Real World IQ
Cognitive Assessment Report
Strong analytical and logical abilities
IQ Equivalency Scale
Your RWIQ score of 132 places you well above average — and here's how that translates across the world's most respected intelligence assessments. Each test measures cognitive ability differently, but they all tell the same story about your performance: you're operating at a high level that relatively few people reach.
| RWIQ | WAIS-IV | Stanford-Binet | Cattell | Raven's | Woodcock-Johnson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 132 | 126 | 136 | 151 | 125 | 126 |
To put this in perspective: your WAIS-IV equivalent of 126 places you in approximately the 96th percentile — meaning you scored higher than roughly 96 out of 100 people. Your Cattell Culture Fair equivalent of 151, which specifically measures fluid intelligence (your ability to reason through novel problems you've never seen before), is particularly impressive. These aren't abstract numbers — they represent real cognitive horsepower that translates directly into your professional and personal capabilities.
Your Cognitive Profile
This is the full map of your brain's performance. You were tested across six distinct cognitive regions, and the charts below show exactly where your strengths lie and where you have room to grow. Your highest region — Occipital at 92% — is a genuine cognitive strength that puts you in elite territory. Your lowest — Limbic at 58% — is your biggest opportunity for development. Understanding this map is the key to making smarter decisions about your career, your learning, and how you approach challenges.
Cognitive Radar
Your cognitive profile reveals a visually dominant brain with strong executive function. You scored above the professional threshold (75%) in 3 of 6 regions: Occipital (92%), Frontal (88%), and Cerebellum (78%). You answered 59 of 100 questions correctly. Your profile marks you as a visual-strategic thinker — someone who sees patterns others miss and can plan effectively around what you see. The sections below break down exactly what each region means for you.
Occipital Lobe
Visual Processing & Pattern Recognition
Correct: 11 of 12 questions
Your Occipital Lobe score of 92% is exceptional — this is your strongest cognitive region and one of the defining features of your brain. You answered 11 of 12 visual processing questions correctly. In plain terms: you process visual information faster and more accurately than the vast majority of people. You don't just see things — you see patterns, details, and connections that others miss entirely. This is the region that earned you "The Visionary" archetype, and it's the cognitive strength you should build your career strategy around.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Behind your 92% score is one of the most specialized regions in your brain. The occipital lobe, positioned at the posterior of the brain, contains the primary visual cortex (V1) and multiple higher visual areas (V2-V5). V1 processes basic visual features like edges and contrast, while higher areas detect motion, color, and complex shapes. The ventral visual stream ('what pathway') enables object recognition, while the dorsal stream ('where pathway') tracks spatial location. Your exceptional score tells us these pathways are operating with remarkable efficiency — your visual cortex is processing information quickly, accurately, and with a level of fine-grained discrimination that most people simply cannot match.
What This Means for How You Think
So what does a 92% Occipital score actually mean for your daily life? It means your brain excels at rapid visual scanning — you can look at a complex scene and instantly pick out what matters. You likely have strong aesthetic appreciation, naturally noticing design quality, visual harmony, and spatial relationships that others overlook completely. You probably think in images rather than words when solving problems, mentally visualizing solutions before articulating them. People with your level of occipital performance often report being able to "see" answers — whether that's spotting an error in a spreadsheet, recognizing a face in a crowd, or visualizing how furniture should be arranged in a room. This isn't a minor advantage. Your visual processing capability shapes how you approach virtually every problem you encounter, and it's a genuine cognitive gift.
Career Implications for Your Visual Strengths
With your Occipital Lobe at 92%, you're cognitively built for careers where visual processing is the core differentiator between good and great. That includes graphic design, radiology, quality control, art direction, photography, and scientific imaging. These aren't random suggestions — they're professions where the specific neural pathways you've demonstrated strength in are exactly what separates top performers from average ones. Your ability to detect subtle visual differences, process complex visual information rapidly, and recognize patterns that others miss gives you a natural advantage in visually-intensive fields. When a radiologist spots a tiny anomaly on a scan, or a designer creates a layout that just "works" — that's occipital dominance in action. It's the same capability your brain demonstrated at 92%.
Your Development Path
Your Occipital Lobe is already exceptional at 92%, so your strategy here is about leveraging and refining rather than rebuilding from scratch. Push your visual processing further: practice visual discrimination tasks that challenge even your high baseline, study art and design to deepen your aesthetic vocabulary, and engage in activities that demand careful visual inspection at speed. Drawing and sketching will strengthen your visual-motor integration — the connection between what your eyes perceive and what your hands create. Visual meditation and detailed observation exercises will sharpen your already-strong attention to visual detail. The goal isn't to fix a weakness — it's to take an exceptional ability and make it elite.
