My maths teacher used to say "IQ tests are a measure of how good someone is at taking IQ tests".
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Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishing -
Originally posted by d000hg View PostMy maths teacher used to say "IQ tests are a measure of how good someone is at taking IQ tests".
If you think about the indigenous children who survived in Colombia it would be likely they would get a lower IQ score than say a child of Colombian mathematicians. However we all know who we would prefer to be stranded in the jungle with."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
Yep as unfortunately tests have been found to have cultural biases.
If you think about the indigenous children who survived in Colombia it would be likely they would get a lower IQ score than say a child of Colombian mathematicians. However we all know who we would prefer to be stranded in the jungle with.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View Post
Spend a few days teaching the mathematician basic survival skills and you may be fine. Spend a few days teaching the lower IQ child advanced mathematics and your rocket ship isn't going anywhere useful.
Put your two extremes in the same classroom at age four and both may have succeeded equally in higher maths. Despite a damaging change in school curricula in the fifth form, I passed GCE maths with an A, mainly because maths is not based on rote learning of a particular set of sources but applied logic. Things that do need that kind of background knowledge, like history, Eng Lit and Latin, I failed badly.
Intelligence is not a standalone attribute, it's a combination of many factors. I don't think for a moment that today's sixteen year old is any brighter or thicker than I was at that age (not a particularly high bar, to be honest!), but their intellectual curriculum is so limited they struggle with things I and you would have found easy.Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
Yep as unfortunately tests have been found to have cultural biases.
If you think about the indigenous children who survived in Colombia it would be likely they would get a lower IQ score than say a child of Colombian mathematicians. However we all know who we would prefer to be stranded in the jungle with.
Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Found some GCE O & A level papers the other day: did I really know that stuff?
Even more so the HNC and CEI Part II: did I really know any of that? Particularly the analogue computer programming which has come in so useful over the years.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSure that's it. I really really care about your opinion of me .Comment
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Originally posted by TheGreenBastard View Post
Nothing to do with me, but generally you do like to come across wise, when it's nothing further from the truth. Case in point, this brain fart.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by TheGreenBastard View Postgenerally you do like to come across wise.
Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by malvolio View Post
That's a specious argument.
I was replying to the comment about IQ tests having a bias. They have context. The measure of intelligence in the West at least is competence, so of course you are going to be tested within a context of what's valued.
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