| | As far as I am concerned IQ tests are a waste of time. If you are actually intelligent, you would be doing intelligent things, you would not need a test. If you take a test, which says you are intelligent, but you don't do anything that requires intelligence, than you are a person who is indistinguishable from one who is not intelligent, just as a person who is able to read but never does is indistinguishable from an illiterate.
People wear high IQ scores as if they are some badge excusing them from actually doing anything which requires intelligence. Mensa gatherings consist of hardly anything more than people who don't do anything talking about how intelligent they think they are and patting each other on the back all the time.
Furthermore, the whole idea of trying to measure intelligence as a 'quotient' is absurd, since aptitude in intellectual endeavours exist on many different tangents. To accurately measure intelligence one would need to raise different people in identical environments and provide them with identical stimuli, and then test them with the exact same test.
(Edited by Michael F Dickey on 12/11, 7:18am)
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