| Re: Politics |
Thu, 16 December 2004 04:17  |
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| goober wrote on Thu, 16 December 2004 00:43 |
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?
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I'd say you are the more intelligent, but he is the more practical. I don't see a conflict there.
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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.
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I think that's just a failure of the educational system, rather than anything to do with IQ or intelligence. And don't get me started on education or we'll be at it for years 
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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.
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It's slightly more than that. It provides an adequate measure of a person's ability to understand complex problems and to work through a logical process to find a solution. In a lot of situations this is important.
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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?
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I would say that Stars! players with higher IQs are likely to perform better than those with low IQs, all else being equal. But that is largely because the game mechanics are now so well understood that players who can understand them can take advantage of that.
Back in the early days of the game you would probably find that there was less of a correlation because more was done by "gut feel" and general experience.
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It's certainly useful to argue over 
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