Is it a good idea to know your IQ?
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Is it a good idea to know your IQ?
IQ testing become a good thing if it acts as a diagnostic tool so that you or your child can get the treatment and support needed. To that end, positive uses of IQ testing can help recognise learning, developmental, and cognitive differences such as: autism spectrum disorder.
Can you tell my IQ?
IQ or Intelligence Quotient is a way to describe a person’s “mental age” – a method to measure human intelligence….IQ Test Scores.
| IQ Score Range | WAIS-IV Classification |
|---|---|
| 120–129 | Superior |
| 110–119 | High Average |
| 90–109 | Average |
| 80–89 | Low Average |
Why does my child want to know their IQ score?
Children who are tested for gifted services usually want to know their Intelligence Quotient (IQ score). The child may ask this for several reasons. They may want to compare their IQ score with their friends, bolster their self-esteem or discover whether or not they have pleased their parents.
As a matter of routine students are told how they perform on academic tests but the IQ test should be handled differently by parents and the school. Even if a student is instructed not to share their IQ score and gifted test results with others, they often will share anyway. Doing so may inadvertently set the child up for embarrassment.
How accurate is an IQ test?
An IQ score is a rough measurement, at best, and it’s very easy to get a lower score than your best possible one. That’s why I don’t recommend even paying a trained clinician to give you a one-on-one intelligence test, which is the most valid.
What is the average IQ of the average person?
8 Reasons The IQ Is Meaningless. The average person has an intelligence quotient of 100. An unsourced claim gives O. J. Simpson’s IQ as 89. Marilyn vos Savant has been cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest measured IQ of 228, a number that can be sourced back to…Marilyn vos Savant.