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I wonder why people focus so much on IQ instead of better metrics. In this article, "The play deficit": http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/children-today-are
by chriscool 12y ago
I wonder why people focus so much on IQ instead of better metrics.
In this article, "The play deficit":
http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/ http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/children-today-are-suffe...
there are these very interesting sentences:
"Other research, by the psychologist Mark Runco and colleagues at the Torrance Creativity Center at the University of Georgia, shows that scores on the TTCT are the best childhood predictors we have of future real-world achievements. They are better predictors than IQ, high-school grades, or peer judgments of who will achieve the most."
TTCT is "Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking".
People should really be much more interested in metrics like TTCT, rather than IQ tests, SAT tests or other not very relevant metrics.
- programmernews 12y agoProbably because general intelligence is "the best-established, most predictive, most heritable mental trait ever discovered in psychology." (Geoffrey Miller, Spent)
- chriscool 12y agoI googled it and found the following: http://www.barrelstrength.com/2013/12/31/ramachandran-iq/ http://www.barrelstrength.com/2013/12/31/ramachandran-iq/ where there is: "Intelligence (says Prof. Miller at page 189 of Spent) is positively correlated to: brain size speed of performing basic sensory motor tasks (“reaction time is a factor”, as the cop said in Blade Runner) height symmetry of face and body semen quality (!) health, physical and mental longevity sexual attractiveness for long term relationships" So it is most predictive of many things, but maybe not of future real-world achievements...