Solving a rubiks cube requires memorization and knowledge, not spatial intelligence. I don't believe anybody could just pick up a cube and solve it, no matter how good their "spatial intelligence" is.
IQ tests are supposed to measure the aspects of intelligence which aren't related to culture, experience or knowledge (i.e "abstract thought", "reasoning" and "problem solving")... and how fast you are at those sort of tasks. Sudoku is a good example of this.
Yes you can (and should!) practice IQ tests to get better. When you plateau, that's your final score.
Yeah, there's a lot of "IQ tests" on the web which are complete garbage. IQ tests are supposed to eliminate anything cultural, memorizable or "general knowledge" type questions.
every major intelligence agency on the planet thought that this kook had WMD,
Nope. That's been thoroughly debunked. The CIA told GW Bush that there were no WMDs in Iraq. The Bush administration then created a false report to take to the UK to convince Tony Blair that there were. The speech given by Colin Powell to the UN shortly afterwards was also a pack of lies.
We absolutely, positively have to kick their asses, or they will simply do it again, and again, over and over until we physically stop them.
Huh? You're not fighting anything physical so how can you 'kick its ass', exactly?
Terrorist attacks are carried out by nutcases. No amount of murder in Iraq/Afghanistan will ever rid the world of nutcases (in fact it makes them more likely).
The war in Afghanistan might refocus the nutcases' attentions onto the soldiers there instead of going to the USA to wreck stuff, sure, but that just means you have to keep their attention indefinitely, i.e. the 'war' has to last forever. Are you up for that? Are you even enlisted in the Army?
a) What did all those lies about WMDs have to do with 'defence'? How many Taliban terrorist cells were based in Iraq?
b) How often has a war against an ideal ever resulted in victory? Martyrs usually make ideals stronger. Are there more or less Taliban now than in 2001?
Questions, questions...
Clue: We're not saying you should do nothing. We're saying you're doing it very wrong.
Didn't the USA invade Iraq/Afghanistan because Bush wanted to write himself into the future's history books...?
(Which he's succeeded in doing, except that outside the USA they're probably going to publish the picture of the chimp instead of the one where he's wearing a military jacket under the "mission accomplished" banner...)
$1.3 trillion for a personal vendetta in Iraq/Afghanistan $1 trillion to fix the economy after it was wrecked for personal gain $0.000125 trillion for something which could help fix the planet and ensure long-term financial stability by fixing the price of energy.
Who makes most of the goods and services in the world? Greedy people.
What 'goods and services' did the greedy people behind the recent mortgage scam produce?
In my experience the greedy people will avoid producing anything whenever possible. I've got a 'how to be rich' book that actually says "never manufacture anything", ie. always try to be a middle man and rip off the people who are actually doing the work..
Only if you can look at an iPhone and think "Wow! That's totally unlike every other gadget ever made! I wish I'd invented that amazingly awesome new shape!!"
Yes, that's the problem I thought of right after I pressed 'send'.
I can think of plenty of hacks to let an ISP's clients view external IPv6 web sites but there's no way to route incoming IPv6 connections to client's machines. That's a showstopper for a lot of people.
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If you can practice it to get better, isn't your performance on the test related you your experience?
Yeah, you could probably twist my words that way if you were motivated enough...
I meant "life experience", not "practice at doing IQ tests".
eg. Being widely traveled or having read a lot of books shouldn't give you any real advantage in an IQ test over somebody who hasn't.
...so is Wile E. Coyote's, but he never caught the Road Runner.
I'm glad that they are identifying how much motivation is important in success compared to the numeric value you get on an IQ test.
To me it seems they're just stating the blindingly obvious - motivation is important for anything.
A 100 meters race measures the ability to run fast. Your point is...?
Solving a rubiks cube requires memorization and knowledge, not spatial intelligence. I don't believe anybody could just pick up a cube and solve it, no matter how good their "spatial intelligence" is.
You're *supposed* to practice IQ tests before you go for a final score - the more the better!
2) Factual knowledge
..should never be on an IQ test. Ever.
What role does linguistic fluency and creativity play into the assessment?
