A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.
For one reason, IQ tests rely heavily on logic puzzles. Studies have shown these can be improved on with practice, so the test isn’t necessarily measuring anything innate. It’s just testing whether one has familiarity with logic puzzles. Which, coincidentally is more likely to be the case if one happens to be white and especially if you’re wealthy.
I think good IQ tests take “familiarity with logic puzzles” into account. They try to take everything in to account. When I was doing research on working memory we were using very simple tests that relied heavily on working memory and correlated with IQ tests well. Those test didn’t use any type of logic puzzles white people are more familiar with. IQ is not a perfect score but it was known for a very long time that comparing people from different cultures and background is very difficult if at all possible. This doesn’t mean that IQ tests can’t be used to compare people with similar backgrounds and that you can’t develop better, culturally neutral tests.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to say that IQ tests are worthless, just that they are not the objective measure of intelligence that people think they are. They may measure a certain kind of intelligence amongst people with similar upbringings and opportunities, but all I’m trying to say is that having a higher IQ than someone doesn’t necessarily mean you are “smarter” than them.
In any case, I certainly wasn’t expecting multiple people wanting to argue with me about IQ tests on the internet today. I think I’m going to stop replying to this thread now lol
so… ones ability to interpret, quickly react, apply knowledge, and intelligence is not the best? sound like a fairly good marker to me.
The point is that you get better at it with practice. IQ tests claim to measure objective “intelligence” as trait that is independent of education, advantage, or other factors. But if a large portion of the test involves exercises that can be improved with practice, IQ cannot be an objective measure.
so its good if you don’t practice then?
No, I’m sorry but none of that is uncontrollable
Sure, by using a different measure of intelligence than IQ.
I mean…
I took a Weschler and a college class on testing methods taught by the head of my university’s psych department…
How much do you know about quantying intelligence?
Did you read a blog post?