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.
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Properly speaking, it's "An high IQ can harm communication with lower IQs."
If you can understand that.
[Grin!]
Funny how the English laugh at our ‘English’ Grammar rules.
Utter disdain.
No wait — ‘udder disdain’.
That’s better, isn’t it?
You’re a good sport...glad I didn’t annoy you too badly first thing in the morning.
Have a great one!
Mine is in the 150s. But my ambition was curtailed in the early 2000’s. I got sick of making money at the behest of other people. I took a deal and started my own business. Lots of fun.
A few years ago, I sold my business and took a job in a hospital. I am no Dr, but it is fun to run circles around the folks in administration. Data analysis is fun for me. I do stuff with data that makes their heads spin. They look at me like I am Harry Potter.
And my key to the magic? I read Excel manuals. Yeah, I am a friggin’ genius. The rest of the world isn’t stupid—they stopped educating themselves about ten minutes out of high school. They stop being curious.
Many aspects of IQ tests are based on general knowledge picked up...a test for a farm boy might include questoions about farming/machinery/tools that would not be valid for a ghetto kid...also, what interests a mind will determine what sort of information is picked up...my grandson is very bright but slow to learn in areas he has no interest in...he (at age 8) will sometimes come out with philosophical statements and trains of thought that generally don’t begin to grow until late teens and older but had trouble with some reading and math...until my daughter sat down with him and found creative ways to show why they can be important and even fun...he’s now 2 grades ahead in his knowledge rather than being on the verge of being held back...
IQ is extremely correlated with success in life. The only reason the left tries to downplay it is race, specifically Africans and African americans.
In high school, I took the ASVAB and aced it. All summer long I had recruiters calling me. My friend and I took it to get out of class for a couple of hours.
I took the naval aviator aptitude test, and score the highest in the region.
I could not pass calculus with anything less than a C. It was boring to me.
Finance class? I ate that up. Statistics? Loved it.
I always knew I was “smart.” Throughout my grammar school days, I was grouped with seven other kids and we were accelerated because we were wrapping up elementary school by the start of fourth grade.
If we were in Russia at the time we would have been swept up by the state and taken to special schools.
But in the end, the group has ended up in variuos careers from police officers to bank Presidents. It has more to do with drive, interest, and personality. We all had similar capacity. We all had different personalities.
It was like we all had high performance engines. Some wanted them to be fine tunes race cars, while others were happy cruising down country roads. The “wunderkid” phenomenon of the 1960s would be an interesting read.
IQ + common sense + good work ethic = trifecta
I thought the “an” went with the vowel sound, and the h in high is a hard h. I was taught that was an “A” situation. Gonna have to go read my Strunk.
That is a great image.
Especially if you’re a college athlete.
No, but throughout my time taking care of my elders, I found it beneficial to memorize the Montreal Cogintive test. It will keep be out of the SNF for about an extra six months when the time comes.
I highly recommend it. :-)
Apparently space science, travel and research is for dummies.
You should have made software that tricked people into revealing private data and sold that data to marketing.
I feel your pain.
3 is dangerous
Yeah. Hilarious.
I knew she’d spent quite a bit of time in mental institutions, she neglected to mention it wasn’t always as staff...
IMHO, IQ test, and most test for that matter, reward people with near photographic memory. Memory abilities, while very useful, do not speak to ones ability to use that information constructively.
Very successful people remember what interest them very well, what doesn’t interest them they remember poorly. I have no idea how to correct testing procedures, but i think aptitude test are closer to being useful than IQ.
You’re going to cow us all with your sense of humor.
“Use a before words that start with a consonant sound and an before words that start with a vowel sound. Other letters can also be pronounced either way. Just remember it is the sound that governs whether you use a or an, not the actual first letter of the word.”
From GrammarGirl.com
Feynman was a most interesting character. He appeared genius.
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