Should be 'zero' otherwise it's not an IQ test.
No.
It measures test-taking ability under specific conditions.
No it doesn't.
(eg. A general knowledge quiz or spelling test both fall under that definition but they're the antithesis of IQ testing)
What, exactly, is the scientific definition of "human intelligence"?
Here ya' go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
IQ tests are supposed to measure the aspects of intelligence which aren't related to culture, experience or knowledge (i.e "abstract thought", "reasoning" and "problem solving") ... and how fast you are at those sort of tasks. Sudoku is a good example of this.
Yes you can (and should!) practice IQ tests to get better. When you plateau, that's your final score.
Yeah, there's a lot of "IQ tests" on the web which are complete garbage. IQ tests are supposed to eliminate anything cultural, memorizable or "general knowledge" type questions.
your sort would have kittens if a cluster bomb killed 3 kids while knocking down a couple dozen terrorists.
So far the ratio is the on wrong side of 3 terrorists per dozen civilians...just saying.
every major intelligence agency on the planet thought that this kook had WMD,
Nope. That's been thoroughly debunked. The CIA told GW Bush that there were no WMDs in Iraq. The Bush administration then created a false report to take to the UK to convince Tony Blair that there were. The speech given by Colin Powell to the UN shortly afterwards was also a pack of lies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/07/turningtruthintolies
Why did Bush invade Iraq? I think he told the truth to Jacques Chirac when he went to France to sell his war agenda:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush
We absolutely, positively have to kick their asses, or they will simply do it again, and again, over and over until we physically stop them.
Huh? You're not fighting anything physical so how can you 'kick its ass', exactly?
Terrorist attacks are carried out by nutcases. No amount of murder in Iraq/Afghanistan will ever rid the world of nutcases (in fact it makes them more likely).
The war in Afghanistan might refocus the nutcases' attentions onto the soldiers there instead of going to the USA to wreck stuff, sure, but that just means you have to keep their attention indefinitely, i.e. the 'war' has to last forever. Are you up for that? Are you even enlisted in the Army?
a) What did all those lies about WMDs have to do with 'defence'? How many Taliban terrorist cells were based in Iraq?
b) How often has a war against an ideal ever resulted in victory? Martyrs usually make ideals stronger. Are there more or less Taliban now than in 2001?
Questions, questions...
Clue: We're not saying you should do nothing. We're saying you're doing it very wrong.
+1 Insightful.
Extra points for getting people to pay extra for the privilege of watching youtube-quality video on their new HDTV setup.
Are you also against people telling you not to litter? Not to dump bad chemicals in the local creek?
Not being able to dump garbage wherever I want is an infringement of my personal freedom.
Didn't the USA invade Iraq/Afghanistan because Bush wanted to write himself into the future's history books...?
(Which he's succeeded in doing, except that outside the USA they're probably going to publish the picture of the chimp instead of the one where he's wearing a military jacket under the "mission accomplished" banner...)
$1.3 trillion for a personal vendetta in Iraq/Afghanistan
$1 trillion to fix the economy after it was wrecked for personal gain
$0.000125 trillion for something which could help fix the planet and ensure long-term financial stability by fixing the price of energy.
Who makes most of the goods and services in the world? Greedy people.
What 'goods and services' did the greedy people behind the recent mortgage scam produce?
In my experience the greedy people will avoid producing anything whenever possible. I've got a 'how to be rich' book that actually says "never manufacture anything", ie. always try to be a middle man and rip off the people who are actually doing the work..
I dunno...Visual studio 2010 had lots of problems on XP without some hotfixes.
Only if you can look at an iPhone and think "Wow! That's totally unlike every other gadget ever made! I wish I'd invented that amazingly awesome new shape!!"
If not...
Obviously no developers at Microsoft are still running XP to test it...
My understanding is that pure carbon things sublimate into CO2 over time.
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Does this mean Boeing will have to rethink the Dreamliner...?
Yes, that's the problem I thought of right after I pressed 'send'.
I can think of plenty of hacks to let an ISP's clients view external IPv6 web sites but there's no way to route incoming IPv6 connections to client's machines. That's a showstopper for a lot of people.