Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readOct 19, 2022

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That is an American IQ test. I wrote one. It asks for general knowledge, tests short term memory, etc. A Mensa IQ test only tests math, spatial logic, and it uses vocab to see if you know the finite difference between words like concur and agree.

I just read up an entire thingie on how American IQ tests are done. Apparently at 115, one is considered gifted. in the rest of the world, if one cannot do math, there isn't a chance in hell that one would get a gifted score.

I wrote various IQ tests in my mid 40s. In one, the doctor who gave me a 5 or 6 hour test, told me I had the highest creativity score he had seen in his 30 year practice.

In another, a doctor told me I had 5 hours to do a test. It was pure logic. It comprised drawings, words, and memory. I did it in 90 minutes and she said I was off-the-graph. I also had gismos attached to my brain to see how my brain was working. One of the things she said on the letter given to me was that I had the rare ability to arrive at the right answer without having all the facts.

I find math incredibly easy. It has nothing to do with believing one is bad at math. It is absolutely impossible to achieve genius without being good at math. The American IQ test is NOT an IQ test - mnot the way it is understood by MENSA.

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