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 #3 (permalink) Sun Dec 24, 2006 16:45 pm What is the unit of IQ? |
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Tom, I think the best explanation of IQ is the one my first psychology professor in college gave us:
| Quote: | | IQ tests are tests that measure whatever it is that IQ tests measure. |
While people who do well on IQ tests tend to be intelligent, many extremely intelligent people have low IQ scores. |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Jan 05, 2007 19:50 pm What is the unit of IQ? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | Tom, I think the best explanation of IQ is the one my first psychology professor in college gave us:
| Quote: | | IQ tests are tests that measure whatever it is that IQ tests measure. |
While people who do well on IQ tests tend to be intelligent, many extremely intelligent people have low IQ scores. |
Hopefully I will keep on assuring you that I am a little too slow on the uptake! Could you please explain the sentence in red to me?? 
Tom
PS: Conchita, I see you are on line right now and browsing the same forumn!! |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Jan 05, 2007 20:15 pm What is the unit of IQ? |
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| Tom wrote: | | PS: Conchita, I see you are on line right now and browsing the same forum!! |
Life's full of coincidences!
| Tom wrote: | | Quote: | | IQ tests are tests that measure whatever it is that IQ tests measure. |
Could you please explain the sentence in red to me?? |
I/we don't know (or care) what IQ tests measure. |
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:34 am What is the unit of IQ? |
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| Tom wrote: | | Hopefully I will keep on assuring you that I am a little too slow on the uptake! Could you please explain the sentence in red to me?? |
It means, "IQ tests measure something. We know that they don't measure intelligence, but we don't know what they do measure. But this unidentified thing is the thing that IQ tests measure."
At the time I was taking that course, a little girl I knew had been diagnose by a school psychologist with minimal brain dysfunction. I asked this (very good!) psychology professor what this term meant, and she told the class and me, "Minimal brain dysfunction is a diagnostic term that means, 'I don't like this kid, and I don't know why!'" |
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Jan 06, 2007 20:28 pm What is the unit of IQ? |
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I think that IQ tests are intended to measure the following, primarily:
- Use of logic
- Memory
- Creativity
- Aspects of intelligence related to visual association (the picture puzzles)
123 is generally regarded as a strong IQ score.
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| #8 (permalink) Sun Jan 07, 2007 0:13 am What is the unit of IQ? |
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| prezbucky wrote: | I think that IQ tests are intended to measure the following, primarily:
- Use of logic |
Whose logic?
Aspects of that can be measured, I believe.
The LAST person able to judge someone's creativity is a PSYCHOLOGIST! Just look at what kinds of paintings they buy! Psychologists frequently tend to judge artistic and other clich?s as being very creative.
Plus, I just love the idea of measuring someone's "creativity" and putting it into a numerical scale. Absolutely absurd. |
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| What can it be inferred? | Every vs. each |
