Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 19:48:31 -0500 Subject: iq test Do you remember where you got that test? On traditional tests I score really high but this one kicked my ass and I would love to see some explanations... Do you remember where you found it perchance?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 08:08:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Your I.Q. Test (fwd) :) I got this response from a friend who received the IQ test from me. Thought you might find it amusing, as his reaction was just what I had hoped: > Okay, I have many, many problems with your I.Q. Test: > > 1) What scale doe the "I.Q. of 140" does it refer to? The WAIS-R, the > WISC-R, WAIS, WISC, the Stanford-Binet, the Binet-Simon, etc? Which one? > > 2) "the I.Q. of 140"....how many standards of deviation (z-scores) above > mean is it? > > 3) Why is the person who wrote the "test" using that scale and not one he > devised himself? Why not create your own bell curve for that test? > > There are many more questions I could ask you about that I.Q. test you > sent me. I.Q. tests are so...unpredictable...It figures in the > education, experience, environment and many more other things into the > test that not everyone would have in their life. It assumes that you're > educated and thus if you pass the test, you're more "smarter" than the > rest....WRONG!!!! It just means that your total life experiences and > education has been more than a majority of people is THIS SOCIETY. This > test is a VERY ETHONOCENTRIC test and CANNOT be applied to ANY OTHER > CULTURE OTHER THAN NORTH AMERICA AND SOME OF EUROPE. It CANNOT be > applied to developing countries in Africa or Asia or anywhere in the > world thus it is NOT a TRUE measure of intelligence. > > I've got more but I want to see what you think of that :) What do you think?
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