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What is the unit of IQ?



 
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What is the unit of IQ? Sun Dec 24, 2006 13:37 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
Hi

Could you please tell me about the unit of IQ? What (how much) is low IQ, what is normal and what is high?

What am I to understand from it?

1- She has an IQ of 123. (Is she stupid or intelligent?)

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What is the unit of IQ? Sun Dec 24, 2006 13:52 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
No, Tom.On the contrary, she is quick-witted.
Here is the useful link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ
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What is the unit of IQ? Sun Dec 24, 2006 17:45 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
Tom, I think the best explanation of IQ is the one my first psychology professor in college gave us:

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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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What is the unit of IQ? Fri Jan 05, 2007 20:50 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
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?? Shocked

Tom

PS: Conchita, I see you are on line right now and browsing the same forumn!!
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What is the unit of IQ? Fri Jan 05, 2007 21:15 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
Tom wrote:
PS: Conchita, I see you are on line right now and browsing the same forum!!

Life's full of coincidences!

Tom wrote:
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IQ tests are tests that measure whatever it is that IQ tests measure.

Could you please explain the sentence in red to me?? Shocked

I/we don't know (or care) what IQ tests measure.
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What is the unit of IQ? Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:34 am  What is the unit of IQ?		  
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?? Shocked

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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What is the unit of IQ? Sat Jan 06, 2007 21:28 pm  What is the unit of IQ?		  
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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What is the unit of IQ? Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:13 am  What is the unit of IQ?		  
prezbucky wrote:
I think that IQ tests are intended to measure the following, primarily:

- Use of logic

Whose logic?

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- Memory

Aspects of that can be measured, I believe.

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- Creativity

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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