Is IQ Important or Insignificant? | Is there any purpose to knowing your IQ score?

This video answers the question: Is IQ important? IQ is a measure of the g factor (general mental ability) also known as intelligence. Two popular IQ are the WAIS and the Stanford-Binet. There is a good deal of controversy over the value of intelligence testing, especially for those who are functioning well. IQ is a standard score, it has mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. IQ can be important depending on one’s perspective, but normally learning your IQ score is not particularly useful.

[@harryscarry6064]

It took me long time to realise I’m a slow learner.

[@belindagoodine6481]

I sat and slapped like a seal over this joke, thank you 😂😂😂

[@humanormachine2936]

Sorry for the cliche, but this is a criminally underrated comment.

[@belindagoodine6481]

@@humanormachine2936 right?!?!

[@Maya-yp2ey]

lol

[@shady8045]

I got the joke pretty fast so maybe I'm not a slow learner.

[@gustavedelior3683]

Its a measurement, but I learned the smartest guy in the room and the most knowledgeable person in the room aren't usually the same person.

[@stello61]

Much rather have/be one who can solve complex problems without prior knowledge instead of a walking encyclopedia, we have google for that. Also, crystalized and fluid intelligence are related.

[@ensar2805]

@@stello61 that is real intelligence. Not a trash can memory. Real intelligence is, atleast for me, being able to have deep thoughts, while at the same time being a fast thinker with an open mind.

[@melodykuromibebbies2138]

@@stello61 *nice*

[@mikemalloy1681]

They never are.

[@Asatru55]

@@stello61 Being very intelligent but not at all knowledgeable isn't useful.. You solve problems by connecting the dots. The dots are data. Knowledge. If there is insufficient data you can't solve a problem. Doesn't matter how fast you do it. The only thing people with high intelligence and low knowledge are good for is making up conspiracy theories.

[@stefan5623]

"Everyone on the internet is a genius and has atleast an IQ above 140" - Unknown

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

ShredderThruPaper / As Abraham Lincoln said, "You cannot believe everything you see or read on the internet."n

[@osl5686]

As a wise man once said- "It's called being SMART”

[@theobserver314]

@YexaC Wow, just wow.

[@n.o.b.s.8458]

@YexaC The type of people who try to convince you that they are correct because they have a high iQ are not the kind of people that are genuinely smart, or well researched on a topic. I'm sure there is some overlap in socio/psycho individuals, but its not hard to figure out that that line or reasoning is pretty meaningless, and more importantly, just not very convincing.

[@theobserver314]

@YexaC I posted my comment out of amusement and astonishment. If that's what you need clarifying based on your response.

[@thomaswilliams7204]

Funny story about my sister. When she was in elementary school, her teacher called our parents and demanded they come meet with her. She told them that they needed to stop pushing my sister so hard. My parents were totally laissez-faire about our educations (odd, since our Dad had a PhD), so they were perplexed. The teacher said that she knew my sister had an IQ of 85 (I don't know where she got the number, but I think it was somehow based on the Otis-Lennon achievement test), and should not be able to perform at the level she was attaining...hence, she must be under horrible duress at home. This episode bugged my sister; so, when she had a chance to take the Wechsler in 11th grade, she jumped at it. She scored 160! She went on to get a PhD in math; was an ES3 at the Pentagon at age 35, and taught classes at MIT and Harvard.

[@christinehutchins123]

PhD in math, good lord...

[@Michael-jq1hl]

The teacher was too dumb to understand your sister, sadly the majority is not intelligent enough to understand the upper spectrum, I am glad that your sister hasn't got discouraged. I went to a "sperimental" igh school where half of the class had an IQ of over 130, only one of us went to university after while 4 out of the people with an IQ under 120 have a degree, two of which were under 100

[@65minimom]

@@Michael-jq1hl Please don't judge "all teachers" based on your experience.

[@Michael-jq1hl]

@@65minimom "majority" is what I wrote and "all" is what you read?

[@DR-nh6oo]

@@Michael-jq1hl Or the teacher was envious and perhaps even jealous, it happens unfortunately. IQ tests infamously give inconsistent results, especially if not given in the right circumstance with an experienced psychologist and can place dreadful expectations and limitations on people.

[@dfpolitowski2]

I have a host of disabilities, slow learner, ADD, week short term memory, mild dyslexia and I think i'm "on the spectrum" too. Took me many decades to discover this. College was almost an impossibility for me, however I did manage to get through. Had a professional IQ test and came up with strengths and weaknesses scattered over the spectrum of knowledge. Averaged an IQ at 105. Think, I'm a strong in writing/verbal however, I don't care to write. I'm a machinist by trade and not the best either but experience has brought strength over the years. If you ask me, IQ is everything the pros say it is. It is real and meaningful. But its not everything in life. Love, character and hard work are qualities that may not be related to IQ and are sometimes more important.

[@experiencedhand9014]

Well said

[@theballistiks]

I mean your Iq Is above average so you should be good

[@Humanprototype-wh8qr]

For me its simple: do the best Version of Urself and iq is neglectable. there is an Intelligence far greater than the analytical wich is the iq. And if u are the best Version its pretty likely u will Discover it

[@georgecopeland5426]

You are a strong writer and I admire your professional journey. I can tell you something about IQ that you probably already know. IQ has nothing to do with your happiness. A balanced approach to life is a very good idea for everyone, no matter your abilities.

[@dfpolitowski2]

@@HildmansBookEmporium Thanks!

[@1298blaster]

“People who boast about their IQ are losers” -Some dude in a wheelchair

[@flavio9313]

What

[@CounterPhilosopher]

@@flavio9313 It's a Stephen Hawking quote.

[@flavio9313]

@@CounterPhilosopher a

[@lasangthecat8090]

@@flavio9313 b

[@1298blaster]

@David Shields I’m just quoting Stephen Hawkens…

[@albertjackson9236]

High IQ is great if you also have common sense, wisdom & good judgement.

[@yes0r787]

Good point.

[@samanthagirikhanov2796]

And work ethic

[@ngle4246]

All of which are assessed by IQ.

[@lex6709]

@@ngle4246 Wechsler contains common sense category, but many other IQ tests don't. And wisdom&good judgement? Well we can discover statistic positive relationships between those features and IQ, but only based on strict norms and not 'guess'.

[@conradsmith9441]

IQ is different from common sense, moral sense, and formal Education. A high school dropout can be surprisingly smart and have a higher IQ than a Harvard professor. Which one is smarter? Or better question is...does it matter???

[@jyripeltola6677]

My mom was a member of mensa and had an iq of 160 and it certainly wasn't "just a number". I'm from finland and I'm not sure if "lukio" translates to highschool or college, but she graduated with literally the highest possible grades and she taught me more at home than I ever learned in school. It was amazing how she could so easily understand pretty much everything she ever read or talked about.

[@indridcold8433]

In her case, the IQ score is quite valid. However, taking the long test, I know someone that got a 165. Taking the short test, he got a 162. The person, in question,is always in last place when it comes to everything in life, except physical health. I would venture to say he borders on being a human door stop. He is a complete loser, though he does stay healthy, which is something few seem to do today.

[@macmachine]

God. What a nightmare having a Mum like that.

[@Epic-so3ek]

Now imagine she had beaten you every day and not taught you anything. IQ is important sure, but it’s not the only important thing. Things like empathy and motivation also matter. A really high iq vs a really low one may say something but the difference between 100 and 110 isn’t much, I think that’s the point.

[@indridcold8433]

@@Epic-so3ek What I have noticed is just how inaccurate IQ tests are. It should not be used as a standardised way to measure intelligence.

[@dks13827]

my Dad read that Finland has the best learned graduates of high school........ he was shocked. but I said... look at a photo of their class rooms. he got it

[@chrismarsh4575]

Does anyone else find Todd funny in a very dry way? I can't tell if it's intentional or not

[@Live_your_Dreams_Everyday]

Especially when he says one way to tell if someone might not like you is if - they vomit when they see you!!

