Quote by Minioger:
Quote by Kat:
Your IQ is a measure of your potential, academically, and really doesn't change over time. If your IQ is 160 at 4, it'll be around that at any age. If you tested 118 at age 15, you'd have tested within a few points a 4 or 6 or any age. Differences would be more from fluctuations in your emotions and testing environment than your intelligence changing.
IQ used to be based on a ratio of what you do know compared to what you are "supposed" to know at a given age. Now it is done based on standard deviations.
However an IQ of 159 in a four year old doesn't mean she is smarter than an 11 year old who scores a 143 (my score). It is based on age to an extent. It may not change a LOT but it can change. Usually the only "big" changes happen when someone either achieves some sort of mental "breakthrough" or should someone somehow lose a lot of function (accidents and the like).
So to an extent it is relative. When she's as old as I am most likely she'll be more intelligent than I am, but right now I could smoke her
Sorry if what I said came out wrong, that was basically what I was trying to say. I just mean it isn't a huge oddity that she scored 159 at 4, since the test was tailored for toddlers. Everyone who scores in the genius level as an adult would have scored in the genius level as a child.
I have had my IQ tested several times in my life, starting when I was 4, so my parents could start me in Kindergarten early, and it's never been below 154 or above 156. It was cool when I could brag about it when I was younger (yeah, it made me a ton of friends, as you can imagine /sarcasm), but it's useless now, and has been since I realized I'm lazy.
IQ doesn't measure emotional intelligence, drive or common sense, which are more important to success than academic intelligence. I didn't develop either of those for 20 years after I learned to read.
/rant
Sorry, IQ testing little kids is a pet peeve of mine. It serves no purpose besides bragging rights for the parents... Like they had so much to do with it. :vomit: