Posted on 08/09/2013 10:53:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We agree on the fundamentals. Many IQ tests are simplistic. They gauge the ability for someone to recognize patterns, solve problems, identify relationships, memorize and recall information, and process speech and visual cues. People can be maximally or nominally intelligent in most areas but fail miserably, for instance, during timed portions of tests. Likewise, people can do very well under pressure but not memorize or recall more than a handful of numbers, letters, words, or concepts.
IQ is an averaging of the many different branches of intelligence. It is an intelligence QUOTIENT. Raw numbers are often more indicative of specific intelligence versus the general IQ of a person through testing parameters.
Tell that to the peace prize people. didn’t our elected idiot get one for what he could do?
My grandfather was a carpenter.. He said “it’s not how good I am. it’s how good the trim guy is at hiding my mistakes”..
same applies here.
Yeah, but it’s pretty funny to see them talk about taking it back.
It sure is. I'm more impressed with that 8 (I think) year old girl who was mentioned here a couple weeks ago that is already a Masters level chess champion and she also plays matches blindfolded.....
ENVY, one of the 7 deadly sins. See a lot of it in the comments
Don't tell that to the Nobel committee or Obama...
That reminded me of a Grad school Engineering prof I had, whose policy was to only award the top two A’s regardless of the physical test scores during the term…
I recall cruising along at about 96% through the first month, which would have been good for fourth or fifth and only a ‘B’ in the class had I finished the course (which was dropped anyway due to other circumstances).
How many times to we note the moronic idiocy of "brilliant" people? Most Mensa material are NOT "leaders" because they lack social skills.
And saying, “I’m in MENSA” IS showing off - she’s smart enough to have figured that out.
I’d say she has wisdom,
She has already articulated that, hasn't she?
No problem I was a Genius when I was 20 years old..
BUT; have grown progressively DUMBer over the years..
The more you know... the more you learn what you don’t know..
She might become half as smart over the next few years.. or less.
Perhaps...but you may be overlooking the disdain for THE widely accepted criteria for "intelligence." IQ does not consider common sense, social skills, and instinctive survival skills.
One of his greatest sayings was “that some people were educated beyond there intelligence” He stated that common horse sense was better than most peoples fancy degrees.
I agree that IQ test are not worth ten cents. I was tested in the twelfth grade and had a IQ of 146. I thought that anyone who has a good memory can fake out most IQ test very easily.
And by the way my kids are smarter than both my wife (126) and me. I have told my kids not to let themselves be tested since it can cause them to become swell headed and think that they are smarter than other people just because of a set of numbers.
We tell them that common sense is worth more than gold in this world today!
“Non Sequitur”
Not really. What good is all the genius at a Mensa meeting if they’re unable to communicate it due to having all the social skills of an autistic? They often come off as indistinguishable from less intelligent people and, effectively, they are.
Precisely my situation.
My uncle worked on the Manhattan project. I have no idea what his IQ supposedly was, but I do know he could do simultaneous equations in up to 100 variables ... wait for it ... in his head. He was termed a human calculator. They used him in the Manhattan project as sort of a human checksum generator for the computer. The computer would wangle through some massive calculation, he would look at the output, and in moments say whether the computer was in the right ball park. I could go on. So many stories. And the worst of it? He was the nicest coolest guy you’d ever want to meet. Not a hint of the social skills problems so often associated, in stereotype, with geniuses. And a godly man too. He is missed.
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