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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:01:16

My sister, at 14, has an IQ of 129. Is that a good thing?

Answer:

90-105 is considered average. 129 would be considered "superior".

The value of intelligence assessments is highly debatable though. Psychologists have difficulty even defining intelligence, let alone measuring it. Even those involved in creating and adminstering the tests will (usually) freely admit that they aren't necessarily reliable and may not mean very much.

To make things even more complicated, because of the way the tests are scored, the standard deviation for yonger testers is larger than that of older testers, so young people frequently score much higher than they will when they grow up.

Generally, it's a good thing. If she scores consistantly high scores over the next several years, it's almost definately a good thing, but it's probably best not to put undue pressure on her to excel based on a high IQ score.

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It depends on where she did her IQ test,Whether it is a recognised test or not.Age is irrelevant in an IQ test.

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oh my gosh! your sister has a high intellect! wow..haha..that's good..!

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Yes. IQ is more reliably measured at about 18, however.

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if she takes another test at ,say 25 or 30,,,,,,,,,scores like a henry kissinger,,,,,,,,(200 +) ,,,,,,,,teller da run for prez & i'll vote ferer

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