Is it possible to have a low IQ score and actually have a high IQ?
No. It’s not possible to score low on an IQ test and have a high IQ. It’s certainly possible to score low on an IQ test and have high intelligence though. IQ and intelligence are two different things. IQ is your score on a test determined to gauge the statistical rarity of your intelligence. Your true “IQ” is simply defined to be your score on the IQ test. If you score 300 on an IQ test, that’s your IQ (according to that test). You could be the smartest man alive and score a 130 on an IQ test. Your IQ would still be 130.
No, it is not possible to have both a high IQ and a low IQ. This would be similar to saying I can both be ontop of a building and beneath it. It is a logical fallacy. Even a ten point difference is meaningless. The standard deviation of an IQ test is 15, which means that one would have to score 15 points different to land on a different part of the scale. If you scored below 100 (the mean), then it is impossible to have an actual high IQ unless there is something else to explain it, like drug intoxication, language barriers, and the like. However, please keep in mind that there are different ways of measuring intelligence.
