Catching up over at Loose Leaf, Colleen posted a link to an IQ test. I took it. Hehe!
I did need a small piece of paper to scribble on, and I’m not sure if that means I’m not as smart as it says I am, but through most of it I found myself seeing the questions in my head and resolving them on my little built-in brain chalkboard. That was interesting, because I tend to consider myself far less than intelligent most often. I am not worldly by any means, and I have a lazy brain! For example, when I see something online through bloghopping or otherwise that looks long and “deep”? I ask myself this: do I really feel like concentrating right now? If the answer is no, I put it off. I’m bad.
Leanne, your IQ score is 127.
You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.
You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.
Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.
Really, I’m flattered that it gives me this much credit! I am! I just don’t think that IQ tests can accurately measure actual application of aforementioned knowledge. I do still find it interesting, and the only reason I’m posting this really is (not to brag at all! I swear!) to hang onto it for future reference when I’m feeling less than intelligent. What can I say? I already know I’m creative!
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Hi Leanne, I think discernment is a style of intellegence…you know knowing what you want to pay attention to or not. It looks like you took 2 tests. I got the insightful linguist too. Great score by the way! We all use paper!
Well, my score was a 118. Maybe I should have used paper…:roll:
You are equipped with a verbal arsenal that enables you to understand complex issues and communicate on a particularly high level. These talents make you a Word Warrior.
Whether or not you recognise it, your vocabulary is your strongest suit — use it whenever you can. Since your command of words is so great, you are also a terrific communicator — able to articulate big ideas to just about anyone. Your wordsmithing prowess will also help in artistic and creative pursuits. The power of words translates to fresh ideas off paper too. Since you have so many words at your disposal, you are in a unique position to describe things in an original way, as well as see the future in your mind’s eye. In short, your strengths allow you to be a visionary — able to extrapolate and come up with a multitude of fresh ideas.
IQ of 120…
not bad for a old man…not as smart as my wife…but I learned that a long long time ago.
Hey! Good job Mark. Am I the low man on the totem pole?…
Colleen, thank you! I know I’ve taken an IQ test online before, but that site didn’t look familiar. Where is my other one listed? Am I losing my IQ with age, or getting wiser? 😆
Tommi, that’s a good score (isn’t it?) Honestly, I don’t judge people by their IQ, I have a whole different set of criteria that I judge people by! BAAAHAA! Just kidding!! (about the other criteria part!)
Honey (er, Mark/Hubby), I think we’ve got that halves thing going on… you know how to fill in my blanks! 😉
I hate taking tests but couldn’t resist. 135. Apparently I’m a visual mathematician.
Brent, I am impressed. Now I know a couple of visual mathematicians! That’s a very good thing, because I’m not so handy without my calkeelater. 😛
Hi there,
I just saw your comment on my blog on this topic, and even after two years I’m amazed when I go through my logs to discover that nearly half of the visitors to my (seldom updated) site are there looking for “insightful inguist”. Now maybe you’ll see a similar effect! As for whether you steal any of my traffic, help yourself! 🙂
Skev
PS – I loved your post about your daughter “growing”. Her photo and comments reminded my of my two-year-old god-daughter. Aren’t their minds amazing?
I don’t know if this is of import or not. A point of interest, however, it is. By using my mind’s writing media, I scored 122. I don’t think of myself as intelligent by any means. There are great contributors to society and the world who are far more useful than I’ve been or will be. My experience is that others are overly defensive when confronted with one able to bowl them over with the agile use of lingquistic concepts while making spatial connections of subjects who are seemingly totally unrelated. I think it scares those who do not understand how such simplicity is possible. I think it threatens their roles in society. Thus, they lash out in aggressive and official ways that are quite offensive and unnecessary. People who know too much disappear, are fired, and alienated from their peers and professionals.
I came here looking for more information on the “insightful linguist” intelligence type. I think maybe tickle test just made that up. I haven’t found any valuable information on it, only blogs seem to have mentioned it.
I took the test at Tickle and apparently I’m an insightful linguist my score was 133.
I really do find that Helen in the previous post has a point. I don’t agree with all the garbage about people lashing out agressively, I suppose if you are aggressive yourself people may respond to you in that way but if you apply charm and modesty and some patient persuasiveness I don’t think you will make any enemies. Many of my friends are confused by the connections I make though and it is frustrating for me because my comparisons are simple and sensible to me, yet to others I sound completely out to lunch and they tell me I’m crazy (lovingly of course) I find I have to strive to find another way to explain the simplicity of the situation and that is much more difficult than my simple analogies (to me) Oh well at least I have them for my own benefit. Good luck, if anybody does find some real info on the “insightful linguist” please post a link I’d love to see it. Thanx
Rachel
Alberta, Canada
hey i’m i just did this for fun as i am in work and bored i only got 117 but i got bored halfway through and didn’t pay attention to the questions or answers but i dont think many people understand that most ppl dont judge other by how smart they are but by their common sense i know i do and i am more grateful for a person with common sense than if they can multiply maths in their head
Hi to all those Insightful Linguists out there! I was looking through the net, and I saw a blog for those who are visionary philosophers ( those who scored 138 and above).
I am just an Insightful Linguist myself, scoring 127, and so I went looking for a blog for the Insightful Linguists…
I was elated at first to get a score of 127, but my elation fell when I saw that there were people out there who took the test, and scored up to 148 on it. But then, I still count myself pretty intelligent, because after reading those blogs, I saw that some visionary philosophers were “intelligent” enough to buy the full report! Ha! How intelligent is that? :duh:
I got a score of 127 on the Tickle test and was declared an “Insightful Linguist” too.
