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fair points Mr AssTits, but there's one thing i'll nitpick - if you are always given a culturally neutral test - how are you supposed to check the various types of intelligence, when the culturally neutral test is just a bunch of logic puzzles, it only tests for logic. it's impossible to test for debate ability, or musical abilities, or any other abilities with culturally neutral methods. even for a debate skill you need linguistic skills and langauges are heavily influenced by cultures they function in.
i took an IQ test with a licensed psychologist, WAIS for adults to be specific, and it was indeed based on the polish school curriculum. it supposedly measured 3 metrics: logic, language, emotion (not exact names of those metrics, forgot those). logic was just logic puzzles & memorising stuff, langauge was word definitions, and i assume an analysis of how i expressed myself, and emotion was honestly dumb and included sayings and idioms which??? i'm neurodivergent i get these wrong all the time, but i can read emotions and behave maturely quite well. then an average of these was taken and presented as my general IQ
i came out of there thinking how it'd be impossible for me to score well if i didn't have the privilege of attending good schools, or just being lucky (there was a section of culturally important figures, one of whom was Maria Skłodowka-Curie who also happened to be a patron of my primary school so, yeah i kinda knew a lot about her)
The most common (and pretty much the only) tests don't test any specific type of intelligence, since it's considerably more difficult. For that kind of more in-depth examination you probably need to visit a psychologist, like you did.
As for the test you took itself, I can't really say too much about it. It might have been personalized for you. So someone with worse access to education may receive an entirely different test. I think this is what should happen, after a reasonably thorough interview.
Hard to say precisely, and this may be beyond the scope of my current knowledge. I took psychology classes and read some books, both of which covered IQ basics in great detail, but didn't go into specialized tests. What you're saying is quite interesting, so I may read up on that or ask my psychiatrist.
the test wasn't personalised for me, IQ tests can't be personalised as the IQ result is derived from how far you deviate from the base 100. you can't reliably figure out the standard or compare people to it if you give every other guy a different test
the only personalisation you get is tests that cover lower or higher results. the most generic ones focus mostly on +/-2/3 standard deviations and become inaccurate at the borders. if you're a genius, or mentally disabled then you need a different test if you want to figure out how big of a genius/disability you got
but yeah good idea to ask an actual professional, hope you find the answers you seek