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

[silentC]

I chose to do mine with a bunch of Ozzie WWers.

Oh, that explains your score. I always expected you to come out smarter than that!

[Zed]

you could be the worlds smartest pygmy but only score 20 IQ points if your test was based upon a non standard measure - lets say Computer literacy or western history... and vice versa of course.

I once scored 153 in an IQ test but the q's were all cognitive ones or "trick questions" that supplied a dumb ass obvious answer and the real one....and also very few mathematical q's.. had it been the opposite i'd a been a dubbo im sure....

who cares anyway ? we just apes who stopped walking on our knuckles and grew a frontal lobe in our brain, once society collapses IQ will be less important than the desire to eat, drink and find shelter... be happy is my suggestion... I know I am..

[Gingermick]

10 years later, he struggled to pass his (real) maths exams and other subjects..

There was a story in a magazine a while back about this type of thing. They did some experiments where they gave the same test and praised a group of children for being clever and another for working hard. They then made the next test much harder and praised them the same way again. (clever or hard worker). Back to the original test now and those praised as being clever went backwards and the others improved. They then gave them another test where they could choose the difficulty of the question and the 'clever' kids chose an easy one whereas the 'good workers' chose a more difficult test generally. The smart kids didn't want to get it wrong and lose face, whereas the hard working ones liked the challenge.
They then theorised that praising kids for something that they had control of (ie the effort) proved to be more beneficial than praising something the kids had no control over.
It was something like that anyway

[Gra]

What about this 7 year old kid in Hong Kong in the early 80s. He was also 'diagnosed' as a gifted child. He could do additions and subtractions faster then someone who used a calculator. He was on TV all the time. (Poor little thing)

10 years later, he struggled to pass his (real) maths exams and other subjects.

True story.

So what was it like to be on TV??

[Wongo]

 

[Wongo]

Wongo, what is

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[Gra]

hang on while I paste that into excel

[AlexS]

Wongo, what is

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That's not maths, it's arithmetic.

[masher]

That's not maths, it's arithmetic.

Well said!

.

But can you prove there are an infinite number of primes?

[Wongo]

But can you prove there are an infinite number of primes?

[Gra]

But can you prove there are an infinite number of primes?

Is one of them optimus?

[joe greiner]

The test results themselves are fictitiuos, even after allowing for cultural differences. They test both the knowledge and the ability to take tests.

The hard way: Get stuck on one of the first few questions, stay stuck for much of the duration, and get a low score.

The easy way: Scan the test for the gifts and easily enter the correct answer; scan again and do the next harder; save the real stumpers until last; and get a high score.

Joe

[silentC]

The easy way: Scan the test for the gifts and easily enter the correct answer; scan again and do the next harder; save the real stumpers until last; and get a high score.

That might be difficult if you are doing the full test, which includes verbal questions. You can say 'pass' but I bet they don't let you come back and have another go at it...

I did a similar test (not for IQ) a few years ago. It was done in a room under supervision. The test was handed out in sections. There were a few questions that I suppose you could have studied for, but many of them were the type of question that you either get or don't get.

I think most people who do an IQ test would probably have done one of those magazine type questionnaires where you sit down and answer all the questions and then total up a score. A proper IQ test is done under supervision and then analysed by a trained psychologist.

[Wongo]

.. allowing for cultural differences...

That’s right.

Questions like “Which one of these is least like the four? Horse, kangaroo, goat, deer or donkey“ are a bit unfair.

How am I supposed to know if I've never eaten a kangaroo before.

[masher]

Is one of them optimus?

heehee

good call!