[@SmallBobby]

He’s hilarious. I love his humor.

[@Daytruin]

he reminds me of the psychic vampire from "what we do in the shadows" series.

[@alephnull6457]

I honestly think he's on the spectrum, albeit in a very subtle and high functioning way, which would explain coming off as 'unintentionally funny' (a common trait of Asperger's/HFA).

[@hollyhock100]

You're point is well made. Thank you. Your help is much appreciated.

[@nicolemarieb.7044]

We don’t need to deny the existence of IQ, we just need to make sure we don’t use it as a measure of somebody’s worth. There is so much more to a person. Somebody could have a super high IQ but if they have poor people skills and low empathy, they would make a terrible doctor for example.

[@matgggg55]

Exactly!

[@atriiio4244]

spot on

[@kaano3770]

Well, empathy is not the measurement for technical skill. A doctor could lack in empathy (which most of them probably will lack over a certain period of time) And still do he's Job right.

[@p5ych0_w1tch]

sounds like the profile of someone with aspergers lol

[@jessestewart169]

Good example have seen that many times.

[@familythomas2828]

I took the Stanford-Binet (administered by my college), got 107, I'm not mad at it. Nothin' wrong with being average lol

[@sandracarli1110]

I watched a documentary about people who had a high score. Most of them felt so different and weird that in the end they adapted to average people!

[@BLONDIANN94]

You are here at this channel. You are not average. There are a lot of sides to intelligence. Emotional, intellectual, imaginative, there is also wisdom, creativity and empathy, which is also a type of intelligence. IQ is representative of dry logic, association and doesn’t tell you much about the person. It is not just a number. But having an average iq doesn’t equal having average intelligence. I tested my iq when I was a child, it was over 140, I am not sure how accurate it was, but I wouldn’t care to find out it wasn’t true. But it is because I know how intelligent I am in so many ways that I don’t mind lacking some types of it. Having all types of intelligence at a high level is isolating, lonely, overwhelming and sometimes even depressing. Most people might seem boring, things too simp,e and not worth exploring. I prefer ingenuity and pleasure from discovery to a high IQ

[@minirille3031]

@@BLONDIANN94 no hate. But it sounds like you think about it a lot.

[@vittocrazi]

@@BLONDIANN94 in the multi dimenstional reasoning of intelligence, its practically impossible to be average.

[@BLONDIANN94]

@@minirille3031 when you write no hate in the beginning, this means that is exactly what will follow. And you are actually wrong even though I don't see anything wrong with thinking. This video played automatically when I played videogames, and I saw the comment I wanted to respond to. But even if it was sth I would be thinking and researching a lot about, then what? I'll reveal a secret to tou, intelligent people think and analyze a lot no matter about what. Yesterday for me it was about AI testing and legal issues in civil and privacy law, 5G, personality disorders, ecommerce in B2C, strategy in a videogame, besides learning how to dialogue better with my partner, thinking about a trauma I still have and how to approach it etc. IQ is old news haha. But try thinking a lot, it will do you a lot of good. Thinking also prevents unconscious hate and passive aggression. Looks like you'd need some help with it and have things that hide beneath the surface and come out this way.

[@viciousjake3053]

I was really stressed after scoring a 98. After looking up the average IQ of my dream job being at the bottom 110 , but after watching this I feel much more capable.

[@philderkomischetyp4481]

10 Points don't make a huge difference I remember seeing. But it does start changing from 120 and up. I know people who are at the near very average (104, 99, 101) and one person who has a IQ of 110-115. And the 110- 115 IQ individual doesn't appear to be far different from the 100 IQ individuals. Maybe this is just them adjusting to other people as I do that myself.

[@TomTomTomTom538]

Working hard trumps IQ in most jobs

[@gerardburns7175]

How can 1 test measure someone's intelligence? It can't. For one thing, people have off days. Also, an accurate assessment will probably involve a range, in your case higher, probably much higher. But that is beside the point. Do what you want in life, and I believe you'll surprise yourself. The doctor is right in that in some cases these tests are diversionary and more helpful in buffeting egos than reflecting real life circumstances. Intelligence is probably an immeasurable quality that involves an interplay of factors namely, ambition, social interaction(eq), and environment.

[@MrStoffus]

Yes, machines have no IQ and does a lot of work and is working hard.

[@gmjsimmons]

When I was in graduate school, I was given the job of administering a battery of psychological tests to a specific group. One of the women I tested was in graduate school at a prestigious university. She scored 100 on the Wechsler, and I was shocked--thinking it should be significantly higher. I also administered a test of her mental instability (MMPI) that indicated she was one of the most stable individuals I had ever tested. I did not want to give her the precise IQ number as I believed it would be humiliating; however, she paid for the test, and she pressured me for it. Upon disclosure, she smiled and said something like: Yeah, people always told me I was smart, but I knew I did well because I work hard. Now that was a stable sane response that so impressed me that I still recall it 40 years later. I have no doubt that she became successful in her career.

[@johnluke6122]

" I am a wise man,I know one thing and that is I know nothing"- socrates

[@HowToTutorialHelp]

Didn’t the King say he was the most intelligent man in the world for that comment if I remember correctly?

[@SidheKnight]

@@HowToTutorialHelp I think it was the Oracle that said that.

[@Crash32378]

You cannot know nothing if you know one thing.

[@fauberkaupfmann982]

Jonathan Tabor it's just a statement, doesn't need to be the obliterating truth. Also, how can you know that he knows he knows nothing? Thats the point.

[@Crash32378]

@@fauberkaupfmann982 It's a paradoxical statement, or a self defeating statement if you'd rather. You cannot be telling the truth if you say "I know one thing and I know nothing" that argument cannot exist in reality it because it's a paradox. Like "This statement is false." it cannot be false if the statement is true and it cannot be true if the statement is false. My knowledge of what he knows is irrelevant. He claims to know nothing and yet he claims to know that he knows nothing so therefor he knows something and cannot know nothing. It's a paradox.

[@donaldhall8785]

I have always said that a high IQ and 50 cents gets you a cup of coffee. Many of the most successful people I know have average to slightly above average IQ's. By the same token, I have met people at Mensa meetings that barely got by in life. So in the long run I guess it is all a matter of what you do with what you have got.

[@TremblingQualifier]

IQ measures a small part of who you are. Additionally, if you highly deviate from the norm and compound it with some sort of training (not just in IQ but in anything), this hurts your chances of success since a large part of success depends on buy-in from others. There is less of a chance that what interests you interests others.... Unless you have a predilection for spending your intelligence on generating income.

[@alexblaze8878]

No offense but the only people I ever hear use the same narrative you just did are people with low IQ. It’s like they don’t like the answer they get so they declare the result meaningless.

[@stefan5623]

I dont know if I'm smart or not and I couldn't care less, but theres one thing about people who have a high IQ, that actually bothers me. Why do so many of them also have some sort of mental disorder? Its almost, as if the brain actually loses out in other areas. Why did noone ever research this? How do people with high IQ differ from people with low IQ? How do they differ from people with average IQ?

[@alexblaze8878]

ShredderThruPaper / they are no more likely to have mental disorders than low IQ people. The difference is the smart ones get talked about when they are bad criminals. The dumb ones aren’t smart enough to get away with crimes for long so they rarely get mentioned.

[@icturner23]

Donald, you should watch Dr. Grande's video on Mensa.

[@taimurahmed1190]

I must be really smart because I've been able to employ the most rigorous, high level scientific research and experimentation to accurately and precisely determine that I'm a slow learner.

[@Paul-eb2cl]

Truly intelligent people have two things in common: 1. The ability to extrapolate from incomplete data.

[@re-vb9ph]

What's the other thing?

