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Have you taken an IQ test? They are structured very differently.
by zeckalpha 5y ago
Have you taken an IQ test? They are structured very differently.
- toomim 5y agoThere are many structures for IQ tests. Some use analogical reasoning, some use arithmetic pattern matching, some use vocabulary and language skills. You are perhaps thinking of the style of IQ tests that require you to fill in analogies and rotate shapes together. But what makes an IQ test is the theory that all performance on each of these skills correlates together strongly, indicating a single "general intelligence" factor (aka "IQ"). [1] Reading comprehension turns out to be highly correlated with mathematical aptitude, and musical aptitude, etc. So the main criteria for an IQ test is not how it looks, or how it's structured, but whether it measures knowledge that has been acquired (aka "nurture") or ability to reason about new things. Since this test is measuring reading comprehension on topics that are unfamiliar to the reader, it is measuring the latter, and is likely to have a strong correlation with g, and thus looks like an IQ test. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)