LEVEL WITHOUT TAKING
THE TEST
By Billy J. Burton
Copyright 2023 Billy J. Burton
Free-Ebooks.net Edition
This is a free book meant for personal understanding and
educational purposes only, I have received no financial compensation
whatsoever for the hundreds of hours invested in putting together
such a project.
I have, to the best of my ability, cited, in the end notes, the owners of
every published book, study, article, website, idea and opinion, I
based myself on, or came across while writing this book.
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Sincerely, Billy J. Burton
PART ONE: I.Q. AND PERSONALITY
1. I.Q. Tests: Facts and Observations
1.2The Different Types of Tests
1.3 Are Official Tests Accurate?
1.3.1 I.Q. Tests Are Flawed Tools
1.3.2 Why Use an I.Q. Scale at All?
2.1 Genetics: Variations in Brain Structure
2.2 Environment, Society and Healthcare: Variations in Nurture
2.4 The Homogeneity of Intelligence Levels in Social Groups
2.5 The Perception of Intelligence
3. I.Q. Understood by Standard Deviations
3.2.1 The Main Communicative Functioning of each Range
3.2.2 The Habitual Brain Functioning of each Range
4.1 Personality Traits Involved in Intelligence
4.2 Intelligence Can also be Noticed in One’s Appearance
4.3 The Advantages and the Drawbacks to a Psychological Approach
PART TWO: THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND EACH RANGE
CHAPTER 1: The Normies, The Neurotypicals (I.Q.:70 to 129) 95%
1.The Inferior Range [IR] (70 to 85) 14%
2.The Normal Range (85 to 115) 68%
2.1The Lower Normal Range [LNR] (85 to 100) 34%
2.2The Upper Normal Range [UNR] (100 to 115) 34%
3.The Superior Range [SR] (115 to 130)14%
CHAPTER 2: The Gifted, The Neuroatypicals (I.Q. above 130) 2.5%
1.What Do All the Gifted Have in Common?
2.The Moderately Gifted Range [MG] or [HIQ] (130 to 144) nearly 2%
Specifications for The Exceptionally [EG] and Profoundly Gifted [PG] (160 to 175; Above 175)
1.I Hope You Were Able to Recognize Yourself in One of Those Groups.
2.How Can You Communicate with Other Ranges?
3.What is Intelligence Exactly?
3.1 It's a Different Level of Consciousness
3.2 Why Did Evolution Create Different Levels of Intelligence?
You must have heard all sorts of things about the Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.). Most
psychologists believe this tool to be accurate to determine your cognitive intelligence but nothing
else. Some people believe Emotional Intelligence and the Multiple Intelligence theory are better
predictors of your life outcomes. Lots of people think it’s just a number or that it simply
measures your ability to take the test.
Are they right?
Well, in a way, but not entirely or I wouldn’t be writing this book.
A long time ago I felt like these people, until I took my first I.Q. test out of curiosity. It wasn’t
anything fancy and expensive, no; just a regular test crafted by a psychologist who wanted to
help his readers discover their I.Q. level, from 50 to 170. Surprisingly, I scored much higher than
expected without trying too hard, the score that was looking back at me, was within “the top 2%”.
However, there was one caveat; the book specified that if you scored either in the lower or higher
2% then the test was probably not a good measurement of your I.Q.!
I was puzzled, not sure what to make of it. I told some friends about it and got slammed, they
pretty much said I took it wrong, and I was an idiot. I had taken that test because I had always
felt disconnected from most people, sometimes really smarter, other times really dumber, but
nevertheless always different. Given my friends’ reactions, I forgot all about this test for many
years until I ran into a new book.
That second book had been written by another psychologist. It wasn’t an I.Q. test; it was aiming
at explaining the difficulties of “The Gifted”. Being unaware of any particular troubles they
might have, I perused through it at a bookstore.
These so-called “gifted people” actually represent “the top 2%”, I seemed to be a part of, when I
took that I.Q. test. Intrigued, I sheepishly bought the book, afraid the checker would think me
vain for assuming the label “gifted” might apply to me. I devoured that book over a single
weekend. Out of a list of 50 traits, associated with giftedness, I seemed to exhibit every single
one of them. I had always thought I was an average person, but suddenly, there, it was staring me
in the face. I was convinced to be a gifted person endowed with cognitive prowess, but at the
same time, emotional difficulties.
So actually, I wasn’t crazy or weird; I was part of this world of high I.Q. people with all of the
discrepancies from the norm that it entails. I started looking into the specifics of giftedness. At
that level, intelligence isn’t just quantitatively different, it’s also qualitatively diverse.
Then, a few years ago, I ran into the third book that would forever alter my outlook on I.Q. and
intelligence. It described how there actually was two main types of gifted individuals, essentially
those labelled “Moderately Gifted”, who comprise practically the entirety of “the top 2%”, and
those above that I.Q. level who exhibit even more unusual emotional and behavioral traits. To
my astonishment, I appeared to be part of the stranger realm of the “Highly, Exceptionally and
Profoundly Gifted” individuals.
Recently, I was able to confirm that psychological approach with professionally administered I.Q.
tests.
Still, that awareness incited me to inquire about a potential link between one’s specific emotional,
behavioral, and intellectual makeup and one’s I.Q. level. After years of studies and research, I
have finally developed a psychological understanding of intelligence. I have devised a way to
assess it through the measure of its emotional and behavioral consequences on the tested subject.
With this book, I have the desire to help the reader understand what intelligence really is, what it
feels or looks like in everyday interactions with diverse types of individuals. Likewise, I wish to
assist you in evaluating your own probable I.Q. level, regardless of your difficulties in taking an
I.Q. test, may it be because of its cost or because of emotional, psychological, or neurological
deficiencies.
As I aim to rid the I.Q. concept of any appraisal issue, in this book, I strictly equate an I.Q. score
with its corresponding intelligence amount and its dissimilarities from the norm. For, as we will
see, a person who took a certified test, then was given a precise score, may really belong to a
more elevated I.Q. rank.
In the first part of this book, I will present a summary of what I.Q. tests really are, as well as the
advantages of resorting to a psychological approach to measure intelligence. In a second part, I
will strive to explain the unique psychological aspects of members of most I.Q. ranges.
By recognizing yourself in one of the groups presented, you will be able to evaluate which I.Q.
range corresponds to you. At the end of this book, I’m including numerical tools, still based on
personality traits, enabling you to narrow this bracket down significantly for more precision.