An IQ score of 130 or above is considered a superior level. Figure 7.15 The majority of people have an IQ score between 85 and 115. Only 2.2% of the population has an IQ score below 70 (American Psychological Association [APA], 2013). A score of 70 or below indicates significant cognitive delays. The maximum IQ score assigned by the WAIS-IV, a commonly-used test today, is 160. A score of 135 or above puts a person in the 99th percentile of the population. News articles often put Einstein Most people did not, however.

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The requirement for Mensa is that you score in the top 2% of some test that measures IQ. At any rate, Mensa no longer accepts the SAT as one of the acceptable tests since they decided that it doesn't measure IQ.

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Mensa isn't impressive. An IQ score doesn't measure your practical intelligence: knowing how to make things work, says Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. It doesn't measure your creativity. It doesn't measure your curiosity. It doesn't tell your parents or teachers about your emotional readiness. The term 'IQ' was coined in 1912 by the psychologist William Stern in relation to the German term Intelligenzquotient. At that time, IQ was represented as a ratio of mental age to chronological age x 100. So, if an individual of 10 years of age had a mental age of 10, their IQ would be 100. Maybe I did have a high IQ. So, a short while later I went to take a test in a school hall, in a manner very reminiscent of the way I took summer exams at my own school. Mensa administers two different IQ tests—if you score in the top 2% on either one of them, then you are automatically invited to join the high IQ society. A 3-year-old boy has just become the youngest member of Mensa UK, the largest international high IQ society. “She has always shown us, more than anything, the propensity to explore her It really began to feel like Mensa was more of a social club, and the IQ requirement seems kind of baffling given the state of scientific disagreement regarding the value of IQ as a measure of anything. Besides the fact that recent studies have suggested IQ is extremely fluid and based in a large part on one's environment. They require that you have a 'full scale IQ' of 131 which is way harder than a 131 Matrix Reasoning. The reason this is hypocritical is that their own admission test does 'not' test full scale IQ. TLDR; A 131 IQ on Mensa's own matrix test is allowed, but a 131 or even 145 matrix score from WAIS is not allowed. Despite being more accurate IQ test for kids. When parents want to have the intelligence of their child determined, often it's because the child appears to have a very low or a very high intelligence. For all other cases, the regular school exams and progress tests will usually suffice. As an IQ test for children is only necessary in special circumstances, the interests Hij6v.