[@noahbrewer8611]

@@re-vb9ph tehe

[@fink7968]

@@re-vb9ph lol

[@oliverphippen1957]

Isn't that called guessing or intelligent conclusion

[@oliverphippen1957]

Intelligent deduction

[@malikaguruge5344]

I'm a clinical psychology undergraduate, and I really appreciate what you do, cause there is very low amount of professional videos regarding this subject. Really appreciate your work Dr. Grande.

[@Zombie_Burger]

@Thomas Headley lol

[@brothercaleb]

Come on guys he’s an “undergrad” 😜

[@blackerpanther3329]

Brother Caleb an undergrad of psychology... might as well be working toward an art degree

[@shadrach6299]

Poor subject-verb agreement

[@Elrog3]

@@blackerpanther3329 A psychology degree is not comparable to an art degree. Psychology is a very broad term. Admittedly sociology is pretty useless. Neuroscience, on the other hand, is incredibly useful.

[@heyzero1414]

"We dont need to be smarter than them we just need to have more discipline than them"- Warren Buffett

[@pemandangantube2468]

That's coping

[@heyzero1414]

@@pemandangantube2468 warren already tested his iq, he got 150 + points.

[@pemandangantube2468]

@@heyzero1414 the fact that he is smart not validating his statement that you quoted

[@heyzero1414]

@@pemandangantube2468 Well that is obvious, but it also does not invalidate it.

[@heyzero1414]

@@pemandangantube2468 i said that because you said "its coping", but thats certainly not the case.

[@robertbaker1894]

I had my IQ tested 3 times in school and the results ranged from 96 to 112; about the 83rd percentile. I graduated 77th out 444 in my high school class; so the 84th percentile. I studied Chemical Engineering in college and did OK my first two years but really hit a wall my Jr year and changed majors. My occupation (IT) places me in the 80th-90th percentile of socioeconomic status. My net worth and income are in the top 15% and 16.5% respectively in the US. I'm glad I looked up this information. I;m doing about as well as could be expected from my IQ scores.

[@eyespy0070]

You are doing GREAT.

[@progamerzach1]

Not dismissing the importance of intelligence, but I wonder how hard you worked to get where you are?

[@anonymike8280]

Concientious, application, correct choices.

[@aleksandracatt]

My IQ (measured by professionals) in elementary school was 134. I did finish college and had good results on exams. But I have schizophrenia and it’s really downing my quality if life. I have a work disability because of my illness and I have to take medication. Sometimes I get sad of what I could achieve if I didn’t have this illness. But that’s life, it’s not always easy or perfect. But we can’t give up on making a better quality life for ourselves even with an illness as difficult as mine.

[@RaferJeffersonIII]

I’m sorry. My ex wife had it in her family, her dad was committed to an institution and she clearly had odd thoughts. She was therefore terrified of hospitals and doctors and would never have treatment even when I urged it. We split (as couples do) and it made her 10X worse and lost touch with reality. I spent 3 years supporting her as I felt responsible. In the end she went back to her parents. It was the hardest time of my life and nearly ruined me. I know how difficult it is, but guilt is a terrible thing and it ate me alive.

[@Lawh]

I was once taken in the back by a nurse in a mental hospital, who showed me my IQ results and asked me what the problem was with my life, because I scored pretty high on the tests. Alas, I think I am intelligent enough to come up with problems but not at all intellectually equipped to solve any of them :D

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Being smart and having an active mind can be a blessing and a curse. If you're smart and score high in neuroticism, you can come up with many more scenarios and details to worry about than the average person.

[@claudioestrella1160]

What is your iq.

[@Lawh]

@@claudioestrella1160 The psychologist who took the tests never told me the exact number and I never asked. The document read that I "clearly scored high above average intelligence", which by the way doesn't really resonate with me at all in may ways. I am very bad at planning for example, and I am bad at solving certain types of social problems, and I'm bad at using any "intelligence" she thought I might have in any real productive manner. These issues might have something to do with my diagnosis, or then there was something wrong with the results of the IQ tests. In any case, I'm guessing IQ can be hampered with all kinds of mental issues, so perhaps under better conditions I could do more than I can now, or then she misdiagnosed my intelligence by a large factor somehow. Also, when I took the tests, I was in a relatively good place. I had little stress and anxiety about doing poorly or well in the tests. This doesn't describe my current situation. Sorry for the essay, but I haven't thought about this in a long time.

[@claudioestrella1160]

@@Lawh get better soon 😔

[@Lawh]

@@claudioestrella1160 Thank you, but unfortunately there is no getting better fron this at least with modern knowledge. Making my life easier though is possible, and I am slowly striving towards that goal. Thank you for taking the time to give me your support. It is greatly appreciated, my friend.

[@AriettaTheWild17]

I actually had my IQ tested while they were giving me my initial diagnosis (because of mental health issues) as a teenager and back then they really tried to help me. Unfortunately adult psychiatry didn’t have time to follow up on this initial diagnosis and instead just medicated me into submission. So now every time I go to a doctor I immediately get dismissed as over exaggerating everything. One example was when I had slipped and fallen on my foot and even a few days later couldn’t put any weight on it due to the intense pain. Not the first time I’ve slipped and fallen on ice, so I knew something was off, but I had to keep insisting on an X-ray after being told that I just needed to walk it off and it would get better on its own. Turned out that I had broken a bone in my foot and was told that I couldn’t put any weight on it for another month even after the cast was taken off. I’m mentally ill, therefore a doctor obviously knows better than I do, he’s sane after all.

[@sebastjansslavitis3898]

I compensate my lack of intelligence with persistence

[@jessestewart169]

I bet your way more intelligent than you think.

[@UFOUAPMagnet]

I compensate for my lack of persistence with intelligence 😂

[@vanvekeron]

You have one at least

[@UFOUAPMagnet]

@Onion Potato lmfao

[@sergiomaia3029]

I really love your channel. It is informative, neutral, and credible. I always learn something from each video. This one for instance is no exception.

[@haramlasagne6685]

why would i care about my IQ Score when my Brain develops multiple psychological disorders anyway ?

[@virginiamoss7045]

You shouldn't and good point. I know several people with very high IQ scores. One is never happy, another suffers depression and another is an alcoholic. Intelligence isn't everything. I'd rather be perfectly average or less and be happy, healthy and good. I also know more than several people who don't seem to know very much or are unsophisticated who are kind, giving, helpful, cooperative, happy and healthy.

[@Mdavis12002]

@@virginiamoss7045 my bf has an high IQ & hes the sweetest man i know. It hard for them thats why alot of them commit suicide. It can be lonely for them.

[@masticloxpoker1006]

@@virginiamoss7045 Mistakes were made, "Iq is not everything not inteligence is not everything" Iq is not inteligence therefore. If inteligence includes to no be alcoholic and possibly maybe somehow to not get depressed which is maybe a bit more farfetched, but why not. To make it simple, there are insanely good reasons to argue that my Smart Phone is more inteligent than me, and some insanely good reasons to say a dog is more inteligent than the Smart Phone, think about it. So iq is not inteligence no matter how u slice it.

[@vasilijenicic6806]

@@virginiamoss7045 This is pretty common actually. Most of smartest people I know (and since I went to hs for gifted students, I tend to know a lot of those) are either totally socially inept and depressed, somewhat autistic and dont care about fitting into society (those I consider lucky in a way), or addicted to substances. Few of them have commited suicide too, by the age of 23. Being intelligent is not as fun as people think it is

[@stumccabe]

IQ is not "just a number", it's a measure. You can argue about it's significance, but it's not "just a number".

[@snyggmikael]

Well bigger is better, but it's also how you use it ... lel

[@spacedoohicky]

It depends on your goal. If your goal is picking pizza toppings then IQ is pretty much just a number. Significance has a lot to do with goals, and the ability to meet them. In the grander scheme it will always have significance because people want it to for themselves in comparison to everybody else. But if they never took the test then it would have no significance. For someone who doesn't care about it no matter how high their IQ potentially is it really is just a number.

