Skeptical. Brilliance has a tendency to envelope itself. We progress on the scraps.
Of course - being motivated to take an IQ test to the best of one's ability IS a measure of higher intelligence!
Just like being motivated not to crash in a driver's test is a measure of better driving skills.
Liberals always want to excuse trashing things because of a bad mood, and never reflect that the bad mood might be the result of trashing things.
Someone with low motivation is unlikely to achieve their full potential, sort of by definition.
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A more detailed report of same: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/what-does-iq-really-measure.html?rss=1
I get so high on IQ tests that it is embarrassing (if I thought it was valid) that I haven't accomplished more.
If you know history people think you ‘sound smart’, but if you know just as many facts and can analyze and recite them just as well - but they are about baseball.....
People remember what they care about. Emotion helps retain short term memories - so if your attitude is “wow, this is REALLY COOL!” you will remember it for years - but if you think “Is this going to be on the test?” - you MIGHT remember it for the test.
I am not really that smart (Advanced Calculus is about my limit) but I am highly intellectually motivated. The result is high scores on tests. People shouldn't really take much more out of it than that - you take tests like an absolute GENIUS!
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