Posted on 10/05/2018 9:48:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in 1905. However, these tests didn’t become associated with genius until the measure moved from the Sorbonne in Paris to Stanford University in Northern California. There Professor Lewis M. Terman had it translated from French into English, and then standardized on sufficient numbers of children, to create what became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale....
The result was a group of 1,528 extremely bright boys and girls who averaged around 11 years old. And to say they were “bright” is a very big understatement. Their average IQ was 151, with 77 claiming IQs between 177 and 200....…
The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejects—the children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sample—at least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the “test smarts” to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Terman’s test but scored too low to enter the sample. The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejects—the children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sample—at least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the “test smarts” to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Terman’s test but scored too low to enter the sample.
(Excerpt) Read more at nautil.us ...
Bump! I was graduated with honors from the finest schools in the world... When I was a boy they put me on the “short bus” to a “special school” because of my results on an IQ test. Turns out, I was just a boy being a boy. Who knew? The world is filled with witches and warlocks who want to classify, alter, medicate, and subjugate. LOL Any wonder I’m a Freeper today?
I would like to marry a mad cow one day.
Someone who gets me.
But I bet your wife was a fox, not a cow.
She’s available...
‘The rest of the world isn’t stupid—they stopped educating themselves about ten minutes out of high school. They stop being curious.’
Mental laziness is almost as dangerous as Satan himself.
Nobel is a useless joke. They gave Zero one just for getting elected. A nobel prize is no measure of accomplishment.
I doubt she would have any interest in me. I’m crazy enough, but you would not believe what kind of home I live in.
Nice yard though.
“Average African IQ says otherwise.”
Average African neighborhood does too.
If she likes to run up trees and eat acorns, we’d be set.
IQ means a lot. IQ is a general measure of how quickly one can associate pieces of information they have stored up to solve a problem that they currently have. the quicker the ind the better advantage you have. There are workarounds for poor IQ and there are still ways to fail with high IQ. But IQ matters
That might work. she collects homes. She got mine...
Agree 100%. Many with high IQs just end up being dreamers. They may have a grand vision but no way of making it a reality.
Oh, BTW I knew Luie when I was a kid. Spent time at the LBL Cyclotron with my Dad and got to talk to him from time to time.
This article while interesting is antidotal not statistical. Statistically, with sufficient sample size, much can be learned using IQ. Bell Curve, anyone?
You and Grammar Girl.
That’s an humorous one.
Yes, I have black tarry stool every time I eat black tar.
IQ tests don’t mean anything. As a kid, I was the guinea pig for grad students learning to give IQ tests. After a while, you learn the various tests and how to manipulate them. Sometimes I’d have fun pointing out flaws and mistakes (no, you gave me the right handed maze when you should have given me the left handed maze) and they’d stutter and stumble over what to do. The first test I took, the WISC, was at about age 6 and pointed out the wooden car didn’t have headlights and the PhD was flabbergasted and told everyone about it for years. How silly.
By about 12, I was getting bored with it all so would intentionally miss the required number of questions to end the test. The last question of the last test I ever had to suffer through was how many buckets of water to fill the container. Who cares? Simple solution would be to drag the hose over to fill it.
Don’t confuse the Nobel Peace Prize (what Obama got) with the Nobel Prize (which goes to hard sciences). They are VASTLY different things with completely different people in charge. If you meet a Nobel Prize winner you are in the presence of greatness.
If you knew the first thing about the nobel committee you wouldn’t have said that. Sure, there are some interesting works in the prize winners, but the nobel committee is still an extreme left-wing group that rejects anything not approved by liberals.
P.S. I meet “greatness” all the time, but I am not a little girl star-struck by popularity contests like nobel prizes.
I bet you fawn over hollywierd celebrities.
Lining in a college town, I’ve seen lots of smart people, but a lot more educated people. One thing I saw with the smart, high IQ people, was that they were interested in a lot of things, were good at a lot of things, but not great at anything.
Many of the profs I wouldn’t say were smart (IQ-wise), but were so focused that they were good at what they did but bad at everything else. I think that’s where the ‘no common sense’ idea comes from.
Sorry but you are simply full of crap.
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