[@grimmerorochi2253]

Actually IQ is made of 2 letters...those 2 letters are the initials of 2 words...but what u see its actually some pixels on a screen right now...so in essence something is the thing that remains if u tear apart the things around it that dont matter...witch then u remain with... nothing

[@Humanprototype-wh8qr]

People who say its just a number getting just Bad numbers 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@spacedoohicky]

@@Humanprototype-wh8qr No. Statistically it's a mild predictor of success. That's it. Even the so called smartest person that ever lived has accomplished jack. Quite a few of the people who don't care about IQ haven't even taken the test.

[@mellowtube]

I took a Iq test in 1980, I was ten years old, they stuck me into gifted classes. But when I was 18, the military tested me twice with tests. I ended up in Nuclear Reactor Controls on a Navy Aircraft Carrier. So I think Iq tests are generally accurate. If you are bright you will always score better than most. But a test cannot completely capture a persons intelligence. So they have to be taken with a grain of salt.

[@NoPrivateProperty]

military intelligence is an oxymoron

[@Ashley-h719]

Dr. Grande, thank you for these videos! They are helping me get through my pregnancy insomnia! 😀

[@thequestess]

I have a 132 IQ, as administered by a psychologist when I was a child, but I still feel pretty average. I know from studying about gifted kids, that usually an increase in one area means a decrease in another. So, even though someone might have more IQ points, they might be lacking somewhere else ... like social skills, "common sense," emotional intelligence, executive function, emotional regulation, etc. Also, I don't speak well, so I might be "smart," but I don't really sound like it and I have trouble explaining myself. I also find I have an all-or-nothing understanding, so I feel kind of dumb about a lot of things, but then there are the things I do know about and I feel pretty competent in them. One odd thing was that I scored exceptionally well on the part of the IQ test where they read you a whole string of numbers and then you list them back, forward or backward. They said I had a really good short term memory. Not really! Maybe a 5-second memory! I have such a bad memory, I forget something as I'm walking from one room to the next and I have no idea why I had come into that room. I am tethered to my smart phone because I will forget appointments without my calendar reminders, and I have to take notes on many things or I will forget what was said in a meeting. On the other hand, when I was tested, as a child, I think I did have a pretty good memory .... it just didn't last into adolescence. My daughter was given the COGAT test and was identified as gifted (that one doesn't give you IQ), and she already has a horrible memory, before adolescence. She also has ADHD, extreme trouble with organization, and struggles with social skills. My brother has a 135 IQ, and he didn't graduate high school (he did pass his GED faster than the teacher had ever seen though). My brother now works in construction (although at 28 he made crew-boss and is currently being groomed to take over the business), is most interested in sports and how to wrap all of his food in bacon and serve it beside domestic beer, and he definitely doesn't seem "really smart." Einstein was a genius who couldn't care for himself. Again, a gain in one area and a lack in another. I feel like it's almost like when you're distributing stats in RPGs ... you can put them all into one area, but you'll be lacking in another if you do it. :D So yeah, I think that there are many types of intelligence, and IQ kind of only focuses on a narrow area. "Smart people" and "geniuses" might be advantaged in some areas, but they're often disadvantaged in others, and they're often ways that are pretty important to functioning in general society. And, of course, none of us is any better than anyone else. It's too bad people feel intimidated or even offended by higher IQs. We're no better than anyone, just different.

[@thequestess]

@@joskeguereza3714 Only recently have I stumbled across information about autism in females, and it has made me wonder. I think it would be extremely, extremely mild if anything, though.

[@terrygaedchens5928]

Mind sync videos work wonders for improving memory and focus. Also, left handed people acquire knowledge from a creative standpoint, and then choose what needs to be committed to memory. Your skills necessary for navigating the smart phone, are proof that your memory works well on matters deemed important. Info overload is becoming an issue, as we seek to keep up with the latest, and the latest is ever changing so the mind doesn't see a pattern to commit to memory.

[@shanestrickland5006]

Got to agree on your over all point. IQ may be important but it's not all that important. Wisdom is better. I'm smart in some areas but i don't got alot of book smart's. I do have wisdom though and I'm only 28. So I'm middle aged.

[@Giannis_Sotolidis]

I think it's more likely where you focus and how you use your intelligence and not that because of your iq that you lack in other arias.I have a high iq but i don"t know exactly how much.

[@dayinthelifeofmycat]

Yup, Chris Watts' IQ tested around 140-145 and look where that got him. My IQ is about 15 points less than that and I would never have done the stupid things he did. For him to think he could get away with murdering his wife and kids, then bury her in a shallow grave on his work site and his kids in the oil batteries is mind-boggling to me. Did he think he'd never get caught? In summary, a high IQ "ain't all that".

[@davidboye6186]

"Speed is just a number" lol

[@Reindeer911]

So is the fine!

[@PlagueDoc25]

If we apply that same logic to age, we get the same excuse pedophiles use to hit on little children

[@h.borter5367]

Try using that one in court! 😂

[@arabiannights5301]

grams of it are just a number too

[@farisaljohani9957]

Fast driving is not better (it is just faster) than mid-speed driving .. by the way someone with IQ of 160 performs more effectively in less majors than someone with IQ of 110 because he took it for granted so he won't learn more skills to adapt with new situations because he gets SO BORED

[@hegemonersmith1048]

Talk about “damning with faint praise”! Best job I’ve ever seen…thank you, Dr Grande for this detailed, masterly exposition!

[@theyangview1898]

I thought I was a slow learner because I had to work hard to get good grades. Nothing came easy. When I started college I paid to have my IQ checked and it came back 120, above average but not a rocket scientist. I was really glad to find I wasn’t an imbecile. I now live in SoCal 5 miles from the beach in a $2 mil home, no debt, speak two languages and have a voracious appetite for learning.

[@April18265]

Love love LOVE these videos! I am binge watching your videos at the moment. Thank you for producing informative, educational and incredibly interesting content! Awesome.

[@DrGrande]

Thank you so much!

[@mikeraskin7319]

I've always been well above average as far as IQ, but my daughter has IQ IN the top 2% of the world she is currently a JR in college and she's just turned 18. This is not a entirely due to her intelligence, but more based on motivation. She had always had a terrible time relating to people her age. She does better with older people. So in school and life she has had terrible adaptive interpersonal relationships and has emotional disturbance. As far as IQ being a benefit it is very dependant on environment. My other daughter is much closer to average and she had a life that is very balanced. My older daughter with average IQ will and has no issues navigating through life as she easily moves through life without any of the issues my daughter with super high IQ. so IQ is very subjective to what people find important. From an outsider to my kids it seems as though being average is much easier. Thanks for the videos and everyone's comments.👍 My high IQ daughter has absolutely no problems explaining what is going on with her self and seeing deeper depths of her environment.

[@beatrizkarwai6763]

I know what you mean. I had many social difficulties because of my intelligence, even though I never measured my IQ. My mom and my grandma were both very intelligent, and they had serious emotional problems, and that also affected me. For many years, I thought I had to adapt, even though I knew I was different, and I always failed to do so. Eventually I learned to cope with most of my personal problems through yoga and meditation. I think it's a good thing to be able to see so much depth in trivial things around me, and I believe that your daughter might also feel the same. Everything is so fascinating to me, but other people don't seem to think the same way. I feel that social interactions are a kind of distraction from what's really beautiful in life, mainly because people never show their true nature in everyday life. If only they knew how beautiful it was, maybe I'd feel more inspired to seek human contact rather than old texts, which speak more dearly and close to me than the abundance of false smiles available everywhere.