How Your Visual Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your occipital lobe doesn't work in isolation — and understanding how it connects to your other regions reveals deeper insights about your cognitive profile. Your occipital lobe integrates with your parietal regions (72%) for visual-spatial processing, with your temporal regions (65%) for object naming and face recognition, and with your frontal regions (88%) for visual attention control. That strong Occipital-Frontal connection (92%-88%) is particularly powerful for you — it means you can both see patterns AND strategically act on them. This is the neural basis of your "Visionary" archetype: you don't just perceive — you perceive with purpose.
Your Occipital Lobe at 92% is your standout cognitive strength — the engine behind your "Visionary" archetype and the region you should build your career strategy around. Lean into roles that reward visual excellence. When you combine this with your strong Frontal Lobe (88%), you have something rare: a brain that both sees brilliantly and thinks strategically. That's a competitive advantage few people possess.
Frontal Lobe
Executive Function & Reasoning
Correct: 23 of 26 questions
Your Frontal Lobe scored 88% — that's strong, and it means your brain's command center is performing at a high level. You answered 23 of 26 executive function questions correctly. In practical terms: you're a natural strategic thinker with strong planning abilities, solid working memory, and the kind of decision-making capability that complex professional environments demand. This is your second-strongest region, and together with your 92% Occipital, it forms the core of your cognitive identity.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Your 88% score reflects the power of the largest region in your brain. The frontal lobe, comprising approximately 40% of the cerebral cortex, houses the prefrontal cortex — the seat of executive function. This region manages working memory through the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, while the orbitofrontal cortex guides decision-making by integrating emotional and rational inputs. Neural pathways connect to virtually every other brain region, enabling the frontal lobe to coordinate complex cognitive operations. At 88%, your frontal lobe is functioning as an efficient command center — coordinating information across your brain with above-average precision and reliability.
What This Means for How You Think
What does 88% Frontal really mean for you? It means you can hold multiple ideas in your head simultaneously and work with them — what neuroscientists call working memory. You're likely good at planning ahead, seeing the consequences of decisions before you make them, and staying focused on long-term goals even when distractions compete for your attention. Your score indicates strong cognitive flexibility — you can shift between tasks, adapt when new information arrives, and control impulsive responses that might derail a less disciplined thinker. In the real world, this translates to leadership capability, the ability to manage complex projects with many moving parts, and comfort with decisions that have no obvious right answer. When someone needs to "think this through carefully," they're engaging exactly the frontal lobe capabilities you scored 88% on.
Career Implications for Your Strategic Strengths
With your Frontal Lobe at 88%, you're cognitively wired for careers that demand rapid decision-making under pressure and long-range strategic thinking. That means roles like executive leadership, strategic consulting, project management, scientific research, and entrepreneurship play directly to how your brain works. These aren't careers that just anyone can thrive in — they require the ability to hold multiple variables in mind, anticipate second-order consequences, and make confident decisions with incomplete information. Your 88% says your brain handles exactly that kind of complexity well. Paired with your 92% Occipital, you have a powerful and rare combination: you can both see the big picture visually AND think through it strategically. That's the cognitive profile of a creative director, a research leader, or a startup founder.
Your Development Path
At 88%, your Frontal Lobe is a genuine strength — and you can push it even higher. Challenge your executive function with activities that demand sustained strategic thinking: learn chess or Go at a competitive level, take on projects requiring multi-step planning across weeks or months, practice holding complex arguments in your head without writing them down first. Mindfulness meditation has been shown in peer-reviewed research to increase prefrontal cortex gray matter — even 10 minutes daily makes a measurable difference. Regular aerobic exercise (running, swimming, cycling) enhances frontal lobe blood flow and promotes neurogenesis. These aren't generic self-help tips — they're targeted at strengthening exactly the neural circuits your 88% score tells us are already working well.
How Your Strategic Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your frontal lobe is your brain's main coordinator — and its connections to your other regions reveal how you think at the deepest level. It integrates with your parietal regions (72%) for spatial working memory, with your temporal regions (65%) for language-based reasoning, and with your limbic structures (58%) for emotional regulation. That Frontal-Limbic gap (88% vs. 58%) is worth paying attention to: your strategic capabilities are strong, but your emotional processing is your weakest area. This means you may sometimes prioritize logic over emotional nuance in decisions — a pattern worth being aware of. The good news: strengthening your Limbic system will actually enhance your already-strong Frontal performance, because better emotional awareness leads to more complete information for your decision-making circuits.
Your Frontal Lobe at 88% gives you the strategic horsepower for demanding leadership and analytical roles. Combined with your 92% Occipital, you have a visual-strategic brain — someone who sees the landscape clearly and can plan effectively within it. Your most impactful next move? Pair frontal development with limbic training. Strengthening your emotional intelligence (58%) will make your already-powerful strategic thinking even more effective.
