Rule
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver IQ tests measure what the creators of IQ tests define as intelligence which is not necessarily what intelligence is. IQ tests do not measure a person's imagination or creative abilities. They may be a guide as to how someone might perform in academic activities as long as they have been trained to think in the way the makers of IQ tests expect people to think but not how capable someone is of functioning and contributing to the real world. For example, it has been claimed that many a great artist would merely be lost in the anonymous masses if IQ tests were used as a guide to someone's artistic ability. Quite. quote:
ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave With regard to Creativity/IQ correlation or lack of , you may well be right MC. However IQ TESTS measure the same thing, however that thing is defined. Thus tests will be applied across a spectrum of society, scores calculated, the mid result DEFINED as 100 and the spread plotted. When this is done, particularly when the problems of social/class bias have been eliminated, as claimed by the IQ fraternity, then the outcomes are quite consistant and spectacularly non PC. I expect that is one reason why the tests are held in such low esteem !!! IQ is much like a car or a horse. In principle a car with only one seat and one wheel, and one engine but nothing else (a light weight car), will go faster than a car with four seats and four wheels and headlights and a claxon and such (a heavy mass car). Is the car superior in the sense that it goes faster? Yes. In all other ways, though, it is a downsized car. Analogously a horse with only one eye, nostril, ear, kidney, lung, leg in principle will run faster than a horse that has the full complement. Is it superior? Yes, as it goes faster - but in all other ways it is severely handicapped (missing three legs and all that). The theory of evolution by natural selection is adamant: any trait that is in the slightest way beneficial will be selected for. Indeed, when the benefit is a mere one per cent in evolutionary terms it will be selected for faster than lightning strikes. That such large discrepancies in IQ exist within populations and between populations, indicates that a high IQ does not bestow such benefits. Consequently high IQ ideas (conceived by scientists) like eugenical genocide (let's eradicade the low-IQs people) most definitely are both crazy and extremely stupid and most certainly counterproductive. (Who wants a herd of one-legged horses?)
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