is that harmful for my future job opportunities?? what if a company wants to see my iq and they see 86? am i not able to do a lot of things?? i mean i like linux, i’ve programmed websites and stuff so i thought i had 130 or 120 iq!!! but oh well, what will happen?? now that i know my iq?? thank you!!
100 is average, with a distribution curving off in both directions. Most people are between 80 and 120.
All that the number shows is how you compare to others who wrote that particular IQ test; without more context it is virtually meaningless.
Any employer who hires based on an online IQ test result should be avoided.
I say this as someone who averages around 143 on the various IQ tests I’ve taken and find the number mostly meaningless.
Modern tests from an official testing body that are taken in person under supervision are pretty good for testing how strong your lateral thinking and reasoning abilities are compared to the average person.
Most other tests have massive blind spots skewing the results; they assume you have a bunch of very specific cultural and social knowledge that’s usually specific to university students in the midwestern USA in the 1950s.
If it’s so meaningless why don’t you share some with everyone else?
Sure… the trick to scoring high is being familiar with the type of test and what they’re looking for. Solve some puzzles on the mensa website and take a few different online IQ tests, and THEN do one of the official tests, and you’ll be more likely to know at a glance if one of your answers fits what they think it should be or not.
But for the most part, unless you’re intentionally trying to understand a learning or thinking issue you have (with the assistance of a professional psychologist), or just find them fun, there’s no reason to take them.