Cerebellum
Timing & Procedural Learning
Correct: 8 of 10 questions
Your Cerebellum scored 78% — above average, which means your brain's timing and coordination center is performing well. You answered 8 of 10 procedural learning questions correctly. In everyday terms: you have a good sense of timing, you learn physical and procedural skills relatively quickly, and you can execute sequences of actions with solid precision. This is your third-strongest region and an area with clear room to push higher.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Your 78% score comes from a region that's often underestimated but plays a massive role in how you function. The cerebellum, located at the base of your brain, contains more neurons than the rest of the brain combined — despite being only about 10% of its volume. It receives input from sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other brain regions to fine-tune both motor and cognitive output. Beyond movement coordination, your cerebellum contributes to cognitive timing, sequence learning, and even language processing through connections with your frontal and parietal cortices. Your above-average score tells us this precision-timing machinery is working well — not exceptional yet, but solidly above what most people achieve.
What This Means for How You Think
What does 78% Cerebellar function mean for you in practice? It means you have a solid internal clock — your sense of timing and rhythm is above average. You likely learn procedures and routines faster than most people, and once you've learned a skill, you execute it smoothly without needing to consciously think through each step. Whether it's typing, driving, playing an instrument, or following a complex recipe, your cerebellum handles the "autopilot" skills that free up your powerful frontal lobe (88%) to think about higher-level strategy. At 78%, you're above average but not yet in the exceptional range — which means there's real, achievable room to push this into a genuine strength with targeted practice.
Career Implications for Your Coordination Strengths
Your Cerebellum at 78% gives you solid potential for careers requiring precise timing and procedural expertise, but this isn't your primary cognitive weapon — your visual (92%) and strategic (88%) abilities are stronger. Where your cerebellar skills become powerful is in combination with those strengths. Think about careers that blend visual-strategic thinking with skilled execution: creative direction (visualize and produce), UX design (see user needs and implement solutions), surgical planning (strategize and coordinate), or any role where you need to both conceive an idea and bring it to life with precision. Your cerebellum is the bridge between your vision and your execution.
Your Development Path
At 78%, your Cerebellum has clear room for improvement — and the good news is that cerebellar skills are among the most responsive to targeted training in all of neuroscience. Learn a musical instrument if you haven't already — nothing challenges cerebellar circuits quite like coordinating complex hand movements with auditory feedback in real time. Practice dance, martial arts, or sports that require precise timing rather than brute force. Juggling is one of the most efficient cerebellar exercises neuroscience has identified — it directly challenges the timing, coordination, and prediction circuits you're building. Even 15 minutes of balance exercises daily will promote cerebellar growth and refinement. The payoff: pushing this from 78% toward 85%+ would give you three regions above the professional threshold instead of two.
How Your Coordination Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your cerebellum integrates with your frontal regions (88%) for cognitive timing and planning, with your parietal regions (72%) for coordinated movement, and with the motor cortex for skilled action. That strong Cerebellum-Frontal connection (78%-88%) is notable for you — it means you can both plan a sequence of actions strategically and execute them with good timing. This integration is what allows experts to perform complex tasks fluidly and automatically, freeing up cognitive resources for the creative and strategic thinking that your Occipital and Frontal regions excel at.
Your Cerebellum at 78% is a solid foundation — you have above-average timing and procedural learning that pairs well with your stronger visual and strategic abilities. To move this from "good" to "excellent," invest in activities that specifically challenge your timing precision: musical training, coordination sports, or skilled crafts. This region responds faster to targeted training than almost any other area of cognition — making it your highest-ROI development opportunity after Limbic.
Parietal Lobe
Spatial Processing & Mathematics
Correct: 13 of 18 questions
Your Parietal Lobe scored 72% — above average, which means your spatial reasoning and mathematical processing are working well. You answered 13 of 18 spatial and quantitative questions correctly. In real terms: you can mentally rotate objects, estimate distances and quantities, and work through mathematical problems better than most people. You're not far from the professional threshold of 75%, which means targeted development here could push you into strength territory relatively quickly.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Your 72% score comes from one of your brain's most important processing hubs. The parietal lobe sits between your frontal and occipital lobes, serving as the crucial bridge for sensory integration and spatial processing. The superior parietal lobule handles spatial attention and visuomotor coordination, while the inferior parietal lobule (including the angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus) supports mathematical reasoning, language comprehension, and body awareness. The intraparietal sulcus is specifically involved in numerical cognition. At 72%, these systems are performing above average — your brain's spatial calculator is solid, if not yet exceptional.
What This Means for How You Think
What does 72% Parietal mean in your daily life? It means you can mentally manipulate objects — rotating a 3D shape in your mind, estimating whether furniture will fit through a doorway, or visualizing a route through an unfamiliar city. You have above-average mathematical intuition, meaning you can estimate quantities, spot numerical patterns, and work through quantitative problems with reasonable speed. You also have a solid sense of where your body is in space, which contributes to physical coordination and spatial awareness. At 72%, you're above average in all of these — but you're also just 3 percentage points away from the professional threshold (75%). That's a meaningful gap to close, and it's entirely achievable with targeted practice.
