Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/IQ tests/reply

Hi, you did just great.

IQ tests are remarkably unable to look at intelligence, cause we dont' really have any way to measure that. They look at your vocab - if you grew up on a home that is not English, or grew up deaf, or grew up speaking BEV, you will score lower on that section, no matter what your intelligence is. They rate how well you can solve "logic" problems, but the logic is a very western way of looking at logic problems. Native Americans as one very particular example, are known to score badly on that part, cause they don not learn the same methods of solving problems that western americans do.

IQ tests have no way at looking at how you put peices of the world together to come up with unique solutions; they have no way of examining how you use so called "common sense"; they have no real way of assessing your creativity - a vital part of intelligence; they have no way of compensating for bad/good test takers.

And again, the very premise they start with is a logical "fail". it's very unclear what they are defining as "intelligence", cause no one really knows what "intelligence" is.