IQ tests?
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Luckymoose
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I scored a 130 something back when I was a kid. Dunno what it would be now.
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Huayna Capac357
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dannyshenanigan
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Albert Einstein never took an I.Q. test, but it was estimated (whatever that means) at just around a meager 160. What made Einstein brilliant wasn't his I.Q. but his trancendental, creative thinking. I.Q. measure only brain speed and power. Their are other intellectual abilities that do not factor into I.Q.s as well such as music or artistic ability. I.Q. may not be meaningless but they are far from the end all, be all.
160 isn't "meager"
If you wanted a real example, then it would be Feynman, who "only" had a 120.
dannyshenanigan
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For one of the greatest minds of all time, 160 is much lower than one would expect. Of course his I.Q. is only speculation.
Richard Feynman is a really good example of the problems with I.Q. tests. Feynman was a full-fledged polymath.
Richard Feynman is a really good example of the problems with I.Q. tests. Feynman was a full-fledged polymath.
Chazumi
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IQ tests or intelligence quotient tests dont measure how smart you are, they measure your ability to learn.
And the numbers are always changing, a score of "100" is exactly medium. As in, at any given time about 70% or so (guesstimate) of Earths population has an IQ of 100. Nobody ever says they have an IQ of 100 if you ask, even though statistically about 6-7/10 people have a 100 IQ.
The measure of 100 is also ever fluxuating. What was considered a 100 IQ in 1990 may be a 96 by todays average for example. And it can also go down. Someone mentioned they supposedly had a 130 when they were a kid (why a kid is taking an IQ test is beyond me), which may very well be a 115 today, or maybe even a 160 today depending on how it fluctuates.
IQ tests are about as accurate as phrenology in my opinion.
Ecofarm
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Wasn't there an accusation that IQ tests are culturally biased? Or is that a conspiracy theory.
I avoid taking it, mainly because I do not want to have to convince myself that the test is meaningless after I get a terrible score. You cannot fail if you never try!
I avoid taking it, mainly because I do not want to have to convince myself that the test is meaningless after I get a terrible score. You cannot fail if you never try!
Ecofarm
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All tests, outside of pure math, are culturally biased... I'm pretty sure.
Anything that requires a context (everything except math) is at least somewhat subjective? Is physics culturally biased? Chemistry? Probably.
Surely soft sciences are. Whoa, sciences - why does it seem so wrong to plural that word.
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Onionsoilder
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I got an IQ of 12,837, but these online tests are crap anyway.
Mise
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By the end of your first year at university, it should become obvious to you that, however smart you thought you were, you're probably not as smart as that.
Huayna Capac357
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Yes. Jared Diamond shows that IQ tests show not innate intelligence, but reasoning with shapes and numbers, which, thus, hunter-gatherer tribes with higher intelligence than most Westerners show up very poorly on them.
Chandrasekhar
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Then how do you accurately measure the hunter-gatherers' intelligences?
Huayna Capac357
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By, one example, the time it takes them to master new things (like industrial equipment), their inquisitiveness, etc. The whole business of measuring intelligence is rathere unscientific............
I went to a phrenologist to improve my intelligence. I can't remember if it worked, but do remember having a headache after so it must of worked.
Huayna Capac357
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Woah, that's hard core!
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