What Does IQ Really Measure? 488
sciencehabit writes "Kids who score higher on IQ tests will, on average, go on to do better in conventional measures of success in life: academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity. Is that because they are more intelligent? Not necessarily. New research concludes that IQ scores are partly a measure of how motivated a child is to do well on the test. And harnessing that motivation might be as important to later success as so-called native intelligence."
Re:I have done several different IQ tests (Score:1, Informative)
I've lost some, about 8-10 actually
I got cancer when I was 7, was going to do the whole radiation and chemo thing, part of the research cohort I was enrolled in was measuring IQ and other abilities before and after cranial radiation and chemo.
Took Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Standard and Extended Battery four times, once right before the therapy, once a year after and then two years after that.
First two tests - 99.94th percentile, then after all the chemo and radiation, 99.63rd percentile. A fourth test 10 years after the first confirmed the 99.63rd percentile score.
My math was really hit hard by it, so were fine motor skills (measured at the same time as the IQ tests).
By the time I was done, after four years, they'd already taken a couple of the drugs and radiation out of the treatment rotation.
Re:IQ is bullshit (Score:1, Informative)
For those who are interested in the opposing viewpoint, The Debunking of Scientific Fossils and Straw Persons by Arthur R. Jensen can be found here:
http://www.debunker.com/texts/jensen.html
Citation:
Contemporary Education Review
Summer 1982, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 121- 135.