| Re: Politics |
Wed, 15 December 2004 19:43   |
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 goober |
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| Staz wrote on Wed, 15 December 2004 12:36 |
However, someone with a higher IQ is likely to be more intelligent (using the term in a manner that the average person would relate to) than someone with a lower IQ. That is it's point.
Like every other generalisation, it is not always accurate. But being a generalisation does not make it useless.
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At a purely anecdotal level, my IQ is apparently in the top 5% or better or something. My brother's is average. I'm academic. He can do almost anything with his hands. So who, of the two of us, is the more intelligent?
Had an IQ test been used with it's original intent with my brother, it may be that it would have been instrumental in diagnosing his problems with the written word. He has an astigmatism. It pains him to read. It wasn't discovered until after he'd finished school.
As a measure of particular kinds of intelligence/learning esteemed by society as a whole, IQ is fine. But it is still only a measure of how well you can do an IQ test. Does it tell you how well you can use this "intelligence" outside an IQ test? Does it make me a better Stars! player for instance? Or does IQ measure the kind of mindset that is more likely to enjoy Stars! Hence, I'll be better at it than others who don't score so well on their IQ's. A combination of both, perhaps?
It's certainly useful to argue over 
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