Tonight in my Adolescent Appraisal class, our professor reviewed the components of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale, which measures a person's IQ. We went through some sample questions, which I was kind of rocking out (mind you, the specific instrument we were looking at is designed to test individuals between the ages of 6 and 16, so that's technically not bragging). And then we got to the Picture Completion section where you look at an illustration and have to state what is missing from the picture. An example might be a bike with no spokes in the tires. I was proudly displaying my Highlights Magazine skills circa 1992 when a picture emerged that made me pause, squint my eyes, and tilt my head to the side like a terrier who doesn't care about your day and just wants you to give him the treat already (yeah, I made myself a boy dog in that analogy).
**NOTE: If you are a child or adolescent between the ages of 6 and 16, and you have not yet taken an IQ test but plan to do so in the near or distant future, the information I am about to share with you will invalidate your score; however, it could also keep you from embarrassing yourself. You can determine which is more important - your integrity or your pride - and decide to keep reading or go back to your preferred spacebook site.**
Decided to keep reading, huh? Good choice. Now you know that when the test administrator presents you with a picture of a perfectly normal-looking pig and asks you what's missing, the correct answer is not "udders." And when he laughs, it's not because you said "utters" instead of "teets," so don't bother asking if that's why your response was technically wrong. Instead, take your administrator's laughing-out-loud snorts as a cue and check out the nostrilless snout on Babe. Then, be thankful that IQ tests are administered independently and not in front of your graduate school peers who may forever think of you as the girl who said "udders" in class.
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