by orbison11 42 Replies latest jw friends
greetings all
just wondering if any here know their IQ?
my son, just recently coming back into my life, told me he had his done,,,,and i was wondering,,any here know of theirs, and how it might have affected their lives, their outlook, etc
thanks,,orbi
Took a test a few years back, it was 129. At the time my mates conspired to tell me that the average IQ was 140 and that i must either have messed up or that I was retarded and I fell for it for about a day. Which just goes to show that I can't be that clever.
Dr Jekyll - ''Average'' range is supposed to be 90 -110. But getting a good result just means you're good at taking IQ tests.
I know that now lol but for about a day I felt like i was an idiot.
As you said a good result just shows you know how to do answer those sort of questions
I think mine is 119 which I thought was quite good but is apparently just above average.
I wonder what the IQ of an average dub is?
I wonder if their IQ goes down after many years of being told what to think?
I think mine did - I'm sure that I would have been accepted into Mensa if it wasn't for being a Witto for so long!!!!!!
It's a lot higher since I escaped from the WATCHTOWER™
Yes, I know my IQ; found out when I was 32 years old...didn't make me feel any smarter.
Same exact response as Blondie. I found out what my IQ was last year (32) and it didn't make me feel any smarter.
I'd rather have wisdom than IQ any day. I know a brilliant person who can barely tie his shoe. He blows away an IQ test, though. I know another who scored so high he was granted a full scholarship to a major New York technical school. He is now a rocket scientist (literally), but his personality sucks (in my opinion).
My IQ registered above average, but I don't really see how it has translated into marked PROSPERITY, HAPPINESS, or SANITY for me, so what good is it? The biggest impact I have seen from it is that bad things (and good) seem to affect me more deeply than other people because I often see more deeply into the effects, connect more of the unspoken dots. So I tend to appear to have large hills and deep valleys of emotion (appears mildly manic-depressive) but it is caused by heightened perceptions, not by chemical imbalances.
Respectfully,
AuldSoul
I found out mine when they tested me at age 5. It was 138. Because of that the schools pressured me to do more, which wasn't good as a loyal JW. I excelled academically and had to hide it from my friends/family. I had a counsellor who called me to his office before graduation and handed me all the awards I had received but not been able to pick up. He gave me a speech I will never forget. But the repression from the JW teachings eventually contributed to my being stunted emotionally....handicapped me to an extent.
I now have symptoms of the "heightened perception" Auldsoul spoke of I think. Life is so beautiful and so painful. A big, open heart and an eagerness to live and learn will take you farther than a high IQ score.
I took a few of them....it was 140.
I don't think it means anything, just maybe I am not as doltish as people would expect from me. I always thought I was stupid, but the test told me different. Even after I took the test, I told my Mother she said it was probably a glitch in the test. Now I know why I think I am stupid. Still do sometimes....lol.
All the fluff threads make me feel intelligent!
Brooke
