IQ Test
Great discussion going on at Durham in Wonderland about the relationship of IQ and Angry Studies. And the usual person chimes in saying it doesn't measure anything and besides it is not useful and it is psuedo-science and it is the one thing that can't be differentially distributed between different populations. Pygmys may be short, and Watusis may be tall, but every one gets the same distribution of brains.
So I invented this little IQ test for the person who believes they are not valid. See if you can pass.
You are a passenger on a 747-400 and you have a choice of pilots, each has similar visio-spacial co-ordination and motor skills, one has an IQ of 70 the other has an IQ of 130.
Who you gonna call?
To say IQ has no validity is BS. It is a belief that not even your own experience will support.
If you choose the IQ 70 guy all that will prove is that there are at least two morons on the plane.
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People ask me: "Say, you've earned a doctorate? What's your IQ?"
With a twinkle in my eye, I answer:
"High enough to keep me from ever taking an IQ test!"
And MSimon, you're quite right in your assessment that IQ tests DO measure SOMETHING measurable, even if some people don't have enough IQ to understand quite WHAT it is measuring!
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