Do NT-Designed IQ Tests Truly Reflect Neurodivergent Intelligence?

[Crossbreed]

@Kayla55, knowing your IQ gives a more complete picture of one's neuro-diversity, leading to more realistic expectations for oneself. Even we in Mensa get a better sense of our limitations.

 

[Vesta]

Think of IQ tests as a sort of puzzle Olympics. Those who do well actually like puzzles, even if we are better at some more than others. It is not pass/fail. Assessing your intellectual strengths & weaknesses just helps teachers & counselors to better speak to your needs.

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I have no desire to take the test; I already have an idea of my likely results. All that nonsense was once used in eugenics. There’s no need anymore to feel inferior in someone’s eyes over something I never chose. I’ve come to realize that I am genetically questionable material.

 

[vergil96]

A psychological test has never given me a sense of my limitations, I'd be very curious to know how to cope with them. Limitations don't have to be cognitive. If it was all cognitive, we'd all be rich and happy, but we're human, made of flesh and blood and affected by emotions too.

 

[Vesta]

It seems my thought wasn’t fully understood, but never mind. It’s worth emphasizing that cognitive abilities have a huge impact on how your life unfolds

 

[vergil96]

It seems my thought wasn’t fully understood, but never mind. It’s worth emphasizing that cognitive abilities have a huge impact on how your life unfolds

I was responding to:

leading to more realistic expectations for oneself. Even we in Mensa get a better sense of our limitations.

I never had that experience with any single psychological test. Unlike many forum members, I didn't learn anything from psychological diagnosis. Some of the results were even false, as it turned out later.

 

[Crossbreed]

For instance, I have no interest in pursuing post-Euclidean geometry nor post-Newtonian physics though I will grudgingly admit they are probably superior...

 

[Judge]

It seems my thought wasn’t fully understood, but never mind. It’s worth emphasizing that cognitive abilities have a huge impact on how your life unfolds

I think that much is certainly a reality for most persons. And that in as much as it impacts abilities one has, it can also impact one based on how others may perceive them. Even if and when such a conclusion may be incorrect in whole or in part.

 

[vergil96]

I think that much is certainly a reality for most persons. And that in as much as it impacts abilities one has, it can also impact one based on how others may perceive them. Even if and when such a conclusion may be incorrect in whole or in part.

Cognitive abilities are one of the factors that impact how life unfolds. There are many others too such as health, socioeconomic background, getting married and having children...

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I agree , I would rather inherit cognitive ability over money, which fortunately happened in my family the later follows the first. Starting to see predictors of cognitive abiity include being on the spectrum is one and also blood type Ab could be another.

 

[Judge]

Cognitive abilities are one of the factors that impact how life unfolds. There are many others too such as health, socioeconomic background, getting married and having children...

Yes, a combination of reality and perception...but not always necessarily in that order.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

It appears I have both a Nobel prize winner and a bilionaire in my family is this the result of cognitive ability. Have a copy of who's who from years ago from my dad noticed the family surname is mentioned twice. Pieter Zeeman Christopher Zeeman. Now I can check other surnames, based on Myheritage results, curious.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Did not find any other surnames menchioned, however with libaries much smaller no access to who's who in science.
however know my grand mothers family has prominent member PIerre Verhulst. Checked library who's who no longer published, on line for current year. Fortunately I have personal library including encyclopedias Time to look through them.