3/7/2024 0 Comments What is iq used for on genius![]() ![]() If someone scores high on verbal tests and low on spatial ones, what does that overall score tell us about the individual in question? Nothing very informative. Practice improves scores, which raises a question mark over whether they capture anything objective. "Intelligence tests" have always been a matter of controversy. ![]() One can train a parrot to reel off English kings and queens, but it takes an accomplished historian to tell us insightful things about them. Here intelligence and a body of knowledge meet, and the former acts on the latter in productive ways. Many autists have extremely high-order talents in these respects without acquiring any knowledge, or even interacting much with other people.īut other aptitudes require training, data, experience and practice. ![]() Some mental aptitudes are hard-wired: gifts for maths and music (which often go together) require no knowledge, and manifest themselves early in life. It is misleading to describe anyone as intelligent without specifying what form the intelligence takes. Moreover, there are different kinds of intelligence, better described as different gifts of mind, so that a person can be wonderfully talented in one respect and hopeless in another. Sometimes an overload of facts is the mark of a dull and pedestrian mind, the antithesis of intelligence. By the same token plenty of people know lots of facts without being creative, thoughtful, quick-witted, humorous and perceptive – the marks of true intelligence. ![]()
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