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No the Nazis did not develop IQ tests; these actually emerged from early efforts to identify students requiring special instruction. In 1904, Alfred Binet was the director of the psychology laboratory at the Sorbonne in Paris. The Minister of Public Education commissioned Binet to develop tests to identify less capable students who should be provided …
Mathematics at the elementary school level consists of some fundamental concepts like place value for writing numerals, and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) with whole numbers fractions, and decimals. These skills can be mastered by anyone of average IQ though some people of limited IQ will have to work harder than someone …
Is it true that all people with higher IQs are good in math? Read More »
SD stands for “standard deviation.” It is a measure of how much the data deviates from the mean. For example, in most standard IQ tests, the mean IQ is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. Performance on IQ tests is closely approximated by a bell-shaped curve such that about 2/3 of the population have …
For those of us who enjoy deep abstract challenges, routine tasks like filling out forms, completing documents and other process-driven tasks are excruciatingly tedious. Becoming deeply involved in solving a mathematics problem or reading a deep analysis of a historical event is so engaging that mundane tasks, by contrast, become repugnant. During my years of …
Yes, according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers 10,000 hours is the approximate time that a person must dedicate to practising a skill or learning a subject to reach the highest echelon of proficiency or expertise. The idea was originally expressed by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson who studied violinists. His research revealed that the …
Does the 10,000 hour rule apply for high IQ individuals? Read More »
Definitely not! Many 12-year-olds are not tuned into test-taking and make little effort toward scoring well, because they see the test as unimportant. Have her take the test in subsequent years to determine whether this was an exceptional instance and encourage her to do her best. Her performance in school and her subsequent IQ scores …
In a meta-analysis of the relationship between intelligence and socioeconomic success, psychologist Tarmo Strenze surveyed a wide range of research papers dealing with the relationship between these two variables. His study yielded estimates of the correlation between IQ and income that ranged between 0.15 and 0.27. ( Strenze, Tarmo. 2007. “Intelligence and Socioeconomic Success: A …
Most people would agree that the human species is at the top of the food chain. We live wherever we choose, displacing from their habitats animals that are faster, larger, and more physically powerful. We breed animals for food, train animals for work, and domesticate animals for companionship. We also develop chemicals to control insects, …
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A few years before I had my first IQ test, I came to believe that I had superior intelligence. I had stood first in the early grades and was skipped from Grade 3 into Grade 5, joining a cohort that was a year or two older than I. The first IQ test that I took …
Did you start to behave any different after learning your intelligence/IQ? Read More »
It’s very difficult to assess someone’s intelligence over a short period of time, but the longer you observe that person, the more accurate will be your assessment. Here are some characteristics I have found in the very high IQ people I’ve met although these are, of course, generalizations that will have some counterexamples. High IQ …
