Tag: psychometrics
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Media for feeble-minded and IQ 140
“Don’t be surprised at all. One third of Czechs are idiots!” This quote was proclaimed by one late prominent Czech psychologist. He also pointed out that IQ 100 is nothing. If we put aside how rude it was, he said nothing but the truth. Look at newspapers and magazines! Are they written for someone who…
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Why I had disbelief in IQ?
Are you kidding me? You want to tell me there is a number which rules everything. Every single ability is derived from particular IQ. For a kid questioning everything not a good idea. So why did I have disbelief in IQ? But the number somehow mattered. I have observed pupils who had very good school…
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Mental illness and genius
For a start, I do not mean myself, as I am just an average author and blogger. I have in mind people who have made enormous contributions to science and the arts. This interconnected problem has troubled the world for a long time. So, how are mental illness and genius connected? Where did the notion…
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Economics and psychometrics? What is a pseudoscience?
Economics and psychometrics share some of the same features. They are undoubtedly humanities. We cannot go without relationships between inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and so on. However, economics is undoubtedly a pseudoscience. It basically cannot predict crisis, human behavior, heavily depends on mathematical formalism without real-world application, and so on. Psychometrics offers huge numbers of…
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Imagine if IQ was everything and an exact science
IQ is nearly everything. Imagine a group with respectively different average IQs: 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160. Now imagine being able to have a discussion with the members of the groups. It goes without saying you would be able to assign respective numbers to every group. There are extremely significant correlations between median average…
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IQ as a fetish. What Mensa and psychometrists don’t like to hear? IQ isn’t everything
Every single mental process strategy and mental ability no matter what they are equal to a measured IQ. Every single statement of a given individual is according to his IQ. Not only IQ is everything, but given how an individual performs in school, information technology, painting, understanding of politics, command of various office applications, conversation…
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Measure IQ of every single world citizen
If the IQ of every single world’s citizen was measured, the pool of geniuses would be radically extended. Intellectually gifted would be put to global education system founded by the developed nations. I strongly do believe there is Einstein or von Neumann among us but he didn’t get his chance. The whole thing wouldn’t be…
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The silliest of the silly. You have IQ 120 and then it’s over
Have you heard this? When you have an IQ of 120 and more it doesn’t matter anymore. There are two possibilities how the proponents of this meant it: 1. There is progress of intelligence over IQ of 120 but doesn’t matter; that signals that people with IQs of 160 are on the same level as…