Comment on Anon tests their IQ
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
I’m pretty sure IQ is something that varies a lot over a lifetime. The last time i had one was while on a 3 month psychiatric rehabilitation stay because i was in a pretty bad shape, with a value of 103. I am pretty sure that if i had repeated that test after all of that therapy and distance to the bullshit of everyday life, that i would’ve scored higher. After my stay i was a lot quicker on the uptake, a lot less stressed by exam situations and left a lot of brain fog behind.
IQ tests are an imperfect snapshot.
Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
IQ is actually one of the most stable metrics we have for intelligence. It does change with brain development but its also a comparative amongst your age group so your IQ remains very stable throughout your life.
It’s not to say you didnt mess up on your test at one point, or that someone who is having a mental episode cant distort it via anxiety or whatever
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For real, like, honestly, if you walk up to a kid and slap them and then force them to take an IQ test, they could possibly test as mentally disabled even if they were in the genius range before you slapped them.
Your mental state, your mood, your home life, how much sleep you got that night, your diet, all of those things can affect your performance on the actual test.
OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I wish someone had told my father this when I was little. He might just have stopped hitting me and calling me stupid if someone other than me pointed it out.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a great metric for how well you take an IQ test. No one should really be using it as a measurement for general intelligence.
Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Its widely considered as the standard metric for general intelligence.
That’s not to say it is perfect or doesnt have gaps, it doesn’t assess creativity, EQ, rational thinking, wisdom or impacts from socioeconomic.
However what is does measure are things like abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, working memory.
Its one of the strongest single predictors of academic performance, job complexity learning, and overall occupational success, and those things pretty obviously correlated with general intelligence.