People value intelligence and will apply that label to themselves even if it may not be true. It's a hard thing to measure though IQ does it reasonably well. To those who have a high IQ: what is it like? Can you pick up any book, read it, and understand the gist with minimal repetition? Can you infer solid and accurate conclusions based on a small amount of evidence? Is any subject or discipline up for grabs or do you have to have a keen interest in a particular field in order to flourish? What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain, if you will.
There is no point to these questions other than curiosity.
How many people posting have sat an IQ test? I only saw 1 comment that listed an actual concrete number.
I had one in first grade, and I admit that I took for granted that I probably displayed some capacity in something that triggered the test to be administered.
My mom knows my IQ but never told me and I won't ask her what it is -- ignorance is bliss. It was enough to put me in the gifted program, but that's all I know. It didn't stop me from being fucking lazy or having a hell of a time focusing, unfortunately.
There's a pretty big stigma to just posting your IQ online. It's unverifiable so it's pointless and it can easily make you look kind of like a douche. Impressively enough that even in a place where people regularly get called subhuman bigots many are still are reluctant to do it.
I was obtuse about it but I did give a value to mine too. Plus realistically if you're talking about casual measurements not a specific testing methodology giving an upper-lower range is probably more helpful than giving a single concrete number. Even if you trust it isn't completely made up you still don't know who's listing their highest/lowest/average result.
That and there's endless debate about what constitutes a valid and accurate IQ test, so unless someone really likes to geek out about the minutiae of attempts to quantify human cognitive function they probably just want to sidestep all that noise.
I feel like I should take one lol but also explained my reasoning on why that's not always reliable.