Asperger's and importance of IQ

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IQ isn't that important to me.

I think putting random answers should give an average score. So putting random answer first and answering correctly some questions will get an higher score. Not taking such a test will not give a score. Being a psychometrician gives the possibility of infinite score.

I do not even know my IQ. I know it might be high because I think I am intelligent, and my husband, who is the brightest person I have ever met, thinks the same. I know our daughter has a high IQ because the first psychiatrist to examine her thought she was "different" because she was too intelligent and performed an IQ test to support her theory. She scored 125. And I know she is intelligent because of the way she analyzes things. But I do not think a number is important. I think it is an ego buster, and we need an ego buster every once in a while. I think more important than a number is what you do with that intelligence.

It's like "size", people worry about it, brag about it, feel proud or ashamed of it, but in the end it really doesn't matter nearly as much as people think it does.

Intelligence is important to me, both my own and other people's. It's important to me, because it enables a better understanding of the world and therefore better decisions. I love working with intelligent people, because they just get things. For example, at one job I had, I could tell people something about programming and they would understand easily, even though they were mathematicians, not programmers. I loved it - despite the fact that they made me feel stupid at times. IQ is just a proxy for intelligence, which certainly has its limitations, but I don't think it's entirely useless. I'm not going to be all PC about it and say "it doesn't matter, nobody is a better person than anybody else, etc." - that wasn't the question.

Sadly for me it is, at least for my personnal score, which is not as high as I would want it to. It's "only" 110-115 with subtest in the WAIS III beyond the 91th percentile (About 120). It may seem high, but this is inferior to the impression peoples get from me, or that I had from myself.
This is unfortunate for someone with intellectual interests, as this mean I'm less intelligent that the majority of peoples with similar interests.

I was thinking about IQs today while washing dishes...there are supposedly such a thing as "genius IQ score". Sure, maybe Einstein actually had 170 or 200 IQ, but the fact is he never took one. So is it really true with all the people labeled as geniuses? That they had (have) those kind of IQ scores? I figure that it may be usually the case with geniuses in mathematics, physics and such. But does van Gogh was genius in the same way as Einstein? I guess not at all, right? So maybe it`s not really a reason not to feel special just because of some test score...I would guess that it takes more than just computing power to be someone, the stuff that makes people excel at something is curiosity, doubt, confusion, suffering...something to overcome, stand against, not ability to count faster than others.
But maybe I`m just jealous because numbers don`t like me at all

I think IQ is a very important tool used in understanding what a person is and may be capable of. However I don't think it represents exactly what is generally believed.

Intelligence itself refers to an individual’s ability to learn, remember, and interpret information. This is something that anyone (less the brain dead, which we know of) can do within different factors of time. You can teach a monkey sign language, thus the monkey is intelligent. With all reasonable certainty the monkey will not be giving a lecture on thermodynamics any time soon; nevertheless the fact remains that the monkey could be giving a lecture on thermodynamics at some point in time.

The IQ test (at the very least the two i have done on android applications) revolve completely around an individual’s ability to recognize patterns and pick out the one which is most likely. This raises the question, "why is it that some patterns are deemed to be more likely over others?" this is the very limitation of the human ability to comprehend. Some patterns are just more obvious than others and these tests revolve around what the people who made them think are the hardest or even easiest to see.

To put it in different context: it is obvious that objects of different masses will fall at the same rate toward the earth neglecting air resistance, because someone has already seen that pattern and pointed it out. Being able to see patterns that everyone else can see may make you more intelligent and not being able to see patterns everyone else can see may make you stupid, however, being able to see patterns that no-one else can see allows you to look beyond current intelligence and add to it.
And that is the problem with IQ tests, they are not designed around finding people who can see unknown patterns, it is designed for those who can see the obvious ones.

To put it in perspective I’ve gotten scores that ranged from 105-140 on these two IQ tests depending on which answers I picked, they were not wrong, just not the ones the makers wanted me to pick. In fact on several questions the pattern I seen was not even an option in the answers.

Well that’s how I view IQ Tests.

From what I remember they based my results on how much I knew in relation to my grade level 5th grade at that time.
I was at college level at everything except math which was at a 10th grade level.
Anyone else feel that their IQ made it harder for others to see your AS and get diagnosed?

creativity is more important to me than intelligence, though many people of average intelligence get on my nerves after a shorter or longer time.
however, my contacts with the "i q test subculture" were a complete waste of time.
even avid chess-players, narrow as they are, have more variety.

Solving logical problems is a special interest of mine, I borrowed a book on the library when I were about 8-9 years old with a bunch of IQ-test like questions, and I couldn't get myself to return it, I have it still today, ~24 years later. If I couldn't solve one of the tests, I checked the answer and deducted why that was the right answer. I print out and categorize questions in IQ tests by what spatial/mathematical actions you need to do to reach the right solution(twist/flip/invert/add/multiply/etc.). IQ score isn't that important to me, but doing them fascinates me. I am partial to spatial visualization/reasoning tests. Only my wife and me in real life knows my IQ scores on those tests, and the reason I have it in my signature on this forum is because it is one of many tests that indicate I have Aspergers.

So to answer the poll; "Is IQ important to me?" Well, yes, IQ tests and problems are, and no, IQ score isn't. "Both" isn't an option, so I would have to go for "undecided", although it is the most well thought-out "undecided" of my life.