If the truth be known...you don't have an intelligence quotient at all!!

What??

You state "to acquire into Mensa...I had to take an intelligence quotient diagnostic test and mark in the mastermind range" Well there are geniuses and there are geniuses...

Some 'geniuses' mark high on intelligence quotient diagnostic tests and never go forth a genius's legacy. While others...some of whom were learning disabled... contrive the visible light bulb... the burning engine... the telephone... the computer... etc. And some geniuses... like Einstein... have got doubted their ain genius.

There's no such as thing as a 'genius' on an intelligence quotient test. The lone diagnostic test of mastermind is what a individual actually sets out into the world.

Mary Ann Evans...from a deeply spiritual nineteenth century family...stopped formal religion-based schooling at 16 to dwell a free-thinking...morally scandalous...life. But...

As Saint George Eliot...she taught herself ancient and modern languages...among other things...and became a published transcriber of German theological textual matters and one of the top fiction authors in the English language. Her influence shaped other geniuses...like Henry Jesse James and Prince Charles Dickens...who followed her...and it goes on to determine modern literature.

She might not make very well on an intelligence quotient diagnostic diagnostic test because the content of the test would be largely irrelevant to her gifts. And Seth Thomas Thomas Edison would be set into particular erectile dysfunction classes...as learning disabled...or as "addled" brained as he was diagnosed. He only had three calendar months of formal schooling.

Well...where is this leading?

IQ diagnostic tests are widely misunderstood...even by psychologists...which is unforgivable.

Geniuses are original originative minds whose bequest is never obsolete but is ever fresh.

So here is a primer on the misconceptions and nature of the intelligence quotient test.

Misconception 1

You have an IQ. You make not because...

An intelligence quotient is a simple statistic. It have got no psychological significance any more than than saying you have an address. Neither an intelligence quotient mark nor a street computer address is portion of you.

Misconception 2

A high intelligence quotient mark intends you're smart. It doesn't because...

The judgements you do in life...and the action you take on those judgments...tells the human race how smart you are...not some test. Some high intelligence quotient people have got got made judgements and determinations that are truly feeble brained.

Everyone can mention modern times when politicians...most of whom have advanced degrees...did unbelievably stupid things. And others can mention modern times when high intelligence quotient operating surgeons operated on the incorrect patient or removed the incorrect limb. Then there are military leadership who...mistakenly...gave orders to open up fire on their ain men.

In short...a high intelligence quotient mark doesn't coerce you to move intelligently.

So what is an IQ?

IQ stand ups for 'intelligence quotient'...a score. It makes not stand up for intelligence.

A quotient...you remember...is the reply you acquire when you split one figure by another. An intelligence quotient is a number...not a quality of your brain.

When the first intelligence quotient diagnostic diagnostic test was developed by Binet...to rank order students by academic skill...he used a scoring system for his test based on months.

When you got the right reply you got a month's credit. You then added up all of the calendar calendar months to acquire a 'mental age'...and then divided that figure by the months of your chronological age. So if you were 100 calendar calendar calendar calendar months old and you got a diagnostic test mark of 110 months...you split 110 months (your mental age) by 100 months (your existent age) and the quotient = 1.1

To avoid fractions...multiply the quotient by 100. So an intelligence quotient mark of 1.1 goes 110. That agency you are slightly in progress of your chronological age and might be reading-ready before person with a 99 IQ...but without motive it doesn't matter.

Besides motivation...the other ingredient of mastermind is imagination...which is not measured by intelligence quotient tests. Geniuses conceive of what isn't and what most people believe is impossible. The "addled" Seth Thomas Thomas Edison would not have got been able to spell impossible. No problem...it wasn't portion of his vocabulary anyway.

As clip went on...a psychologist named Wechsler abandoned the intelligence quotient computation and devised a widely used...heavily researched...test that states you your percentile rank...and he arbitrarily made a mark of 100 equal to the 50th percentile.

Because the intelligence quotient label was so entrenched in the public vocabulary...he converted percentile ranks to IQs for easiness of communication. But a mark on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) is nil more than your rank among your age peers...on that test.

So a WAIS-R mark of 100 (50th percentile) intends that 50% of your age equals did worse on the diagnostic diagnostic test than you did...and 50% did better. A mark of 85 agency that 16% of your equals did worse than you and 84% did better. A mark of 115 agency that you did better on the diagnostic test than 84% of your equals and 16% outperformed you. Notice that the percents above and below you add up to 100%

So what make you cognize from these scores? Only the information given in the last paragraphs. The diagnostic tests cannot state who will contrive the replacement to the visible light bulb. And modern atom physicists are still trying to work out the nature of substance based on the Grecian observation...made one thousands of old age ago...that everything is made of unseeable atoms in motion.

There...an intelligence quotient mark is nil more than your relative place to your age equals on a peculiar test. That's it.

So if you desire to put claim to genius...forget the intelligence quotient that you don't have got anyway...and dreaming the impossible dream. If you believe a claim to mastermind is out of the inquiry for you because you "have" only an norm IQ...forget about it. You might just do the impossible dreaming a world the manner Seth Thomas Thomas Edison did.