Anyone have any advice for how I can guess my IQ, or gauge my intelligence? I was adopted and had a really traumatic childhood, so it is often difficult for me to tell whether my actions are due to stupidity or trauma (especially social skills).
Also does anyone here know how I could take a proper IQ test in Canada?
>>17338143
Your actions are yours alone so take responsibility for them.
IQ can be measured by an official iq test.
same. Wasn't adopted but had shit parents. It's self doubt btw that makes you do bad things as well. Same self doubt that makes you think you are stupid.
>>17338143
You can buy a do-it-yourself IQ test book in any bookstore.
But it will be worthless. IQ tests were discredited decades ago and no school or university or employer uses them.
If you care, here's the history. IQ tests were invented over 100 years ago, and since people scored differently on them, it was assumed they measured something. But decades of testing the tests proved that the IQ test measures only one thing - your skill at taking IQ tests.
For a while it was thought there might be some connection between that and doing well in school. But even that was shot down, since a lot of doing well in school involves being good at taking tests.
There are other kinds of tests, that measure your reading ability or your math ability. But nothing that defines how "smart" or "stupid" you are.
