Why Are Some People With Very High IQ Just Plain Stupid?

[Bleedin Thumb]

My head hurts.

[Sebastiaan56]

I have high IQ because I read Financial Review.

Rats, I just look at the pictures

Sebastiaan

[Wongo]

Anyone know when the 5 o'clock news starts?

Sorry can't help you. There is no TV guide in my Financial review.

[Gra]

Sorry can't help you. There is no TV guide in my Financial review.

Yes but did you read Alex yesterday........ He has been watching me, its my job he is talking about

[jmk89]

Why Are Some People With Very High IQ Just Plain Stupid?

Because high IQ just means that you are good at doing IQ tests. You can make sure anyone will get a high score by teaching them how to do the tests.

One reason is that they are culturally biased - they depend on common experiences of persons in Western (esp US) society. You can be a very smart Papuan, but you can't get a good IQ score unless you can understand what the educational psychologist from Ohio who put the test together was talking about (imagine how you would go if the test depended on the sort of common knowledge and cultural assumptions that Papuan natives have and we based our IQ tests on that common knowledge and those cultural assumptions).

[silentC]

Nobody is stopping the Papuans from developing their own intelligence test based on their cultural experiences and common knowledge!

As you know, the scores are standardised, so you could easily conduct this test in Papua and have it reflect the situation there. Of course the test would have to be adjusted to be specific to them. This is a matter of translation. It would be pointless to try to compare Papuan results with Australian results but the whole point of it is to fit people into the bell curve as a predictor of what their academic performance might be. It's all relative.

Where it falls down is if you try to compare Papuans with Australians in the same test group. Of course the Papuans will generally score lower. But if you standardised the scores for Papuans and then compared them to the standardised scores for Australians, you might be getting somewhere.

This is probably why IQ ratings don't really mean much to anyone anymore. Except Mensa.

[Bleedin Thumb]

(imagine how you would go if the test depended on the sort of common knowledge and cultural assumptions that Papuan natives have and we based our IQ tests on that common knowledge and those cultural assumptions).

And they were written in pigeon!

[echnidna]

Nobody is stopping the Papuans from developing their own intelligence test based on their cultural experiences and common knowledge!

As you know, the scores are standardised, so you could easily conduct this test in Papua and have it reflect the situation there. Of course the test would have to be adjusted to be specific to them. This is a matter of translation. It would be pointless to try to compare Papuan results with Australian results but the whole point of it is to fit people into the bell curve as a predictor of what their academic performance might be. It's all relative.

Where it falls down is if you try to compare Papuans with Australians in the same test group. Of course the Papuans will generally score lower. But if you standardised the scores for Papuans and then compared them to the standardised scores for Australians, you might be getting somewhere.

This is probably why IQ ratings don't really mean much to anyone anymore. Except Mensa.

wot if we compared Qldrs to sydneysiders - predictions ???
(I'll leave Vic outa the equation as we really don't wanna humilate the feeble sydney crowd)

[silentC]

Well, if the test was 20 years old, the QLDers would probably come out on top!

[Wongo]

Should compare to the Kiwis then we will all get a good score.

[bitingmidge]

If one had a high IQ, one would hardly waste one's time responding to this thread methinks.

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[bitingmidge]

If one had a high IQ, one would hardly waste one's time responding to this thread methinks.

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Bugger!

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[DaveInOz]

If one had a high IQ, one would hardly waste one's time responding to this thread methinks.

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correct and as such i will not.

[Gingermick]

I have high IQ because I read Financial Review.

I have a high IQ because I don't read the Financial Times

[Cliff Rogers]

wot if we compared Qldrs to sydneysiders -

What about the rest of the State????

What if we compared somebody from Whoop Whoop to somebody from the big smoke?