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[Soryy708]

Greetings to thee.

I'm 16 years old; and got an IQ of 126.
What does that mean?

[WingedPanther]

It means you have an IQ 1.73333 standard deviations above average. That would put you at about the 95.85% mark. With that said, that means you do well on a test to determine how likely you are to do well at taking standardised tests :) In general, it means you're probably smart, but if you let it get to your head you'll discover that you'll make a fairly average college student :)

[Soryy708]

Does that mean I'm born to be a programmer? xD

[RichieRich1986]

it's smart, but not that smart as to call it impressive.. Plus the tests vary alot. I've done a few over the years
and sometimes it said 125 when the test was in English (which is not my native language), sometimes 119 in
my native language and other times the results in both languages were at around 135, so it depends on how
your feeling at the moment alot to. It not really a good indication of one's intelligence if you ask me.

BTW: being really intelligent will not by definition make you a great programmer. As the more experienced folk
here will tell you, it takes a certain "vision", an insight.. You have to get it, really... I don't quite do so yet,
but it's improving with time. You just, as I'm discovering, have to learn and learn and more importantly, you have
to understand.

[iWantAKittenForChristmas]

I'm sceptical of IQ.

At college on a computing course, we had to do an IQ test. I scored almost as high as the most intelligent person in the class, but no-way am I as good as him!

I wouldn't say that IQ indicates your abilities. For example, a test that educational psychologists use to determine if someone might be dyslexic is to test their IQ. If their IQ is average or high, but they still have have problems, it is evidence for dyslexia.

I had an IQ test when I needed a more up-to-date report on my Dyspraxia for university. I scored average or above in the tests, but as soon as I have more than two things to think of, my mind seems to just wipe it'self clean lol, which causes me to really struggle with programming.

I'm not really sure what IQ is useful for...

[Soryy708]

It's a widely recognized thingy though.
At any rate, it's nice to see people of more or less equal intelligence around.

[TheCompBoy]

I think IQ tests are nothing to have.. Everyone can be smart if they want to, Its the person itself than decides if he / she wants to learn something and get smarter.. And also different people are good at different things.
And also if you would take the IQ test like 3 times a week eventualy your IQ that the test tells you you have will raise.
I can't realy say i belive in IQ..

[RichieRich1986]

I agree with TheCompBoy..

IQ doesn't really tell you anything usefull. You'll still have to
learn to be able to do things. You can have a 160 IQ rate but
if you don't open a textbook and read about stuff, you simply
won't know about it. You might be able to learn quicker with
a high IQ though, perhaps.

[Soryy708]

It might aswell represent the will of the person to learn?

[RichieRich1986]

No, not the will... Simply the mental ability to learn. I think even that can be improved.
Maybe it has something to do with your focus as well. For some people it seems easier
to focus their mind on what's in front of them, compared to other people. It's something
you can improve, but for most people it is very hard to do if it's not something that comes
naturally to them.

[Alexander]

If the test tells you something you hadn't already known (you are well versed at memorisation of patterns, spatial visualisation ability, ...) then that is somewhat helpful, if you somehow never were able to test those abilities before.

IQ measures how good you are at taking IQ tests.

[WingedPanther]

A good test for if you would be a good programmer: do you like logic puzzles?