Career Implications for Your Spatial Strengths
Your Parietal at 72% gives you a solid foundation for careers that require spatial and mathematical reasoning, but where you really shine is when parietal skills combine with your dominant regions. Engineering, architecture, data science, and quantitative finance all demand precise spatial reasoning — and your 72% means you're capable in these areas, even if they aren't your primary strength. Where your parietal skills become most powerful is in supporting your visual and strategic strengths: your 92% Occipital sees the pattern, your 88% Frontal plans the strategy, and your 72% Parietal provides the mathematical and spatial framework to make it all concrete. Consider roles where spatial reasoning supports visual creativity: architectural visualization, game design, or data visualization.
Your Development Path
At 72%, your Parietal Lobe is a prime candidate for targeted improvement — you're close to the professional threshold and the gap is very closeable. Practice mental rotation tasks: look at 3D objects and try to visualize them from different angles without physically turning them. Engage with construction activities — building models, assembling furniture from plans, or working with CAD software. Study geometry and spatial mathematics, not as abstract exercises but as practical tools. Physical activities like dance, martial arts, and sports requiring precise body positioning will strengthen your parietal-motor integration. Even playing spatial puzzle games (Tetris has actual peer-reviewed research supporting its effect on parietal development) can make a measurable difference.
How Your Spatial Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your parietal lobe integrates with your frontal regions (88%) for working memory operations, with your occipital regions (92%) for visual-spatial processing, and with your cerebellum (78%) for precise motor control. That Parietal-Occipital connection (72%-92%) is particularly interesting for you: your visual processing is exceptional, but your spatial reasoning — which takes visual input and turns it into mathematical understanding — is above average but not at the same level. Strengthening your parietal function would create a more powerful visual-spatial pipeline, making your already-exceptional pattern recognition even more useful in technical and quantitative contexts.
Your Parietal Lobe at 72% is above average and tantalizingly close to the professional threshold of 75%. You have solid spatial and mathematical skills that become even more powerful when combined with your exceptional visual processing (92%). Closing that 3-point gap to 75% should be a near-term development goal — it would give you four regions at or above the professional threshold and significantly strengthen your overall cognitive toolkit.
Temporal Lobe
Language Processing & Sequential Memory
Correct: 10 of 16 questions
Your Temporal Lobe scored 65% — competent, but this is one of your development areas. You answered 10 of 16 language and sequential processing questions correctly. In plain terms: your language skills, verbal memory, and ability to process sequential information are functional but not operating at the same level as your visual (92%) and strategic (88%) strengths. This gap is actually common in visually dominant thinkers — your brain invested more resources in seeing patterns than in processing language. The good news: temporal skills are highly trainable.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Your 65% score reflects the performance of your brain's language and memory headquarters. The temporal lobe, located beneath the lateral fissure, contains Wernicke's area — essential for language comprehension. The hippocampus, nested within the medial temporal lobe, is crucial for forming new memories and spatial navigation. The auditory cortex processes sound, while the temporal pole integrates semantic knowledge and social cognition. At 65%, these systems are working — they're getting the job done — but they're not yet operating with the efficiency and precision you see in your top regions. Understanding why helps you target your development.
What This Means for How You Think
What does 65% Temporal mean for your daily life? It means you can understand speech, retrieve word meanings, remember conversations, and follow multi-step instructions — but you may not do these things as effortlessly as you process visual information. You might find yourself remembering what something looked like more easily than what someone said about it. You might prefer diagrams over written explanations, or find that you need to re-read complex text while you'd instantly grasp the same concept in a chart. This isn't a deficit — it's a cognitive trade-off. Your brain prioritized visual processing (92%) over verbal processing (65%). Knowing this helps you work smarter: use visual aids when learning, convert verbal information into diagrams, and play to your visual strengths when communicating.
Career Implications for Your Language Skills
Your Temporal at 65% means purely language-intensive careers — writing, teaching, law, interpreting — would require you to work harder than someone with a naturally stronger temporal region. That doesn't make them impossible, but they wouldn't leverage your primary cognitive advantages. Instead, look for careers where your visual and strategic strengths lead and your language skills support: you don't need to be a novelist, but a Creative Director who can articulate visual concepts clearly uses temporal skills in service of occipital strengths. Similarly, a UX Research Director needs to communicate findings verbally, but the core skill is visual pattern recognition — exactly your sweet spot. Your career strategy should put visual-strategic skills first and build temporal competence as a supporting capability.
Your Development Path
At 65%, your Temporal Lobe offers significant room for growth — and the return on investment is high because language skills amplify everything else you do. Read extensively across genres — not just topics you already enjoy, but challenging material that forces your brain to process unfamiliar vocabulary and complex sentence structures. Learn a new language, even casually; bilingual practice is one of the most powerful temporal lobe exercises neuroscience has identified. Practice verbal memory techniques: after meetings, try to recall the key points without notes. Engage in active listening exercises where you focus entirely on what someone is saying without planning your response. Musical training, particularly learning an instrument that requires reading notation, enhances temporal lobe auditory processing and memory consolidation simultaneously.
