Has anyone done this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq/
It told me I had an IQ of 127, not sure how accurate it is though.
Would be interesting to see what others with dyspraxia get it, be it suspected or confirmed.
BBC Test the Nation - Online IQ test
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even though im not from there i decided to do it. i finnished it and it said that my IQ was undefined? does that mean i failed? does it mean that im sutpid? it was very hard to focus in palces. and several time i pushed the letter whcih was above the piture rather than the letter taht coresponded to it. could that have brang my score down? could it have been that there was a big contrast between my scors so i had trouble finding my IQ? or was it becuase i didnt answer some in time?
Does anyone know how to get an official score for an IQ test? I ask because for the paraolympic games for learning disabilities you need a score under 75. And as it is in London in 2012 I was thinking if I start training now and get my swim times to qualifying times - may be may be a chance I could go...
As we've always suspected pooky outstrips me :P My IQ is apparently 119. I've lost points since coming to uni
Observation A 6/9
Understanding 7/9
Logic 9/14
Puzzle Solving 10/14
Perception 11/15
Observaton B 7/9
I think I got screwed on the paper folding one because I forgot which order the paper had been folded in after the first question, which made all of my other answers in that section guesses.
Observation A 6/9
Understanding 7/9
Logic 9/14
Puzzle Solving 10/14
Perception 11/15
Observaton B 7/9
I think I got screwed on the paper folding one because I forgot which order the paper had been folded in after the first question, which made all of my other answers in that section guesses.
[quote="Liz944"]Does anyone know how to get an official score for an IQ test? I ask because for the paraolympic games for learning disabilities you need a score under 75.
That's terrible because a score under 75 would mean you score below average intelligence. Loads of people with learning differences are of normal or above average intelligence. It's discrimination.
Intelligence is used in determining wheter you have a learning difference but it's used as a way to see wheter you are not achieving your potential.
ie it would be pretty normal for someone with a very low iq not to be able to do everything other people of similar age can but if that person scored very high but was unable to do basic things others of the same age could do that would point to a learning difference.
I'm not sure about an official test. Are you in full time education?
That's terrible because a score under 75 would mean you score below average intelligence. Loads of people with learning differences are of normal or above average intelligence. It's discrimination.
Intelligence is used in determining wheter you have a learning difference but it's used as a way to see wheter you are not achieving your potential.
ie it would be pretty normal for someone with a very low iq not to be able to do everything other people of similar age can but if that person scored very high but was unable to do basic things others of the same age could do that would point to a learning difference.
I'm not sure about an official test. Are you in full time education?
I'm confused about the refference to learning disabilities in a forum dedicated to the specific learning difficulty of dyspraxia. People with learning difficulties usualy have IQ's of average or above average intelligence (what ever that means). learning disabilities, refers to people with such conditions as downs syndrom or Autisim and have IQ's that are normally well below average.
I did the online IQ test and was told that i was undefined and was not told why. I thought that was pretty unethical to post a test that was for the purpose of collecting data, and leaving some people with an undefined result with no explanation. As i've been taught at university that any research should not injur the participant in any way. To leave potentially vulnerable people with undefiened results and no explanations could well lead to a certain amount of distress and anxiety. I consider myself fairly rational and strong mentally, but i must admit that i did go away worrying a little about that and feeling confused; not the way that a participant should feel, after tatking part in a peice of research.
I did the online IQ test and was told that i was undefined and was not told why. I thought that was pretty unethical to post a test that was for the purpose of collecting data, and leaving some people with an undefined result with no explanation. As i've been taught at university that any research should not injur the participant in any way. To leave potentially vulnerable people with undefiened results and no explanations could well lead to a certain amount of distress and anxiety. I consider myself fairly rational and strong mentally, but i must admit that i did go away worrying a little about that and feeling confused; not the way that a participant should feel, after tatking part in a peice of research.
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Undefined is likely to be a technical hiccup rather than a catagory they were planning to put some people into. The site has a table with questions correct on each row, age on each columb and your IQ in the cell referenced by your questions correct and age. As such as long as you have an age and got at least one question correct it should have given you a number.
So I don't think it's something they did on purpose.
