Hi
Could you please tell me about the unit of IQ? What (how much) is low IQ, what is normal and what is high?
What am I to understand from it?
1- She has an IQ of 123. (Is she stupid or intelligent?)
Tom
No, Tom.On the contrary, she is quick-witted.
Here is the useful link:
Tom, I think the best explanation of IQ is the one my first psychology professor in college gave us:
While people who do well on IQ tests tend to be intelligent, many extremely intelligent people have low IQ scores.
Hopefully I will keep on assuring you that I am a little too slow on the uptake! Could you please explain the sentence in red to me?? :shock:
Tom
PS: Conchita, I see you are on line right now and browsing the same forumn!!
Life’s full of coincidences!
I/we don’t know (or care) what IQ tests measure.
It means, “IQ tests measure something. We know that they don’t measure intelligence, but we don’t know what they do measure. But this unidentified thing is the thing that IQ tests measure.”
At the time I was taking that course, a little girl I knew had been diagnose by a school psychologist with minimal brain dysfunction. I asked this (very good!) psychology professor what this term meant, and she told the class and me, “Minimal brain dysfunction is a diagnostic term that means, ‘I don’t like this kid, and I don’t know why!’”
I think that IQ tests are intended to measure the following, primarily:
- Use of logic
- Memory
- Creativity
- Aspects of intelligence related to visual association (the picture puzzles)
123 is generally regarded as a strong IQ score.
Whose logic?
Aspects of that can be measured, I believe.
The LAST person able to judge someone’s creativity is a PSYCHOLOGIST! Just look at what kinds of paintings they buy! Psychologists frequently tend to judge artistic and other clich?s as being very creative.
Plus, I just love the idea of measuring someone’s “creativity” and putting it into a numerical scale. Absolutely absurd.