What Does IQ Measure? [video](youtube.com) |
What Does IQ Measure? [video](youtube.com) |
Do the test when you have whatever is a normal amount of caffeine for you and after a normal nights sleep.
If you assume that IQ measures $SOMETHING this just mean that both sleep quality and caffeine influence $SOMETHING
It has no other usefulness. A bit like HN karma points: It looks useful, but signifies nothing.
1) IQ is a measure of "true" intelligence
or
2) IQ completely fails as a measure and is meaningless
and since 1) is too nebulous to be true then 2) must be true.
I am not an expert on IQ, but if it was highly correlated with being able to recognize and guess patterns from incomplete data it would not be a surprise to me.
Even just the ability to formulate possible solutions to ambiguous problems could credibly have high correlation with IQ.
I am not saying that these are true, I am just wondering why they sound so impossible to you.
Yes, these tests assess certain traits of an individual, but intelligence is likely a more complex topic. Consider the language part of some tests, for example. These tests include vocabulary that the test subjects must know in order not to be discriminated against due to cultural and environmental factors. Instead, vocabulary capacity is measured. Language tests should include logical tasks of varying complexity, which must be solved without providing a variety of answers. If answers are provided, this will test for pattern recognition traits.
1) IQ is a measure of "true" intelligence
or
2) IQ completely fails as a measure and is meaningless
There are other things worth measuring.
Honestly I too would appreciate a different name because too many people[0] see it as "Smart Elite Classifier Test".
wrt cultural biases it is the same issue, you would need to develop a different test for each new cultural context. I agree that biased test have been used wrongly.
Overral IQ has a serious public image problem as some of its most vocal supporters are also its worst enemies.
[0] among both supporter and detractors