Iq Definition and 164 Threads

I've met a few people who are what people would consider genius. And from my experience I have noticed that it is only people of marginal intelligence who obsess about IQ tests. Majority of genius aren't that concerned with eugenics, they are much to busy conquering the world, making money, or...

Is there any study showing that sleeping too little for a period of time, say a few months, lowers a person's IQ ?

IQ tests should be used to select students for university, says government's adviser By Richard Garner, Education Editor 10 December 2003 IQ-style tests are more reliable than A-levels in predicting how well a student will do at university, according to research published yesterday...

November 10, 2003 The wealth of nations is mapped by their IQ By Glen Owen Research says that intelligence is the largest factor behind economic success A COUNTRY’S prosperity is closely related to the average IQ of its population, according to research that has mapped global...

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IQ Will Put You In Your Place By Charles Murray Imagine several hundred families which face few of the usual problems that plague modern society. Unemployment is zero. Illegitimacy is zero. Divorce is rare and occurs only after the children's most formative years. Poverty is absent -...

I took one of those stupid computer IQ tests and one of the questions is still nagging my poor tired brain. a monkey and a weight are on the opposite sides of a pully. The rope, that the monkey is holding on to and the weight is tied to, is considered weightless. The pully is also...

http://www.testonfox.com/ They had a nationally-televised IQ test that was live in the east half of the US, and in Pacific I just finished watching it and getting scored I got a 55/60, which corresponds to a 127 IQ, apparently I think that's the top 10% or so, so that's pretty good. I...

The test has 30 questions and is timed (maximum of 45 minutes). Scores are posted with corresponding test takers. 70 percent on the test indicates a general IQ of 111. http://www.geocities.com/prestonhayesproject/iqtest.htm

I'm curious as to what others think of IQ tests. To me it's simply a rough gauge of one's aptitude for making sense of nonsens. I'm not sure of the real history of it, but I have a foggy memory that it became very practical during the world wars for sorting out people who were apt at solving...

You can take IQ and EIQ tests here on the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/trainyourbrain/

I am currently trying to norm an iq test. I would appreciate your participation. I am sure that you will find it interesting; go to: http://www.geocities.com/uiowa52405/iq.htm and click on logical iq test-the test is timed, for maximum time of 25 minutes.

The subject of IQ tests have been discussed over and over in PF 2.0 (but in different topics, and in the middle of topics). It seems that the PF members don't all agree on wether the IQ test is really a good pointer to the person's intelligence. -Some of the users on PF said that IQ tests are...