Originally Posted by
Merite
You can study for IQ tests and boost your score pretty easily. IQ tests only prove you can solve logical problems. If you do a puzzle book every day for a month and you took a test, your score would be higher than if you didn't.
Personally my IQ is > 140, but I never finished college and didn't graduate high school (not that it was difficult, I taught myself calculus in 8th grade). It has no correlation to how much you know, you could have the highest IQ in the world and not know anything at all. A lot of my friends are smarter than me without any relation to our IQ, though my IQ means I have a capacity to be smarter, if I actually enjoyed learning, reading, etc. I understand things a lot quicker than other people, math is second nature, but I couldn't tell you much about history or science.
At least my take on it; the test I took was mensa around ~10 years ago.