What does an I.Q. score of 147 mean? I took one of those online I.Q. tests..but to get the full results you have to pay $9.95. I was just bored, but not wanting to pay $9.95 to get a framed certificate and find out the meaning.
Hey christi. Not sure if this helps, but my son was tested when he was younger in school, his IQ was 139 and they enrolled him into the gifted program
ugggh...if a child had almost what I have, that doesn't say much for me......lol. Maybe I shouldn't have asked hehe
But christi children are tested at the childhood level, while adults are tested at their level. I was trying to make you feel good not bad
Momof3 is exactly right. An IQ of 147 is considered to be very superior. However, I would like to caveat that a couple of ways: 1) Self-administered IQ tests, either on the web or from booklets commonly sold at retail, are notoriously inaccurate. Your IQ may be even substantially higher than 147 or substantially lower. The only valid way to sit for an intelligence test is to have it administered by a professional who will likely use one of two instruments designed to measure cognitive ability in such a way that a reified IQ score is derived -- the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III) or the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (Form LM). The Wechsler is the most commonly used these days. 2) The utility of the "IQ" score is widely open to debate for several reasons. First, it's been shown that such testing may well be culturally biased. This is easy to see, for example, when you consider that such tests are supposed to measure raw human intelligence, and yet if you administer such tests to intelligent, quick-witted adults in a non-western aboriginal society, you will find that those individuals will score exceptionally low. For example, you would not expect even the sharpest tribesman from Kiribati in the south Pacific to correctly answer a question like "If you travel from Miami to New York, in what direction are you heading?" Even within the same society, there are cultural biases. For example, bright children from a socio-economically disadvantaged and culturally-isolated neighborhood will not score as well as bright children from areas where the primary goal isn't simple survival. Even so, their raw cognitive potential may well be the same, but the tests certainly wouldn't show that. Anyway, I apologize for the lengthy lecture, but I don't think I'd serve you or anybody very well to give you a simple "Way to go!" without letting you know the problems regarding self-administered tests that pretend to offer true "IQ" scores. Moreover, given the horrific controversies surrounding IQ testing generally, I really needed to offer the point of view that such tests are not always held by professionals to be as useful as they were once thought to be. (End of novel, lol.) Doc
