What is IQ anyway and what does it measure?

Whenever you see in a movie or on TV about a stereotypical “genius” they always say “he tested off the charts.” How do you test “off the charts”? Is IQ measured by some head band and they wrap it around your head and you beam IQ into some device with a needle that records squiggly lines (like a seismograph) and if you’re a stereotypical genius that little needle will just jump “off the chart.”

Bullshit.

It’s a multiple choice TEST and like any other test you can score from 0% to 100%. The tests are graded on percentile. There is no such thing as “off the chart.”

My daughter took the test and scored very high, 99th percentile or something like that. No she has no intention of joining Mensa (which is moar bullshit). She has always been into logic puzzles and she just kept taking the test over and over until she scored an IQ of 198 or so.

BECAUSE SHE LOVES LOGIC PUZZLES.

She figured out what kind of logic puzzles these tests measure so you could say she “beat the system.”