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Huh, I have done a lot of IQ tests in my life but none assumed a certain world view. They were all abstract figures and a question like 'after figure A, B and

Huh, I have done a lot of IQ tests in my life but none assumed a certain world view. They were all abstract figures and a question like 'after figure A, B and C, which follows?', the answer to which was usually pretty obvious in a weird kinda way. I've not seen any that made any reference to the real world.

ketralnis 4y ago
My Psych 101 class decades ago covered it in more detail so I'm just speaking from very loose memory but just from some naive googling: https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/winter052/ https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/winter052/ https://www.iqtestcouncil.org/faq/are-iq-tests-culturally-biased/ https://www.iqtestcouncil.org/faq/are-iq-tests-culturally-bi... https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/iq-and-testing-culture-education-and-iq-scores https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-a... There might better sources than those, the first one in particular has a lot of its own cites. My memory from class was a bit of a different angle than fairness which is what those talk about. The issue brought up there was that IQ tests were designed for the specific purpose of placing a corpus of students with varied prior education levels in the right grade. For that purpose it worked well: if you didn't do well on the English portion because your English is non-native and the school is charged with teaching you English, practically speaking we do need to send you back a grade because you need that specific skill and that's where you'll get it. But being non-native English doesn't mean that you're less intelligent, so the score isn't really applicable for measuring that basically unrelated thing. Despite the name, measuring intelligence isn't what it was for. I also vaguely remember it having story questions like "the left tap is cold water and the right tap is hot water, how much do you need to turn each to get 25% warm water" being asked of people that didn't have running water in their homes and that being a problem. But again don't lean too much into my memory, I could be remembering this all wrong.

ketralnis 4y ago

My Psych 101 class decades ago covered it in more detail so I'm just speaking from very loose memory but just from some naive googling: https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/winter052/ https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/winter052/ https://www.iqtestcouncil.org/faq/are-iq-tests-culturally-biased/ https://www.iqtestcouncil.org/faq/are-iq-tests-culturally-bi... https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/iq-and-testing-culture-education-and-iq-scores https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-a... There might better sources than those, the first one in particular has a lot of its own cites. My memory from class was a bit of a different angle than fairness which is what those talk about. The issue brought up there was that IQ tests were designed for the specific purpose of placing a corpus of students with varied prior education levels in the right grade. For that purpose it worked well: if you didn't do well on the English portion because your English is non-native and the school is charged with teaching you English, practically speaking we do need to send you back a grade because you need that specific skill and that's where you'll get it. But being non-native English doesn't mean that you're less intelligent, so the score isn't really applicable for measuring that basically unrelated thing. Despite the name, measuring intelligence isn't what it was for. I also vaguely remember it having story questions like "the left tap is cold water and the right tap is hot water, how much do you need to turn each to get 25% warm water" being asked of people that didn't have running water in their homes and that being a problem. But again don't lean too much into my memory, I could be remembering this all wrong.