shock_the_monkey wrote:serpand wrote:Tests are important to help us find our vocations, where we should invest our time at, to tap into our hidden potential.
... emm? not so sure about this myself. just because you appear to be good at something doesn't necessarily mean you need to pursue that something to have a fulfilling life. and not every aspect of life is so easily quantified. there are lots of things that are utterly intangible. if i had my time over, i'd have done things radically differently. however, that assumes the hindsight that the choices i did make have given me. at the time i made what i thought were sound and rational.
Maybe I got carried away but what I meant to say is that is much more important to know where to invest your time than to quantify how smart you suppose to be. How to best invest your time is crucial, and its something you change along the way. I made many mistakes, and I want younger people not to repeat them. I didn't specify, but time should be invested in what makes you function properly, and then in other people.
ogr wrote:You shouldn't really trust IQ tests.
When I was 11, we went to the millennium dome, where I got an it test done. I scored high with an in of 177. This IQ test results was used in my diagnosis and was given Asperger's syndrome. Less than 5 years ago, I was retested for autism, where I took a different IQ test, where I got a low score, about 85.
I looked back at my test I did when I was 11, it was 90% about my favourite subject science.
The latest test was based on language, math and science.
Basically each test is different.
I did a vocation test and IQ when I was about that age and it basically said I had reasonable IQ, and should become a writer. I was very slow performing the test, has I am slow assimilating any information. This doesn't mean I can't process it. I am not a writer but that result was obvious to me has i was into books at the time and basically answered everything with that in mind.