No; do not know my own or DH's, have chosen not to have DS tested.
One reason: as a child (around aged 10, while preparing for a school entrance test) I once did a whole book of "Know your own IQ" tests (aimed at adults) [gosh yes,
that cover's awfully familiar!] over the course of a few weeks. Now,
of course this is not the same as a real IQ test. But... from what I can gather it wasn't
all that different in terms of the question types. My scores came out all over the shop, from 140ish to ?220, I forget, ceilinging the test, anyway, and not in any particular order - it wasn't a practice effect, just random variation with time of day/mood/whatever.
Anyway, it was enough to prime me to the idea that IQ might not, for an individual, be as stable and repeatable as all that. Since then, while I haven't made a careful study of the research, I've seen nothing to convince me that the probability of getting a number which is 10 or 15 points away from what it would be on another day is low enough to make it worth having a number that might be misleading in that way. I'm quite prepared to believe that for the purposes it's intended for IQ is quite good - but honestly, it isn't intended to distinguish 135 from 125 or 145, and I know I'd have a hard time not imbuing a number with that significance that it shouldn't have. So, better to look at the child.
DS has had some online verbal and non-verbal reasoning tests at school (all the cohort did) and we haven't been given the results. I think we're legally entitled to them, but I also think I shouldn't want them. Can you tell I'm having a hard time with whether to insist?!
