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Re: the Wordsum test, I can't believe it is seriously used to assess IQ. If we assume that all participants know all of the words used, then maybe it would have
by lgessler 9y ago
Re: the Wordsum test, I can't believe it is seriously used to assess IQ. If we assume that all participants know all of the words used, then maybe it would have some merit. But so many of the words used are either archaic, little-used, or culturally specific to North America that you could only reasonably expect a well-read and/or well-educated (and therefore wealthy) American person to know them.
- Houshalter 9y agoIt still likely correlates well with IQ. That's the whole point of IQ. A bunch of different cognitive tasks like solving puzzles and memory tests tend to correlate very well with each other. I'd be very surprised if wordsums didn't predict IQ very well.
- hasenj 9y agoIt's hard to believe a person of high IQ is not going to be well-read and/or well educated. The only point about this test is it's specific to native speakers of English, but if you were born in North America than it surely applies to you even if your parents speak another language.
- lgessler 9y ago> It's hard to believe a person of high IQ is not going to be well-read and/or well educated. What of high IQ individuals who are born into low- or middle-class families, who didn't have their parents read them 19th century British novels, and therefore don't know what a dowager is?
- hasenj 9y agoThey would go to the library of their own accord. You don't need your parents to read things for you.
- lostboys67 9y agoI think you forgot class here