Frankly, I was quite elated at the score because I was never good at math and science, in fact always scraped through in my math exams. On the other hand, I always scored high in languages, social science, and especially history. Even then, I always felt that I wasn’t intelligent enough because I just wasn’t good at math. It’s good to know that you’re not rated on only your mathematical abilities, or your abilities to memorize chemical formulae, while examining your IQ. This test does give me a sense of satisfaction. 🙂
Hi guys my name is racquel i’m from manila, i just took the iq test after d test and my result is the same!, it said that i’m a Insight Linguist, but my IQ is not 138 above!, now way i’m just only in 3rd year high school, im not dat smart, any way my IQ score is only 111 pretty low, and it said that my Math IQ is only 20% oh man, this is embarassing……….. but still i9m proud of it having an IQ at 111 is not that bad…………… :yahoo: :pilot: :sing:
First off, I’m really glad I found this forum. I really love some of the comments that were made by some of the users. It’s wonderful to be able to interact with others by exchanging thoughts and ideas. It’s intellectually and mentally stimulating.
At any rate, Racquel, you are still young and you still have more time to develop. When I was in high school my grades were awful; in fact, my grades were awful through school mostly all my life, but it had nothing to do with my capabilities. There are many reasons I didn’t like school, but that’s for another topic. My strongest subject was English. I wonder, though, if English is your first language (I know many in Manila speak English [maybe most]) but perhaps there may have been a slight barrier on some parts of the test if you aren’t so fluent in English.
I also have a few other comments. I find it to be very true that many people become isolated because of their intelligence. Whether they mean to or not, it intimidates and threatens people in many or most aspects of people’s lives (career, interpersonal and relationship affairs, etc), and I would refer to them as “intellectual minorities.” It’s been a few years since I’ve taken this Tickle test (and I’ve taken many others elsewhere), and I don’t know if anything has changed but I may have read it wrong that an Insightful Linguist with a score higher than 138 translates to being a “Visionary Philosopher”. I’m here as a result of my research because I was classed as an Insightful Linguist as well, but my score was 146.
Another comment I’d like to make is to address the previous comments about how people judge others (by intelligence or not), and I know enough to know that I don’t know everything, but what I truly do know is that it is the heart that counts. Cicero once wrote–in an article I’ve got bookmarked–the following: “[I]n friendship and relationship, just as those who possess any superiority must put themselves on an equal footing with those who are less fortunate, so these latter must not be annoyed at being surpassed in genius, fortune, or rank.” – http://www.infed.org/biblio/friendship.htm
What Cicero is saying here is that those who are more fortunate must find common ground with others who are not equally gifted so as not to make people feel inferior. In other words, having a superiority complex will win you no good fortune or rank. What good is genius if all you impress is yourself while putting down others?
It is true, of course, that even though opposites attract, similarities are what holds things together in the long run. Finding similarities with others if your intelligence is higher than most of the population is the primary difficulty, hence being an “intellectual minority”. As rare as it may be, it is definitely a virtue to be able to find common ground with others; and that is when your heart comes into play. You must find the goodness in the hearts of others when your minds do not match.
One final note: there is a difference between ignorant people and unintelligent people. The only time they go hand in hand is when stupidity is a result of your ignorance. A few examples of this would be the ignorance of hating mentally handicapped people, hating people of different race, and discrimination. As the first comment above mentioned discernment, having the capability of discernment leaves it up to you to decide–based on the knowledge of your behavior–whether you’d like to change your actions and your behavior or not.
I know I an insightful linguist and talented at writing but am afraid to write anything cause I think people will judge me as having no credibility. Wujhat do you suggest to gt off this? I do care about social justice and the environment and animal right, etc…….and also about real estate! Help? I am middle aged. I feel very critical of myself right now for not figuring this out thank you for listening
:clapping: ya i know the feeling because i too am an insightful linguist and my iq is 120 and i was too flattered too because in an age of 14 it’s like i was given a god-given gift but i don’t really consider myself bright just wise hehheh…..
I took the test & scored a 135. I hadn’t taken an IQ test since high school but seem to remember scoring a 138 back then. I had not heard the term insightful linguist until now but looking back, (about to turn 49) the supposed intellectual attributes do make sense to me. I think the gist of it is being able to explain complicated concepts to individuals of widely varying intellectual abilities. First you must evaluate & understand the concept yourself (the most important part). Then based on known facts & physical laws, the concept is simplified in your own mind by eliminating as many technical aspects as possible. Then by verbal interaction, the ability of the person you’re trying to teach is determined and the concept is explained using vocabulary & reasoning understood by that individual. I also believe being able to mentally work out a problem with no pen & paper or other tools plays an important role. As someone else said using your mental blackboard. I did not use any paper when I took the test and probably finished in around 20 mins. I was pleased to score this well. I thought I would have dropped more than 3 points in 30 years. Don’t tell my wife.She thinks I’m of average intelligence which greatly reduces her expectations!
:giggle: Don’t know if you’ve forgotten about this blog, but I just got into it, just cos you are like me. My score was 127. Trying everything I can to keep it up, I write, decorate and plan events. Everyone around me tells me I’m smart even after 4 kids. Do you use left like me?
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