IQ tests and scores, how much do the effect your opinion of yourself?

Question

I wondered how many people truly wanted to know their IQ or if they did, did it effect how they thought of themselves? (low or high)

If you could take a test and get your score, would you? If you already have, were you or are you changed by the score?

What do you consider average or normal for an IQ score among the people you work with or attend school with?

Answer 1

My IQ score is high.  I fall in the two percent of America category.  After my psychologist read back my score she seemed shocked and told me I could be successful at anything I wanted to do in life.  Where she was wrong is I lack the will to succeed lol.  It helped me figure out why I felt so different, but it didn't change me at all.  It's not really the high IQ that matters.  It's better to be blessed with common sense; common sense will get you further in life than a high IQ will.  I knew a guy that almost matched my IQ and had no common sense, to me he was an idiot.  I consider a normal IQ to be about 100 to 110 among the people around me.

Answer 2

I took an IQ test as a child as part of my parents' analysis of how to educate me, but they never told me the score.  When I got older, my mother offered to tell me the score, but I refused.  I think IQ is an arbitrary rating.

I think what IQ is -- trying to figure out a person's "mental age" -- isn't a precise science or a good idea.  I'd rather try to become more educated or better myself instead of thinking I'm "not as good" as anyone else anyway, or thinking I'm "already smart enough."

The average IQ is 100, since the ideal would be that your physical and mental ages are equal.  I would say that's about correct of my coworkers and fellow students overall -- some are a bit dim, and some are very bright, but most people are average.