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Standardized test scores are not IQ (though correlated). A good IQ test should have high test/retest reliability (ie you don't get better after taking it again)
by haihaibye 7y ago
Standardized test scores are not IQ (though correlated). A good IQ test should have high test/retest reliability (ie you don't get better after taking it again)
- scarface74 7y agoI agree. But the point is that people who grew up with more resources, better connections, parents who helped them start off, etc do have better outcomes and think they are “self made”. The entire point of the article.
- alasdair_ 7y ago>A good IQ test should have high test/retest reliability (ie you don't get better after taking it again) This isn't actually true. Most people improve if they take the same style again which is why Mensa, for example, asks that you wait a year before re-taking their proctored tests. One source of many: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1932-00905-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1932-00905-001 "When a Stanford-Binet test is repeated within a period of three or four months the experience gained while taking the first test appears to result in a median gain of four or five points in the second IQ."
- SquishyPanda23 7y agoIQ is almost by definition performance on standardized tests. The SAT in particular was developed as an IQ test. I am off the top of my head unaware of any IQ test that you can't get better at by studying, but there may be some.