It is very hard to tease apart giftedness and precociousness in young children, and if you are an early reader with a strong vocabulary and good memory, you can end up with a much higher score than you would if you were tested when you were older. The problem with that is that parents then carry that unstable score number in their heads and it compromises their ability to make appropriate choices later. Possible, but don’t make it part of your retirement plan. If you test a child who is three years old and the score is high (say two standard deviations above the mean or more), the odds that that score will be the same if the child were tested six years later are very, very low.
Here are six reasons not to give IQ tests to young children: 1. Mensa allows youth fourteen and over to take the Mensa Admissions Test, and it accepts testing done outside of Mensa by schools or psychologists, but it does not test young children.Īlthough you might think Mensa would have a vested interest in having people test young children so they could join the organization, it actually takes no opinion.
IQ QUIZ FOR KIDS HOW TO
As the Youth & Education Ambassador for Mensa, I received inquiries every day (sometimes with accompanying videos) from parents (and grandparents) wanting to know how to get a young child tested. The reasons not to give IQ tests to young children are compelling.
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