Re: IQ test
Posted by:
Magda (---.med.umich.edu)
Date: May 05, 2003 02:32PM
Just retook it (after using google to discover that I'd guessed right on where the 0 was on the phone after all) and got 140.
Mind you, I got all 12 right on the memory part this time when I'd gotten one wrong last time, so that's cheating a bit, but I also got 11/12 on the numbers this time instead of 8 the first, simply because I knew I needed to work faster, and didn't accidentally click the wrong answer on one of them before I'd even read the question (as I did last time). And I didn't have my mum shouting for me to come take out the trash, which also helped.
On a related note, during a counseling session during my parents divorce, I said that I felt that my father didn't view me as being as smart as my younger brother.
(My brother was the kind of kid who was ostentatiously smart, while I was quietly smart - in fact, several weeks in, my kindergarden teacher caught me reading the teacher's instructions on the handouts they gave me to color, and excitedly called my mother to tell her I was reading. Mom was already well aware of this, since I'd taught myself to read at age 3, and was already writing short stories about "Billy and Girly". Turned out, when they tested me I was reading at 2nd grade level.)
At any rate, when I made that claim, dad denied this, and mentioned that when we were both given intelligence tests in grade school we'd both been in the 140s, and Marc was only a few points higher than me.
Mom pointed out that actually, I'd been a few points higher than my brother had. They'd been testing to see it we qualified for the TAG (Talented And Gifted) program at the school, and while my brother had been pegged for it immediately, they'd only tested me because they did siblings automatically. So the fact that I'd actaully come out a few points higher was amusing enough to be memorable.
In any case, the fact that dad misremembered it rather proved my point....
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