Posted on 10/05/2018 9:48:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
People too often forget that IQ tests havent been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in 1905. However, these tests didnt become associated with genius until the measure moved from the Sorbonne in Paris to Stanford University in Northern California. There Professor Lewis M. Terman had it translated from French into English, and then standardized on sufficient numbers of children, to create what became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale....
The result was a group of 1,528 extremely bright boys and girls who averaged around 11 years old. And to say they were bright is a very big understatement. Their average IQ was 151, with 77 claiming IQs between 177 and 200....
The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejectsthe children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sampleat least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the test smarts to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Termans test but scored too low to enter the sample. The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejectsthe children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sampleat least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the test smarts to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Termans test but scored too low to enter the sample.
(Excerpt) Read more at nautil.us ...
Very interesting story, thanks.
I’ll put my money on common sense any day.
Another harrumph for that guy!
Yes. Our Constitutional Republic needs more Smart and Lazy.
The Rules work if they are followed; too many in government have ambition that they think makes them above the Rules.
Dont forget drive and determination and discipline and duty
DDDD
nice ring to it
No, I didn’t read the article. Too many words!
I always played around with these tests. I made patterns of my answers to the multiple choice questions.
I would answer A on the first question, then B, then C, then B again and back to A. And I still got a 127! Ha ha!
It was one of the stupidest tests I ever took. But then again, it was 50 years ago.
I was trying to say your analysis was completely correct
Fascinating.
As Argentina is of pure European extraction their IQ should be the same as Europe.
Of course they said that they were three IQ points ahead of Chile because Chileans had some "non-white" ancestry so their IQ must be lower.
That is interesting as Chile is a stable and prosperous country and Argentina has been a basket case for generations.
You would think it would be the other way around.
Or perhaps their work is a mix of government propaganda, some bits of what might be true and a great deal of pure hooey.
OK, thanks!
Yes, I think people can be intelligent, but have completely flawed belief systems. The political left all over the world has many intelligent people, but intelligence in implementing evil is not good. What the world needs is intelligence combined with good will.
IQ does matter, but so does hard work and common sense.
My career was as an electrical engineer. Richard Feynman’s lectures on physics were like hearing from God why things work like they do.
I bought the Feynman Lectures when I was a university freshman, not for a class, but just because it seemed interesting. Which it was, but it was also a lot of work. I ran out of time, and it went on a shelf.
However, I stayed interested in Feynman. One of my heros.
Do you remember Julius Sumner Miller’s Physics lectures? I remember those running late night on the local PBS station.
Here’s one example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2oALaRfL4
High IQ sets one apart from one’s fellow human beings in a major way. Much of one’s intelligence is employed in learning how to adjust to those with a much lower IQ, who can constitute almost all the people one comes in contact with.
Some are better at this than others. The ones who are not good at such adjustment don’t do as well in the world as they might.
Argentinians are not pure European
Ever take the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
Isnt government made up of people?
Stop being so darned logical. ;^)
“Ever take the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)”
I took that at an employment agency in around 1985. They said I scored the highest of anyone they’d tested. I thought it was fun.
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