I don't think it was meant for vanity. There's a history of people misusing the IQ test (racism, eugenics). The test was originally used to help school children. I like what Steven Hawking said “People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.” — Wheatley
I've always felt it's counterintuitive that one person in fifty would have a genius level IQ. — Janus
Have you heard of John Von Neumann? — Shawn
Perhaps.But when adults give it too much thought, I imagine they've never done intellectual work with smart people. — hanaH
Exactly! The video I posted early, physicist Michio Kaku argues that IQ is merely "bookkeeping" ability. He mentions other forms of intelligence (such as planning and scheming).When you are kid and no one trusts you with anything real, they give you a pencil and a test. — hanaH
Yeah, and some problems require other brain abilities (besides IQ): coordination, organization, time management, rational thinking, etc..In the real world, there are actual, difficult problems to be solved...as well as financial rewards for solving them. — hanaH
I've heard that Von Neumann was to brilliant people as brilliant people are to normal people, and it's the brilliant people who said so (and who else would be in a position to do so?).
Probably Von Neumann would or did destroy an IQ test, but that's trivial compared to the work he did, which is what surely impressed those brilliant people who could half-understand him (or rather understand him by taking much longer than he did to arrive at the thought.) — hanaH
Exactly! The video I posted early, physicist Michio Kaku argues that IQ is merely "bookkeeping" ability. He mentions other forms of intelligence (such as planning and scheming) — Wheatley
Yeah, and some problems require other brain abilities (besides IQ): coordination, organization, time management, rational thinking, etc.. — Wheatley
It's amazing how quickly he understood the implications of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem's right after his seminar. — Shawn
it is the well above average level of stupidity endemic in the intellectual (bureaucratic) & decision-making classes that is chiefly responsible for the persistently deplorable state of many developed societies (re: climate change, WMD proliferation, human trafficking, neoliberalization, etc). :mask: — 180 Proof
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