How Your Language Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your temporal lobe integrates with your frontal regions (88%) for language production and working memory, with your parietal regions (72%) for reading and mathematical language, and with your limbic structures (58%) for emotional memory. Notice a pattern? Your two development areas — Temporal (65%) and Limbic (58%) — are closely connected neurologically. Strengthening one tends to strengthen the other, because emotional memory and verbal memory share overlapping neural circuits. This means targeted temporal development will also help close your limbic gap. It's a two-for-one cognitive investment.
Your Temporal Lobe at 65% is a clear development opportunity — and developing it will pay dividends across your entire cognitive profile. Stronger language skills will help you communicate your visual insights (92%) and strategic thinking (88%) more effectively. Focus on reading, active listening, and verbal memory exercises. Because temporal and limbic circuits overlap, this investment will also strengthen your emotional intelligence. This is one area where the effort will compound across multiple regions.
Limbic System
Emotional Intelligence & Memory
Correct: 10 of 18 questions
Your Limbic System scored 58% — this is your lowest region and your single biggest opportunity for cognitive growth. You answered 10 of 18 emotional intelligence questions correctly. Let's be direct: at 58%, your emotional processing, social cognition, and interpersonal awareness are below the level of your other cognitive abilities. This doesn't mean you lack emotions or empathy — it means the neural circuits responsible for reading, understanding, and managing emotions aren't operating at the same high level as your visual (92%) and strategic (88%) abilities. This is actually the most common profile we see in strongly analytical and visual thinkers. And here's the important part: the Limbic System is one of the most trainable regions of the brain.
Cognitive Abilities Measured
Neurological Foundation
Your 58% score comes from some of the most ancient and deeply embedded structures in your brain. The limbic system comprises the amygdala (threat detection and emotional processing), hippocampus (memory formation), cingulate cortex (error detection and emotional regulation), and hypothalamus (physiological responses). These structures form the emotional core of the brain, driving motivation, attachment, and social bonding. At 58%, these circuits are functional but haven't received the same level of development as your visual and analytical pathways. Think of it this way: your brain allocated more resources to seeing and thinking than to feeling — and now you have the opportunity to rebalance.
What This Means for How You Think
What does 58% Limbic mean for you day to day? It means you might sometimes miss emotional undercurrents in conversations — the subtle shift in someone's tone that signals frustration, or the body language that says "I disagree but won't say so." You may find that you approach interpersonal challenges the same way you approach analytical problems: with logic and strategy rather than emotional intuition. You might occasionally be surprised by others' emotional reactions to situations that seem straightforward to you. None of this makes you a bad person or a poor communicator — it simply means your emotional radar operates at a different frequency than your visual and strategic processing. Being aware of this gap is the first step to closing it, and the fact that you're reading this report means you're already taking that step.
Career Implications for Your Emotional Intelligence
Your Limbic at 58% means that purely people-facing roles — counseling, sales, human resources, frontline healthcare — would require significant effort that doesn't play to your natural strengths. That's not where you should build your career. But here's what's critical to understand: almost every high-level career requires some emotional intelligence, and at 58%, you need to be intentional about developing it. A Creative Director (perfect for your 92% Occipital) still needs to manage creative teams through conflict. A Strategic Operations Director (great for your 88% Frontal) still needs to motivate and inspire. Your career strategy should prioritize your visual-strategic strengths while actively developing the emotional awareness needed to lead and collaborate effectively in those roles.
Your Development Path
At 58%, your Limbic System is your highest-priority development area — and the return on investment here is enormous because emotional intelligence amplifies the effectiveness of everything else you do. Start with emotional labeling: when you feel something, pause and name the specific emotion (frustrated, anxious, excited, disappointed — not just "fine" or "stressed"). This simple practice rewires limbic-frontal connections. Practice perspective-taking before responding in conversations: spend 10 seconds considering what the other person might be feeling before you reply. Mindfulness meditation — even 10 minutes daily — has been shown in peer-reviewed research to physically increase the density of limbic-prefrontal neural connections. Compassion meditation specifically targets empathy circuits. Cultivate meaningful relationships where you practice genuine listening without problem-solving. These aren't soft skills — they're neural exercises that will physically change your brain structure over time.
How Your Emotional Brain Connects to Everything Else EXECUTIVE EDITION
Your limbic system integrates with your frontal regions (88%) for emotional regulation and decision-making, with your temporal regions (65%) for emotional memory and social cognition, and with your body through the autonomic nervous system. The Limbic-Frontal connection (58%-88%) is the most important integration point in your entire profile. Your frontal lobe is making strategic decisions with limited emotional input — which means you may sometimes make technically correct decisions that miss the human element. Strengthening your limbic system will give your already-powerful frontal lobe better data to work with, leading to decisions that are both strategically sound AND emotionally intelligent. This is the single highest-impact development investment you can make.
