It is not a low score. 100 is theoretically the average IQ. 122 is probably in the range known as "superior". While not miraculous, it is well above the average. I'm guessing that it is about the 90th percentile.
The IQ was originally calculated using the ratio of a person's “mental age” (as measured by a standardized test) and chronological age. An IQ between 90 and 110 is considered average; over 120, superior. Few tests still include the controversial notion of mental age.
Because age-based quotients only worked for children, it was replaced by a projection of the measured rank on the Gaussian bell curve with a center value (average IQ) of 100, and a standard deviation of 15 or occasionally 16. Thus the modern version of the IQ is a mathematical transformation of a raw score (based on the rank of that score in a normalization sample; which is the primary result of an IQ test. To differentiate the two scores, modern scores are sometimes referred to as "deviance IQ", while the age-specific scores are referred to as "ratio IQ". While the two methodologies yield similar results near the middle of the bell curve, the older ratio IQs yielded far higher scores for the intellectually gifted. On average, IQ scores are stable over a person's lifetime. The mean for ages 17 and 18 was correlated r=.86 with the mean for ages 5, 6 and 7, r=.96 with the mean for ages 11, 12 and 13. Nevertheless, IQ scores do change over time. In the same study the average change between age 12 and age 17 was 7.1 IQ points; some individuals changed as much as 18 points.
This is all just to say that IQ tests are not reliable, because everyone is different. There are no two people who think alike. No two brains operate at the same speed of processing information. The human mind is very complex.
Your IQ has nothing to do with who you are or how you think.
You are a unique person, a one of a kind on this earth. Whatever you decide to do you can do, whatever you decide to become you can be. There are no limits on you, you can reach for the stars. So don't let anyone (not even you) or anything take your goals and dreams away. Always remember there is only one you and only you can accomplish the purpose for which you were born.
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It is not a low score. 100 is theoretically the average IQ. 122 is probably in the range known as "superior". While not miraculous, it is well above the average. I'm guessing that it is about the 90th percentile.
The IQ was originally calculated using the ratio of a person's “mental age” (as measured by a standardized test) and chronological age. An IQ between 90 and 110 is considered average; over 120, superior. Few tests still include the controversial notion of mental age.
Because age-based quotients only worked for children, it was replaced by a projection of the measured rank on the Gaussian bell curve with a center value (average IQ) of 100, and a standard deviation of 15 or occasionally 16. Thus the modern version of the IQ is a mathematical transformation of a raw score (based on the rank of that score in a normalization sample; which is the primary result of an IQ test. To differentiate the two scores, modern scores are sometimes referred to as "deviance IQ", while the age-specific scores are referred to as "ratio IQ". While the two methodologies yield similar results near the middle of the bell curve, the older ratio IQs yielded far higher scores for the intellectually gifted. On average, IQ scores are stable over a person's lifetime. The mean for ages 17 and 18 was correlated r=.86 with the mean for ages 5, 6 and 7, r=.96 with the mean for ages 11, 12 and 13. Nevertheless, IQ scores do change over time. In the same study the average change between age 12 and age 17 was 7.1 IQ points; some individuals changed as much as 18 points.
This is all just to say that IQ tests are not reliable, because everyone is different. There are no two people who think alike. No two brains operate at the same speed of processing information. The human mind is very complex.
Your IQ has nothing to do with who you are or how you think.
You are a unique person, a one of a kind on this earth. Whatever you decide to do you can do, whatever you decide to become you can be. There are no limits on you, you can reach for the stars. So don't let anyone (not even you) or anything take your goals and dreams away. Always remember there is only one you and only you can accomplish the purpose for which you were born.
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