intelligence

It genuinely depends on what sort of IQ test you have gone through.  I had a dyslexia assessment at Uni and they use a different one.  If I had 2% more I could have joined Mensa.  

When I studied Sociology we found that IQ tests, particularly the standard ones are biased.  Biased in terms of it favours those with favourable backgrounds.  

Check out Henry Wrinkler and what he says about it all.  You will feel reassured.

When I took my Mensa test at age 23, I was an academic nonce.  I'd failed everything at school.  My mind was still pretty much that of a child.  I knew absolutely nothing outside of my own small world.  I didn't know anything about grammar, algebra, trigonometry, geometry.  I didn't know how to use a slide rule, or even a pocket calculator.  I knew hardly any history.  The sciences were all lost on me.  In many cases, that's still pretty much how it is.  I know what a noun, a verb and an adjective is.  I'm pretty good at mental arithmetic.  I can add, subtract and divide.  I know that pi is 3.14159265 etc.  I know that the Norman conquest was in 1066.  I know the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism.  But there isn't much else.  At 58, my mind is still pretty much a scrapbook.  I know lots about little, and little about lots.  When I took that test, though, I scored 148... and I know that some of the questions would have been easier for me if I'd had something more than basic mathematical, grammatical and scientific knowledge.  So I often wonder just how 'neutral' they really are.

When I took my Mensa test at age 23, I was an academic nonce.  I'd failed everything at school.  My mind was still pretty much that of a child.  I knew absolutely nothing outside of my own small world.  I didn't know anything about grammar, algebra, trigonometry, geometry.  I didn't know how to use a slide rule, or even a pocket calculator.  I knew hardly any history.  The sciences were all lost on me.  In many cases, that's still pretty much how it is.  I know what a noun, a verb and an adjective is.  I'm pretty good at mental arithmetic.  I can add, subtract and divide.  I know that pi is 3.14159265 etc.  I know that the Norman conquest was in 1066.  I know the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism.  But there isn't much else.  At 58, my mind is still pretty much a scrapbook.  I know lots about little, and little about lots.  When I took that test, though, I scored 148... and I know that some of the questions would have been easier for me if I'd had something more than basic mathematical, grammatical and scientific knowledge.  So I often wonder just how 'neutral' they really are.