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We can also test how far most people can jump and their ability to memorize numbers or do arithmetic or algebra quickly. We don’t have a “movement quotient” or
by teaearlgrey_hot 4y ago
We can also test how far most people can jump and their ability to memorize numbers or do arithmetic or algebra quickly. We don’t have a “movement quotient” or a “calculation quotient” so what exactly does an “intelligence quotient” aim to quantify precisely? It’s not intelligence, I’ll argue.
- anm89 4y agoWe absolute have and use these things. This is why the US army makes you run a mile and counts your pull ups. These things are not measures of your "true physical fitness", they are just data points. But they have extremely high correlation on other fitness metrics so we just measure them and assign a score. You could very reasonably label the outcome of that test a movement quotient.
- DarylZero 4y agoFor the general population, pullups are just measuring bodyweight.
- anm89 4y ago??? Yeah if you average everyone together. You could say this about every fitness activity that exists. It doesn't mean you aren't going to see big differences in results when you test it which is why they do it.
- DarylZero 4y agoYou can't say the same thing about everything. If you measured absolute strength the correlation with weight would go the other way!