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Originally posted by Romanian
A decent test should take into consideration all the aspects of intelligence. A specialized brain can be confused with an intelligent one.
merely possess an informational spike on the intellectual spectrum.
But I define true intelligence
Originally posted by alfa1
What is the next number in this sequence:
5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, .....
Originally posted by alfa1
Pain is to bread as rue is to ____
Are you one of those IQ test makers in question, and have your knickers in a twist?
How on earth, can an intelligent man or woman, design a test and place a specific value on knowledge, ability and cognition, without inadvertently setting the bar no higher than his or her own???
I wasn't "assuming" anything. It was merely one thought ,that seemed plausible, given your vehement attempt to demean and criticize.
When in fact, you could be employing one of an infinite number of possible personal beliefs, for your attack.
Or you could be simply a troll, looking for a good challenge or chuckle. I have no idea. Hence the question.
Originally posted by GoOfYFoOt
reply to post by alfa1
I get:
1) 5
2) hunger
Originally posted by alfa1
It could be argued that a good IQ test question requires thinking ability and not knowing a lot of "trivia" answers... but it could be argued that a person with high IQ would naturally pick up a lot of knowledge during their ordinary life.
Anyway,
Originally posted by alfa1
What is the next number in this sequence:
5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, .....
You need to know that pi = 3.1415926...etc...
The word "three", number of letters = 5
The word "point", number of letters = 5
The word "one", number of letters = 3
The word "four", number of letters = 4
The word "one", number of letters = 3
The word "five", number of letters = 4
The word "nine", number of letters = 4
The word "two", number of letters = 3 (I see that I messed up there in the question)
The word "six", number of letters = 3
The word "five", number of letters = 4
The word "three", number of letters = 5
The word "five", number of letters = 4
Originally posted by alfa1
Pain is to bread as rue is to ____
You need to know a bit of French language, that "bread" is "pain".
So the English language word for "rue" is "street".
Originally posted by IEtherianSoul9
LINK - IQ a Myth, Study Says
Can a moderator PLEASE move this to the 'Science and Technology' section...no clue how it ended up in the Fragile Earth section.
“When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of IQ — or of you having a higher IQ than me — is a myth,” said Dr. Adrian Owen
“If there is something in the brain that is IQ, we should be able to find it by scanning. But it turns out there is no one area in the brain that accounts for people’s so-called IQ. In fact, there are three completely different networks that respond — verbal abilities, reasoning abilities and short-term memory abilities — that are in quite different parts of the brain,” Owen said.
IQ tests do not properly determine an individual's level of intelligence. The reification of intellectual acuity into a scalable number so easily defined by IQ tests is inaccurate; it's much more complex than that.
These recent results are in line with late pundit Stephen Jay Gould's views on biological determinism and intelligence testing. In his book the The Mismeasure of Man he provided a critical review of the reasoning behind the Bell Curve and IQ testing (notably the g factor).
The two fallacies that are present concerning the principles of IQ testing are: reification and hereditarianism. The hereditarianism fallacy claims that intellect can be passed on, through genes, to the progeny of a person. The degree to which it is heritable is clearly been exaggerated by the most avid hereditarians (Gould, 1996). The first fallacy doesn’t take into account environmental effects, which can greatly outweigh any genetic effects passed on from parent to child. It doesn’t allow for opportunities for improvement of intellectual capabilities through proper education. The second fallacy is the misassumption that if hereditary explains a certain percentage of variation among individuals within a group; it must also explain a similar percentage of the difference in average IQ between groups (Gould, 1996).
In conclusion the study determined that three factors - reasoning, short-term memory and verbal ability - form one's "cognitive profile" and that unlike a trait like height which can be measured almost precisely, intellect is not a single, scalable, immutable number, so easily defined by IQ tests.
edit on 12/22/2012 by IEtherianSoul9 because: (no reason given)
"he graduated from MIT" etc.
They fail to factor in common sense in almost all cases.