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You Don't Have To Be A Rocket Scientist To Pass An Iq Quiz

Q. Can you really tell anything about
someone's intelligence by having them take anThe IQ quiz, or IQ test, was developed as a
IQ  quiz?way of determining the MA:CA ratio of any
person  at  any  age.
A. The answer to this question requires a bit
of background information, so let me put mySo, what (if anything) can be deduced about a
professor  hat  on  and  tell  you  a  story.person  based upon the results of an IQ quiz?
An IQ quiz measures a person's IntelligenceAccording to an article "The General
Quotient (IQ). IQ is calculated using thisIntelligence Factor", Scientific American
formula: IQ = 100 MA/CA where MA = Mental AgePresents "Exploring Intelligence", pg. 24,
and  CA  =  Chronological  Age.1999,  author  Linda  Gottfredson  writes:
The IQ test was originated back in 1905 by"Adults in the bottom 5% of the IQ
French psychologist Alfred Binet and hisdistribution (below 75) are very difficult to
physician research partner Dr. Theodoretrain and are not competitive for any
Simon. These two guys came up with the "Binetoccupation on the basis of ability. Serious
Simon Test". This test's purpose was toproblems in training low-IQ military recruits
measure the intelligence of retardedduring World War II led Congress to ban
children.enlistment from the lowest 10% (below 80) of
the population, and no civilian occupation in
The test was based upon several observations:modern economies routinely recruits its
workers  from  that  below-80  range."
1. Children grow more mentally capable as
they  grow  older"Current military enlistment standards
exclude any individual whose IQ is below
2. Some children perform at higher grade andabout 85." "Persons of average IQ (between 90
age levels than their actual grade and ageand 100) are not competitive for most
level. While other children are just theprofessional and executive-level work but are
opposite.easily trained for the bulk of jobs in the
American economy. By contrast, individuals in
The mental age (MA) portion of the formula isthe top 5 percent of the adult population can
the age level that the child is found toessentially train themselves, and few
perform at. For example, a 6-year-old whooccupations are beyond their reach mentally."
performed at the level of an 8-year-old, is"People with IQs between 75 and 90 are 88
assigned a MA of 8 and, of course, a CA of 6.times more likely to drop out of high school,
Conversely, an 8-year-old, who performed atseven times more likely to be jailed, and
the level of a 6-year-old, is given a CA of 8five times more likely as adults to live in
and a MA of 6. With me so far? If you arepoverty than people with IQs between 110 and
then you've already passed my IQ test because125. The 75-to-90 IQ woman is eight times
I'm starting to get confused and I'm the onemore likely to become a chronic welfare
who  is  writing  this  article!recipient, and four times as likely to bear
an illegitimate child than the 110-to-125-IQ
3. Binet and Simpson also discovered thatwoman."
these gaps between MA and CA grew wider as
the children aged. Our child who had a MA ofWow, those are some pretty dramatic
8 when he was 6, was found to have a MA of 12conclusions that are based solely upon IQ as
by the time that he reached age 8.determined by an IQ quiz. If you believe what
Conversely, the child who had a MA of 6 whenMs. Gottfredson writes, then the answer to
he  was  9, had a MA of 8 when he reached 12.your question of "Can you really tell
anything about someone's intelligence by
4. They also noticed that although the MA/CAhaving them take an IQ quiz?" is: It would
gap widened as the children grew older, theappear so. Like any quiz, however, don't feel
ratio of MA:CA remained constant. Thistoo bad if you "fail" an IQ Quiz. Some people
constant ratio was called the "Intelligencejust suck at taking tests!
Quotient".



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