[@lunacouer]

I really feel for your high IQ daughter. I was never at her level of motivation (dayum! You go girl!), but I skipped 2nd grade and was later put in gifted programs based on the IQ test they gave me in 5th grade. Growing up younger than my classmates was really challenging for me, and a lot of bullying resulted. When my sister was facing the same choice, of entering my niece into school where she'd always be much younger than her classmates, she choose not to. She'd grown up seeing how hard it was on me socially, and she didn't want my niece to face that. Her solution for her is an accelerated school, something that wasn't available for us growing up, back when they believed "Girls mature faster than boys, it'll be fine", lol. And being around kids like her, at the same age, seems to be working well. It wasn't just the age difference, though - I still have difficulty navigating social interactions as a middle-aged woman, lol. I assume people will be just as interested in certain things as I am (and all the intricacies of why this or that is amazing), so I have a tendency to launch into topics like science or the future, only to be met with blank stares. I have to reel things in a lot, and keep it to what feels mundane to me. It's way easier now, just with experience and finding other people that want to relate on that level. But, yeah, I imagine she's always going to be challenged here. And honestly? While I love how my brain works (well, sometimes - got some bipolar going on, too), sometimes I wish I was more average. It does seem easier, and, well, less lonely. I hope she's able to find her tribe, and learn how to navigate all this.

[@greatgreat601]

@@lunacouer IQ is lie

[@austingoyne3039]

@@lunacouer As someone with an average IQ, I would probably be very engaged with those topics. I feel that’s more to do with personality than IQ.

[@austingoyne3039]

As an introvert, I don’t only covet the competency of a high IQ, but the imagination. If my “inner-world” is a park, theirs is a lush wilderness. The fact that Einstein came up with the theory of relativity while walking around, daydreaming makes me so jealous 🌚🌞

[@thattimestampguy]

4:45 Bell Curve Expectations 10:27 A Touchy Topic It is insignificant It is significant It depends on how you live 14:17 Health, Longevity, Wealth It won’t give information one can act upon

[@liberthoughts1799]

The producer of the video decided to make a video upon having this information,so he acted upon it

[@najlepszykrolik]

I was considered a 'gifted' child but by the time I was in middle school, I had a lot of trauma from emotional, sexual and some physical abuse and I was diagnosed with autism (asperger's, but I don't use that label), OCD, and major depression. From age 11, I've been in a constant state of severe depersonalization and derealization. I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD, BPD, PTSD (from both childhood and recent trauma), general anxiety and bipolar disorder. I'm in the worst mental health of my life and I'm barely able to perform basic tasks and I get confused and lost easily. I want to go back to school and major in cognitive psychology but I doubt I'll be able to achieve what I want to. I fear I don't have the mind for it.

[@StephonGittens24]

Hey I'm rooting for you. You can do what you put your mind to! ✌

[@gratefulila9980]

Spend a day in nature for your soul. Blessings

[@Logan-lk5kc]

As a young kid I was considered bright and funny but experienced years of trauma and bullying. I got diagnosed with ADD early in my life, more recently getting diagnosed with OCD. It sucks I know I have more potential. My memory is flawed in comparison to my philosophy and understanding life. I would enjoy talking with you.

[@mikemalloy1681]

Don't defeat yourself. The worst that can happen is you just flunk. But if you flunk, it is not because of your IQ score, it is because you did NOT study!!!!!!!

[@najlepszykrolik]

@@serratedcreature890 Sounds like you're going through something similar to me. I've had psychotic symptoms develop recently and I've been actively suicidal for years. I've been hospitalized three times for suicide attempts and plans since posting this comment 5 months ago. I basically have no dopamine to spare. I'm also not a man. I'm trans and had an orchiectomy, which means that now the only testosterone I produce comes from my adrenal glands. I take estrogen for HRT. I have severe ADHD, so I need to get that treated because right now, it's untreated. Along with all my other mental disorders, I'm struggling just to stay alive at this point. When I'm in good spirits, which is very very rare, my drive to learn comes back full swing, and I want to have that back for good.

[@kimnielsen8183]

I'm already depressed enough as it is.

[@THEFRISKIESTDINGO]

Good news: IQ is positively correlated to depression. Hard to tell if that's really good news or not.

[@Dman9fp]

@@THEFRISKIESTDINGOJust speculation based on my experiences and observances-- that's not necessarily good or bad. Is what it is. Emotional intelligence/ being on good terms with who we are/ our place is much more important. People with high IQ seem to tend to struggle because of how messed up this world/ society really is, misunderstands them, and gives little wiggle room/ compassion and especially to mood or other mental disorders (which people with iq seem to be positively correlated with perhaps, but far from always?) Again overall, isn't a good or bad thing to be smart or not smart. More just matters are we leading a fulfilling life that gives us enough joy. Sustainability, happiness, smarts, etc. can come and go// don't mean much anyways without a firm foundation/ without knowing what your rough place or purpose in life is Edit: & Of course being open to new ideas and evidence is much more important than trying to find all the answers and thinking you have everything figured out; pretty obvious though in my opinion (tho I guess a lot of people aren't science/ engineering or equiv majors, and just know what they know thru deceptive popular media, and likely fall for cocky confident presenters more than skepical wary presenters (can be a grey area, not always black and white tho)

[@MR-pv7qg]

😂😂😂

[@willvader6972]

@@Dman9fp Damn bro this is a KZbin comment section. Chill out.

[@TaiChiGhost]

@@willvader6972 Sour grapes ...

[@dissonantiacognitiva7438]

Yes, it's very useful, specially in your teens to guide to through your school choices Although high IQ is predictive of success as you are able to do many things. The problem with being able to do a lot of things is the illusion of choice and you are not guaranteed to make the right choice, high IQ or not

[@grazutissmith9647]

Pp

[@dissonantiacognitiva7438]

@@grazutissmith9647 hmm, I see, definitely

[@vasilijenicic6806]

This happened to me. I did one of those "profesional orientation" tests that, among other things measured IQ (never told me my exact IQ though) and thwy told me "You can be whatever you want to be. No career is out of your reach. However, jobs that would suit your character the most are probably military or security jobs. Except you seem to also have problem with authority, so... good luck, dont know what else to tell you". Basically, they were useless for me

[@abumohandes4487]

I found it helpful to know that I'm quite a bit different from the average. It helped me to understand problems I had while interacting with others.

[@panda59043]

I love the way you speak slowly enough for me to understand the complex topic.

[@Alaa-ft4is]

I was intelligent but since I've developed depression and anxiety I'm stupid now.

[@thereap5348]

when you are under stress you release chemicals that makes it difficult to concentrate

[@vardaspavarde8480]

my IQ is 120 but after depresion problems lowerd to 107

[@camerinagonzalezcg]

Lol i shouldn't be laughing but this type of self deprecating humor gets me. I wonder if im on the autism spectrum or im just an asshole 😭

[@Christopher-md7tf]

I once read that having severe depression can drop your score on an IQ test by up to 30 points. I don't know if that's true, but having had a lot of experience with depression and the accompanying concentration problems, it does seem reasonable to me.

[@Daytruin]

@@camerinagonzalezcg i recently discovered that i'm probably an aspie and it explains a lot.

[@serendipitous_synchronicity]

Thanks Dr Grande! Your scientifically informative channel! Is always food for thought, in the hungry mind. 😀

[@ccreel64]

I’d be interested in knowing how IQ varies after traumatic brain injury when IQ has been tested both prior to injury and after.

[@gardenguster5271]

In very rare cases it can bolster an individuals abilities in a given area. Alot of the times it stabilizes and doesent change for average head injuries like conclusions, but a bad brain injury can lower IQ.

[@sarahoc5952]

I’m sure it varies a lot depending on the area of the brain that was damage

[@gerrycook8076]

I have bumps on my head because I'm tall and too dumb to duck.

[@ensar2805]

@@gerrycook8076 me too.

[@ensar2805]

@@gardenguster5271 repeated head blows over the years does cause lower iq and dementia. Consusions with a recovery period however return to normal brain function.

[@somedudeok1451]

I'd say the main reason why the concept of IQ is so touchy, is because historically it has been central to many eugenics arguments. So yeah, no surprise there.

[@janicedixon2051]

Thanks for clearing up the different instruments used to score IQ.

[@senior1110]

Thanks for giving me a fast short course in IQ. Very informative. My major in college was math, physics and chemistry.

