Ah in that case … I’m not really good at maths but … why don’t you go on and correct the wikipedi article, and the one in the Guinnes book … so that people like me, i. e. not that good as maths, won’t be fooled anymore by those articles?
That’s not it. Your IQ isn’t the score on the test. It’s the score divided by the score of every in your age group multiplied by 100. It’s upper limit isn’t based on how well you did. It’s based on the population. That’s why it’s an IQ, Intelligence Quotient, not an IS, Intelligence Score.
It is mathematically impossible to get an IQ over 201 given the population of the planet. And that’s using the generous 16 point deviation most use the 15 point SD. That one allows for a maximum score of 195 with the current population.
To add to this, above a given level of intellectual ability, the tests are not capable of measuring. If we both get every question correct, we do not necessarily have the same intellectual ability even though the test will say we both deviated from the mean by the same amount.
Yes I’m sure because that’s how math works.
Ah in that case … I’m not really good at maths but … why don’t you go on and correct the wikipedi article, and the one in the Guinnes book … so that people like me, i. e. not that good as maths, won’t be fooled anymore by those articles?
The alternative is that the test isn’t trustworthy in the upper and lower ranges (or at all), but that’s unpossible.
That’s not it. Your IQ isn’t the score on the test. It’s the score divided by the score of every in your age group multiplied by 100. It’s upper limit isn’t based on how well you did. It’s based on the population. That’s why it’s an IQ, Intelligence Quotient, not an IS, Intelligence Score.
It is mathematically impossible to get an IQ over 201 given the population of the planet. And that’s using the generous 16 point deviation most use the 15 point SD. That one allows for a maximum score of 195 with the current population.
To add to this, above a given level of intellectual ability, the tests are not capable of measuring. If we both get every question correct, we do not necessarily have the same intellectual ability even though the test will say we both deviated from the mean by the same amount.