So I don't think it's something they did on purpose.
ARGH This one is going to drive me nuts eventually.nick wrote:People with learning difficulties usualy have IQ's of average and above average intelligence (what ever that means).
There is a spread of people with dyspraxia and other learning difficulties across the intelligence range, eg there are very intelligent people with dyspraxia, average people with dyspraxia and people with low intelligence with dyspraxia, and the spread is similar to how many people are Neuro typical and are of certain intelligences.
What tends to be happening at the moment is that more educated and well off people or people with more educated parents are currently more likely to be found to be diagnosed. I'm sure I read a figure somewhere ( possibly an inspectors report online ) that a very large majority of people in Young Offenders Institutions probably have some sort of undiagnosed learning disorder, dyspraxia and dyslexia included.
Arthmelow: why take something out of context and make a crusade about it, especially when you are so rude about it. one day when you grow up and relaize that you don't know everything and your first thoughts are not necassarily your best thoughts. you might be able to apprecialte then, that sometimes people do not allways say exactly what they mean and say things in such a way that a person with a bias might be able to read something into it that was not there.
I don't read arthmelow's (the possessive apostrophe, does it exist?) posts as being particularly aggressive. It looks like the sort of reaction I might have if someone mosied on over here and said "Intelligent Design, there's a solid scientific theory if ever I've seen one"
I get that your comment wasn't about whether folks with learning disabilities have high IQs or not and that the point stands whether we have high IQs or regular IQs, but sometimes tangents are good. They give us more to talk about and we can learn more things that way. Arthmelow's aggrovation/aggression seems directed at a point percieved as misleading/incorrect rather than at you.
My ex was asphergic and she got really upset about this point. It made her life extremely difficult and a lot of people responded to her with "well at least it made you smart" She never did like the implication that this in some way meant she wouldn't have been smart in her own right nor the implication that this somehow made her situation worth it. I'm not saying that the same argument applies to asphergers (it doesn't), just that it's understandable why it could be a sore point.
Tired now. Where's my chocolate?
I get that your comment wasn't about whether folks with learning disabilities have high IQs or not and that the point stands whether we have high IQs or regular IQs, but sometimes tangents are good. They give us more to talk about and we can learn more things that way. Arthmelow's aggrovation/aggression seems directed at a point percieved as misleading/incorrect rather than at you.
My ex was asphergic and she got really upset about this point. It made her life extremely difficult and a lot of people responded to her with "well at least it made you smart" She never did like the implication that this in some way meant she wouldn't have been smart in her own right nor the implication that this somehow made her situation worth it. I'm not saying that the same argument applies to asphergers (it doesn't), just that it's understandable why it could be a sore point.
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I agree with you Greg about tangents being good etc etc. However, they should not be done at hte expense of the individual that the tangent has been drawn from. I don't particularily like finding myself being quoted out of context and with exasperation as if what i had written was so outrages. Arthmelow's point about people with dyspraqxia having IQ's across the whole range, is a perfectly valid point . Thou, it bore no relation to what i was discusing. the point i was trying to make is that learning disabilties are not the same thing as learning difficulties.
personaly i beleive that this forum should be a safe place for people to discus ideas that they cannot, or feel less comfortable, elsewhere. feedback is good and it is an important that different ideas are exchanged. However, in my opinoin, care and respect should be applied when doing this. I am no angel, i have learnt through bitter expereince that i am not allways right, and can very often make mistaken assumptions about people and what they might have said. Therefore, disgression is the better course and in the long term there is no point in critizing what someone has said and certainly not ridculing it, as in my experience, eating humble pie and having to apologize, never really heals the hurt.
personaly i beleive that this forum should be a safe place for people to discus ideas that they cannot, or feel less comfortable, elsewhere. feedback is good and it is an important that different ideas are exchanged. However, in my opinoin, care and respect should be applied when doing this. I am no angel, i have learnt through bitter expereince that i am not allways right, and can very often make mistaken assumptions about people and what they might have said. Therefore, disgression is the better course and in the long term there is no point in critizing what someone has said and certainly not ridculing it, as in my experience, eating humble pie and having to apologize, never really heals the hurt.