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Because IQ is a very specific thing. It doesn't mean you know a lot or are good at high school maths. IIRC an ideal IQ test would be something you could take
by reitanqild 8y ago
Because IQ is a very specific thing.
It doesn't mean you know a lot or are good at high school maths.
IIRC an ideal IQ test would be something you could take even if you can't read and haven't learned maths and it will tell you something about your general problem solving skills.
And as we all know, people can be excellent problem solvers without being very athletic at all, so mixing that into the score would actually make it less useful.
- thegabez 8y agoYou don't need to know how to read or know math to shoot a basketball and the problem is well defined. Put ball through hoop.
- yitosda 8y agoSomeone who in principle has a very high "Athletic Quotient" may be relatively bad at this depending on how many times they've attempted it before the test. A good AQ test would hopefully control for this? Though my understanding is that IQ doesn't control very well for practice either. It's a hard problem.
- reitanqild 8y agoGoes both ways: you don't need to be good at sports to be an excellent problem solver in the office.
- mcphage 8y ago> Because IQ is a very specific thing. IQ is definitely not a specific thing at all, unless by that you mean “IQ is what gets measured by IQ tests”.