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No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It’s pretty much all Raven’s Progressive Matrices though that has it’s own issues.
by tacitusarc 2y ago
No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It’s pretty much all Raven’s Progressive Matrices though that has it’s own issues.
- darby_nine 2y ago> No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It's often under the label "verbal comprehension".
- hirvi74 2y agoThat is blatantly false in my experience. I once was administered an in-person WAIS-IV IQ test, which has been called the "Gold Standard of IQ Tests," from a licensed clinical psychologist for the purposes of diagnosing a medical syndrome. On the verbal reasoning portion, I distinctively remember being asked two questions that sat wrong with me (paraphrasing): 1. "Who was Sacagawea?" 2. "Who was Catherine the Great?" There were also vague questions in the word definition/comparison section. I distinctively remember one of the questions being (paraphrasing): "Compare and contrast the two words 'Practical' and 'Pragmatic.' What do the two words have in common and what are their differences?" My issue, especially with the latter question, is what type of answer is acceptable? I could say something like, "'Practical' and 'Pragmatic' both describe being concerned with reality or feasibility vs. theory." But what about the differences? What if I said something like, "Well, there is no such things a 'Pragmatic' joke." Would I have been correct, wrong, a smart ass, or at the mercy of the psychologist's opinion? Would I be marked wrong because it wasn't what the test authors' intended answer despite me being technically correct?