Your Limbic System at 58% is your clearest growth area — and developing it will transform your effectiveness across the board. Every leadership role, every team interaction, every important relationship benefits from stronger emotional intelligence. The gap between your analytical power (88-92%) and your emotional processing (58%) is the single most important thing revealed by this assessment. Close it, and you won't just become more emotionally aware — you'll become a more effective strategist, leader, and communicator. Start with daily mindfulness practice and emotional labeling. The results will be measurable within weeks.
Your Cognitive Archetype
The Visionary
Visual Dominant — Occipital at 92%
You see what others miss. Patterns, details, connections — your brain processes visual information at an exceptional level.
Your occipital dominance means you process visual information with exceptional clarity. You don't just look at problems — you see them, often visualizing solutions before you can articulate them in words. You spot patterns in data, notice design flaws that others walk past, and think in images. This gives you a unique creative and analytical perspective that's rare and highly valued in the right careers.
Your secondary strength adds strategic depth to your visual power. Where "The Visionary" sees the patterns, "The Strategist" knows what to do with them. This Occipital-Frontal combination (92%-88%) is one of the most powerful pairings: you can perceive complex visual landscapes AND formulate multi-step plans to navigate them. In practice, this means you're at your best when you can both observe and lead — roles where insight and execution go hand in hand.
There are six possible archetypes in the Real World IQ framework: The Strategist (Frontal), The Analyst (Parietal), The Communicator (Temporal), The Visionary (Occipital), The Empath (Limbic), and The Coordinator (Cerebellum). Your Visionary archetype reflects where your brain is genuinely strongest — it's not a personality label, it's a neurological fact based on your assessment performance. Understanding your archetype helps you make career, education, and development decisions that align with how your brain actually works, rather than how you think it should work.
Your Strengths & Development Areas
Here's your cognitive profile at a glance — what you should lean into and what you should actively work on. Understanding this balance is the key to making the most of your natural abilities.
Your Cognitive Strengths
- Occipital Lobe (92%) — Your defining strength. Exceptional pattern recognition, visual memory, and detail detection. This is the foundation of your "Visionary" archetype and should drive your career decisions.
- Frontal Lobe (88%) — Your strategic engine. Strong planning, decision-making, and working memory. Combined with your Occipital dominance, this makes you a visual-strategic thinker.
- Cerebellum (78%) — Above the professional threshold. Solid timing and procedural skills that help you execute on what you see and plan.
Your Development Priorities
- Limbic System (58%) — Your #1 development priority. Emotional intelligence, social awareness, and empathy. Improving this will enhance every other region's real-world effectiveness, especially your Frontal lobe decision-making.
- Temporal Lobe (65%) — Your #2 priority. Language skills, verbal memory, and sequential processing. Strengthening this will help you communicate your visual insights and strategic plans more effectively.
- Parietal Lobe (72%) — Close to strength territory. Just 3 points from the professional threshold. Spatial and mathematical development here would round out your analytical toolkit.
Your profile has a clear story: exceptional visual-strategic abilities with a gap in emotional-verbal processing. Your highest-impact development path is: (1) Start daily mindfulness meditation to build limbic strength. (2) Add reading and active listening exercises to develop temporal skills. (3) Practice spatial puzzles to push parietal past 75%. In that order. Each investment compounds: better emotional awareness helps you communicate more effectively, and better communication helps you lead more successfully.
Careers Matched to Your Brain
Based on your specific cognitive profile — Occipital dominant (92%), Frontal strong (88%), with supporting Cerebellum (78%) and Parietal (72%) — we matched 24 careers that align with how your brain actually works. These aren't generic suggestions. Each career below requires the specific cognitive strengths your assessment revealed. Compensation data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and industry sources, updated February 2026.
How Your Score Compares Across IQ Scales
Here's exactly how your RWIQ score of 132 translates to each established IQ assessment, along with each test's scale range so you can see where you fall within each system.
| Test | Your Equivalent | Scale Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAIS-IV | 126 | 40-160 | Most widely used clinical IQ test |
| Stanford-Binet | 136 | 40-160 | Original modern IQ test |
| Cattell Culture Fair | 151 | 40-183 | Fluid intelligence focus |
| Raven's Progressive Matrices | 125 | 60-140 | Non-verbal reasoning |
| Woodcock-Johnson | 126 | 40-160 | Cognitive abilities battery |
Equivalent scores above a test's published ceiling represent statistical extrapolations based on normalized distribution curves. These values indicate relative cognitive standing, not literal test scores.
Your RWIQ score of 132 consistently translates to upper-range performance across every major standardized intelligence assessment. Whether measured by the WAIS-IV (126), Stanford-Binet (136), or Cattell (151), your cognitive capability is in the top tier — the kind of performance level that correlates with success in demanding professional and academic environments.
