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What is the average IQ in the united states?

I took an online IQ test, and I got a score of 106. I don't know if that is accurate or not, being one of many online tests. Where does the average US citizen fall on the scale? I am 16 years old, male, and I have Asperger's.

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  • 9 years ago
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    100.

    IQ is the ratio of Mental Age to Chronological Age multiplied by 100. If you're 40 and you do as well on an IQ test as the typical 40 year old that would be 40 divided by 40 (1) multiplied by 100 = 100 ... the average IQ. If that 40 y/o did as well as a 68 y/o that would be 68 divided by 40 (1.7) multiplied by 100 = 170. It's a complex system - naturally a ninety year old couldn't be compared with someone aged 180 to get an IQ of 200 - but that's basically how it works.

    Aside from online IQ tests being next to useless, Autistics are known to score lower on IQ tests - tests created by Neurotypicals for Neurotypicals - than they should. There are different types of tests, not created specifically with Autistics/Aspergers in mind, at which Aspergers do considerably better than Neurotypicals. Nevertheless Aspergers have a marginally higher average IQ than the general population, as you do ... if the online test was accurate.

    That test was saying you did as well as the average 17 year old.

    Mental Age = 17

    Chronological Age = 16

    IQ = 17 / 16 x 100 = 106

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    4 years ago

    in accordance to Tickle's IQ try the traditional for the US is approximately a hundred and fifteen. It does selection from state to state be approximately 5 factors right here or there. on your reference I took it whilst i became 20, I stay in California and am lady. I scored a hundred forty five. Am no longer a genius, did no longer do large in school, only popular. yet i like to examine and study and decide puzzles. IQ in ordinary terms has which ability so far as your potential and what style of logician you're. What you do with it is as much as you.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The average IQ in the US is 100.You shouldn't pay much attention to IQ tests as they as based on how logically you think.

    What is important is your lateral thinking or thinking 'outside the box'.IQ tests don't measure that.Some of the smartest people didn't have great IQ's.

    Steve Jobs wasn't smart in the traditional sense.He though outside the box.It was his creativity that made him famous.All scientists and mathematicians are really creative (they are smart too).People without creativity are just run of the mill

  • 7 years ago

    Idiots sharing their "expertise" on a subject they know nothing about.

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