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Message Subject A New Study Shows IQ to be a Myth
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Glad to see there is a study that has caught up to one of the things I have been saying for years. First and foremost,
Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 | [email protected] and the speed to which it is recalled. The better a person's recall (or photographic memory) the higher their IQ, provided they have been taught the material covered. For example, a 5 year old may have a grasp of addition and subtraction, but multiplication and division would be unusual concepts...algebra, geometry's theorems and proofs as well as trigonometry functions would be alien for a 5 year old and would not be tested by any sane IQ test for the age level.

Can a 5 year old do multiplication and division? Yes, of course they can. They can understand the rational behind it if properly explain to them as well. But doing so is not an indication of intelligence unless they can quickly figure out basic concepts such as multiplication is commutative just as addition is.

So basically knowledge is the sum of information that you know, IQ is how quickly you can access that knowledge and intelligence is how you adapt that information outside the original data. For example 1 x 3 = 3 is knowledge. Answering without calculating or counting on fingers is a degree of IQ, figuring out on your own that any number multiplied by 1 is always that original number is a level of intelligence...if you were told that fact, then it is knowledge and remembering that you were told it is IQ.

Hope I explained that well enough.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30635615


Not true, AC. I edited and tested IQ tests for 8 years. You're correct that IQ tests cover several different areas, at least Verbal and Mathematical/nonverbal (or performance).

One IQ test called the Raven Matrices has no words, only symbols. It correlates quite well with other verbal IQ tests.

There are many different intelligences, if you consider intelligence to be how well we can perform and succeed in different environments. Howard Gardner tests for seven different intelligences. There are probably hundreds more. And when you consider that our native intelligences are affected by psychological factors, a number or set of numbers is almost meaningless unless we assume the person is in optimal psychological condition.
 Quoting: Little Bee


I have a question for you 2+2 =
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30635615


In my world it equals 4. Has nothing to do with IQ, just knowledge.
 Quoting: Little Bee


If I'm smarter in a certain skill area, I'll learn faster. What's your point?
 
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