Your Personalized Job Board
Your assessment results unlock a personalized job board at Real World Careers. Positions are filtered and matched based on your specific brain region strengths — so the jobs you see are roles where your Occipital (92%), Frontal (88%), and other cognitive capabilities give you a genuine advantage.
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Your Career Intelligence Grid
This is your complete career comparison table — all 24 careers matched to your cognitive profile, with entry and senior salary ranges plus projected growth rates. Use this to quickly compare compensation across the career paths that align with your brain. Careers at the top leverage your strongest regions (Occipital and Frontal); the Executive-only careers at the bottom expand your options further.
| Career | Primary Region | Entry Salary | Senior Salary | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Director | Occipital | $70,000 | $160,000 | +5% |
| UX Research Director | Occipital | $90,000 | $170,000 | +16% |
| Video Game Designer | Occipital | $55,000 | $120,000 | +10% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | Frontal | $95,000 | $185,000 | +31% |
| Strategic Operations Director | Frontal | $95,000 | $165,000 | +12% |
| Investment Strategist | Frontal | $85,000 | $175,000 | +8% |
| Behavioral Economist | Frontal | $75,000 | $155,000 | +14% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | Frontal | $250,000 | $400,000 | +3% |
| Clinical Neuropsychologist | Frontal | $80,000 | $145,000 | +6% |
| Forensic Psychologist | Frontal | $65,000 | $125,000 | +6% |
| Data Scientist | Parietal | $85,000 | $165,000 | +35% |
| Neurotechnology Developer | Parietal | $90,000 | $175,000 | +22% |
| Quantitative Research Scientist | Parietal | $100,000 | $200,000 | +19% |
| Space Systems Engineer | Parietal | $85,000 | $160,000 | +7% |
| Robotics Engineer | Parietal | $80,000 | $155,000 | +9% |
| Commercial Airline Pilot | Cerebellum | $80,000 | $200,000 | +6% |
| Sports Performance Analyst | Cerebellum | $50,000 | $105,000 | +18% |
| Biomedical Engineer | Parietal | $65,000 | $130,000 | +5% |
| Executive Coach EXEC | Limbic | $60,000 | $150,000 | +11% |
| International Diplomat EXEC | Temporal | $70,000 | $140,000 | +4% |
| Technical Writer EXEC | Temporal | $55,000 | $95,000 | +7% |
| Film Composer EXEC | Temporal | $40,000 | $120,000 | +4% |
| Physical Therapist EXEC | Cerebellum | $60,000 | $95,000 | +15% |
| Art Therapist EXEC | Limbic | $45,000 | $80,000 | +11% |
For Employers
This section is designed for employers reviewing your report. It gives hiring managers a quick-reference guide to understand your cognitive assessment results and how your brain region scores map to specific job requirements. Share this section with potential employers or career counselors to help them see exactly where your cognitive strengths align with their needs.
How to Use This Report
- Compare candidate brain region scores to role requirements
- Higher scores indicate stronger cognitive fit for related tasks
- Use the archetype to understand working style and strengths
Brain Region Quick Reference
| Region | Key Abilities | Best For Roles Requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Frontal Lobe | Strategic Planning, Decision Making | Working Memory, Problem Solving |
| Parietal Lobe | Spatial Awareness, Mathematics | 3D Visualization, Sensory Integration |
| Temporal Lobe | Language Skills, Verbal Memory | Auditory Processing, Sequential Logic |
| Occipital Lobe | Pattern Recognition, Visual Memory | Detail Detection, Image Analysis |
| Limbic System | Emotional Intelligence, Social Awareness | Empathy, Interpersonal Skills |
| Cerebellum | Timing Precision, Motor Coordination | Procedural Learning, Rhythm |
How Your Assessment Works
Your RWIQ score of 132 wasn't generated by a simple quiz — it comes from a rigorously structured assessment designed to map your cognitive abilities across six distinct brain regions. Here's exactly how it works and why you can trust the results.
How You Were Tested
- You answered 100 questions across 6 brain regions — each region tested independently
- Difficulty was calibrated to PISA international benchmarks used across 80+ countries
- Your speed bonus of 14 points rewarded correct answers given within the optimal 2-15 second window
- Maximum possible score: 220 (160 base + 60 speed bonus) — your 132 represents strong performance
Brain Region Distribution
| Region | Questions | Focus Area |
|---|---|---|
| Frontal Lobe | 26 | Executive Function & Reasoning |
| Parietal Lobe | 18 | Spatial Processing & Mathematics |
| Temporal Lobe | 16 | Language Processing & Sequential Memory |
| Occipital Lobe | 12 | Visual Processing & Pattern Recognition |
| Limbic System | 18 | Emotional Intelligence & Memory |
| Cerebellum | 10 | Timing & Procedural Learning |
Validation
Assessment items developed by Timothy Parker, Guinness World Record holder as the world's most syndicated puzzle compiler. Questions calibrated against PISA international standards and validated through millions of administrations.
