every IQ Test Have a corresponding level according to age
simple question given to the youth ....
which they can doodle the answer to a high grades.
and to a grown up person which take effort on answering the test
Yes there are gifted child ...
that's why there are IQ test .. if a child score very high the proctor or maybe the teachers that concerns pulls out these gifted child to determine real gifted ones ...
that's why people invented retakes
My comment may not be as convincing as the others but it maybe taken for consideration
Nov 06, 2008 Rating
Yes, but there's good news.... by: Nathaniel G
To answer the question, in your case, it does look like IQ can degrade with age. The good news is, it can also upgrade - I took an IQ test three years ago and then took one yesterday, and found out that my IQ went up by 18 points!
Mar 13, 2008 Rating
to stephanie by: Anonymous
Well I suppose so if your asking this question, if you read the article thoroughly, IQ tests have an age variant.
obviously, you can't ask a 6 year old to do long division in their head, but you can ask what the word buoyant (just a random word that i would think most 6 year olds would not know)means to a 17 year old. The main point I guess I'm trying to get across is different questions for different ages.
It could also mean you are not progressing as fast as you were at age 6.
I am no psychologist and do not pretend to be one, but that is what would make sense.
Jan 14, 2008 Rating
Degradation of IQ Ratings! by: Saqib Ali Ateel
Most of the psychologists believe that IQ ratings decrease with age as the people lose intelligence in the old. However, the age of 17 is neither old nor you have lost intelligence. In my opinion the teenage and up to 40 is the period when you show brightest of the colors.
There are other explanations of your decrease in the IQ ratings:
1- The different may be due to difference of the intelligence scales that you were tested at the age of six and at the age of 17. Different scales have different algorithms to test your intelligence.
2- The difference of IQ ratings may be due to improvement in the standards of IQ tests. You know the testing industry has been changing the standards of the IQ tests after every couple of years just to net the maximum number of people in the average category. If they don't do so there are chances that within a couple of years majority of the people may be counted as geniuses. And the IQ specialists prefer to keep the title of geniuses to either themselves or their races.
Whatever the reason may, you must be sure that you are not losing any intelligence. In my humble opinion you have gained a lot of intelligence because you have questioned veracity of the IQ ratings that intelligence tests are persistent to tag you with.
Lastly, let the employers and the testing industry worry about the IQ results. They are not going to play any role in your success or failure. There are only a couple of principles to have a successful life:
1- Be sure of your targets. 2- Do whatever you can do daily to move towards your goals. 3- Be persistent when you feel the targets are far.
Believe me, you can win your dreams even at the IQ of 100 though you are above average.
