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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In fact, there are some “child prodigies” out there who are simply drilled from a young age to pass specific intelligence tests. If you’re a overbearing parent desperate to live vicariously through your children, you can turn a fairly normal child into a “child prodigy.” It only costs you a lot of time and money and it only costs your child their childhood.

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• Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  IQ doesn’t measure intelligence

  We don’t even have agreed upon definition for intelligence so that seems like a weird claim to make.

  • The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
  • the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
  • the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
  • the act of understanding
  • the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
  • It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Intelligence Quotient, a way of measuring your score on a test based on score percentile among the population.

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    • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That doesn’t answer the question “what is intelligence” no more than a thermometer explains what is heat energy.

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      • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But do our tests measuring IQ adequately measure The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge. the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations The ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason ?

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