IQ Description % of Population

130+ Very superior 2.2%

120-129 Superior 6.7%

110-119 High average 16.1%

90-109 Average 50%

80-89 Low average 16.1%

70-79 Borderline 6.7%

Below 70 Extremely low 2.2%

It means he doesn’t believe your I.Q. is that low and neither do I. Internet I.Q. tests are not a valid test for I.Q. though, so don’t worry. You can buy an actual I.Q. test from bn.com or amazon.com or ask your school about testing.

Channa

I high school my mother made me take an IQ test because I had ADHD, and she was convinced I was smarter than I was performing in school. At age 10 I scored a 86 … which was fairly “average.” A few years ago I took an IQ test as part of a study I participated in that was trying to find a correlation between IQ and retention of non-native languages. I scored a 142 on that one.

Albert Einstein never took an IQ test, but most experts consider his IQ was somewhere in the 180-200 range.

Personally, I wouldn’t put too much weight into IQ tests … many people who are very smart do not test well, and will always earn low IQ scores (even though they are smart). It is not the final authority on how “smart” you are. And like many of things in life … its just another number. For better or for worse you shouldn’t let it influence your self esteem.