4-year-old Anala Beevers Accepted into MENSA with IQ of 145

[AngryAmish]

108. IQ test scores are normed for age

So an adult if graded for four year olds scores very high.

The problem with IQ tests and the young are twofold. First, the tests themselves are diagnostic aids trying to find out who is mentally challenged. The high end is really not designed for in these tests. Second, there is a lot of learning of the tests. In most situations you can only give any psychometric/neuropsychological test once a year, to give the subject some time to forget the test. Giving a kid an IQ test every week will greatly inflate their score.

lil AA was given an IQ test to get into a gifted school. I got a few copies of the test and made her do it a few weeks before the real test. She scored a 142. According to mr. google this makes her smarter than 99.4803893690% of all 5 year olds. She is a smart kid but not that smart. (Based upon me and her mom, accounting for regression to the mean her IQ most likely is in the 125 area.) And because we live in a fancy neighborhood, she didn't get into the gifted school! I think the cutoff was 146 this year. But it is the best school in the state which it should be if the lowest IQ in the school is !46...

Anyway, we won a lottery and got into the magnet school of our choice so we did not have to move.