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Seems more fashionable to deny that general intelligence is real or that IQ tests can measure it with a fair degree of accuracy nowadays.
by slily 3y ago
Seems more fashionable to deny that general intelligence is real or that IQ tests can measure it with a fair degree of accuracy nowadays.
- antegamisou 3y agoI knew someone would the fail “the IQ test” of the parent comment. There’s a reason I specifically noted scoring high on subsets/subtests, Raven Progressive Matrices being the most popularized form online, of full IQ tests (latest WAIS revision). So no neither here, nor in the previous comment was there any dismissal of the existence of intelligence or its means of estimation. Many like to brag about getting high on this subtype and therefore believe they’re on the far-right end of the distribution, however to get an accurate estimate of your position there, you need all the additional tests that measure processing speed, verbal reasoning, short-term memory, maybe other types of non-geometric abstract reasoning tests. As I said I’m not a big fan of the way Americans obsess over the reliability of RPMs for an accurate score estimation, but I’d wager a test with the types of questions found on the SATs/GREs would help form a very robust intelligence population distribution.