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You didn't answer my question. Above, you said that IQ tests cannot compare intelligence differences over time and I asked why. The fact that the average is alw
by Atheros 4y ago
You didn't answer my question. Above, you said that IQ tests cannot compare intelligence differences over time and I asked why. The fact that the average is always normalized to 100 doesn't make your statement true. Researchers can simply not normalize it to see the difference over time.
- JohnFen 4y agoI did answer your question. There's a good reason that IQ works the way it does -- it's because IQ tests are affected by lots of things other than intelligence, and those things are not constant over time. How well you do on an IQ test is affected by societal factors, for instance. This goes back to why I said that IQ tests are a poor proxy for intelligence at best. IQ test do not measure intelligence (there's not even any consensus on what "intelligence" actually is, and if you don't know what it is, it's pretty hard to measure). IQ tests measure competency in things that roughly orbit intelligence, but are also influenced by your cultural upbringing, your socioeconomic status, and even strange things like what type of thinking (not how good it is) your brain happens to engage in. The one thing that IQ seems to correlate well to is how well you'll do in college. But even there, the correlation is pretty loose.