[@THEFRISKIESTDINGO]

I've always thought of IQ as the "acceleration" of learning. 85 = Complex skills will require continual re-learning. It's illegal to put you in the army without a waiver. 115 = This person generally "picks things up quickly." _vroom_ 130 = This person makes connections between ideas or skills intuitively, and will likely struggle with depression and developing work ethic. _vroom vroom_ 145 = This person is equally likely to be brilliantly useless as they are to experience severe interpersonal problems, but maybe 5% of this very small group will become Elongated Muskrat. _vr-vr-vr-VROOM VROOM LOOK OUT_

[@williamschlass4598]

This is a top tier comment

[@christiansoldier77]

THEFRISKIESTDINGO The description of 130s IQ fits me perfectly

[@blockvfive1196]

i feel like its pretty wrong in my opinion

[@THEFRISKIESTDINGO]

@@blockvfive1196 Low IQ energy. The speed of integration is what IQ is meant to quantify.

[@detroit149]

135 here and that's definitely correct. :(

[@susancole6793]

This is the best discussion of IQ I have ever come across.

[@junoguten]

Great, informative video! While IQ can only explain a certain amount of the job performance *on average for the relevant distribution as a whole*, if you're unsure if you'll be able to do the job pretty much at all or be able to get through the education, it's still a good idea to test yourself, because it predicts a lot better at the bottom margin. At least for technical academic stats, which is what I've looked at for myself, tends to be declining IQ vs passrate has a wide and fairly flat downward sloping line to a point where it suddenly gets narrow and drops rapidly to almost zero. Definitely worth making sure before you drop 4+ yrs and several 10k$ on something you may not even be able to do. Also where stats for subtests are available, tends to be some of them predict a lot better than others for certain fields.

[@marianserra8371]

This is why,I believe, affirmative action can cause more harm than good. These young people who would do just fine at San Jose State University, fumble and often drop out of U.C Davis or California's flagship, U.C. Berkeley.

[@ginny5937]

When I was 14 I took an IQ test in highschool, with my class. Later I was told by my mother that I scored average. So I thought I wasn't very smart. But I did alright in highschool, and eventually earned a BA degree and became a registered nurse. So I think we keep learning throughout life.

[@wtfronsson]

Why would an average IQ not be enough for a nurse? Average is not bad. Remember that half of the people are below average, so you could say it's likely you are a bit smarter than half of everyone.

[@ginny5937]

Thank you. I had to work very hard, but hard work never hurt anyone!

[@ginny5937]

Mickey Farley, My point is that even with an average I.Q. at age 14, with hard work and study, one can achieve one's goals, and keep learning throughout life!

[@machintelligence]

@@ginny5937 Perseverance is sometimes more important than intelligence. You sound like you have it in spades.

[@ginny5937]

@machintelligence, Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! You are a kind person and probably have the ability to cheer people up; and that's priceless! 😉

[@lchristoffer]

Dr Grande: terrific. This is a subject that has interested me and have had a question about it for some time- now I know. Thank you.

[@headlessprofessor]

All of your videos are good. This one was outstanding. I'm going to be using your videos as resources for my classes.

[@LoveYou-le3yg]

I love science, great information.

[@WillMathematics]

I enjoyed your explanation. It was well put together. Thank you.

[@NATESOR]

Not worth it??! But if i test high, won't that mean I automatically win all my online arguments?

[@elvia3068]

Hi Dr. Grande i appreciated this vid barely watching the vid in Dec 2021. I have had IQ test done before by psychologist ("I dont like them") they are too long and it has elevated my stress levels. 🥰 Thankyou for your content. 💜🖤💜

[@JoLynMorrisThridEyeClarvoya]

Thank you, De. Grande for playlist lessons.

[@drbarney1000]

I am autistic and the WAIS had two or three three standard deviations above but all the others were far below, one of them in the down at 78. I have a PhD but I have a very bad employment history and can't do the job market. I can't adjust to the system.

[@belindabennett2455]

Your score of 78 correlated with short term memory evaluation?

[@snyggmikael]

So you dont work as a teacher or a professor then? I to kinda hate the job market, it's a drone mentality I gotten sick of thinking about. From my perspective at least. However I can see why people can get addicted to it aka career etcetera. If I could do a PhD, I would aim to become a professor. Well I wouldn't need to be one of those high performing ones, that gets famous for their research, just work as one would be enough. But I am too old now, I was not focused enough, because I didn't know any better. I am 33, and if I where let's say 24-25 I would still consider it given I have a Bachelour, and a master would be possible after just 2 years (sweden). Then 3-4 years of writing the dissertation would put me at the age I am now pretty much. So if I had my PhD diploma now at 33, it would be alright. It's not great, a friends father got his first dissertation done at age 23 and his second at 25. So yea... but that's life I guess.

[@virginiamoss7045]

My brother struggled through high school and graduated, but could not get into any reasonable college. He joined the navy and learned aviation mechanics. He is absolutely brilliant at that, constantly catching things that others miss and creating solutions no one else can think of. He was let go several times by air lines who wanted speed, not accuracy or responsibility. He just could not interview well for jobs at all; it still is a nightmare for him, but he found his niche with companies who owned corporate aircraft where concern for safety and accuracy was paramount. He also piloted those small jets for them and was paid well. We now know that he has ADD so he has done well in his niche, but not in other areas. He made it work for himself, though.

[@chakibleeb]

That is so interesting. I have taught kids with autism and that is something that seems to be common. They have uneven abilities. They may may be unable to talk yet can do calculus. Or they are reading in preschool but have a real hard time with forming letters and writing words in first grade. And then there are savants who may not speak but can play the piano at a young age. We really need to value people for what they can do not what they can’t.

[@MrRobertFarr]

78 I.Q. and a PhD? What is your PhD in? 😬

[@SrbijaCG]

It's funny that people are all about "you can do anything you set your mind to", but then they start measuring your potential.

[@KrisVic91]

So true. Both are stupid.

[@nostro1940]

"its funny that people" ... WHO? WHAT PEOPLE?

[@SrbijaCG]

@@nostro1940 people like Peterson. Read 12 Rules For Life by JP and you'll see what I mean.

[@nostro1940]

@@SrbijaCG yes, I Know him like everyone else. I missed that part where he says "you can do anything you set your mind to" Maybe cause he never said such thing. He is also known for being a target of people who like to make up quotes on things he never said

[@SrbijaCG]

@@nostro1940 Read his book. And the "you can do anything you set your mind to" is a common saying by optimists and psychologists who lean in that direction.

[@therestingrancor8259]

I think if Emotional intelligence, psychological intelligence etc was included with IQ tests, it would be a closer indentification of a complete score.

[@hercules71185]

It would be if we could reliably test eq to begin with. To throw a random variable into a stable equation seems a bit silly. I agree but eq is seemingly trainable, meanwhile IQ is not. So this would be a non-onstant as well.

[@mindysommers]

I enjoy your videos. Your voice is very calming, too.

[@busbycreates9042]

Well said; I really like the way you articulate what ever is it you think about. 👍

[@Billiard-cp1my]

Thank you very much Dr Grande. My IQ has always bothered me because I didn't do very well at school and have always had low paid jobs. I took a MENSA test when I was 33 and my IQ came out just above average. I took another one in my 50s and my IQ came out just below average. The very thought of any kind of test stresses me out to the point of struggling to function. I am terrible at interviews. When I get into a job though, I seem to excel and am often offered a promotion, but I have never had the confidence to take it. I do have an advantage though and that is that I listen to intelligent people like you a lot and read. Thanks

[@Taras2612]

Thanks man, that helped me actually) I`m studying psych right now so thats something i definitely should know!

[@rhondabaileyyy]

I liked the reference to a car going over 50 when the speedometer only goes to 50. It put the idea of someone having a extremely high IQ into perspective for me.

