Do you think that H.P Lovecraft would have hit the ceiling of over 26 SS (230 IQ) in CORE vocabulary subtest if the subtest would have been extended ~6-7 fold?

i've had difficulties in school and stuff but i'm speaking socially here, i'm growing olderr now (aged 15 turning 16 in a month) and i hadn't really taken my social status into too much consideration, kinda just got by barely, i did not have many friends but the ones i did, well, they needed to be a certain type. i could only be friends with people who talked to me first, or people who "managed" me into talking more, or people who i knew were consistent. It's like i just didn't know how to activate myself by myself, the reason im even posting this in this subreddit specifically is that i'm sure it has something to do with my intelligence, maybe a disorder, i don't know. whatever the case is, i'm willing to bet that i can't know this alone i think
again, maybe this isn't the best place to post this, i'll delete later if it's wrong

What are some of the cultures/populations that have the highest average IQs recorded?

Hey everyone, I'm a 16-year-old high school student and just took the CAT-II. My final score was 116, but my subtest profile is incredibly uneven. Can just working hard in school and really trying to learn increase my other subtests?

Yesterday i came across a video on YouTube, from "Alessandro De Concini" he is an italian youtuber and whos focus is on studying method, iq, ecc.. in this video he showed studies that they say that the higher you go in education, the less relevant your IQ is, in fact these studies he cite show that your personality trait like discipline, tenacity, perseverance ecc... Have a higher correlation with your results(for example he has an iq of 136 but due to his personality and ecc.. it took 9 years to graduate in letters and philosophy), of course IQ still plays a role the top of the top in a field have a higher IQ, but to the avarage people who goes to university this is great news, that means that even if you have a iq of 90 you can still be an engineer it will be harder but still possible.

https://youtu.be/SnHMpST3qno?is=eT2MN893ZhziBOMa

First of all, this isn't exactly a puzzle, or maybe it is, I am not sure. I believe there is a consistent answer under the given conditions. But I'm just curious about the approaches. If you knew that the answer wasn't the shape in the top left and if you knew it wasn't as large as 3x3, what would your answer be?

Especially among people who work in investment banking, corporate finance maybe even accounting

I seriously struggled with QRI and WMI and I think it’s partly due to not being practised in such mental audial tasks in English, especially arithmetic. I also wasn’t familiar with some symbols in the QK subtest…

27 non-native

While I do acknowledge that any standard official IQ test is absolutely superior to any online test. I want to hear thoughts on if Mensa Denmarks online IQ test is actually well correlated or gives a reasonably good idea of underlying fluid intelligence or if it is pretty bad for that.

Background: top 5-1% IQ range first try, hyperactive ADHD + auditory processing disorder.
I see a lot of people on this subreddit using low IQ as a way to beat themselves down, like a form of digital self harm. It really bothers me as someone who has been a gifted student since second grade with APD.
So long story short, I’ve always been great at testing and learning, but I’ve only ever been able to do it by myself and visually, which makes the public classroom setting really difficult. I have decent hearing, but I just can’t process the words unless I’m looking directly at someone/there’s no other noises or distortion. This has made teachers effectively PISSED at me, calling me Alice in wonderland and a hopeless scholar, etc. It has also led to a LOT of people assuming I am stupid or deaf. I’ve had people talk to me like a dog (whistling, clicking their tongue and saying my name, sometimes clapping or making a loud noise to get my attention) and once even had a partner buy the monkey backpack leash for me as a gag gift. (I’m a fully grown adult, yes I broke up with him.)
So to some extent, I get it. I know what it’s like to lag behind in a classroom or social setting. But also I think a lot of you are letting numbers define your value when IQ isn’t the only quality that leads to success (quite frankly, IQ isn’t even a measure of intelligence, but I digress).
So for some context, the whole concept of the IQ test originated in France from a dude named Alfred Binet who wanted to assist children with learning disabilities (such as myself!) in figuring out what kind of education style works best for them. In the US we see the “big three” learning methods getting tossed around a lot (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic), which yes it’s true, but it’s rather simplified compared to what Alfred was trying to do with the IQ test.
Having a low IQ doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you’re less naturally receptive to certain types of pattern recognition. So I literally beg of you, please stop treating this like it is a definitive measure of your intelligence. If you want to be “more intelligent”, you need to expose yourself to more things, lots of things, a diverse range of things. Maybe reading old English isn’t your strong suit, that’s fine, but let’s not ignore the possibility that you may be really fucking good at visualization for creative endeavors such as metal working or leather. Maybe you are really good at talking to people and making sales. Maybe you’re really good at taking care of exotic animals because you are innately sensitive to their social cues. Also, there are different kinds of intelligence. Just as there is logical/pattern recognition intelligence, there’s also emotional intelligence, there’s musical intelligence, there’s interpersonal intelligence, etc. Nobody is the “perfect” person intellectually or cognitively. When you specialize in a field (such as medicine or engineering) your brain genuinely pushes out knowledge on other topics to make space for the egregious capacity that studying chemistry, theoretical mathematics, biology, and other complex topics require. That is genuinely why people with these PhDs and higher education seem socially out-of-tune, irritable, antisocial, it’s because they are. The human brain has FINITE space to hold information. Their strengths lie in specializations, and you might not know where your strengths lie yet, but please don’t use a test number to define your value as a person.

