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There are two measures of intelligence: Correctness and Speed. Correctness is the primary measure, and if two parties are correct then speed differentiates the
by danq_ 3y ago
There are two measures of intelligence: Correctness and Speed.
Correctness is the primary measure, and if two parties are correct then speed differentiates their level of intelligence. This is the only measure that has been quantified and scientifically correlated with many other attributes of human existence like success and happiness. This measure is is called IQ.
If both people get an answer correct, then literally, by definition, the stupider person will be the person who takes longer to arrive at the correct answer. Remember: IQ tests are timed.
This study is sort of a play on the very definition of what it means to be stupid. Again, IQ tests are timed for a reason.
The real title of this is should be:
Stupid people take less time to arrive at a wrong answer then smart people take to arrive at the correct answer.
This is sort of a useless study, because yeah, I can answer the hardest questions in the entire universe with the wrong answer almost instantaneously. Of course wrong answers will be faster.
The fact that most of you aren't noticing this says something about your intelligence. Maybe you guys are just taking too long to notice this, so in that case according to this study you're all smarter than a dumb dumb like me.
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- Noumenon72 3y agoIt's not clear to me from Google that IQ tests are timed. Some sections of some tests are. I don't think any test is like "For question 4, you get 10 points for answering within 2 seconds, 5 points within 4 seconds, and 0 after." A time limit on the test could just be to keep you from accidentally measuring conscientiousness in people who are willing to spend 10 hours to get everything right. That said I'm pretty sure reaction time and "clock speed" are part of intelligence, just correlated well enough that you don't need a reflex test added onto the paper test.
- danq_ 3y agoParts of it are timed. I know because my brother is a trained administrator of giving these tests. Even without the concept of an IQ test the fact that if you were given two people who both answered 50 questions correctly, one person took a full day to complete the questions while another person answered them in all in 2 minutes. Clearly our conceptual intuition of intelligence says the Faster person by literal definition of "intelligence" is more intelligent. Like what is the experiment in this article measuring here? If it's comparing people who got the exact same test scores then the experimenter can't identify differing levels of intelligence because everyone got everything right. How can they say the faster person is stupider then the slower person if the scores are the same? The only way to truly compare is to find people who got the answers wrong, but in this case your measuring the speed of arrival at a wrong answer which is in itself a pointless measurement. Obviously wrong answers are faster to come up with and obviously a person with more wrong answers is going to be faster and stupider then the person with right answers.