people like to use, it's probably because I've never heard of them before. Fortunately, Encarta's online dictionary is always there to help me out.
Of course, while I'm generally a slow thinker and I'm not too far ahead in academics, I like to think I have a considerable amount of common sense. Whether I choose to use it or not is another question, but I can normally think of solutions that other people would not. That is, if I know enough about the topic at hand, and I actually try.