Psychilicist: a psychologist that is super chill.
I was thinking a cross between a psychologist and a ventriloquist: they ask you about your mom, and then they answer for you.
Psychlilatrist: A psychiatrist who’s little
I actually like this exchange; you know how many people I know who think they’ve got a 160+ IQ because of an online test they took that then tried to sell them something?
At least a dozen, a few of which are even family members. Statistically impossible, but do they care? No, they’re super geniuses. God what I’d pay to see what they respond to their real score, lol
The official test iq i did(for autism diagnosis) had questions that had you order words in alphabet order(i did not know the alphabet order) and asked me to define a word that is not used anymore
Fun fact, a man had the liquids in his brain swell up to the point of leaving the brain as a spread out layer on the walls of his skull.
Despite this extreme disfigurement of his brain, he had a job, a family with multiple kids, and the only possible side effects of 70 IQ (which wasn’t even proven to be because of this) and a twitchy leg, which went away when they drained the pressure from the fluid.
I know someone whose IQ is measured at 86 and she has a PhD and makes a quarter million dollars a year.
IQ is a spectrum.
At 70, though, I believe you would be special needs.
Is she—and I mean this in the most respectful way I can—white?
I’ve never actually taken a formal IQ test, and I’d have trouble justifying the time and effort.
I know exactly one person who took a formal IQ test, and it was because their parents pushed them into it in middle school.
If I won $50M in the powerball and never had to work again, maaaybe I could justify doing one just for shits and giggles.
I only did a weird one for kids at the age of 9. max IQ points was 120 and I got 119. I asked why its not 120 and they said I was wrong with the end of WW2. I wrote 1949 and it was actually 1945.
Seeing my 9 year old son today, I am surprised how close my understanding about WW2s end was.
That was not an iq test.
I’m pretty sure IQ is something that varies a lot over a lifetime. The last time i had one was while on a 3 month psychiatric rehabilitation stay because i was in a pretty bad shape, with a value of 103. I am pretty sure that if i had repeated that test after all of that therapy and distance to the bullshit of everyday life, that i would’ve scored higher. After my stay i was a lot quicker on the uptake, a lot less stressed by exam situations and left a lot of brain fog behind.
IQ tests are an imperfect snapshot.
IQ is actually one of the most stable metrics we have for intelligence. It does change with brain development but its also a comparative amongst your age group so your IQ remains very stable throughout your life.
It’s not to say you didnt mess up on your test at one point, or that someone who is having a mental episode cant distort it via anxiety or whatever
For real, like, honestly, if you walk up to a kid and slap them and then force them to take an IQ test, they could possibly test as mentally disabled even if they were in the genius range before you slapped them.
Your mental state, your mood, your home life, how much sleep you got that night, your diet, all of those things can affect your performance on the actual test.
It’s a great metric for how well you take an IQ test. No one should really be using it as a measurement for general intelligence.
