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- From: scott@bogus.net.address (Scott Tai)
- Subject: t: Re: t: Re: IQ Test Creation Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170109.6483@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: scott@bogus.net.address (Scott Tai)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:01:09 GMT
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- gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
- : scott@bogus.net.address (Scott Tai) writes:
- : >And some of the more commonly used tests accepted for Mensa qualification
- : >are not intelligence tests at all.
- : Actually, if we agree that intelligence has not been defined, none of them
- : are. On the other hand, if we agree that some are "aptititude" or "achievement"
- : tests, and some of them are officially labeled as such, we may define
- : intelligence as the achievement resulting from it, or "actualized"
- : potential, which also has been previously argued. Me, I don't care.
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- But that is precisely the question. How is one to recognize this
- superior intellect? Standardized tests measure largely arbitrary skills.
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- gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
- : What is the result obtained from taking an achievement test? What
- : good is a predictive test that consists of life achievement?
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- From 'IQ and Intelligence: What's Wrong with Testing' (Fallows, 1989):
- ; [...] Whatever intelligence may be and however it may be
- ; distributed, is it really the main factor in determining how far
- ; people can go in life? Unless IQ is an important limit, the entire
- ; tracking system makes no sense. Why start channeling people early
- ; if most of them really can handle most jobs? Why not let them end
- ; up where they will, by trial or error, or encourage them to keep
- ; starting over? Why hive people off to trade school if, given a
- ; later chance, they could become scientists, doctors, or inventors?
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- What good is an "IQ" test?
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- Scott Andrew Tai
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