Your RWIQ score of 132 measures practical cognitive abilities that predict real-world performance — not abstract academic intelligence. The 100 questions you answered were designed to reveal how your brain works in practice, not how well you memorized textbook material. That's why your results include specific career matches, development strategies, and brain region analysis that's actionable in your actual life.
Where Your Career Data Comes From
The 24 career matches in your report aren't pulled from thin air — they're built on authoritative compensation, growth, and demand data from these sources. This is the same data that career counselors, university placement offices, and HR departments rely on.
Primary Sources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) - Occupational Outlook Handbook, employment projections, wage data
- O*NET OnLine - Detailed occupation requirements and cognitive demands
- Glassdoor - Real-time salary data and employer reviews
- LinkedIn Economic Graph - Hiring trends and skill demand
Professional Associations
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
- National Career Development Association (NCDA)
Data last updated: February 2026. Compensation figures reflect national averages and may vary by location.
Your Processing Speed
Your speed bonus of 14 points tells us something important about how your brain processes information under pressure. Processing speed isn't just about being fast — it reflects the efficiency of the neural pathways connecting your brain regions. Here's what the science says about speed, and what your performance reveals about your cognitive wiring.
Why Speed Matters for You
Cognitive processing speed reflects the efficiency of your neural pathways — how quickly electrical signals travel between your brain regions. Your speed bonus of 14 out of a possible 60 points tells us your neural transmission is developing. Research shows that faster accurate responses correlate with:
- Greater working memory capacity (Baddeley, 2003) — directly supporting your 88% Frontal performance
- Enhanced executive function and cognitive control
- Better real-world problem-solving under time pressure
- Higher job performance in complex, dynamic roles
- Stronger fluid intelligence across the lifespan
Your Speed Performance
14
POINTS EARNED
60
MAX POSSIBLE
23% of maximum - developing processing speed
Speed bonus awarded for correct answers given within 2-15 seconds (optimal cognitive response window).
The Science of Mental Chronometry
Mental chronometry - the scientific study of processing speed - has been a cornerstone of cognitive research for over 150 years. Modern neuroimaging confirms that reaction time correlates with white matter integrity, myelination efficiency, and overall neural network optimization.
Supporting Research (7 Key Studies)
- Salthouse, T.A. (1996). Processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Psychological Review, 103(3), 403-428. - Established processing speed as fundamental to cognitive aging.
- Jensen, A.R. (2006). Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences. Elsevier. - Comprehensive analysis of reaction time and intelligence relationships.
- Deary, I.J., Der, G., & Ford, G. (2001). Reaction times and intelligence differences: A population-based cohort study. Intelligence, 29(5), 389-399. - Large-scale validation of speed-IQ correlation.
- Sheppard, L.D., & Vernon, P.A. (2008). Intelligence and speed of information-processing: A review of 50 years of research. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(3), 535-551. - Meta-analysis confirming robust speed-intelligence link.
- Penke, L., et al. (2010). A general factor of brain white matter integrity predicts information processing speed. Molecular Psychiatry, 15(10), 1026-1030. - Neural basis of processing speed established via DTI imaging.
- Kail, R., & Salthouse, T.A. (1994). Processing speed as a mental capacity. Acta Psychologica, 86(2-3), 199-225. - Theoretical framework for speed as cognitive resource.
- Fry, A.F., & Hale, S. (2000). Relationships among processing speed, working memory, and fluid intelligence. Biological Psychology, 54(1-3), 1-34. - Established speed as mediator between memory and reasoning.
Your speed bonus of 14 points (23% of maximum) tells us that while your accuracy is strong — you answered 59 of 100 correctly — your processing speed has significant room to grow. This is actually good news: it means your total RWIQ score of 132 was driven primarily by knowledge and reasoning rather than speed, and targeted speed training could push your score substantially higher on a retest. Processing speed is one of the most trainable cognitive metrics — regular cognitive challenges and aerobic exercise can measurably improve your neural transmission efficiency within weeks.
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SCORE INTERPRETATION: RWIQ scores measure practical cognitive abilities through real-world problem-solving tasks. Scores are not directly comparable to clinical IQ tests, though equivalency estimates are provided for reference. The assessment evaluates six distinct cognitive domains, each contributing to your overall score.
CAREER RECOMMENDATIONS: Career alignments are generated by matching your cognitive profile strengths against job requirements data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET OnLine, and industry associations. These are recommendations, not guarantees of job placement or success. Individual results may vary based on experience, education, and market conditions.
ASSESSMENT VALIDITY: Questions developed by Timothy Parker, Guinness World Record holder as the world's most syndicated puzzle compiler. Assessment calibrated against PISA international standards and validated through millions of administrations across 80+ countries.
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