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




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