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Once you drop the iq test idea you are left with claims that are overly broad and impossoble to prove because do many factors influence them: history, environmental issues, disease, catostrophic evrnts, war, political instability....One doesn’t really have to rely on IQ tests... one only needs to look at the results globally. They speak for themselves. IQ tests are just one way, to explain the outcomes.For those who are overly reliant on IQ tests to justify racist attitudes you may want to rethink it.Is An IQ Test An Accurate Way To Measure Intelligence Or Are Mental Abilities Something You Can’t Put A Number On?
IQ tests 'do not reflect intelligence'
We can all think of people that have poor reasoning and brilliant memories, or fantastic language skills but aren't so hot at reasoning, and so on. Now once and for all we can say there is not a single measure such as IQ which captures all the intelligence that you see in people."
The online test, which took about 30 minutes to complete, featured 12 cognitive tests of volunteers' memory, reasoning, attention and planning as well as recording details about their lifestyle and background.
Taking into account the full range of cognitive abilities tested, they found that people's varying success rates could only be explained by combining at least three types of intelligence, and not by any single measure such as IQ.
"When you look at cognitive ability you can't boil it down to fewer than three components – short-term memory, reasoning and a verbal component," Dr Highfield explained. "There isn't one component that explains all the variations we saw in all the tests."
The IQ test is an exam most of us are familiar with, regardless of whether we have taken it or not. The test was originally designed by the French psychologist Alfred Binet in the early 1900s. But in the new millennium, is the IQ test still an effective means of measuring general intelligence? According to the general consensus, the answer is "no."
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/04/what-does-iq-really-measure
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