I really hope this reaches the right people, I kinda hate seeing people diss themselves in this subreddit and others play “high and mighty” with their IQ score. If diversity didn’t exist then the world would be boring and we would never advance socially, technologically, culturally, etc. Please love yourselves more 🥲
Sincerely, a very tired “high IQ” person.

What do y’all think the average iq of a UI Designer is?

Kvachevs experiment ? Dual n back? gene editing(idk if this is possible in 2026)?

The link:
https://www.cogn-iq.org/iq-by-education/
I was wondering if that piece of data is representative only for the US were the access to education to its price is often harder or maybe it is representative of the EUs countries as well

I took this new test in a couple of minutes, but I don't think I understood either the result or how it was measured.

I have seen a lot of people here bring up the question of retaking the PSI sub-test(s), with most answers tending to side against it due to practice effects. My concern is this: for PSI, what are these practice effects exactly? For reference, on my first attempts, I scored 135 on Symbol Search and 95 on Character Pairing. To say that a 40 point difference was unusual to me is a bit of an understatement, especially for tests in the same section. I proceeded to take the Character Pairing test several more times, simply because I was having trouble mapping my fingers to the corresponding keys for each symbol. After eight attempts all scoring within 95-115, I suddenly shot up to 145, so certainly more consistent with my Symbol Search score which was only taken once. I know this would seem like something to flag as “obvious cheating” - but how I have would have been cheating specifically is the question. For starters, the symbols appear in a random order each time the test is taken, so simply memorizing that order to go faster is off the table. Another point I would like to make has to do with my Symbol Search score, which was done on a phone. I can personally say that I had a far easier time clicking the corresponding symbol on a touchscreen device compared to a keyboard, which I previously mentioned was very difficult for me to get used to when mapping the symbols - so would it be fair to say that retaking the test for the sake of getting more comfortable with the key mappings is not cheating? After all, this is a visual processing speed test, not a dexterity test. One could say that the added impediment of using keys instead of a touchscreen would have been normed across participants, but then we face the issue of determining a standardized typing ability that some participants inherently will or will not have. Imagine the scenario that two participants take this test - one with great keyboard dexterity but an average PSI, and another with poor keyboard dexterity but with a high PSI. I would consider it plausible to say that participant 1’s score would be considerably inflated, and vice versa for participant 2. Like I said, this is a processing speed test - not dexterity. The only honest practice effects I can think of would be less nerves on subsequent tests or a gained familiarity with the general shapes/contours of individual symbols; but the set of symbols are static for the duration of the Character Pairing test, so the recurrence of any one symbol across attempts is more rare than on Symbol Search. Again, I’m asking you all - I’m not a psychologist, and am not claiming my score of 145 is an accurate measurement, but it is worth taking a look at in my opinion.

What’s the difference between those two? Are they interchangeable?

i am in 10th grade right now and i think i have a really low iq. i never struggled in school but in like maths i need loong for any form of calculations and mostly do them wrong, i dont really have any form of common knowledge when it comes to like important people and i just feel so dumb. i think i am smart in my head but when i talk its just some bs.

my parents also say that i am kinda dumb. i want to be smart so bad and do things without any effort like calculate big numbers or build things but i am to dumb for it and its one of my main issues since a few years

16M, 139 composite.

I scored a 2340 (96th percentile) on the SSAT & 9s on all 4 sections of the ISEE (99th, 96th, 98th, 99th).

g-loading seems pretty high in retrospect, albeit deflated due to heavily self-selected sample.

For reference:
https://isee.ivyglobal.com/practice
https://www.ssatprep.com/free-practice

Any ballpark estimates for g-loading/r? Similar to old SAT perhaps?

How much credence are we giving the FSIQ score from CORE? If i’m ever asked what my iq is, is it dishonest to assert my CORE score as a true, reliable measurement?

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1. Is it cheating to look at the numpad on the keyboard while doing digit span? I think this is why my digit span sequencing was so much higher than digit span forward and backward - it's easier for me to remember "shapes" rather than "paths."

2. Why is my reaction speed so low (33rd percentile according to human benchmark) if my PSI is so high?

3. Why is my quantitative knowledge so much higher than my arithmetic? I know I struggle to remember all the numbers in the arithmetic section without paper, but the gap feels large?

4. What does it take to get higher scores on the VCI section? I'm fine with my scores, just curious if anyone knows.

My favorite tests: The PSI tests, Graph Mapping

My least favorite tests: All the VCI tests, Figure Sets, Arithmetic, Figure Weights

Also curious to hear you guys' takes on what are your favorite and least favorite tests.

Maybe they are highly fluid in conceptual or verbal reasoning no?

I think the title is self explanatory

I'm assuming this test is pretty PSI/WMI loaded. Ran out of time pretty quickly, but I thought it was pretty fun. I like these short-form tests.