| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Amethyst
Visitor
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 8
Local time: 10:53 AM
Location: MN
|
 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
  |
|
IQ tests are also usually heavy on math skills.
Now, I have two college degrees. One's in marketing, which I had mostly B grades in. The other was in computer programming (2 year), which I had all A's in.
I tend to test between 110 and 120 on IQ tests because of all the math questions. I was very math-phobic as a kid, and so I am not really good at the subject.
However, I tend to learn things very quickly, especially things that I'm highly interested in and I have an aptitude for logic. I'm also very creative.
I think the problem is that IQ tests do not cover all the bases when it comes to intelligence. Book smarts are one thing, and are fine to be applied in school, but once you're out of school, it doesn't really apply. Not to mention, if you have some sort of mental illness or something, you're not going to do well on an IQ test even if you are a genius.
There are career tests like the Myer's Briggs one. It's commonly used in universities, but you have to pay for it. There are free versions online, but they may be less accurate. I'm INTJ, very much I. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
|
politicalhumanist
Real Change activist
Joined: 15 Nov 2004
Posts: 1424
Local time: 2:53 AM
Location: on the streets of Olympia, WA
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
After reading this I took two different IQ tests online, and scored 104 on the first one, and 111 on the second test.
_________________
http://freethinkernation.com
cooperative collective consortium of atheists, agnostics, brights, naturalists, humanists, and even believers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Kraft
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 758
Local time: 2:53 AM
Location: MB, Canada.
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
My intelligence varies a whole lot, sleep, diet, exercise, confidence, etc. To give you some idea, I took the SAT twice with a difference of 190 points between them. Not sure if that's just the unreliability of the test, but still quite a swing. That was back when it was just math and English, it really doesn't measure very much in terms of intelligence.
"I am really still a very one sided person and don't know a great deal. I have a limited intelligence and used it in a particular direction" RP Feynman
_________________
'Why [...] is the philosophy of religion so boring?' - Kai Nielsen
"I don't condone reading, I believe it poisons the mind" - Adam Carolla
Last edited by Kraft on Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
redraiderdude187
The Madcap Laugher
Joined: 19 Jan 2007
Posts: 1152
Local time: 11:53 AM
Location: Houston, Texas
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Amethyst wrote: | IQ tests are also usually heavy on math skills.
Now, I have two college degrees. One's in marketing, which I had mostly B grades in. The other was in computer programming (2 year), which I had all A's in.
I tend to test between 110 and 120 on IQ tests because of all the math questions. I was very math-phobic as a kid, and so I am not really good at the subject.
However, I tend to learn things very quickly, especially things that I'm highly interested in and I have an aptitude for logic. I'm also very creative.
I think the problem is that IQ tests do not cover all the bases when it comes to intelligence. Book smarts are one thing, and are fine to be applied in school, but once you're out of school, it doesn't really apply. Not to mention, if you have some sort of mental illness or something, you're not going to do well on an IQ test even if you are a genius.
There are career tests like the Myer's Briggs one. It's commonly used in universities, but you have to pay for it. There are free versions online, but they may be less accurate. I'm INTJ, very much I. |
IQ tests have been proven inadequate to test overall intellegence just because they usually only test one area of intellegence(logic), as you just said. Many people are geniuses, but just aren't very "logic-smart." Most of these types are musicians, artists, writers, etc.
_________________
Above the hive, beyond the lynch mob, where two and two always make four. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
Live Video and Chat Room
Freethought Videos
FAQ
Search
Usergroups
Register