[@georgecopeland5426]

So a person claims to have a super high IQ. If so, that should be very easy to demonstrate. Do something smart. It is very simple. If you can't do that, your IQ is obviously and demonstrably back in the normal category with the rest of us. Please do something smart, or stop being a jerk.

[@Hovione1]

Tests like the WAIS-IV may struggle to estimate >160, but this doesn’t mean that IQ can’t be somewhat accurately measured higher. Toilet Paper is a respected psyconmetrician who creates high-range IQ tests, he is the smartest man alive, even his brain bulges out of his head. The Praffe Effe gang will agree with me.

[@sstritmatter2158]

13:43 this was an excellent video and I like how you built up the validity of IQ and just dropped it at 4% haha - but then you explained well it's importance. People often get uneasy around IQ because it can manifest insecurities understandably. But high or low don't let it define you. Like you might not play varsity basketball but does that define you? Your success and failure in all life and your potential? No. My IQ is around 114 based on the GRE and it got me a partial academic scholarship in graduate school. While I've had some life success, graduate degree, commissioned Army officer, financially stable, I own investment properties - you know what my W-2 occupation title is? Security Officer. I'm a night watchman. That's it. I'm a complex individual and there's more than just IQ.

[@MartinJohnZ]

I like the way you talk about numbers and how sometimes they matter a lot and sometimes they don't matter at all.

[@__________3623]

Knowing my IQ further helped me explore my differences. For a large part of my early life I thought I suffered from some mental retardation because I could not fit in despite my incessant attempts to imitate others' behavior. After taking the WISC and having an IQ in the gifted area, I discussed more with my psychologist and with a few tests it was concluded that I had Asperger's Syndrome, or ASD as it's diagnosed nowadays according to the DSM-5.

[@jeffbezos3942]

Did you fild a solution to your social problems?

[@Friendly_Boo]

IQ is a number only when yours is below the average.

[@NathanaelKuechenberg]

Or way above.

[@Tethloach1]

IQ a great way to divide people and but them into categories. It is elitist and like wealth is used to determine who is inferior and superior. those with higher IQ are viewed as superior even if people don't admit it, not like height more like wealth and royal bloodlines. a person with a higher IQ is like royalty compared to a person with a low IQ score.

[@NathanaelKuechenberg]

@@Tethloach1 that's why I believe William Stern wasn't thinking straight when he came up with the terminology Intelligencequotient in 1912. For my personal convenience, I like Rene Descartes and his COGITO ERGO SUM much much better.

[@Tethloach1]

@@NathanaelKuechenberg I think that any definition of intelligence that has wide social implications should be rigorously tested and questioned until it meets every persons standard of excellence. It should not be vague or have any amount of error in it if we are to take it seriously on a wide social scale any amount of error or doubt and it should be discredited and put on hold.

[@NathanaelKuechenberg]

@@Tethloach1 another thing to add is unless the test creators themselves were gods or geniuses beyond measure, the correct answer might be different than what's on a test.

[@richardmyers1506]

I've listened to other discussions about IQ by people like Jordan Peterson. While it was certainly informative it always left me feeling something of essence was missing despite all the information presented. You hit the nail on the head. To truly determine one's intelligence we need to be able to measure other aspects of the person besides just intelligence. I would have appreciated if you'd touched on the controversy regarding The Bell Curve studies but perhaps that would deserve a separate video.

[@jamalcolmson]

Given my life experience, I believe intelligence may be a bell curve of sorts, but with a strong lean toward the low end, not a normal distribution.

[@PaperParade]

I took an IQ test with a psych and I feel like my score was lower than it should have been because I had been so incredibly anxious. When I'm anxious I have a hard time thinking straight--I mean, I was shaking during that test. Why I was so nervous, I don't know, but I can't help but wonder if that effected the accuracy.

[@Souxz]

It did. There's a bell curve with how anxiety effects your scores on iq tests. For example, too little of anxiety can increase boredom and actually decrease scores.Same with too much

[@systemedits906]

Yeah that’s true, especially with complex questions where you need to think deeply about them.

[@rocketraccoon1976]

If the psychologist had been smart and/or cared about their job, they would have taken that into account.

[@Ljosi]

No matter how anxious you were it would affect the final score by a maximum of 3 points

[@mikemalloy1681]

Short answer. Yes, but who cares? Your motivation, desire and ability are more important than an IQ number. What are you passionate about? That is the most important question, not memorizing a series of 10 numbers.

[@kelly4321]

This was an interesting video to listen to, especially when the significance for and against were argued. On the surface I agree and feel that IQ is important to know but being one facet it isn't the most important thing to know. A person needs to be looked at in a whole person view taking into consideration all accounts of personality and behavior. Those that just look at IQ and judge solely on that aspect are cheating themselves and the person they are viewing.

[@shauntaepacheco509]

Well said

[@MichaelKihato]

Love this channel. So well explained.

[@Paradox3627505]

This was an excellent analysis of the topic. I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing your insights with the world Dr. Grande.

[@Daniel-or3vf]

Always very interesting and measured content Todd thank you. It looks like I need to concentrate on my EQ score.

[@cindyrhodes]

Thank you, Dr. Grande!

[@ScottRiddleArtist]

Thank you Dr. grande. I wondered with the relevance of this was.I’m consistently being told by therapists and doctors that of course I know I have a higher than average intelligence? Even though I have a rudimentary education. And my math skills are horrific. LOL. I’m always curious why they find or how they’re measuring intelligence.

[@drdispekful747]

I am interested to hear you speak on the correlation between those with a higher than average IQ and mental health disorders like depression and anxiety. I was tested in a facility for various things to try and possibly address major depressive disorder and IQ was amongst them. It was found that my iq was at 134. I still struggle with PTSD and major depressive disorder and I see that those types of mental disorders(maybe not PTSD, but anxiety disorders in general) are very common for people like me. I don’t personally think having a high IQ has made me any better of a person, as I haven’t actually accomplished anything and my MDD and other disorders make me pretty miserable.

[@s.a.6082]

I have an average IQ and also very neurotic. It’s possible there’s a correlation with high IQ and negative emotion, but he also stated personality doesn’t predict IQ, so who knows. Also, IQ is only one predictor of success. You may have a high IQ, but be low in conscientiousness and that will be a hinderance to your success. Same if you are neurotic, which you seem to be. If you have a low IQ but high in conscientiousness, that can help balance it out and you may achieve more success. So many factors to consider.

[@stefanb6539]

I think the main problem with IQ is, that it is an attempt to quantify an entire set of different skills, and then gives the appearance of being predictive for any one individual skill within that set. People can be smart as a fox with numbers and dumb as a bloke with other people or vice versa. Dividing an absolute IQ into emotional IQ, social IQ, practical IQ, etc... helps a bit, but it does not escape the problem, that at the core of the term itself lies a logical fallacy, namely an induction problem. You can make people solve a whole lots of quizzes, riddles and tests and then come up with a number that determines their average score, but that average score says next to nothing about how good that person will perform within any specific challenging situation, that may come up in their future.

[@jaksap]

You don't use college dropouts to build bridges and fly planes. Even among shepherds, the more intelligent ones have larger herds.

[@enochbrown8178]

Very well said, Dr. Grande.

[@laguanhayes214]

There is a perspective you present that truly surprises me. I just assumed a higher IQ might suggest the test, in its formulation, must reflect higher levels of sophistication to capture the test subject's eclectic intelligence, if you will. If a person scores higher this must be commensurate with an identifiable "paradigm" built into the test to challenge or mete out higher functioning. Then again, Dr. Grande, you just put to rest my biggest concern about IQ tests: Comprehensive testing of every type of intelligence or every facet of intelligence should be more useful than some arbitrary number that invites arbitrary interpretation. Instead, imagine not only a test but an accompanying method for improving one's intellect--if that is an achievable goal.

