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To: SLJP
Your level of formal education and your familiarity with taking these kinds of tests also influence how well you do. That's part of the reason IQ tests aren't a perfect measure of your intelligence. Your score would probably be quite different if the IQ test was designed to take into account your musical, artistic, emotional and social skills.

I will argue against this til the day I die; intelligence is not knowledge, it is the ability to acquire and use knowledge; logic and reasoning are in the end social skills but do predict intelligence when measured at an early age.

As with all my posts (polemics), this is my personal opinion and carries no scientific weight but if I am wrong then we should all score higher as we age, but, do we? I haven't; still at 140 +- 10 on the Stamford Binet scale.

This site is a "massage session" you can't score poorly, why, your feel-bads might get hurt.

206 posted on 12/19/2001 6:18:29 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Old Professer
I will argue against this til the day I die; intelligence is not knowledge.

I agree with you. I think what eMode was trying to say, albeit poorly, is that familiarity with taking tests can be useful on an IQ test, and I do agree with that. I was taught to reason my way through multiple choice questions. It was in one of my first college courses, which was required of all Freshmen, if I remember correctly!

232 posted on 12/19/2001 7:11:41 PM PST by Beep
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To: Old Professer
I will argue against this til the day I die; intelligence is not knowledge, it is the ability to acquire and use knowledge; logic and reasoning are in the end social skills but do predict intelligence when measured at an early age.

This site is a "massage session" you can't score poorly, why, your feel-bads might get hurt.

I agree 100%. That being said, I was pretty happy with my 135. Word Warrior, though, is a joke.

258 posted on 12/19/2001 8:11:25 PM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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To: Old Professer
This site is a "massage session" you can't score poorly, why, your feel-bads might get hurt.

Oh yeah? Tell you what, as much as I hate to even mention these people, let's get some of our good friends at DU on there. Then we'll see how impossible or not it is too score badly.

Granted though, I came in at 135, so it may well be padded.;)

286 posted on 12/19/2001 11:20:43 PM PST by cold_vicious_logic
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To: Old Professer
This site is a "massage session" you can't score poorly, why, your feel-bads might get hurt.

My feelings sure got hurt.

The only one I was sure of was the fruit thing.

325 posted on 12/20/2001 12:07:29 PM PST by carenot
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