[@SimgoWood]

if you brag about your high iq that you tested online, the reality is that your score is way below average

[@encapsule2220]

Very low iq comment

[@wandamixon5360]

This is a good review. It is especially interesting to note how intellectual curiosity contributes to the g factor.

[@MMPRECISIONPAINTING]

Awesome video Dr. Grande! What are your thoughts on relational frame theory and increasing iq. Recent studies indicate a 23 point increase in iq in the experimental group.

[@havenbastion]

Intelligence develops primarily in response to complexity, so the more complex societies gradually require higher intelligence.

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

I can say from experience that intelligence is important, but it's definitely not everything. My husband is no slouch with an IQ in the high 130's. This has been reflected in his career and he's been very successful. He's also dependable, punctual, reliable, and he works harder (and more consistently) than anyone I've ever known in my life. Our son was VERY intelligent. He had behavioral problems when he was young and was heavily evaluated twice by child psychologists. His IQ was just shy of the genius mark. And he was a disaster. He had no discipline. He had no self control. He was all about immediate gratification. He also had issues like the inability to feel fear, guilt, shame, or worry and had a severely reduced sense of empathy and NO boundary recognition. His short life was very happy... for HIM. He took way too many risks. He was an undependable employee and - although he aced every test - he didn't do homework and didn't continue past high school. He died doing something stupid on a motorcycle. Obviously intelligence isn't everything. It can be an important factor, but there are so many more qualities and characteristics that a complete human being must bring to the table for long term success.

[@colleenjohnson9013]

Such an interesting explanation … thanks for sharing!

[@sawyerbass4661]

I think intelligence is really amazing and confusing all at once. I'm bad at high level math, good at head math. Bad at writing fiction, good at writing papers. Good at memorizing facts and basic details, but bad at remembering faces, events, etc. Intelligence really is way more than an IQ test. But, it's also only fair to give IQ tests the benefit of the idea that most of the intelligence types tested there are what apply directly to education and the workplace, so they're accurate as far as what they care to predict. I'd say they have probably only a 65% of something correlation with how likely a person is to find a long term relationship and all kinds of stuff that depends more on separate types intelligence than work/school though.

[@elenabrown3542]

Thank you for the topic, it was somewhat interesting to add to my collection of thoughts about IQ. I am reading book "Outlier" by Malcolm Gladwell and it has chapter about Termite project.(Outliers Chapter 3: The Trouble with Geniuses) FYI

[@thesurvivorssanctuary6561]

I.Q. is a measure of academic learning, or of a highly specialized type of crystallized intelligence(knowledge retention). The closest the I.Q. test gets to testing your fluid intelligence("off the cuff"/"freestyle") is via _speed._ Yet, because the test relies on speed of answers to what's essentially a math and english test, it also becomes a highly specialized focus on a small part of *fluid intelligence.* The real problem with I.Q. tests is how they measure an incredibly small facet of the Human Intellect, and yet create a delusion that this is: "all that matters about intelligence". I.Q. scores are defended online by closed minded bigots against perceived: "idiots", who have different, but equally valid, opinions. I.Q. is how "nerds" feel *_special,_* and it's a way to artificially pump up your self-esteem. I know this, because I too once relied on a: "high I.Q. score" to make me feel self-important. It's asinine.

[@deepsmoviereviews3212]

I agree.

[@shelleyscloud3651]

You were doing really well there until that last sentence!

[@Cristozen1]

Knowing that you have a higher than average I.Q. score is a piece of self knowledge that can help you more successfully navigate through life. For instance, If your I.Q. is 40 points over the norm, you might have difficulty connecting with those who have I.Q.'s closer to the norm. It's good to know exactly what your differences are and why you seem to function differently than others. Using your score to feel self-important of course, is self delusion, not self knowledge. There are advantages to a high I.Q. score as well as disadvantages.

[@thesurvivorssanctuary6561]

@@shelleyscloud3651 The: "It's asinine!" one?

[@thesurvivorssanctuary6561]

@@Cristozen1 I agree that an I.Q. test can help you identify traits about yourself, so you can make more educated decisions about your life. I don't think there's any significant difference between high and low I.Q. people though. A person not being able to get along with average I.Q.("normies"/regular folk) is unlikely to be about I.Q. specifically. It's vastly more likely that it's a function of introversion and neuroticism. Again, I speak from experience, 😁

[@gerberjoanne266]

When I was in junior high school, in the late 1960s, I took two IQ tests. My mother worked in local school system at the time (in New York City), and so was able to see the scores. She told me years later that one score was 169 and the other was above 160 and below 165 (she couldn't remember the exact number). These tests were professionally administered by the NYC Department of Education and were in my school records, so they counted for something. But what kind of IQ test had scores above 160. If it wasn't the Wechsler, was it the Stanford-Binet? Or did the scoring change in the decades since then?

[@dwreus81]

Thanks I got a lot of understanding out of your video. Can you make one about how to increase intelligence?

[@bthomson]

How I wish all my professors had as clearly defined terms and concepts!! I dropped out of statistics very unhappily because I was utterly lost after just the first day of class! Thank you so much Dr. Grande for letting me at least think it wasn't totally my lack of intelligence! I understood every word you said.🔔

[@bthomson]

This is Judy not Bruce!

[@evarshochiasl]

Thank you Dr Grande! 🙂

[@valiakloeppel7252]

I found your analysis to be very interesting. Sat scores without prompting can be advantageous too. Actually, I enjoy all of your analysis ~ they are logical and informative.

[@jamesk7256]

Another really good video on a topic surrounded by misconceptions that many may be confused about. Yes, IQ measures something, even if it has its limitations, especially trying to accurately measure those on the tail ends of the distribution curve. It predicts success to some degree, but there are many other factors like conscientious, neuroticism, overall emotional intelligence - as well as other things that're a bit trickier to pin down. A lot of people like to reference how Richard Feynman "only" had an IQ of 125, let was one of the most influential physicists to ever live. If you consider the Flynn effect, he would supposedly score even lower today - and, if I had to wager, he probably wouldn't score high on conscientious, either. What should the takeaway be there? Should we value his accomplishments any less? Dismiss him as someone who somehow just got lucky with his insights and discoveries? I think there's something else there. Another comparison people make is to Einstein and John von Neumann. While neither took IQ tests, and both were highly intelligent to say the least, it was clear that von Neumann was *much* more of a "human computer" than Einstein, and in many respects could run circles around him. Here's what Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner had to say: "I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jansci [John] von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jansci's brilliance, he never produced anything as original." Einstein is a household name, and Neumann an obscure one by comparison. Both incredible minds with incredible contributions to science. Yet, Einstein seemed to have a truly unique imagination that allowed us to understand incredible things about the Universe. That being said, I most certainly agree with your conclusion about IQ tests for the average person. Unless one is experiencing difficulties, it's probably a waste of resources, and likely simply a matter of ego and vanity - and sometimes a replacement for actual performance or accomplishment. If you've something intelligent to say, you probably don't need to go around telling everyone you're smart. Sadly, I could imagine the more credulous putting more weight on statements because they bought into the image others crafted of themselves.

[@tw8464]

I tend to agree with what you're saying. When examining the many questions and issues, seems questionable a single human-made test can actually measure intelligence in our species or in the universe. While the title "Intelligence Quotient" is obviously just colloquial or shorthand, it seems to be an inaccurate or potentially misleading title for such a test, and perhaps the title itself is the source of society's confusion about this particular test and what it is actually measuring.

[@eyespy0070]

What a fascinating life you've had. Wow

[@LisaMaryification]

With the standard IQ test in school, my IQ was measured at 145. However, I did one of those online ones and I got 98 which is below average. lol. Someone can have an IQ off the scales but not know how to navigate the world. And someone who is illiterate can be able to get along well with others.

[@iwantgoals1566]

Fascinating vid doc!

[@MrRaulstrnad]

a very professional explanation of an often misunderstood subject

[@LM-ed1op]

I think the majority of people shouldn’t find out their IQ .. it would just depress them and make them feel even worse 😇